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I actually got this stuff. It has me interested in 4e now. I think they did a very good job. I like the Campaign Setting being sparse. After all, you only need enough to give the feel and then the DM should do the rest anyway. I don't want them to tell me too much, because then I'm constrained...

Wow... that's astonishing, dude. I have read through H1 and find it one of the most pathetic, lazy, kindergarten-level modules I think I've come across! And the fact (at least by your ratings) that most of the others are actually worse than this steamer is quite disturbing. On a scale of 1 to...

So, just to get a complete handle on the idea here: Say I'm going with a dungeon. I draw up the different zones, etc. So now I'm populating the Orcville zone. Orcville has an Orc Stronghold. So I write up the stat block for the Stronghold (as well as ancillary statblocks for when the Flumph...

I wonder if it will rules for monster and trap creation?

I agree, and I think it will indeed fly. Like I said, I'm getting it and I'm sure I will pick up a couple of boosters just for grins.

Some of the complaints sound a bit like "How dare they make products that I want to buy!" That's their job, actually... to make products that draw in lots of money. Now, I can imagine a scenario where you basically have to buy random boosters just to get an enjoyable role playing game. I...

I'm a fan of Gamma World 1e (which, blessedly, I own). That game could be played wacky (in fact, Gygax wrote a very wacky sup for it), or desperate and weird. I'm curious to see what 'tone' this one will take. I'm guessing it will lean into wacky territory. But that's actually fine with me. And...

It seems like an excellent idea to me. Stores really need all the help they can get to survive against the online retailers. The online retailer's storefront is always open, and is accessible from your study at 3am while you're sitting around in your skivvies. The bottom line is that you get...

For those of you who have the big, pretty book... is it viable to run Dark Sun with the only PC psionics as Wild Talents, i.e. without the use of PHB3?

Twilight 2000 Pendragon Also: Traveller as a player. I'm always the Ref. I've been pretty blessed, though. I've basically gotten to play most everything that I've wanted, from 3:16 to CoC (tons of the latter, including even some ToC) to Over the Edge to Toon (as a kid, which is really when you...

I would say that's a picture that both men and women would laugh at. "Exploitative"? Only in the vaguest sense. Maybe to whoever posed for it, if they posed in a ridiculous costume such as that. I thought we were talking about Frazetta girls showing some sideboob and barbarian keister. That...

I'm sad that Identity Politics didn't collapse with the rest of the Soviet Union back in like 1990. I game with people. People I agree with, and people I disagree with. People that have "innies" and people that have "outies". People who are white, and people who are black or native (one used to...

It really is totally cool. No more will I get a passing annoyance from [no need to name names, is there?]'s "shaking your fist at the clouds" smack talk. No, that's all water under the bridge now. My 1st level wizard can turn you into a frikkin toad. All is forgiven.

I'm really looking forward to this boxed set.

[/LIST] You can turn someone into a toad!? Are you kidding me? At 1st Level? That's AWESOME! Has this always been in 4th Edition? I'm amazed at how badass that is.

Romans were considered "barbarians" as well. Barbarian is a Greek word. It means literally "the bar-bar ones", i.e. the people who say "bar-bar". That sound, "bar-bar", was what some foreign languages sounded like to Greek ears. So Woas is right: a "barbarian" is originally someone who simply...

It was a gruelling, morbid slog of a film. An absolute disaster. Was it a movie about anachronistic neo-pagan Lost Boys? Was it a movie about a yeoman archer who basically never shoots arrows? Was it a movie about the Magna Carta? Was it a movie about Operation Sea Lion except staged by Medieval...

Thread title said this was about giant beavers. What a ripoff! Up next week: "Giant space, hamster on the loose" or "Hill giant burial mound"

I can't suggest a series, but The Final Reflection by John M. Ford was excellent. Very philosophical. It doesn't have a whole lot to do with the main Trek characters... it's mostly about Klingon Sun Tzu stuff.

True, though I thought it was a bit more insidious than that. The ultra-violence of Big Daddy and Hit Girl end up being the only way forward as a 'hero'. The original concept of the comic book superhero, championed by the naive Kick-Ass, is ultimately shown up as completely untenable. The only...