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I don't think roleplaying a specific character should be punished, so I don't think you should drop him. I do think you should let the players chastise him for his obvious act of cowardice, however. Eventually he will either act in concert with the party or he will be driven from the group by...

I've had a player run this in a playtest and not only did it not take long to get used to, but I don't feel that working with it added a measurable amount of time to running the barbarian, nor was it overly complicated. The player had a copy of the class description in front of him and it worked...

It's already been answered, but yes, it's one of the important issues that they have promised to address. Lisa Stevens did comment on the issue, stating that this is a directive coming down from HER. My opinion? This is one area where 4E scored a touchdown. If Pathfinder were to embrace the 1/2...

Personally I have no axe to grind in the aldarin debate, but it does puzzle me a bit. I don't really understand why the wild/fey elf split is described as a problem. It seems about the same as saying that there's a problem having humans in both agricultural and industrial roles. It's a cultural...

I'm actually finishing up my degree right now after not having done so during my first attempt at college. Sad, I know. My major is English - Rhetoric/Professional Writing. If you were to ask a hundred different college professors what the definition of rhetoric is, you would get 100 different...

Exactly!

I guess I would have to come back with "define core." If you mean the books I accept as integral to the game, right now its Pathfinder RPG, MM 1 - 3, DMG 1 & 2, PHB 2, Fiend Folio, Expanded Psionics Handbook, Tome of Horrors Revised edition, Tome of Horrors II - III, Book of Fiends, and...

My answer is that they should keep playing the old game or find a new one. Pathfinder works for me. See, I get the frustration because I also feel it, but the thing to remember is that WotC owns a brand. They do not own your game. And if you don't like the direction they went with 4E, then...

The question in my mind is whether the scope of the changes Pathfinder makes are comparable in scope to the changes made between 3.0 and 3.5. In my opinion, they much larger. The old 3.5 and 3.0 stuff is still mostly compatible, but the same was true in going from 1E to 2E, so I don't see...

I don't personally like calling it 3.75. I like to think about it as an alternate new edition of D&D. Or better yet, it's a new game that is born from a previous edition of a different game. Sure, it's splitting hairs, but calling it 3.75 implies that the changes between it and 3.5 are...

Actually I agree with him. People on both sides of the argument pretty frequently delve into ad-hominem and hyperbole. I'll even admit that my own comments haven't always been fair to the other side. The reason I think D&D is like that is because of the very nature of the thing. People don't...

I agree with those who say that the core of 2E was an improvement upon the core of 1E, but that it lost something by losing the Gygaxian prose, as well as the artifacts and fiends. For most of the time I was running AD&D, I was running modules and Dungeon adventures that were designed for 1E...

That is exactly what I find so appealing about it. I've decided to give it a go for a limited game if I can get my players on board.

Yeah, that's why I'm generally against large corporations buying up hobby game companies. It may look like a good move in the short term, but when the product loses steam, as hobby games generally tend to do over time, the future of the brand is in serious jeopardy. The options then become to...

I thought it was called skirmishing.

I think that Dark Matter and Gamma World actually can work fairly well together. However, what you end up with isn't a world where there are a great number of conspiracies, but rather, a world where the things that once lie behind a veil of secrecy now operate in the open. Where once the PCs...

I've played 4E and prefer 3rd and 1st editions (though I'm leaning heavily towards Castles and Crusades as the ultimate "light" edition). I think the areas I would change have already been addressed in this thread. What 4E does right, in my opinion, are the following: 1. 1/2 level + ability...

I'm not going to bash Gail, but I will say that I've recently taken an interest in C&C, and the reason was because this was the system Castle Zagyg was designed for, and that this was the system Gygax himself picked as being close enough to his original work to qualify as a true successor. The...

Most companies using the OGL stopped using the D20 logo years ago, so it's kind of a tough call. I'd probably go with Tome of Horrors 1 - 3 (or any that you don't already have), Green Ronin's Book of Fiends, any and all of the Goodman Games DCCs or the Necromancer modules (I'm particularly fond...

Odd, I was going to comment on that thread, and I had already mentioned the smell, but then decided to trash my comments since I didn't actually arrive at a pro- or con- decision. But yeah, add me to the group of weirdos who love the smell of the old AD&D books. And as sad as this sounds, I...