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World of Warcraft owns me. I can't even think about other games, and I'm starting to realize that I have to limiting the amount of time I am spending in that game (as I've had almost no time to work on my homebrew or read new RPG books recently).

I love the artwork. After reading the blurb I had to go check out the site and download the preview. It sounds like it will be a great game, although I got a little concerned when I read the beginning of the history section. It starts off very similar to something I've been working on (and was...

Felon, I'm not sure what I can say that hasn't been said already. You said your having some fun with it, so at least its not a total loss for you. Your just frustrated with the hype the game got? I'd like to say that I don't think I'm wearing rose colored glasses. I've got previous MMO...

I ran a campaign in White Wolf with very few character deaths, and a campaign in Shadowrun with none. I read that little chapter in a book for one system or another that goes on about making sure that when a character dies it means something to the campaign and isn't pointless or otherwise...

I got my email from CMG and sent in my order. I went with both bundles as well. I want to support the folks who make our site great... and I figure with that many items I'll get a good introduction to the CMG product line.

It would depend on how it was maintained. I've seen it done in other places, and after time the list gets so long that it takes just as long to browse it as it does to browse a listing of search results. And that is my real point. The forum already has a search feature, I just don't really see...

I think your reading into it a little much. There is no question in my mind that giving to charity is considered a 'good' thing to do. And it is also not a question, in my humble opinion, that some members of the elite view the burden of taxation as a means of forced charity for "undesirable"...

I'm picking my copy of the game up tonight. I'm on the east coast, and looking to role play, so maybe I'll end up on the same server. But I'm thinking I'll be playing an Alliance race, so I won't get to play with you.

This is a 'spirit of the rules' question... Of course a person could theoretically drink more liquid than what it describes a potion containing. No it wouldn't take an abnormal amount of dexterity to pop the corks on two potions and tip them into your mouth. Any argument that you couldn't do...

I see a lot of nods to DM's Familiar, and with good reason; it's an excellent program. It would definately be worth the cash to pick it up. I've been thinking about doing so myself. (I've used the evaluation copy to get a feel for it.) The only other program that, in my opinion, compares to...

I've used several of them, but (for me) Ventrilo is the best. A *lot* of people seem to use Teamspeak, so I guess its the default 'top dog'. But (after much fiddling with the controls) ventrilo tends to give me unbelievably clear audio and it doesn't seem to affect my ping/framerates while I'm...

Interesting idea, although most of the players I'm talking about fail to understand the entire law and chaos axis. They just see chaos as cool and law as uncool. *sigh* I personally love the conflict between law(order) and chaos. So much so that I've attempted to make that the central axis in...

A trend I think I'm seeing in some of the posts here matches what I've seen elsewhere. Good and evil are considered the primary axis (which is appropriate for some campaign settings) while the law and chaos axis has been played down to the point of not even being an axis, so much as a...

From the sound of the comments here I think I would need to produce a setting where magic exists, but is a little more subtle (and available) than the magic of standard D&D. Perhaps if magic were less 'heavy' the technological aspects of the setting would make a little more sense? Rituals...

/agree To keep it legal the original author would have to take care of all of the closed content on his own. A group could maybe get away with it if they kept all of the content in one location and did all of it together offline, but sending the scanned pages (with closed content still...

Some interesting stuff here, thanks for discussing this with me. I think its cool to think of this as an extension to a D&D style world (with the same level of magic availability and such). I find the "time of troubles" idea interesting as it doesn't totally shut magic down but it makes it...

I've kicked or uninvited two people from my own games, due to personality conflicts and maturity differences. I've only had to deal with loosing a group once. I had found the group in the factory I worked at after getting out of school. The guy who ran things was an amazing gamer and he taught...

It ran me about $12 at kinkos to get Elements of Magic done in black and white on their cheapest paper and spiral bound in a cover (black back/clear front). That was a little more than I wanted to pay, but I really wanted that book in an offline format that was easily portable. I just took a...

You know, I remember hearing about them when they came out and thinking they sounded neat. At the time I was running a vanilla fantasy game and couldn't afford 'frivolous purchases' on other material. I may have to look into getthing those now.

I've got it in my head to do up a near future fantasy homebrew, and I was hoping people might brainstorm with me or weigh in on how they feel about such a setting. I was always a huge fan of Shadowrun, and have run some pretty successful campaigns under the 3rd edition rules for that game. The...