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It absolutely requires more trust. As I said in another thread, the game was not designed with the intention that you would be able to memorize the full capabilities of your party. And honestly, if you can't trust your players to not cheat about their capabilities, then you have much, much...

Don't worry about the player's powers. That way lies madness; allowing everybody to remember the details of everybody else's stuff was never in the design philosophy. Run your monsters, let your players run their characters, and don't worry about if they're doing it right unless something sounds...

I'm of two minds about the Game Table. On the one hand, I've been trying to find a good, easy, robust system for playing games online for a while now, without much luck; on the other hand, I can't in good conscience ask my players to pay $6 a month to play in my game, even knowing that $6 is not...

Well, in many regards it's a direct follow to their Inquisitor line, and I'd hardly call the Imperium "locked down into a single setting". It's a tremendously compelling and diverse setup for adventures of a very broad array of tones, while allowing for a sufficiently narrow lens that they can...

Yeah, the DDI price is negligible, and the content is dramatically less terrible than you might expect. In fact, I'd almost go so far as to say that it works... pretty well!

There's never been any kind of direct relationship between mechanics and roleplaying. There's noting in either to hinder the other. (Well, sometimes mechanics can get in the way of roleplaying a bit, but that's not a terribly common issue and tends to be easily circumvented.) The difference is...

Or they could just play space marines. I wasn't big on the idea of a party of Astartes in DH until I read that. Now? I really want somebody to do it, because it sounds Awesome.

I'm unclear on what this project is. How is this any different from the indexed content in the D&D Compendium?

This. WOTC's game design is on the ball for 4e, but they couldn't write a good module if their lives depended on it. I have the first three Pathfinders adventure paths in their entirety, and I'll probably never use them, because I have no interest in running 3rd edition games and I'm not crazy...

I like how all the people yelling "Blind defenders!" have an axe to grind about 4e.

It's going to use the same system as and be cross-compatible with Dark Heresy. It's quite reasonable to expect some xenos backgrounds for players, since rogue traders are exactly the sorts of scum who would consort with xenos. Eldar wanderers and lone Kroot mercenaries are likely. I am...

In a 3rd edition campaign I was in, one of the players died so frequently that he was on a first-name basis with Kelemvor. At one point he actually got a shirt that said something like "I met Kelemvor and all I got was this lousy T-shirt". It gave him a bonus on saves against death effects.

It's the 51-point talent in the Fury tree. ...Wait, wrong game.

Tell us how you really feel. And in all seriousness, Book of the Nine Swords was an excellent book. It was well-designed, well-implemented, mostly well balanced, and did something new. It'd be one of the 3.5 books I kept, except that I suspect there's a strong correlation between people running...

I think there's actually a very good, and surprisingly simple, reason for why deities tend to be two-dimensional. There's not enough pages in the book. The issue isn't that the deities, as imagined, are boring; it's just that none of the interesting stuff will fit in the book, because they...

Twin Strike is the best at-will power in the game. People often think that rangers have lousy at-wills, but the fact of the matter is that the other three would be just fine if they weren't being compared to Twin Strike. I played an archer for a while, and he was a lot of fun. I honestly don't...

Theoretically, you could get away with no dailies for players, since you can't assume players would have access to them or be willing to use them for any given encounter. It's problematic, though, because dailies are one of the primary incentives for PCs to ever rest for more than five minutes...

Disarm and sunder effects have always been nightmarish in terms of long-term campaign logistics and consistency. Your temporary equipment damage solution is an elegant way to do it; it does not deny the party loot, nor does it unfairly benefit monsters with natural weapons/armor - just throw...

Criminy, I didn't think there were nine 4e products out yet. Then again, I learned my lesson re: modules with Keep on the Shadowfell, and I wouldn't consider DDI to be three... which is why I should have read the thread before I voted. One of those "threes" should be a "five". I bought Keep on...

True. Authors who can do a setting justice (or even, heaven forbid, improve it) are few and far between. Michael A. Stackpole and Dan Abnett are the only ones who jump to mind.