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We wound up having only about 15 or so years pass in ours, as we were spending so much time adventuring. OTOH, the shorter-lived races did do some serious hunting for life-extension stuff, just in case. The winner was the half-orc, who drew from a variant Deck and got +1000 years added to each...

I remember Sneak Attacking the few things that weren't ooze plant undead elemental constructs in heavy fortification armor with a bastard sword, glaive, and/or quarterstaff. Fun times, fun times. Besides, it's not like you're doing that much more damage. At most, it's an extra d6 for the...

Yeah. I got the Dark Sun guide, Psionic Power, the Dresden Files world book, and The Scarlet Empress Returns for Exalted, all in one trip. $152. Ow. The clerk at Dream Wizards, though, looked happy as a clam, especially when my friend then spent his $123. Brad

I think I'd've voted for Exalted if that was an option. Otherwise, not really caring about any of the rest, I'd've probably sat out. Brad

I will say that domain management taught me how to use Excel. :) Brad

True, though to me "it came up in a thread on another board" implies he just read about it. Indeed, the definition of nerdrage. Brad

That's my usual experience with house rules, and why I'm not generally a fan. Often, it's not even that the house rule itself is bad, it's that the interaction between the house rules and unmodified rules is wonky. In 4e, the only house rule we're using right now is that each real encounter...

Heh, it's not that he doesn't get to say anything, it's that I find the ZOMG HE SAID SOMETHING AWFUL YEARS AGO AND I JUST FOUND OUT I'M SO UPSET I'M GOING TO BOYCOTT HIS WORK THAT I DIDN'T BUY ANYWAY terribly hilarious. Sounds like he got his wish, then. Brad

I think that 3/3.5 give the impression of detailing an economy, what with profession skills, etc, so it seems like it's better for the nitty-gritty stuff. That it's not really an economy is not immediately obvious, what with magic turning the usual ancient/medieval economy on its head (Wall of...

How dare he dislike AD&D, God's own gift to gaming! I know, it's a horrible sin, and agree he must be flayed alive for it. No, not really. Lots of people dislike or don't care about AD&D. Do you boycott their stuff, too? Brad

Well, to be fair, Hackmaster is basically 1e AD&D with a few modifications, none of which are particularly new or exciting. The main reason it won, SFAICT, was that KenzerCo put it out and had a pent-up fanbase from the KoDT comics. He does also have a point, though it's a fairly commonly-made...

We did a 3/3.5 conversion, and it was a hell of a lot of fun. My PC started out as a non-regent, when most of the others were regents, which made the realm-building sessions terribly boring. I mean, horribly boring. So I wound up in charge of the guilds of Halskapa. In order to get Free...

Most MMOs now have some form of free trial. That may or may not have limited functionality; LotRO's did when I tried that, but that was a while back. But definitely shop around, what you may not think is a good fit for you based on what you hear may well be your perfect game. After all...

Two experiences that I've had with diceless: First, a DM running a game in a classroom during class. No dice. The DM was bad. Real bad. Second, an Amber game, where the GM couldn't even remember the rules and made stuff up when he went along. This, more than anything, has soured me on...

I'd prefer something new, as well. No Planescape, no Mystara, no Spelljammer, and no Greyhawk or Dragonlance. Hell, no Birthright, too, while we're at it (and that's my "blinded by nostalgia" setting). They all had their days. Let something else have its day. Brad

I am pretty sure that this is not meant to be an actual full-blown setting, like Eberron or Dark Sun. Now, they may well move away from the current model, and this could be a sign, but I really don't see this as a full-blown setting of its own. Brad

I don't think we'd have any issues with it. I haven't seen anything really interesting in them that'd tempt me to play one of the classes, but hey. Brad

I'll generally get anything Shadowrun. Even that freaking stupid attempt at a Clix-based game, I have two figures for that still. Oy. I'd also kill for a Divine Power 2 at some point, hopefully soon. Brad

I have only a few that are real favorites: Blood Enemies: Abominations of Cerilia - The book on Awnshegh for Birthright. I think it's one of the best books for that setting, which is one of my favorites to begin with. The Book of Nine Swords - Woo, weapon-swingy types that don't just say "I...

Back in the day, I thought that was a touch irritating, but hearing about scribes leaving commentary in real world books made it make a lot of sense. And just because Catalyst doesn't publish ED doesn't mean they don't sprinkle some stuff into Shadowrun. Some critters from ED have shown up in...