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This is probably a side conversation deserving of its own thread, but hey, I started the thread, so I'll diverge anyway, Fantasy doesn't actually have to be all that familiar. There are so many people who play these games who aren't up on real world history, ranging from ancient to somewhere...

Why is fantasy the single most played genre out there? I love me some good scifi gaming, including space opera, post apocalyptic, near future, and various others, but fantasy owns gaming. I've met a number of people who won't even consider playing a non-fantasy RPG, and that doesn't make a lot...

The next campaign I run will probably have a 1 - 15 spread using the 2X XP advancement. I think 1 - 10 works well, but I think the system can still be pushed another 5 levels.

I'm seriously generalizing. It isn't referencing what either of you said specifically, it's just that a lot of DMs voiced throughout 3rd edition that they didn't feel like they were in control. I certainly agree than in many cases, there were probably more rules that were really needed, which...

I'm honestly surprised every time I read that a DM has a hard time taking control of the game (and by taking control, I mean deciding what's allowed and what isn't, and not allowing the players to run roughshod over them). I've allowed my players to correct me when I get a rule wrong, but only...

It's hard to pin it down to just one. In the last year, we spent the majority of our time playing True20, but that's because we had a True Darwin's World game going, and we went from that straight into beta testing Reign of Discordia. Once RoD was out, we started up a Pathfinder beta game (which...

Right now. The players I have right now are the best, we meet regularly, I'm happier with the systems we're playing not than in the past (Pathfinder, C&C, and True20), and in cases where I'm working on material that isn't protected under an NDA, I get to playtest the stuff I work on before...

Tried 4E. Still playing Pathfinder, C&C, and True20. Wouldn't have it any other way.

I have a reputation for being a heavy-handed DM, but I agree with the point the OP makes, if not the heavy-handed method of delivery. If you're going to take an existing game mechanic in any edition of D&D and make it ineffective so as to preserve plot, it is up to you to come up with a...

I bought my first D&D set at Toys R' Us way back in the '80s. It's good to see they're carrying on a great tradition by introducing new players to D&D.

I'm using FF3. And checking, it looks like it is also set to false.

I don't even know what to ask for this year. I'm good on the video game front, I have all the RPGs I want for the time being since I have a Pathfinder subscription and I'm not buying 4E. There isn't any new music out that I want that I don't already have. I'm backed up on books. Once I get Dark...

When I work on something, I can draw on what worked and did not work from previous attempts, and then put that knowledge to use, so in general, I usually think newer stuff = better. There have been some surprises though. I didn't think Mysteries of the Moonsea was going to fly with the Forgotten...

Nothing fancy or unusual. It's probably some setting that got messed up. I'd uninstall and reinstall, but I don't want to lose all my passwords.

OK, this is pobably more of a Firefox issue than an ENWorld issue, but if someone knows that answer, I'd sure appreciate it. The problem is that when I put my cursor over a thread to get a preview, I used to get a wide preview box that gave me the first couple sentences of the thread. Something...

I like the idea of doing a series of short adventures or supplements, say in the 3 to 5 page range. The price is still looking like free, though it would come at the expense of artwork. There is one way I might be able to wrangle up some original artwork at no expense, but no promises to that...

Content is content. If it's laid out on a page with art, and care given to the visual presentation, then it's only different than a paper product in that it lacks paper. The only valid criticism of this format, as far as I'm concerned, is that people don't want to incur the expense of printing...

As a game designer, I find the notion of unquestioningly trusting every piece of rules that comes from any game designer troubling. If Gary wants to say that in Greyhawk, gunpowder doesn't work, which is why he didn't include guns, that's cool. If the player wants to include it, that's cool too...

I'm still buying the odd PDF product here and there, much as I've done over the past couple years, and almost all of it is derived from the 3.5 game and uses the OGL.

Erik, are you crazy? "Solving" the Somalian pirates "problem" will be a serious blow to us pastafarians. We need more pirates in the world, not less.