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I think the Brute re-skinned as the ultimate master warrior, being just better at everything through sheer skill and willpower (a Batman-style Badass Normal) is much more fitting to the great mechanics, and I am going to use it as such. Nothing about it particularly says to me "mindless brute...

Last summer I bought a mint condition Dark Sun Boxed Set for 50 bucks on eBay. I keep it in a safe place. :)

Batman: Return of the Caped Crusader, and Batman vs Two-Face (with Shatner [!] as Harvey Dent.) While I am most definitely not a fan of Camp Batman (just watching it annoys the Hell out of me) I have heard about these and am happy to pass the info along to someone who does like it. They should...

I've been talking with my brother over the past few weeks about how Dwarves, being a Proud Warrior Race™ all about beards, axes, and hammers, and smashing skulls with said axes and hammers, should have an answer to the Bladesinger, IE a Wizard tradition with some decent melee combat ability. If...

Humble Bundle is rad.

I am appalled at the number of people wishing financial ruin on a family because their kid cheated at videogames. I think it's time people step back, take a breathe, and repeat to themselves it's only a damn game. And yes, suing minors was equally repulsive when the RIAA did it (was that...

Yup, it sure does, and I am very happy about that... but at the time I wrote that, the DMG hadn't yet been released! :)

Do it do it do it! You can do it! Your "friends" who wouldn't let you play because it would "throw the dynamic off" were doofuses. I would love to have women in our gaming group who are there because they just want to play. More diversity = more points of view = wider perspective = better...

The name Harmonquest seems to ring bells for me, maybe? That's the one with the pro voice actors, right? I was only able to watch the first 2, maybe 3 episodes. I was very excited at first... actual D&D play with professional actors! The DM seemed to be really on the ball, with a big book of...

I love 5th Edition because to me it seems like a damn near perfect fusion of all the best elements of all the previous Editions, including the good parts o 4th Edition, which I otherwise despise (good parts such as Ritual Magic and non-magic-using characters being able to learn to use Ritual...

This is great news! Just a few years ago I was decrying why, if such things as chess could be spectator sports, why not D&D? I am thrilled to see it has become a big thing! My only hope is that the gaming quality has improved since when I watched some of the videos so that prospective new...

G3.5? I love to have a good story, but I like the story to arise out of the gameplay and interactions between players/characters, not to be forced upon the players by the DM (we've tried campaigns like the latter and they ended up going... poorly.) Emergent storytelling, you might say. But if...

I just took it as proof that the Duffer Brothers were actual current players, as opposed to mining half-remembered things from childhood. Which was confirmed in the Beyond Stranger things after-episode commentaries. ;)

We almost always ended up as Lords and Ladies and such in our 1E games. Everyone would usually end up with a title and be Barons, Dukes, and eventually Kings of our own domains (which was the progression of my highest level 1E character, the Ranger Malachi.) We'd find a suitable site, build a...

The fantastic parts should look fantastic. Dragons and magic and such... but things that existed and exist in the real world should look like they do in the real world, otherwise it all just devolves into visual gibberish. Why not have "humans" be nine feet tall and blue with three arms...

Gutboy Barrelhouse!

I don't have full 8 hour rests heal the PCs all the way up to full HP. I just don't like it; I much prefer the 1st Edition feel of PCs potentially getting hurt so badly it may take weeks and months to fully heal. They have to spend Hit Dice to heal during an 8 hour rest just like a 1 hour...

Really? Wow, I don't understated that attitude at all. This is something that I especially LOVE about 5E; it eliminates "Phantom Proficiency" and means that being Proficient with a weapon actually really means something. Sure, in 3E Elven Wizards were technically Proficient with the...

Good Hit Points, decent AC, decent damage, more than one attack per round (eventually.) And the more than one attack per round is especially important to me; without more than one, I just feel like it's missing something (mo matter how much damage you accomplish in that one attack, just "one...

Gah! Sorry, Morrus! I did a search for "Gygax FBI" using the bar at the top of the page but it didn't turn anything up... I must not have done it right, or I just should have been more thorough. You can go ahead and delete this thread, if you'd like. No need for yet another thread cluttering...