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And that's the reason why I think D&D is great for games like that. I'm generally not looking for the game system to provide rules for that stuff...

How is a Ranger that gets spells at 1st level not a Druid? How is a Paladin that gets spells at 1st level not a Cleric? (The answer to these questions are the same as the answer to yours.) Personally, I *greatly* prefer Paladins and Rangers to have special abilities unique to their specialty...

If you want to play with fewer books/rules, you can just use the core book(s) for just about any RPG without needing to buy anything else. If you read those books and you want *more* that kind of undermines your argument...

I'm having trouble telling from these images, but these look like they have only limited modularity to me. (Certain tiles clearly assume that they are laid next to certain other tiles.) The quality seems pretty nice overall, but I'm not sure if they're flexible enough to be an improvement over...

Yes. I'd either want to see him cast spells as a 1st level Wizard with a 15th level Caster Level OR (thinking about things from a 4e perspective) select a single 15th level daily Wizard arcane power. This makes sense to me from a story perspective (Epic Heroes are Epic) and from a game...

I tend to bounce back and forth between D&D and superheroes. (Over the past few years, the superheroes games have all used MSH/FASERIP.) And I'm working on a custom Star Trek-y game at the moment that I will probably run for my players later this year.

A campaign is a series of adventures that exist within an ongoing continuity. So neither of you is wrong. It sounds like you're arguing over what makes a good campaign rather than what a campaign is.

I like the idea of Second Wind, because it does a good job of simulating that moment where the hero (be he Conan, John McClain or Rocky) falls to the ground and then picks himself back up, driven by sheer will power alone. It also helps reduce the game's dependency on magical healing. My first...

Occam's Razor suggests that someone reported your post, the admins thought it was rude, and you got binged for three days. I have a hard time envisioning a scenario where someone hacks into the Wizards boards specifically to ban you.

This. Maybe ask again in a year when the initial books (or whatever they wind up selling) are actually scheduled and ready for pre-order. Even the people who have been participating in the free play-test have only seen a fraction of the final product, and only in an explicitly preliminary state...

You're overlooking the case where ALL of the players are relative newbies. (Which WotC presumably wants to encourage with their shelf-friendly Basic game.)

This. In one of the games I'm currently running, I had everyone choose a motivation and some unique background elements that I could use for plot hooks during the game. Certain players put more thought into this than others and came up with more fleshed out, story-rich background elements. Now...

While I disagree with the premise (and I think you may be misusing the red "Kill" result), I do agree that the original TSR FASERIP Marvel RPG is awesome. I've run two big campaigns with those rules in the past few years, and will likely come back to it at some point in the next year or so. Good...

This thread inspired me to poll my players last night. The consensus was that no one wanted to keep track of XP. (In fact, I found out that they were all making one of the guys keep track of XP for everybody.) I'm giving out XP at the moment, because we're running Next and I'm trying to stick...

I'm not sure if there's a nuance I'm missing. I've played in plenty of role-playing heavy games over the years, where the emphasis on the PCs pursuing their individual goals. As a rule, we tend to address "issues" (as one would in real life) rather than "themes" (as one would in a novel), but I...

For D&D Next, I'm using experience points, because it's a playtest, and I'm trying to follow the rules as they are written. But I generally ignore experience points and level players when an appropriate number of adventures/sessions have been completed. Of course, there are games where you...

At the New York Comic Con last year, they had a Firefly panel and thousands of people showed up. I wasn't at San Diego, but as you'd imagine, there were even more diehard "browncoats" there. A lot of people like Firefly A LOT. And given that RPGs are a niche industry, so I'm not at all surprised...

What have I learned from the Dragon Age episode of Table Top? Celebrity DMing is tough, but also really, really important. Makes me really respect what Chris Perkins does. For a "performance art" piece like this, the over the top descriptions and characterizations are really important. It's...

Sorry, my initial assumption was that you were familiar with FIREFLY/SERENITY, since you jumped to an immediate, definitive conclusion. Both "I'll be in my bunk" and "Shiny" are oft-repeated quotes from FIREFLY. As recognizable to folks who are familiar with that show as if the the two quotes...

Did you look at the webpage? There's really no other way to interpret it. MWP is promoting a Firefly/Serentity project coming out in 2013.