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I'm enjoying this thread, even though I feel like we are talking to an oracle. Piggybacking off of Tequila Sunrise's observation, the sort of stuff we are talking about might be tricks, the sort of conventional "advancement" Umbran is focused on. But it could also be plot hooks, macguffins, and...

Exalted, though that was based on the existing Storyteller system. Does Burning Wheel count as "making a splash?" Point taken though; it's not an easy list to imagine!

I'm not a Bay Stater, so I should really defer to the natives, but I've heard enough bad stuff about the Globe's reporting* to wonder if the Herald's detractors are really being fair. I have an inkling that if a story like this appeared in the Globe, or the AP, we'd be hearing less about the...

Is it okay for me to think the article and reporting are awful and shameful, and still kind of like the Herald? I'm bemused to see so much hate here for the Herald. Dismissing the entire paper for one really bad article: that's like maligning an entire enterprise for the terrible behavior of...

I haven't had a chance to try them out yet, but when I was looking for naval combat rules, I really liked the ones from AEG's old-ish Swashbuckling Adventures core rulebook. A lot of the other systems I saw were just a little too detailed, while these were covered in four pages, while still...

It's funny, but even the darker, crueler fantasy I've read (Glen Cook and Joe Abercrombie are whom I'm thinking of, among others), there is an implied moral order, or at least the desire for one. "It sucks that things are so sucky," seems to be the mode of the more sympathetic characters. For...

I actually don't think this is true. Or in other words, I think your ideal is impossible :). If I understand you, "free play of the imagination" is a system which allows you to do anything in a given game world, given the realities of that world. That's a fine ideal, but any game system with...

Spycraft 2.0 has a bunch of subsystems for social combat based on the chase mechanic they developed in Spycraft 1.0. I haven't tried them, but they seem a little too mini-game-y to me. My impression is that a lot of indie games blur the distinction between physical combat and other kinds of...

Another Pixar quote comes to mind. "Not anyone can cook, but a great cook can come from anywhere." Which I think illuminates not only the Incredibles quote but the 4e design philosophy. Also, as long as we are allowing unmoderated politics in this discussion There is a wonderful irony here...

I don't think your assessment of IH's promise is right. It was to be low-magic, but also high-powered, not "grim-n-gritty." It was supposed to feature non-casting classes that felt as powerful as many d20 casting classes. I think on this IH succeeded more than some posters are allowing. It is...

This is a weird block I've observed in some people, who think "magical" effects should be limited even when a "mundane" effect with similar or better results can be used at will. Possibly this is a cause of some anxiety surrounding 4e-powers. Or possibly not!

I ran one IH game and PBP'd in another, so either I was aberrantly over-represented or there were more IH games than you think. I agree that the game never "felt finished," but that didn't stop people from running patched, houseruled versions of the game. My impression was that the typical...

Gaa, auto-logout. I suggest checking out any hobby shop with a decent selection for model trains. Trees, bushes, rocks, and other scenery items will be easy to find. Woodland Scenics is a brand familiar to model railroaders and wargamers alike. The other items are a little trickier. S scale...

So she's basically the Prussian equivalent of Domo-kun?

Or better yet, give a core rules pdf away for free. ;)

This is a great contest idea, and gives me an excuse to play around with chargen up and down. So when you say are things like form-fillable character sheets, or power card generators (such as this), acceptable means of generating entries? That might be the only way for Mac users and non-DDI...

It sounds like your issue with minis is not because you dislike tactical gaming, but because sorting through minis takes up too much time. If that's so, you can do what I did several years ago when I first started DMing. I managed to buy about a hundred colored plastic "bowling pin" gaming pawns...

I just started a quasi-4e game that does what the OP suggests, where the PCs roll everything: attacks, defenses, skills, etc. I just add 10 to every NPC score and make that the static DC (ties go to the NPC, since the average roll on a d20 is actually 10.5). I haven't had a chance to try it in...

So I'm soon starting a 7th-Sea-esque d20 campaign with a lot of sailing and piracy and nautical derring-do, and it occurs to me that while the swashbuckling romance of idealized sea-life appeals to me, this land-locked Midwesterner could find himself quite embarrassed when called to improvise...

shilsen, this was way upthread, but I wanted to clarify. Earlier I wrote To which you responded This wildly misinterprets what I meant, though i concede that I could have been unclear. I meant the above as examples where the effort to create non-sexist characters at the expense of actual...