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I consider gameplay to be the most important factor in a RPG. Setting and flavor help to direct the gameplay or make it broad. But a boring game is a boring game. Balance is a key factor of gameplay. Not the most important, but a key one. Few things are worse than to discover that the character...

It seems interesting, guy. Once I finish some books, I’ll check that out ^^

Well, usually I prefer 2e over 1e, but here is my comment: The entire Ranger concept in (rest of) D&D is weird to me: I’m very used to video-game version: archery, non-magical, plus the hunting, outdoors, and some other skills. Just the fact that pre-3e rangers could use heavy armor and worse...

Thank you; now I need to go to the ophthalmologist hahahahahahahaha.

If it's a more "modern" monarchy, elected politicians could be there, too. I think the only one which I recommend for every monarchy is his/her teacher when he/she was a child. Probably will have no official power, but the king/queen would deeply respect him/her.

That's what I was saying. In 4e they lost their shine too, although, in this case, he could have another name and things would be just fine. I just think that specific old-school restrictions and punishments were too severe: they are mortals, they make mistakes, too. I already wrote here my...

No, no, no. I don't even play 5e and I don't want my world to have any sort of connection to Planescape. And I don't care about what Mearls said or any relativist explanation. No offense; I don't want to get angry here. If you want to use my content, feel free to do so; just don't include my...

This may be my OCD talking, but I always have the feel that, if two determined settings are connected, then there aren't two settings: there's one setting. That makes a huge difference to me. But my approach is that, in all tables, each table is using a different version of a setting. I tend to...

I don't think it particularly matters other people's opinions because I imported the books in English so I will read them. But this discussion is nice ^^

I tend to create or carefully pick existing worlds to my setting*. I like my setting to be, either completely separate from other settings, or be a "what if" alternative version. In no way I want to deal with Elminster in my futuristic Zanarkand, if you know what I mean. Neither I want my...

Character Builder is not necessary to play 4e, especially if only the core books are allowed. I allow many splatbooks, but no CB in my 4e games. Also, I don't think you can adquire CB legally, now. Just the ones who already have it, it seems.

Haha yeah, count me on that one. I'm a DM and I don't particularly like inventing new rules to make PC's more problematic than what already is. Also, I try to play the game seriously as much as possible. Sometimes, however, things turn out funny.

Just to be clear: despite liking the Spellplague as an idea/event, I do not approve what they did to FR. I'm not a FR fan by any metric, and I think FR was a main factor on 4e's performance. I suppose they could do the Spellplague in at least two other ways: 1) Alternative timeline: a "what if"...

Talking about 4e's FR: I'm not, by any means, a FR fan. But the whole idea of the Spellplague, twin worlds, the goddess of magic dying, etc amazes me; so I'll make a campaign around an event of the same kind in my homebrew world, eventually. I already know who killed the goddess of magic haha...

I still follow the thread so no, it’s not late. Thank you. I think The Shattered Circle would be the way to go, here. I do want to buy more Al-Qadim material in the future, so adventures there won’t be useless, but I believe a “generic setting” adventure will better serve the purpose of a test...

Good discussion here, guys. I'm already having ideas for my gaming group ^^ Well, this is my opinion, but one thing the books say and people often forget is that next to no-one is 100% consistent. That is, everyone steps out of their alignment at something. With that in mind, and what others...

Well, I understand that. I'm not hoping to go away, either. Perhaps they should be just nicer to post-campaign costumers, which is my main problem. Just on a note: as far as I know, with Catarse (the Brazilian Kickstarter) you actually receive your money back if the project fails (I think)...

Well, I already bought the books, so I will read them. I may tell you my experience after that. Now, on the topic: I used to have a ban on evil-PCs, but right now I'm thinking about removing it. Not sure how that will go, but some players truly wanted to play one; what could possibly go wrong...

Well, I usually contribute to Kickstarter’s Brazilian version (Catarse), but I think this still holds: My main problem with crowdfunding is: time and money. Money is short and rarely comes by just in time for a crowdfunding campaign. Usually there’s a minimal amount to get most of the rewards...

That’s a great setup, guy! I perhaps will ste-I mean, borrow something for my game :D