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Actually it was the Seattle area. I always thought it was cool because it detailed places that I would see pretty regularly.

Not a fan. There are better ways of balancing the ability to create magic items. The investment of time is a silly one, however, because its easy to do it between sessions, or better, time lapse the period and have nothing going on during that time anyway. Ultimately, I like the Pathfinder...

I'd probably go Castles and Crusades and an average set of dice, myself.

Yeah, I got the red box set with the Elmore cover for a birthday present when I was 9 years old. My mother and step father brought me into a Toys R' Us and I picked it out. Then I got it home and really had no clue how you played it, so it ended up sitting there unused until a friend of mine...

Ah, good point. It's been a while since I've had a character at exactly zero hit points, so I had forgotten that they were still up, sort of.

Hey, no harm no foul, and working creatively on 3.5 projects with WotC was always a pleasure. I finally got the chance to check out the new FR campaign setting and was surprised at how much material I generated for Serpent Kingdoms actually made it in. I actually really like how they turned the...

Oh yeah, totally. I'm not a big fan of save or die, but I do like save or be temporarily but horrendously screwed. I wouldn't even go -1 hit points. I'd go zero so that you're automatically stable but unconscious. As for handling the difficulties involved with polymorph and wildshape - just...

I prefer the 3.5 method, with the option of substituting in alternate class abilities from other sources.

So many of these shows can easily be done with existing systems. For example, all you need to run Battlestar Galactica is a system that has rules for starships, robots, and a basic modern or better combat system. The rest is all setting. Take X-Files or Fringe. Either of these could easily be...

It's the only one you need. :p Seriously though, Dark Matter is awesome, though it reprints a lot of fluffy stuff from the Alternity book.

D20 Apocalypse, dude.

The outline I was handed was king. I really can't imagine any way that the objectives I was given could have been satisfied without leaving the door open for an abomination like Pun Pun. Now the sarrukh CR, that's another issue entirely, which had something to do with the relative newness of...

Sometimes you just can't catch a break. Take the sarrukh for example. I designed them with the stated design goal of making a progenitor race that is capable of modifying other lizard races, in accordance with existing Realms lore. Why is this race that was never intended as a playable race...

I agree with every word in Monte's review. I haven't subscribed yet because I'm waiting to see which way Wolfgang decides to go in terms of which edition to support, but I think that KQ in its present form is an amazing publication and I think it has a long life ahead of it.

I don't like this. If WotC can't make it work and Peter can't make it work, that suggests to me that the future of the Con itself might be in very real trouble. I'd really hate to see Gen Con go away.

Well, Paizo has promised that the final version of Pathfinder will fit that bill. So here's a suggestion for you. In my opinion, the reason 3.5 gets un-fun at higher levels is because of three main problems: 1. BAB gets too high for certain classes after a while 2. The disparity of saves...

I wrote a chunk of D20 Apocalypse, I own most of the Darwins World books published to date, and I've run a few post apocalyptic games, so hopefully my advice will be helpful to you. First, now that there are quality alternatives, I don't mind admitting that I have issues with D20 Modern. The...

Hey, you know, give credit where credit is due and all that. I really like the approach you took with Modern20. It's distinctly different than D20 Modern in a good way while avoiding the the things about True20 that doesn't resonate well with some people, like the lack of specialized classes and...

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I'd argue that D20 Modern left a lot to be desired in terms of focus, artwork, and mechanics. It was a nice start, but I think a modern set of rules need to be extremely versatile so that it can be useful for the types of games people want to play. For this reason, and given the overbearing...