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I'd suggest rather that contemporary thought frowns on trading permanent and consistent mechanical benefits for inconsistent roleplaying penalties. The best incarnation of flaws we see these days usually use the tack of giving cookies whenever the flaw comes into play. (see, for example, FATE...

*World Axis cosmology *Implements *the Raven Queen, and most of the other gods introduced by 4e *star pact warlocks *Tiers of Play

The important part is that in a game without attributes, you usually have more skills, or broader skills, that would represent some of the things that used to be based on attributes. So in 3e, if you want characters to arm wrestle, it'd be a strength check. In an attribute-free game, it might...

I think that a table where nobody minds difficulty with math is an exception to the rule. The only time I've seen a women driven away from the game table, a lot of it had to do with how impatient men at the table were when they didn't have a solid grasp on the rules. That's not to say that I...

This. I'd probably get an insider subscription if it meant the chance to playtest 5e.

I'm currently running a game, and it's working great. It's not very often that I run published adventures, but I find myself making an exception for WFRP. The quality of the adventures is great, the variety of adventure types is good: mystery, intrigue, action, and horror are all represented...

And just to clarify: That's Murder on the Orien Express That is to say, it's an Eberron Murder mystery train LARP. --The Guy Who's Running It

I'll be proposing a Prime Time Adventures game to my group soon, where they'll play members of a counterterrorist unit. Primetime Adventures is a very story-focused game, one where the PCs are characters in a TV show. During the "Pilot" session, It will come out that one of the characters is a...

Backstory is bad. Background is good. Because the story should be happening now--But background is something that helps make the story come together. I like taking backgrounds and going in unexpected directions with them. Agents abducted you and put a chip in your head to track you? Turns...

You're playing with a bunch of boardgamers. Don't worry about "rules light": they can probably handle the rules. Go with 4e: they'll probably appreciate the tactical complexity of combat compared to OD&D.

One really cool innovation in WFRP 3e is that the party itself has a "class" of sorts: So you might all be a "gang of rogues", a "diplomatic entourage", or "oathsworn". My party, for example, are all "brash young fools". It helps define why the party is adventuring together, and gives them a...

Kitsune suggested the 2nd edition of Warhammer FRP, but check out the newest edition as well. I've been running a regular campaign for a bit now and it's been a lot of fun.

1. 2. No Clue on the third. And for those interested in riddles who haven't yet seen it, check out planetarium

The conference rooms in our student union (where my gaming club holds our big events) just got renovated, and now have big flatscreens on the walls. Knowing how tech-savvy some of our GMs are, I'm looking forward to seeing what sort of use they put them to.

I often see "Family" related background questions phrased like this, and I think they're all making a huge mistake. Unless you specifically want your party members unattached, you should also be asking about spouses and children. By only asking about parents and siblings, you're implying that...

I'm not a fan of the older D&D settings. Greyhawk and FR feel, well, like somebody's homebrew campaigns--Lots of "making this up as we go along" and "you had to be there" moments. Dragonlance is a well-oiled machine, but has no soul. Spelljammer and Ravenloft feel gimmicky. Dark Sun is the...

19/20, 20/20, and 19/20 Missed: Trapper (I answered "Lurker Below"), and Skeleton (I answered "Skeleton Warrior") I particularly like the Gorgon/Euryale/Medusa/Yuan-Ti/Stheno question. Tricksy, given the confused origins of those D&D monsters

The Fighter King Orin of Atlantis, from Aquaman The Wizard Gaspar du Nord, from The Colossus of Ylourgne The Barbarian Fafhrd, from the Lankhmar series The Thief The Gray Mouser, from the Lankhmar series Obviously missing: A cleric, and a girl. Sword & Sorcery tends to be pretty light on...

But when the makeup of the party is in flux, that wrecks havoc with the plot. What's the use of spending 10 sessions establishing a PC's connection to an important NPC group if the PC then vanishes? Fair. Part of the reason I like quick leveling is that I want to use monsters in the upper half...

That's a ridiculous assertion. Certainly the success of reward card programs are one metric that corporations use to judge stores or even individual employees, but that's not the reason for their existence. After all, if they served no purpose beyond judging the stores, why not just judge the...