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Just played a 3-player game with treasure maps (for those who haven't seen seaside, treasume map is : trash this card and another treasure map, and gain four gold cards on the top of your deck.) It wasn't so much the treasure map that made it crazy: it was all the cards that made it easy to...

looking through the criticals, insanities, and miscasts, it still seemed pretty damned gritty. Admittedly, we came out of our example combat pretty well off, but that's less about having bounce than having not actually fallen--We soundly routed a surprised and outnumbered group of foes--And I...

Seaside has some really fun stuff--the ability to shift cards around in your deck with things like haven, island, and native villiage adds a whole new level to the game.

For dice pool systems, I've found an "expected results" gauge to be more useful -- for example, In the storytelling system, you can expect one success for every three dice you roll. A similar system can apply to WFRP3 dice (though the multiple die types and various resulting symbols obviously...

Got a chance to play on sunday, and loved it. I'll be picking this game up as soon as I finish my current campaign. Not familiar with previous editions of WFRP, so I can't speak to thematic concerns, but anyone who avoids this game because it looks like a board game is doing themselves a...

Of the games suggested, I've played Chrononauts, TransAmerica, and Dominion. They're all great games, and each different in style. TransAmerica is the simplest of the three. It's the exception to my "I don't play rail games" rule. You'll need to bring your brain, but once you get it you get...

So is the threat of just plain dying. Azathoth is nice for beginners, since his 14-count doom track gives newbies a bit more time to find a feel for the game, and his follower abilties are pretty tame. plus, as mentioned, you don't have to deal with the "how to fight the ancient one" if things...

Of course not--It's a pretty terrible game (or more acurately, It's a great game sandwitched between two terrible games). Maybe a very edited version of the game would do alright, but Monopoly flourishes mostly because it's familiar.

I'm thinking it would be really cool to take the apotheosis of the dragon kings and map that to some other sorcerer builds. Sure Borys turned into a dragon, and Kalak is on his way, but Tectuktitlay might be a cosmic sorcerer who's turning into something entirely different...

I feel like the concept of reskinning races into some form of human inherently dumb. Really, there's no difference between playing a "dwarf-like human" and a dwarf, and I can't really wrap my mind around something like a "dragonborn-like human". There's nothing wrong with straight-up...

See this? This right here? It's dumb. This is why you should be using the DMG. A 9th level orc minion does a whole six points of damage. And, being a minion, it goes down in one hit, even for a 1st-level character. And it's worth just as much XP as a normal 1st-level monster. Minions...

If spellcasting players are spending too much time looking up their spells, then just ban spellcasters. Problem solved.

If you don't have it already, I strongly recommend "Worlds and Monsters"--It's pretty much the closest thing there is to a "points of light" campaign setting.

Nymrod, the gods of luck aren't going to like you any more because you started using d6s. In fact, it might make them angry: If the luck gods are withholding 18s, 19s, and 20s from your dice, then your average result is still 9. but if they switch to withholding 5s and 6s from your d6 rolls...

Presumably it follows the standard 3.5 rule--Only the most favorable DR applies. In this case, the creature essentially has DR/Good and Evil--pretty hard, but not impossible to ignore. The usual solution for those who aren't type-evil outsiders with good-aligned weapons is to just power attack...

Man, I don't really care about an XML standard. I just want them to change the monster builder so people can import and export custom monsters--That way, a 3pp can create their monsters with the monster builders and make them available to DDI subscribers. That seems like a win-win situation...

Dungeon rooms and corridors don't really present a problem for hex grids--hexes will support rectangular-shaped rooms in three different orientations. (see image) Obviously, if you're building your dungeon out of plastic hexes you won't get the same straight walls, but you can definately build...

I assume the war of the Lance doesn't count? Post-Gygax greyhawk is obviously polarizing, but I seem to remember quite a few folks who liked the Greyhawk wars (or at least, the version of Greyhawk that existed at their conclusion) Likewise, I've not heard an ill word said about war of the...

Something cool in the linked press release: It's pretty cool that they're recognizing right off the bat that Adults will be watching those programs. Makes me hopeful that we'll see some relatively decent programs come out of this.