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In most Conan stories by the end Conan is looking a lot like John McClane at the end of Die Hard.

You missed a few points. First, you are told to eat the fruit by the only other talking being you have ever encountered. Second, you are such a noob that whatever language you speak does not even have the words: lie, deception, or manipulate and you do not understand the concept of any of...

For modern horror I would go with any system that works like the old WEG Starwars D6 system. I love that system because no matter how powerful you became everyone still died if they took a blaster bolt between the eyes. A mechanic like this works really well with the fear factor you want in a...

I think Conan's main superpower is a supply of hitpoints far in excess of anyone he faces.

Nakor, just about the coolest character in Feists books explains once why wizards do not dominate everyone else. Wizard casts spell. Second wizard counterspells first wizard. Third wizard counterspells second wizards counterspell. Fighter walks up and chops first wizard (or second or third)...

15 level PrC? I assume its a flavor class and does not include the normal bump in power compared to standard classes.

I had a fellow gamer and English major recomment George R. R. Martin. He even loaned me the first book in the series. I got about 100 pages into it and returned the book. Sure the writing is very sophisticated so the English major could gush over it but in 100 pages I did not find a single...

Which is it? One suggests that if I roleplay well you will give some sort of bonus to my rolls. The second though says that my roleplaying has no effect at all on my skill checks.

Do you expect a player to actually role play at all then or just say casually "I use my diplomacy skill to calm down the angry inn keeper" then throw some dice? Also where does it start or end? Do players ever speak in character or does everything come down to dice rolls? If only the dice rolls...

I know when I watch anything I DVR I hit the skip ahead at every commercial, so this would be a very smart stance for advertisers to take.

My point is that every single show on tv is constrained by the same rating system. So you cannot really say one show is being hurt more than others. As for webisodes and website hits. Those are very hard to rate. Lots of websites use tricks to artificially raise their hit counts far beyond what...

The problem falls back to an age old one. The fighter, or barbarian, whose powergames his stats to 18,18,18,6,6,6. He is a monster in combat because that is how the dice roll, yet he "roleplays" far beyond his stats. If your going to allow this then why have any mental stats, or social skills...

So your saying that the obselete Nielson system killed SGU because it doesnt account for DVRs? Yet how do the dozens of other top rated shows on television survive under the very same system? The fact is the show was not very popular, it didnt carry over nearly enough SG1 and SGA fans, and the...

Nothing he did in the movie related to his revenge was possible without the wealth he had.

In the very first DL novel the "curse of the magi" is explained. It is the requirement that wizards have to memorize their spells every day. RAISTLIN also uses material components right out of the PHB for many of his spells, encounters foes with as he specifically called it magic resistance, and...

Very true. "Jackass" is a very popular show, it is, just like most reality shows, very stupid. I know fraud isn't the right show, I m just not sue what is. You get my poib though. They wrote a show that superficially fits into Stargate universe burgundy certainly did not write a Stargate show.

Stamina of any sort. The average DnD character does stuff every day that would put multiple Iron Man athletes in the grave from exhaustion.

Cough, cough, RAISTLIN.

You do realize that for your plan to work you need your internet Abbé Faria to also be a billionaire who gives you all of his money. Edmund learned quite a bit from him but the key component to his sucess was the massive wealth he was given access to right before his escape from prison.

The last game, which I left out of frustration, met every other week on a Sunday though that often switched to Saturday as needed. Even with that infrequent schedule we had somewhere around 1/3 of our sessions cancelled, we also had half of November and all of December cancelled because "the...