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I'm starting a new 3.5e game, and my players and I are using Obsidian Portal to track the campaign. I'm looking at some ways to put character sheets online, like I used to do in my pbp days. Lots of new options. Can anybody recommend a good site for a forms-based 3.5 character sheet that...

Before the FLGS are lumped up on anymore (and I know that's not the overall intent here, but it seems to be what this smells like), I'd point to the font of knowledge on things gaming, John Kovalic. These are our options - This... Archived Comic #10 | Dork Tower or This: Archived Comic #77...

There's another thread going on about the Chaosium sale that has turned into a discussion of good scenarios for Call of Cthulhu. My post is re/cross-posted here: More recommendations For those just getting into Call of Cthulhu, the scenarios in any of the core books/sets are good starting...

Thank you for the really informative post, Hussar! +100 XP for you! ;)

Wow, talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Maybe I've just been lucky, but more of the FLGS' I've encountered have been good than not. Some employees at different shops can be catch as catch can, but that's retail. I've actually seen more stores doing events (beyond even just...

More recommendations For those just getting into Call of Cthulhu, the scenarios in any of the core books/sets are good starting points. Blood Brothers is also pretty hip if you're trying to get players used to the mechanics but they don't have a background in H.P. Lovecraft's mythos - it has...

Adobe for PDF's Readdle Docs on the iPhone for storing PDFs for review on the fly and during trips And, well, I was making extensive use of Google Docs, because I could type up materials and reference them offline, but allegedly Offline Access is dead - Tyler is Gaming...: Google Docs yanks...

Accurate or not... Accurate or not, the posts that started this thread did get me thinking about something. I'm all for technology in gaming, and see DDI as a great tool for folks who want an online version of their materials (especially since PDFs are so verboten right now in WotC land). The...

If you want it as source material, there was a good 96 pp. set of encounters released for AD&D based on Pool of Radiance called "Ruins of Adventure". Ruins of Adventure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Could be handy for sandboxing. And to your question, yes, if you let the players kind...

There are plenty of other tablets hitting the market, soon, with a wider selection of features.

Sounds to me more like WoW is just adding more munchkining to an already overmunchkined game... PS - just canceled my sub in favor of pen and paper rpgs, and XBox games that I don't feel guilty for not constantly playing.

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Bingo - and that's the problem I'm finding the more and more I run 4e. It becomes about "but I have a card that does this" rather than, "Wouldn't it be cool if I tried this action that's vaguely justified by this elaborate game of pretend we play?"

For those of you running regular 4E games (weekly-ish for months on end), how many people in the group have DDI subscriptions? 2 How many of those people spend time behind the DM screen for the group? 0 How many are players only? 2 (although one dms another game that we don't play in) How...

Thanks for all the help, folks. Cracking out my well thumbed copy of the Brothers Grimm and thinking up skill challenges...

Playing 4E Forgotten Realms with my usual crowd of lunatics, and I've started down a path in our sandbox game that they're really enjoying - having them explore a forest filled with fey creatures and eladrin intrigue. As a matter of fact, it's completely sidetracked them from any of our usual...

A few good ideas, to be sure, but I'm not sold. The iPad won't make reading PDFs any easier at the gaming table than a 10" net book - if anything things will still be shrunken down too much. Had they made the thing as big as apple's tablet-style laptops oh 5 years ago, this would be a slam...

Occasionally on ebay you can find the CD-ROM collection that was released in the 90s (to much conflict over copyright issues, if I recall) that collects the first 200 or 250 issues or so. Lots of neat stuff, and just SO MUCH of it. I still look back fondly on the early Ed Greenwood articles...

Of course, if that common goal involves an "escape from the prison" scenario... ;) Kidding. This is so absurd it's amazing. The OZ-like images of guys making D20's in the woodshop instead of shivs... The overly serious conversations before the parole board of "The Gamers have become a rival...

I believe that's called a LARP... ;) kidding Nah, but seriously, to each his own. I'm with you - probably not a game I'd join in, but if they were having fun...