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Thanks. I just read the books for the first time a couple months back, and they immediately forced my old campaign idea (a high fantasy heroes-of-the-king arc) out of my head and replaced it with a mercenary adventure. I'm going to post a short synopsis of what it's about over in the Plots &...

My upcoming campaign is a Black Company-inspired arc, with the characters being disparate mercenaries working for a genasi Captain to reclaim his city-state from his usurper brother. The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun is a part of the finale, inspired by Tharizdun being the creator of the Abyss...

I use PyMapper (similar to the Dungeon Tiles Mapper on the old WotC site), which has all of my Dungeon Tile sets in it. I plot out a dungeon, print out what it looks like, then pull the dungeon tiles I need out of the sets, pop 'em in a ziploc bag and label it for the encounter.

Movie advertising these days does little to really give you an idea of what the movie is going to be like. I've seen so many trailers and commercials that have turned me off to the movie, but upon seeing it I actually love it. I think the best way to judge whether a movie will be good is to look...

I dunno why people do that. I mean, it's James freakin' Cameron.

I doubt it, honestly. While Bioware is awesome and Star Wars is hugely popular, I doubt even it will give Blizzard a run for their money. WoW was the result of a perfect storm of opportunities, one that I doubt can be repeated.

18 months later and you're still being blatantly dishonest about 4e. You're a class act, Derren.

Google "twilight abusive relationship" and you'll get an idea of what Umbran is talking about.

My friend just got one of those. It's totally awesome. I'm super jealous.

My personal history indicates that roleplaying does have a positive reputation... as long as it's in the bedroom and doesn't involve dice.

There is nothing mechanically unique about them. They don't play any differently in a combat encounter, since they are nearly identical in stats. Sure, their fluff is different, but that doesn't make them unique or distinct in terms of how they interact within the rules of the game. I mean, you...

Is it ever possible for you to disagree with people without resorting to extreme hyperbole and insulting them in the same breath?

So? There are plenty of people who avoid vaccines. I've avoided them ever since they were giving them out at my elementary school, and I watched an 11-year-old girl from my class have a negative reaction and go into a seizure, then spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. However, if I had...

There is far more difference between a 4e orc and a 4e gnoll than a 3e orc and a 3e gnoll. Nothing is unique about the 3e incarnations, while the 4e incarnations have powers or properties you don't find in other monster types.

Word. I like games that inspire me to bust out my game designer cap and wrench on them for a bit. I despise games that require me to do so.

Tomb of Horrors in three sentences. "You can go left or right." "Ummm... left." "Left? Okay, you die." Unlike others, I have no good memories of the adventure or most of the 1e "classics." They were arbitrary deathtraps that punished the players because they couldn't read the DM's mind or...

My experience with 1e is as follows. Low levels - The wizard blows his small pool of spells, then proceeds to play on his Game Boy, since he has no chance of being effective in any other regard. High levels - The fighter and thief play on their Game Boys while the wizard mops up whatever...

Let's see it. For instance, I can't recall a single poster with a signature that bashes 3e, but I can think of a few off the top of my head that bash 4e (some of which, by their phrasing, insult 4e fans). The closest to 3e "hate" I see is people emphatically stating that they never want to...

It appears that this began back in the 1990s, from what I can gather from various sources, such as the Death of the Minotaur article on Salon.com. That's when WotC started its big push for brand management (Disney was their idol in that regard) and brought in consultants all the time to...

It's only too much work if you believe that each level needs entirely new powers, rather than ones that scale ala power swap feat powers. I've designed two classes so far for a Final Fantasy game I'm running, and I didn't create the dozens of powers one would find in standard classes, just a few...