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Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Halflings - that's probably all that I would call my 'core' races but like others that have replied here, I try to let people play anything they want and find a way to make it work in the campaign world. Other races meant for players such as gnomes, dragonborn...

While I agree that ending w/prison could make for an interesting adventure hook, I'd caution against having the rules setup to force this upon a GM (and player). Perhaps neither are interested in that sort of game, perhaps that happened the last time they ran a N.E.W. game too. IMO it would...

As I prep for gameplay, and because I know absolutely nothing about star systems, I gave the random generator a try (pages 165-169). I will start by saying I am grateful that this section is included and think it is a great tool. Further, I realize that most of what I note below under 'bad'...

Good to hear, looking forward to some dogfights and such. Hoping we can emulate some of the awesome chase/fight scenes we see in shows including things like 'scraping' a pursuing fighter off onto a cliff face.

I have had too many players who could not or would not roleplay Int/Wis/Cha to agree that people should, in all circumstances, be expected to play these out with mechanical help. Is it preferred that they do? Absolutely. Should a players character be disadvantaged because the player doesn't...

I don't know if they qualify as problems but I strongly dislike - Detect Good/Evil/lies/etc. Create food/water Teleport (and related) Resurrection (and al related) Those are what come to mind. I dislike detect spells as they turn what could be interesting encounters into something less...

Agreed. A nice variety is exactly what I like to have in my pocket.

When I first read about Skill Challenges I thought they sounded awesome. I was very excited to try them out. In practice, I found them less awesome than I originally envisioned but still useful for some situations. I did not like the effect they had on what should have been interesting...

Sometimes it is tied to a stat. Suffocation, for instance, will have an initial dice pool based on the characters Endurance.

The beauty of it is that it can work for anything you want to time gate. Need to figure out how long after you kill the boss his castle will take to collapse? Countdown How many rounds before the ruckus your making is noticed? Countdown How long before the snow buries you alive? Countdown...

Real short version - Anytime you need to run a situation with limited time, pick a number between 1 and (whatever). Each round roll that many d6s. Any dice that come up 6 are removed. Repeat each round. When you run out of d6s in the pool time's up. Example- say you are in space with a...

Sounds great!

Also correct. 1d8+3 for the battleaxe is 1d8 for the weapon and +3 for the Str mod.

Mistwell is correct, the total bonus is +4. You get to that number by +3 from STR and +1 proficiency.

Outside the RPG environment I don't buy a book unless its an e-book any longer and have not since I bought my first Kindle years ago. However, for RPGs I don't find electronic books to be as convenient as having a hard-copy to flip through so I still enjoy having a printed book. Ideally, I...

I'm with you, don't have much use for gnomes. I won' ban them, but they really don't seem to have a good place.

Probably a dumb questions but what is DCC?

We haven’t actually played a game yet, that will come in another week or two, but I have read through the rulebook. Here are my initial thoughts. The Good The game looks interesting. I’ve never played O.L.D. so all the mechanics and such are unknown. I am looking forward to running (or...

We switched to the play test rules a few weeks ago and will stick w/them until official rules are published then move over. We are also going to participate in the N.E.W. play test this year which should be fun and are talking about giving Pathfinder a shot. We play weekly so we have lots of...