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Ohh, I see. Thank you for clarifying!

According to the instructions, leveling is as easy as rolling a 20, among other things. I expect that there will be opportunity to advance beyond 2nd level, but we'll be limited by the rules. A play time of 1 hour is also pretty short for this kind of game, but I wonder if that isn't...

Thanks for the link! From the unboxing, it doesn't look like there are really very many tile pieces at all, there are just 4 sheets shared by counters. And I read in the instructions that you can advance to 2nd level only. This is a bit limited for such a high end game. I might just wait and...

Okay! The sort of NPC I like my characters to be involved with are NPCs who have a strong interplay with my own character. An NPC who whether through plot device or personality brings out the strengths, the weaknesses or the quirks in my character. So it depends entirely on what I'm playing.

I had a couple of bad experiences, so up to now I considered myself to be in the closet. But then when I stop and think about how many people I've recruited to play, it doesn't fit at all. I think what it really is, is just some feeling of guilt that I'm not doing enough to proliferate the hobby.

I was going to ask you how inter-PC romance is any different in the other thread, but I think I see now. I still think your ideas hold untrue for a lot of us. It takes a certain comfort level, and maybe some cynicism, to be able to invest an emotion like romance into something abstract like an...

I know the kind of behavior you describe is responsible for a lot of women playing male characters. It's not so much that we're curious, we just don't want to have to beat off paramours with a stick. Or have to think about where your mind goes when we mention beating off paramours with a stick...

Oh, it's more to do with characterization than comfort levels. It's just more difficult to create an NPC who, for instance, appeals to the character as a woman without putting off the player as a man. It's more difficult with male players, for me at least. I'm curious if the opposite is true for...

I agree, a threesome with an assassin is worth detailing. I don't really play male characters unless I need to as the DM. There are all kinds of reasons why. Most of the women I've played with create male characters at least once, and often for their first character. I have no problem with...

I feel the opposite is true, I think it's more difficult to build a world in 3.5 due to the way Vancian magic is designed to solve every problem. A number of problems that would probably spice up your world are not strictly able to happen in a setting that has access to even vanilla spells from...

Mystara has two additional continents, Skothar and Davania, which were never really detailed. The Princess Ark flew over parts of Davania, and it was implied that it was populated by fallen civilizations and evil dragons. If you need a special place for dragonborn to arrive from, I'd say Davania...

I've been reconciling Mystara with the 4E mechanics and as much of the 4E canon as I can manage over the last 9 months in my ongoing game. I have a thread dedicated to brainstorming ideas with the helpful and knowledgeable folks on the Piazza Mystara board here. The game started in the Nentir...

That's incredible, and August 5th is just a couple of weeks away.

It sounds like clockwork horrors have been completely reinvented to retain their Von Neumann machine theme but lose the sci-fi element that made people not want to use them. This is not for me personally, but in general it seems like a good thing.

No, it sounds pretty depressing. I wouldn't be able to interest my players in a game where most likely nothing they do is going to matter. I would be interested in something like that, though.

Can you share the level and type of the various horrors? They have a presence in my Mystara game and I'm curious how much work I'll need to do to bring them to paragon or epic level.

If you want miniatures for Mouse Guard, Reaper is going to release a box of 10 Mouseling Heroes in July, followed by another box of NPC types in the near future and possibly a box of villains. Here are some previews: Reaper Miniatures :: Miniatures As I understand it there were some available...

They're not open game content. WotC retains the rights to those articles and everything else that's out of print.

I used to have a tall, pointy, garish wizard hat. It was the hat used in the SNL geek phone sex skit. I used to wear it when I was DMing, because we had this round robin thing going on and it was useful to be able to tell who the DM was that week. Also I am a goofball. I don't have the hat...

FFG published a non-d20 game called Fireborn, which was like the World of Darkness games only you were a dragon. In fact it sounded identical to Mummy: The Resurrection. I never got into Fireborn, but I do have a pretty complete collection of FFG books and I can't think of any other products...