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In partial defense of internet retailers, there's a lot more involved than just the shipping costs. The company has to pull the items from their inventory, pack the items, verify the accuracy of the order packed, seal and ship. So you have labor and packing materials, which tend to be a fixed...

Points at nearby NPC... ...when the giant asked "WHO DID THAT!" (The NPC illusionist survived. The players were actually surprised when he refused to continue adventuring with the party.)

7) "This will hurt them more than it hurts us." A favorite saying of a 1E wizard with a fondness for dropping fireballs in the middle of melee.

I disagree. The variance you mention is exactly why I think a module for action points would be a great idea. The module could offer several different implementations, similar to how they been used in other versions of D&D and even other games like Savage Worlds. I think one of the problems with...

If we're only talking about generating a random number, dice work as well as cards for most uses. For example, there's a game called Perudo. Players roll dice secretly and can lie about the results. This game could just as easily be done with cards, but why change something that already works...

My response wasn't clear - I was referring to a GM hiding extra cards behind the screen, in case he wanted to substitute the actual dealt card for a different one. That's one of the few ways I can think of to fudge a card, assuming the GM reveals his cards when used. If the GM simply tells the...

Well, I suppose I should have said it pretty much eliminates casual cheating/fudging. For example, if the GM really wants to fudge, he can. But it would be pretty obvious if the GM starts going through the deck to pull out the card he wants. And hiding certain cards behind the screen "just in...

This is one way to get an "old school" feel back into the game. I remember taking low level characters into the dungeon, fighting one or two or three battles, then running for the exit. Heal up, buy equipment, recruit new henchmen/PC's to replace the fallen, and go back in. This was one reason...

Another feature of using cards is that it is pretty much impossible to cheat (player) or fudge (GM). That can be a good thing or not, depending on one's point of view.

Thanks for the clarification - I knew my memory was a bit fuzzy. So using cards in this case has a couple advantages: for multiple results, it's easier to hold cards than rolling dice and recording the results; and the ability to put one card up your sleeve gives each player an option to...

I see two elements to this discussion: simplicity and impact. Simplicity seems straigtforward, though corner cases can cause issues. I like the idea of using an existing mechanic (advantage/disadvantage). But as others have pointed out, it can seem confusing if only part of a group is surprised...

I can't speak for the OP, but I can see one big advantage: it evens out luck. A die can (theoretically) roll 3 1's in a row, or 3 20's. It can consistently roll well or poorly in an evening. Using cards can even this out a bit, depending on the exact mix of results in the deck and how often the...

I have a 24" monitor that usually is set for 1920x1080, though I run many games in lower resolution, due to graphic demands and because I tend to play older games. As for budget, I'd like to keep the cost to $150 or less. IME paying for a top of the line card isn't worth it except for some very...

I agree completely, and I know you didn't mean it as "Get rid of all the old farts by sending them to Mars." It's just when we discuss such things rationally, the irrational part of the brain starts saying, "Now wait just a cotton-pickin' minute..." You're right about the advantages of age in...

Makes sense to me, though somehow your comment has me thinking of elderly eskimos and ice floes. :)

I have a 2 1/2 year old Dell desktop and the graphics card fan is dying. The graphics card market has changed quite a bit since I used to tinker with PC's, so I'm looking for some guidance and recommendations. Current specs: Dell Studio XPS 8000 Win7 Home 64 bit 2.66GHZ multicore processor 4GB...

I'll be in my sixties by then, so I doubt they'd take me. However, if I were younger, absolutely.

Three points: 1. Some modules shouldn't matter (we hope). The designers have talked about one player having a character with lots of options, while another player at the same table plays a simpler character, but both at roughly the same power level. So you could have a 3E/4E style fighter with...

I'd flip that around - any company that's not afraid of competition, healthy or otherwise, is not long for this world. Andy Grove of Intel famously talked of always being paranoid, that the moment his company became complaisent was the moment someone else would pass them by. WOTC has no...

There's also the fallacy that a rule is broken if someone doesn't like it. This rule is a matter of preference, no more, no less. If you don't like it you can lobby for it to be changed, ignore it, live with it, or houserule it.