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When 3E debuted, we went from a 'Hey, let's try this...' to a weekly game, usually 4-6 hours a session. As time has passed and children have grown, we've scaled back some. Currently, we do twice a month, sometimes thrice. Usually 4-5 hour sessions. At our height, we had 8 players, currently...

I wish that this wasn't the only kinda-sorta vaguely Greyhawk-ish material that 4E has, but c'est la vie. Perhaps someday that 4E Greyhawk idea might come to pass, but I guess I have to accept that there just aren't enough Greyhawk fans out there. :(

You know, I grok what you're saying...but I think that's not really the case here. The two folks shown as the central focus are the DM and the girl. The DM's lives in a nice apartment or townhome and only nod to geekery is wearing an RPGA t-shirt and being overweight, I suppose. The girl...

I hadn't noticed this posted here yet, so I thought I'd start a thread about it. Wil Wheaton posted a link to his blog, which is how I saw it. It's a nice short and sweet little documentary about playing D&D. I have to admit, I thought it was very funny that the one player describes D&D in...

I don't think so. Lord of the Rings has gone through three cycles of popularity, at least. The movies made so much money not because of geeks, but because of mainstream acceptance. If catering to nerds resulted in profits, we'd all be enjoying the sequel to Serenity right now. But we're not...

Those examples aren't really what the OP was talking about. They most certainly ARE differences, but they're setting differences, not always mechanical ones. Being an Aes Sedai in the Wheel of Time setting versus being a male channeler prior to the Cleansing is clearly in favor of the female...

Interesting. I think that there are several different points being addressed here, some of which may be at cross-purposes. Potentially confusing the discussion is the mingling of two separate notions as being the same one; at least, that's how it appears to me. The first notion is that of...

Happy Birthday, Kevin. I suppose to celebrate you'll go smoke some mad-scientist combination of meats that you won't share. AGAIN. :)

The Watchers Above The pantheon of the Watchers Above consists of fourteen deities. They are listed here in brief. The Watchers Above are also sometimes referred to as The Fourteen, The Divine or The Selanossians. In general, the portfolios of the Watchers Above are concerned with general...

Hey, kids! Do you like D&D? Sure, we all do! And you know what you'd like? D&D Books and lots of 'em. But where can you get 'em? I know a place! I've just bought a new house and it's time to move. That means I need to prune my inventory of gaming stuff. And I'd rather some of my D&D...

Another setting I forgot to mention that might tie into your idea: the anime "Darker than Black" features superheroes without the name or costumes. The main characters are all what are called 'contractors'. Somehow (this is a central mystery to the show) they have attained superpowers...but in...

We called it a 'cracked die', too. 'Torch Issue' = any in-game issue that we handwave or isn't worth the time to track because it's not fun for us. Originated with 'who's carrying the torch this time?'. 'Oh, he and I will just cast light.' Eventually we just declared all handwaved details as...

I'm going to assume you meant to say 'and NOT something', there. :) So, you want to do something unusual for a superhero campaign. You'll find that a little tougher than you might think. Superheroes have covered a pretty wide base just in the last 30 years, let alone the last 70. However...

The Mandrill has become progressively more skeevy over the years, but the Purple Man is far, far worse. I'd be very careful in using them if you're playing with folks who know the characters. The Purple Man has done far, far worse than make women domestics. His abuse of Jessica Jones in...

Well, see, that depends. In the Silver Age forward, Yes, her enemies would be bound by her lasso as often as she was. But in the Golden Age...well, while she did tie folks up, as often as not it was other women: And stuff like this happened a LOT: Of course, to be fair, we also...

Great Stuff. I'd love to give you XP for it, but I need to spread some more around, apparently. :)

I wonder if this has more to do with cultural norms of the 1940s/1950s. Showing women punching each other bloody was not really something you could expect to see in a Golden Age (or rarely Silver Age) comic (and men punching women even less so). While WMM may have guided the stories to that...

I remember we met him at Philcon lo many years ago in the dark past of the early 1990s. He was a hoopy frood who knew where his towel was.

"We named the monkey 'Jack'."

Oh, no question that Marston let his....preferences...into his work. He was invovled in a polyamorous relationship when he created Wonder Woman and attributed qualities to both of them. But at the same time, he also had some liberal ideas about the character. She rarely lived up to them by...