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NO MORE LEVEL DRAIN I am a mean bastard old school viking helm DM and I like temporary, but not permanent level drains. I houseruled "healing" from level drain back in the early 80s. NO MORE ABILITY DRAIN I do not like "ability drain" that adds math to my game. I like slapping a flat -X...

Group Awareness: You grant non-elf allies within 5 squares a +1 racial bonus to Perception checks. If my dwarf is surrounded by 10 elf buddies, do I get a +10 bonus?

1) I can not like or dislike any game that I have not played. 2) I can not be apprehensive about 4e because WotC can not take away my other editions. 3) I do not believe SWSE, PHB II or Bo9S tells us anything exact about 4e because Alternity did not tell us anything exact about 3e. I...

In my OD&D games, I use CON as your base HP and then you roll you HD each level including first plus any CON bonus. This allows me me meaty 1st level characters. Also, I make natural healing equal to Level + Con bonus (min 1) per day because OD&D healing is more rare than in D20. Tougher...

I am a tad confused. Why the sense of rushed development? Why the haggard? I wonder if too much time crunch is going to result in a game that feels rushed leading to the inevitable stack of erratta and then...the 4.5 fixed version. I would FAR rather them put off 4e until GenCon than get...

Iron Kingdoms from Privateer Press and Midnight from FFG were the best settings for 3.X and amazingly better than anything WotC put out. I will look at any setting that comes out for 4e, but I suspect the most interesting work will come from the 3rd party publishers. They can afford to be...

I much prefer rolling characters - the results create more more roleplay surprises. I always loved the crew rolling 3D6 down the line and then wondering, who the heck am I going to be? That was always terrific fun and produced our most memorable characters. But this is before the days of...

Warhammer is THE game if you want to play an everyman. It is an immensely wonderful game and I highly recommend it. Also, old school RuneQuest did "daring peasant with a spear" very nicely. I run OD&D and everyman status does not last much past 7th level even in the classic rules...

Assuming that 4e uses the same definition as ToM, what is the explanation in the ToM about how the inherently evil sounding Warlocks can actually be LG / CG / NG?

Help me with this one: Based on the info so far, Warlocks draw their power from evil sources. They cast stuff like Soul Ruin which sounds all sorts of evil magic. How can this class be most any alignnment? How can this class play nice-nice with a good-aligned character in the party? To...

But 4e could be a good weight-loss tool. Every time you think about buying some chocolate covered sugar crap, drop that same cash into a "4e cup" instead. Weight Watchers for Dungeon Masters!

When did homeless people become gamers? If you live in America and if you are not a student, then you really need some serious career introspection if dropping $100 on game books involves a savings account. That's not an attack on anyone. That's life advice. I am always stunned (and...

A) Playing RPGs is a hobby. B) Selling RPGs is a business. A does not equal B A can exist without B (especially with the internet) A can not grow substantially without B A depends on grognards (all hobbies exist because of the hardcore) B does not depend on grognards

I think it is fair to say PoL will be the default setting. If you go back into AD&D 1e, the PoL as default was not expressly stated in the core books....but it was in many modules. Quite often, modules saw the PCs travelling far and away before encountering anything but monster filled...

Sure! It's all about selling new core books to the same people. You can generally only sell one copy of Clue or Monopoly to a family. Rarely do they buy another copy regardless how many "rules flaws" may exist there. How do you get someone to buy the nearly-same game twice or three times...

I hope 4e does deliver on the promise to be amazingly flexible for GM creativity and also be easy to design adventures and create worlds. 3e failed miserably at this goal. So badly that I abandoned WotC because I don't game to write statblocks or fight mechanics or worry about builds. That...

I like my rule: Before anyone is allowed on the internet, they must first live six months in either New York City or Los Angeles without a car. Those that survive will have developed a thick enough skin to remember to wear their asbestos underwear while carrying flamethrowers. My suggestion...

1) It's $13 on Amazon. That's the same I spend on a movie with parking. That's less than I spend on a graphic novel. That's lunch with a tip. AKA, no real expense. 2) It's going to be great toilet bowl reading since we don't have any in-print gaming magazines anymore. Plus it's weird...

Day One: Buy 4e books. Gaming group does celebratory dance over death of 3.x Day Two: Start new campaign.

I would be very happy with one new setting per year BUT I would like the setting to be contained in one book. Settings did not kill 2e. There was no brand dilution. If TSR only put out FR, they would have lost big dollars from me and many others who do not enjoy FR. Instead, they gave us...