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Seattle's still really good place for gamers I'd say, but nothing could beat it when the WotC Mothership was in full swing. During the .boom when everybody had lots of money, they bought a building on campus corner. There was a restarant with each table being a different board game you could get...

I'm just surprised they didn't manage to put it in a box.

Sandbox (Wikipedia) I run my D&D games as a sandbox. I inform the players there is no right or wrong way to go. If, halfway through an adventure, it looks too tough (or too boring), picking up and moving to another town to avoid the plot is just as good as anything else. I try not to think of...

NO, I'd say that WoW is a sandbox, the opposite of railroading. There are certain adventures there but what the adventurers do, in what order, and if they succeed is up to them. The PCs can do whatever they want, go where ever they want, and in their own timeframe. They ignore all quests and...

I say increase the time it takes to take 20 for Search. It may take 2 minutes per 5' square if the square is empty. However, searching 5' squares with stuff in them will take much longer. Taking 20 when searching a book shelf means carefully flipping though each book, removing all books from the...

It was announced in secret.

IMC, adventurers are formed usually by the children of people with enough funds to train their children but not enough money or power to give them a good position in government, religion, trade, or simply suport them for life.* Most tend to form mercenary groups. They hire out for all sorts of...

Not sure if i'd really call it near-mandatory. If they revise the rules that much, I probably just won't buy the new version just like I didn't buy 3rd Ed. WH40k or nWoD.

Sunday game: 7 PCs. No henchment or NPCs yet but I know at least one of them is interested in getting some (somebody has to guard the horses). Friday Game: 4 PCs. Occational NPC. Old Tuesday game: 6 PCs plus a DMPC.

No elves or dwarves but I recommend Glen Cook's Black Company books. Follows the travels of a mercenary company as they work for an empire ruled by evil wizards and then switch to the resistance, and then explore the origins of their mercenary company. It's about as grit and anti-hero as you...

Are you speaking of Kozakura or Wa? IMHO, it doesn't matter what Hinjo offered to do or what the Lich wants, or even if the Lich is even threatening the city. It is just the excuse. Shojo and Hinjo both know that the lords want power and that ninja would come at the slightest expectation of...

Pirate attack!

Seems too expensive to me. On the balance side, you could have a Continual Light, er, I mean Flame spell for 50gp and that would be continual. This lasts only for the same time as a lantern. It would be heavier and bigger than a sunstick, not require air, but not burn. I'd probably either put it...

Plus, AFAIK the OED only deals with print and you're talking about something that goes back to the 1100's. It could have been in useage in the common argot much earlier, and there's not description of how many occurances they have for such, and how much writing from that time period is there...

That's pretty much an urban youth/gangster thing, supposedly come from that jails take you belts away when you get locked up. From there it's spread out, I'm sure but the interest in cars with lights and probably other bling is right there also. I remember when i first saw it as a punk rocker in...

OED seems uncertain on the origins of the word: [< French ogre (late 12th cent. in Old French in sense ‘fierce pagan’, c1300 in sense ‘man-eating giant’, attested again from 1613; also hogre (1704 in the passage translated in quot. 1713)), further etymology uncertain and disputed. French ogre...

On side note, way back when on use net I posted a "Freaks: the Scene" which was a similar set of rules for playing mortals in Vampire: the Masquerade. Plus, greasers really need to be called Rockabilly. This may even be a PrC for Skins and punks who are looking for a way out of their class...

Sounds like what I strive for so I'll offer some thoughts. First, is my rant that players have been trained not to think for themsevles. Set them in an inn and they'll sit there waiting for some wizard to come in and offer them a job till they run out of money and starve even if you tell them...

I always thought they should do a Basic D&D again. Simply the base four classes with default feats and skills and some simple monsters and combat rules that could fit into one book which would fulfill those criteria. It would be good for beginners and maybe a few who wanted a real simple game...

I usually let it flow and it usually goes ok so long as everybody gets their time. Switching back and forth if more than one person is involved in something and just rushing through those who are if not. Usually, I take the acting player out of the room anyway (so the others have no idea what is...