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So when I last left my players, they had just successfully returned to Castle Arbok, the home of their order. Utilizing a powerful artifact called BlueWand, they traveled to the castle's secure teleport circle. But no one greeted them on arrival...which is not all that unusual, since they...

Much is written about Zacris the Inquisitor. So much of it true and yet, so very wrong. For Zacris was one of the Warforged, a fact much forgotten by the legends of history. He is remembered as cruel and powerful. A wizard whose skills were terrifying to the common man, he inspired fear and...

This is an important point. Folks tend to forget that different groups work differently and enjoy different styles. I'm sure some of my skill challenges wouldn't work for some groups, at all. But that's also true of our play style. We abandoned XP a few levels back, for example...and haven't...

I like calamari. But I find that calamari is easy to do wrong. Some restaurants overcook the squid, making it rubbery or too chewy. If an inexperienced chef undercooks it, it can be slimy and inedible. Some folks only expect calamari in rings, while others like the tentacles, as well. I...

I'm not really sure they HAVE plummeted, though. Let's take a look at some numbers: Highest-selling PC games of All time: The Sims 16 million The Sims 2 World of Warcraft Starcraft Half-Life Half-Life 2 Guild Wars Roller-Coaster Tycoon Myst Sim City Riven Battlefield 1942 - 4.2 million...

The OP requires us to accept a lot of stuff on faith. While he recognizes SOME of the issues in play, there are many to deal with. 1) We lack a lot of empirical data. This is true in both the print world, onine world and gaming worlds. We don't know how many copies of 3E was sold, beyond...

I think the problem is identifying what qualifies as a 'clear mistake'. In 2000, WotC laid off 100 employees. In 2002, they did it again. In 2005 and 2008, they also had smaller layoffs. If we were to use that information as an indicator, one could assume that 2000-2002 were TERRIBLE years...

[Steepling his fingers] Excellent. Their suffering will be most....delicious. [/steepling] :) Those monsters, by the way, creep me the hell out. Which is the point, I guess.

Cool. that's rather what I was hoping. I planned to give my players access to all the Essentials materials and allow some of them to rebuild their characters if they found some the Essentials classes more appealing. I'm pretty sure my one Defender player, who found the 4E fighter totally...

Hey, gang. I'm not quite up to speed, per se, on the whole 'Essentials' line. I understand the basic ideas behind it, but don't own any Essentials books. I am, however, a DDI Subscriber. Seeing the classes in the Character Builder, I am considering offering my players access to those...

This was discussed in the trial. McDonald's tried to make that exact claim....except THEIR OWN RESEARCH again showed that a large percentage of their customers expected to drink their coffee as soon as they bought it, not later. Well, that's good...because Liebeck wasn't endangering anyone...

Adventuring in the historical world of Harry Potter. Straight Up. Players portray wizards and their allies, perhaps fighting back the dragons, dealing with the Goblin uprisings or even contending with muggle attacks. Classes might include Auror, Alchemist, Qudditch Player, Ministry Agent...

You did READ that wiki article, right? McDonalds displayed a callous disregard for the plaintiff and the public in general...that's why the initial verdict was so large for punitive damages from the jury: to quote the judge, their behavior was "reckless, callous and willful." It wasn't a...

If you don't know what normal means, how can you be certain who is and who isn't? Who makes that determination? If you don't want to self-identify as "normal", which appears to be a loaded pejorative for you, that's fine. But don't assume that you're speaking universal truth, because a lot of...

Ah, the classic 'how can high-level D&D handle verisimilitude?' question. There are lots of approaches to this discussion and lots of answers. There is no single correct one, owing in large part to the fact that there are multiple play-styles and campaign designs. Some answers are simply...

Most interesting to me was the fact the member of my group who most finds 4E to be unsatisfying, so far, is also the single biggest fan of the new Gamma World. In part because of the chaotic nature of it and perhaps partly because he can accept the system much more outside of the D&D context.

Don't look at me, man.

It sounds to me like you've had some bad experiences. I'm sorry to hear that. But I think you paint with an extremely broad and bitter brush. I understand what you're getting at, but I think you both misread 'normal' people and mis-characterize them and yourself. Nerds and geeks not a part...

Once the lumberjack was dealt with, they needed to travel to the sewer system, both to possibly rescue a missing maintenance crew and stop the source of the virus...and evil failed apprentice of the Clockwork Sage who the party would end up taunting mercilessly. This was the map they were provided:

Next, a couple of selections that I somehow neglected to post from the adventure: "The Tick-Tock War". The players were tasked with travelling to the town of Geartooth and visit the famed "Clockwork Sage", to discover if he/she had a hand in the construction of dangerous printing press that...