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The thing that blows my mind is that Alec Guiness was going to get a percentage on everything... including the toys. That's an insane amount of cash.

I have respect for Uwe Boll because he said in an interview he would rather take the $60M and make three movies rather than flush it all on one. There's just a lot of waste in film making - or companies paying themselves, as we saw in Peter Jackson's lawsuit against New Line over LotR making no...

Post-WW3 IT and medical support. (Twilight 2000 4e)

My Wyrmwood dice tray that I was recently able to pass down to my oldest son when he started into D&D.

It used to be on DDB where you could buy the class or spell or item out of specific books for about $2 each. The nice thing was, if you ended up coming back and buying the book, they discounted it by what you'd previously spent.

It seems this planar consortium would be on par with the East Indian Company from Pirates of the Caribbean/real life. And as far as Esteban and Steve? Why not Stefanie? Why use his name at all as a 'friendly' PC?

I would say the most common example of a group check where one person failing doesn't automatically make everyone fail would be foraging and surviving in the wilderness. One person screwing up Survival doesn't mean they all starve - one person can make the check and find X pounds of food...

Even going back to AD&D 1e, Invisibility does not make you silent. You still make noise - so you are still able to alert someone that they need to start searching. 1e even specifically notes that they are not silenced. Even looking back to 2e, the Invisibility spell had rules specifically for...

Personally, I don't mind stealth being a check that is done individually. For one thing - there are many ways around it. Going the mundane route, temporarily remove your armor. Magically silence the loud individual. As a group, use Pass Without Trace to help. The other thing is ...

I think the things you assign a negative value to coming from the DMG - for example, story arcs etc - have been pretty common I feel in game design in the last twenty years. I dare say any system that gives out XP starting with "One XP for attending the game session" lays the groundwork for...

The thing I love with Dimension 20 is that... the sheer variety of campaign ideas. O, we have a food-based D&D. Oh, we have a game where Americans go to Hogwarts. Oh, we have one where the PCs are parts of the human brain (with Hank Green)

Could always see if you can borrow the one Ken Hite uses on Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.

I immediately thought of Sandy Petersen's 5e Mythos book where the mi-go brain jar lets you get a second Concentration spell up and going - you cast the first through the brain in the jar, that maintains the first one, and then you fire off the second. Very handy

Add me to the Bad Form and Tacky column. As was said, if this was Chris Perkins coming out and putting out this piece about their product, NO ONE would probably defend him, or say he has the right to do it. They would use it as another way to dunk on Wizards, even if he put in there that it...

I think Star Wars and Star Trek have issues in gaming in that, in the past, they seem poorly able to model things we see that don't get explored enough. I don't think ST seems to have a lot of naval battles - TNG had Wolf 359, or the episode where Data was in command to stop the Romulans from...

I like gems and trade goods measured in gold piece value - a 50gp onyx, a 25gp trade bar of silver - and I like letting players make skill checks or roleplay to increase the values. To me, the one case where making magic items have a static price would be in 3.x Forgotten Realms, where the Red...

Personally, I think maybe going with something with one of the Adept feats might be easier. It'll be easier to manage a fighter who can cast one spell (Shield?) starting out I would think. Or make a dwarven mage? Then he can wear armor and cast spells, as well as have access to some martial...

Reminded me of this:

It seems to me that this is a long standing issue/tradition in D&D-space. I'm thinking back to the old stories where there was a ton of homebrew and people passing on photocopies of the books and putting them in three ring binders.

I think I discovered it in my dad's collection about the same time as Xanth and Myth Adventures, but I'm not sure if I read it before or after I joined a gaming group when I was 13, and one of the players was a high schooler in a wheelchair who was playing Ahira Bandylegs II. So it's real...