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Ah, dang. I hate to do this (because I've been running a Fate system game and dying to actually play) but I have to pull out of Nev's morning Awesome Adventures game. Hopefully some ex-Golden Dragon player will take my slot.

Oh good lord, this stuff fills up fast. Okay, I'd like to get in on Children of the Quark in the morning and Lost Temple of the Fey Gods in the afternoon. It's seriously about time I've played some 4e.

Seconded. Although, to be honest, you wouldn't even really need the Warriors & Warlocks book to run a fantasy game with Mutants & Masterminds. Building a bunch of fantasy adventurers and monsters with the core book alone would be extremely easy. The closest thing to a hassle that I can see is...

I like to think that it was a one man war, waged by a dude who was horrified and unhinged to learn that the skull--perennial symbol of death gods and tyrannical oppressors--exists inside all vertebrates. He now sets out to purge the evil infestation, no matter how many human heads he must crush...

Whoa. I'm extremely interested. Chicago desperately needs a gaming store. Games Plus is great, but it's all the way out in Mount Prospect. I'd love a shop I can get to without resorting to the Metra line. I might be in need of gaming space soon, too. I'll have come and check the place out...

This sounds like it'd be reasonably simple to hack into a d20-descended game. I'd run it something like a D&D 4e skill challenge, only with opposed rolls, and the ability to sacrifice some kind of resources (such as hit points) for bonuses to rolls. The point of contact between the two beams...

I'm less and less a fan of night-omnipotent high fantasy deities, these days. Lately, I really dig the idea of there being no qualitative difference between "gods", "demons", and "spirits", and all such creatures being somewhat geographically limited. So there wouldn't be any deities known...

See, this is kind of an odd statement, to me. It suggests that we--gamers--relate to RPGs as if they were political parties (which we're either a member of or not) rather than toys (which we can pick up and put down at any time). I know there are diehard loyalists out there who'll only play...

I'm not sure where it started, but when I saw one of them come up on the front page, I went to the RPG Survey Round-Up . . . without noticing how old they all were. So, yeah, I think most of the necromancy's my fault. Still, it's kind of weird these threads didn't get more replies back in...

Miniatures require money and storage space (and, in the case of unpainted minis, time) that their utility at the table doesn't really justify. I think the future is in printing out art (from absolutely anywhere) and fitting it into some kind of reusable token. I'm trying it with little glass...

We're all experienced gamers, as well as intelligent, reasonable people. I don't think anyone in our group believes game designers know what's good for our fun better than we do. Any game's RAW is a collection of expert suggestions, not holy writ.

Man, we don't often get beyond low levels. Too little time, too many different awesome games to try. Because of this situation, I've started to accept the idea of games with little or no character advancement, like Spirit of the Century and In a Wicked Age.

I used to do that all the time. These days, I'm making a very serious effort not to. Sometimes this means I only actually buy a book after we've decided that I'm going to run a game using it.

The best damn thing about D&D v.3.5 is the tremendous wealth of interesting new classes.

Just barely. I've got a weekly game and a monthly game. The weekly game has really short sessions, though. Honestly, I think I'd like to play about twice a week.

Certainly, if there's one thing the PHB list avoids, it's spells that could short-circuit plots...

I'm passing on this one. I tend to come up with all-human settings, but I'd run a no-humans game in a hearthbeat. I strongly disavow both the "We're humans, so we can only understand humans!" and "We're human all day and we play RPGs to escape ourselves!" positions. I kinda hate the standard...

To my shame, I have not. I'm afraid I haven't really got any prospects for conversion. I think my whole circle of friends has at least some amount of past experience with roleplaying.

Only playing one RPG would be lame as hell. And, seriously, if I was gonna limit myself to one game, it sure as crap wouldn't be something as purpose-built and inflexible as D&D. Maybe Mutants & Masterminds or GURPS or something.

Understood. I think it's supposed to be sort of alt-history already, though, isn't it? I'm not sure just how alt, but I'm hoping they've got room to make such concessions. I think the assumption in a lot of folks' historical campaigns--regardless of what the books actually say on the...