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In the "Ridiculous Campaign" a friend and I run very occasionally two pointlessly charismatic con artists, The Reverend and Jethro, preach the joys of worshiping "Mr. Awesome", a deity of their own devising. In play, and later on as NPCs, they would make spontaneous throwaway references to...

This is basically how I feel, on all points. The only thing I would add is that I should like how the build system works on its own merits, but that is almost a given. For example, I enjoyed it for 3.5 enormously, and not so much for 4e (despite its other strong points).

We've seen some good ones appropriate to the tone of the thread. One guy in particular from our group is legendary for off-the-wall names, I wish I could remember even half of them. Lunchmeat Phobia Plot Anomaly Candy Sweetbottom Epeck Monk MR HOB (mentally retarded half-orc barbarian... a 3.5...

Arcanum is totally worth playing (and replaying), and one of my favorite games of all times, despite some of its less polished aspects. As mentioned above, the official patch plus the Unofficial Arcanum Patch and the Arcanum High Resolution Patch will give a good experience. I also play with...

That would be Call of Stone from the 3.5 PHB2, and I had the same reaction you did. It really affected how I wrote homebrew spells afterward. The character's speed drops 10 feet per round each time it misses a fort save. At speed 0 it turns to stone. If it misses 4 saves total before the...

I have some lies, damned lies, and (internet) statistics for you, because I'm actually kind of curious. I will apply a classic test of proportions, with null hypothesis that the proportion of anonymous voters from each group should be equal. At the time I carefully counted, there were 75 pro...

ToEE was buggy, and the last part of the game was seriously undercooked for content, but it was hardly unplayable in my experience. Far too many frustrating problems at release than should be allowed for any software, but not enough to make the game unplayable. I admit I may just have been...

I will end up buying at least some of the Essentials material, but my gaming group will almost certainly not move back to 4e. We tried and failed to be passionate about 4e and decided not to move back to 3.5, and for the last 7 months have been making a system we enjoy from scratch, and it will...

With all this talk of SW's steep death spiral, could someone give me a quick summary of its mechanics? I am officially curious.

Yeah, I was definitely framing the issue the wrong way. It's a valid way to look at the problem if we're trying to find the optimal strategy for what kind of dice to roll, but that isn't what we're doing at all! I was actually reading a textbook on statistical modeling and information theory...

That's not true if you don't know the target number beforehand, but it could be if you do. Obviously a d1 in an exploding system wins everything, but after that using larger dice is always at least as good as using lower dice (assuming you don't know the result you need). And the equality...

Given a universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate, our best current understanding, I think it would be kind of fun to imagine the world as the stars and galaxies disappear from view. (The edge of the observable universe is shrinking, since past a certain distance light omitted from objects...

In the ridiculous campaign I co-run, people started understanding the warforged a lot better after seeing their stage production of "Vecna in Springtime." I may not speak for everyone, however. :) I'm solidly love/hate with the Forgotten Realms. Planescape and Darksun are settings that, with...

I would lean toward psiocracy.

That would be The Fan (first mention), Blargney the second (for finding the relevant old strip), and myself (for hopefully fitting the clues together.) A team effort! Also, the end was great. The panel where he is taking off his helmet is perfect, I was in all sorts of metatension about how...

Seems likely. - Elan's father was apparently a general of a nigh-unstoppable army. Nale would have been around and have an opportunity to betray/leave the cause in some non-trivial fashion, especially if his dad was grooming him for some position of authority. - The general was apparently...

Epic thread necromancy is epic. I'm glad though, because it made me aware of the existence of Over the Edge, which looks rather interesting.

A classic in a game I ran, the bard basically publicly admits to murdering a townsman in front of said town, while trying to speak to them about something else entirely. As the PCs are running away: "I misread my audience."

The most powerful ruler on three continents deserves a fourth, the entire work a testament to his own greatness. The entire prime material plane in an orb, sitting neatly at the end of his scepter. A wide-ranging harem recruiting program, and reality show? A new language (or at least script)...

I want each game world to have its own rules and then stick with them, whatever they may be. A self-consistent system isn't necessarily right, but a self-inconsistent system is certainly wrong (even if that just means incomplete). That has some genre dependence for me, but self consistency is...