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As Banshee16 alludes to, . And the alien infantry isn't terribly potent. They can be taken down by modern weapons, and their weapons aren't terribly good at putting down humans. Early on, you see some Marines injured by the aliens' plasma weapons, but I don't think anyone dies to a direct...

The news page is my first stop, mainly because it's the front page, and I haven't gotten around to just bookmarking the forum pages. I do like to see it, but for now, it might be worth throttling back the effort you spend on it. Certainly, report what you find, but don't go out of your way...

Shoot, apparently you can have magic-using hackers now (adepts can buy extra dice for Hacking, etc, as well as gunbunnydom). It's inefficient as hell, but it's doable. Brad

The punchline was just gold. And lead. At the same time! Brad

It made basic attacks from non-Str classes much, much stronger. My avenger had a Str of 11, but using her Wis of 20 made her MBAs granted by the bard or warlord much more useful. And it's not like Melee Weapon Training is useless at half mod to damage now; in my avenger's case, it'd still be...

FASA used to do that. I'll never forget the night they kicked in the door on our SR1 game and forcibly upgraded us to SR2...the physad player still suffers nightmares, I hear. Brad

Yup. Even though they were really only a couple of rounds, they took at least as long as 4e combats, which at least have more total rounds. Hell, I remember taking just about the entirety of everyone else's round just to figure out my damage on my goliath rage-priest when he was smiting and...

I think he means there should be many, many more languages. Many, many, many, many more, since not only are the languages of various human polities likely to differ (and not all be common), but you'll have different languages for orc tribes, differing varieties of elvish and dwarvish from their...

Agreed 300%; I've noticed this, too. I'm running a SR4 game soon, and people are looking for something along the lines of a character builder, because they're so used to having it available from DDI. One of the guys found a free one, but obviously you get what you pay for, as qualities...

Oh, true. It's just that in most cases, you'll logically be able to try again. Sure, you may have to change conditions somewhat, but just because the fighter rolls a 1 on his Str check and gets a 19 instead of the 20 he needed doesn't mean the boulder's immovable, it means he needs to clear...

I guess jars in the quoted text's author's house stay closed. Brad

This is not so much an example of a house rule as it is a DM not knowing the rules, but in the Shadowrun game I was in freshman year of college, the DM had wound penalties apply to damage resistance. Can you say, death spiral? Yeah. Brad

Page 83 on AV2, third paragraph of the Tattoos entry: "One's mortal form can contain only a small amount of foreign magic, however, so a character can have only one tattoo at a time." Brad

Thanks, gentlefolks!

Honestly? I'd prefer it stay in the box and some new setting come out instead. Not only do I not really see what makes Greyhawk different from, say, Forgotten Realms, but I think we spend way too much time rehashing past settings. I'd much rather see a new and original setting than Yet...

So, I had a coupon from Borders, and picked up the Pathfinder book. It certainly seems to be an interesting evolution of 3.5, and I see a lot of changes, like Power Attack being level-limited, mithral breaching DR/silver, and paladins look ridiculously fun now. Is there a detailed list...

I noticed on the rogue I played at heroic that I really almost always used my Piercing Strike, and the extra [W] from encounter powers really was kind of lame compared to the near-auto-hit I got with a Sneak Attacked Piercing Strike. So, the thief is pretty much an evolution of that. It's for...

The monk class attacks are all implements, and so they're versus NADs. So you don't *need* a proficiency bonus to hit. For basic attacks, you get the proficiency bonus from Unarmed Strike or your weapon. Brad

Remember, monks are a Dexterity-based class in 4e, so you'll want something with a Dex bonus in an ideal world. Both the goliath and dwarf do have decent secondary stats for you, though, so they could work adequately with your rolled stat spread; the dwarf can be either a Centered Breath or...

I don't think anyone chooses their race or class just for the resistances they offer. They're certainly nice, but I know when I look at races it's the stats and feel that are what I go for. Having the resistances available as feats is fine. It's already available on a lot of gear, so if...