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Besides Dungeons & Dragons, I play the following: Call of Cthulhu, Deeds Not Words, Exalted, Spycraft, Star Wars these days.

Evil in my games is simultaneously banal and grotesque. It's also often subtle until after a point of critical mass, because evil--as with good--stems from the idea that Man is no better than an animal, trapped in his senses and unable to discover objective, knowable and provable truths of...

I became a gamer on October 10th of 1981. I've been an active gamer since then, so I've played the previous editions. There's no way that I'd ever go back; the consistancy of the rules now ensures that the GM and the players are always playing the same game in the same way, and no longer need...

I perceive then a ready-made premise for adventuring right there.

If there is no commitment to economic development between the formerly warring parties then this peace is false and another war is inevitable.

For me it stems from an awareness of what it takes to produce that book. Beyond the skills of the writer, editor, artist(s) and other publishing professionals there's also the matter of actually printing the book, replicating the copies, shipping the copies out for approval and then shipping to...

It's a tie; Jar-Jar is now #3.

Jar-Jar Binks just lost his top spot on the Hit List. I need my AK. Today ain't a good day.

This is a separate and distinct science fiction minigame, not a campaign setting for use with D&D. Judge Dredd is a separate and distinct science fiction RPG, not at all a campaign setting for use with D&D. Now, to the question put forth by Zakter: What non-WotC D&D campaign settings would I...

If that were the case, then no sane player would ever build a character that relied upon magic. If you can't rely upon it, then it won't get used much (if at all) be sane, rational people.

The party already has a cleric, a fighter, a rogue and a wizard? Always go for a bard. You have that small bit of healing that you need to patch up the cleric when he goes down. You have the buffing abilities to make the fighter and rogue better in combat. You have information gathering and...

The PHB had better be nothing more than a bunch of rules. Save the setting material for those that want it.

What do you mean by "deceived"? The D&D rulebooks are intended to be just that: books that present the rules of the game. The flavor is intentionally kept to a minimum because the user is meant to use those books as a reference manual when playing the game; if you want flavor, then either you...

I've done it, but I prefer not to do so outside of well-known and well-defined alternatives such as Rokugan or (for non-d20) Exalted.

A d20 version of Exalted ought to work from this intention: lay a solid foundation for Heroic Mortal gameplay first. Exaltation shall consist of taking a Heroic Mortal character and overlaying an Exaltation Template upon that character. This template has the effect of making the Exalt...

Intention drives this question. If a Neutral character were to perform assassinations as part of an intention to protect himself and his family from external dangers, but not for reasons of protecting the general welfare or for the promotion of posterity, then he could be considered Neutral...

There 3.4 million of us. That's quite a horde.

Single-Weapon Style is nothing more than using a one-handed weapon in one hand and leaving the other hand empty. This is usually done by spell-casters because they usually need that other hand to be empty in order to cast their spells. Other users include skill-users, who use that empty hand...

It's the best edition yet. I approve.

I would like to see a d20 version of Exalted, but I don't see a need at this time for such a move.