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Just bought the PDF and it downloaded / displayed without any issues. Let the enjoyment commence. Thanks!

For being doomed, the guys on the cover sure look happy! I'm going to grab this later today and mine for ideas. $4 is less than lunch.

These can be more effective if you give your players a secondary set of characters - some of the main villain's trusted men, perhaps, or some other kind of person who can get an inside look at what is happening. It can allow the players a unique way to interact with the Big Bad directly. If you...

You can also consider changing your dice. As we all know, the d20 will give you a 1 just as often as a 20. At low levels, when your bonuses to anything tend to be smaller, the character matters far, far less than the roll of the die itself. You're at the mercy of the dice. It's a little...

Every carnival has clowns. I don't know about you, but I find clowns to be downright creepy. Perhaps some kind of fear-based power would be appropriate here.

What has been seen cannot be unseen... What an atrocity. The people producing this movie are bad and should feel bad.

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. I have an addiction. I am addicted to flavor-based skills. Skills that rarely, if ever, have any use in a campaign but I feel are fun to have. Such skills include, "Doll Making", "Ancient Draconic Epic Poetry", and "Cooking: Exotic Cuisine". Many a time...

I recently bought the Thieves' World source book for 3e. It is a lower-magic, dark, gritty fantasy setting. There is magical healing available, but all it does it convert lethal damage into nonlethal damage. You still have to rest in order to get up to full health. So, it may keep you from...

I've never viewed Favored Enemy in that light, as it doesn't make sense. I've always felt that it was a creature the Ranger spent time to study and learn about - for any reason - and it is his knowledge that gives him an advantage. Not outright must-kill-them-all hatred. It's an excellent idea...

The inconsistent multi-classing / dual-classing / etc rules were terrible and utterly random. The inconsistent XP Table was also strange, as was THAC0. Class restrictions based on race always irked me - my group threw them out long ago. I also didn't like the completely inconsistent table for...

Yup, MapTool is client-server software. If people are having problems with firewalls / NAT / etc., they may want to give Hamachi a try. I've been using it for years with my guys, and it is free for basic usage. It sets up a private VPN for yourself and your friends and is very easy to use...

RobertSullivan - Your post reminded me of the book "Good Omens", in how evil doesn't have to be overt. It can be quite subtle. One of the demons/devils/something in the opening passages is referring to one of his greatest works: A complicated, congested highway system, which causes an extreme...

There are a lot of generic rules-light systems out there that can alleviate the problem of complexity and fantasy. If those two concerns are the core reason why someone doesn't want to play then that part, at least, is very easy to fix.

Browser-based is nice and easy for everyone, and if you just want a big map with pieces than that is a good way to go. However, you might want to look into MapTool at RPTools - Home - all their tools are written in Java, so as long as you have Java installed they should run. It's great for...

I hope not. WhiteWolf is (was) an incredible gaming studio though I felt they lost their way with the New WoD. I still continue to buy their older products in PDF format because it is Good Stuff. Still, WhiteWolf should be safe for the time being. The parent company, CCP, has a very profitable...

I second this. I know a lot of humans, and they take classes in computer programming, civil engineering, and art history. Race/Gender shouldn't have a significant (if any) effect on class selection. That's how I see it. If WotC had wanted to simply fix the (perceived) problems of 3.5, they might...

The darker the shadow, the brighter the light. You cannot have "good" without also having "evil". Granted, I have a very hard time with absolute good and evil in my games. A lot of it has to do with perspective and context. What is evil to one person may be not only acceptable, but seen as a...

No more so than a for-profit company. A "Not For Profit" Company (and I use that phrase intentionally; it is the true classification for what is often mistakenly called "Non Profit") has a board of directors and a President/CEO just like every other company, and is not automatically beholden to...

There's very little to say that TanithT hasn't already said, aside from: Creepy.

That assumes that early wizardry is reliant on writing. It doesn't have to be. Writing is a good way to pass on information, but not the only way.