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Well, first off, it should never be the DM vs. the PCs. It should be the environment vs. the PCs. That means that the DM creates the locales, monsters and NPCs according to the players level. The players should have the possibility to get help, support and information within the limits of the...

Mine was the name of my first character in Ultima Online back in 1997. Since then I use that name in all MMOs and discussion boards.

Yup, start playing "Midgard" or "Engel D20", then you are niche :D

I would put Hanseatic Leagues, the Kontors and the trading guilds into the game. The very nice thing about them is that you have very powerfull trading companies where players can apply and you get all the "macciavellian" and medieval intrigues and political plots for free. Wikipedia has some...

Which reminds me that some time ago our DM had us explore the dwarven palace of Olinstad of Corond (GH, Principality of Ulek). And guess into what the (human) Barbarian and the Fighter ran into? A harem full of bearded female dwarves....The rest of the story is clouded in the mists of silence...

Perhaps that's a bit simplified, but: You do not have to care what the customer wants as much as you have to create a demand for something in the customers mind. It is pure marketing, nothing else. You could sell a mediocre or even crap product to a truckload of people if the marketing is able...

Glaurung (Tolkien) Fafnir (Norse) Nidhöggr (Norse) Tiamat (Babylonian?) The Tarrasque (by legend its a dragon) Nibelungen Dragon (Wagner/Norse) Midgard Serpent Greek Hydra Great Red Dragon in the Apocalypes of John The serpent of the Aztecs (I forgot the name though) That's all I know of.

I really don't like fudging because you feel that you have been cheated and the feeling of accomplishment is gone. Nothing worse than winning a fight or an encounter due to the "grace" of the DM. If the dice want me to loose (or that my character dies) so be it. That's part of the game. There...

*stares in disbelief* :uhoh: Is this going to be one of those days you will tell your grand-grand-children? *makes a big mark in his calendar just to be sure*

you know, when I read your post the image of an adventure party stumbling into a dragon's lair popped up in my mind. *cut* - Dragon and adventurers look at each other for a second - *cut* - for the next five minutes you see both sides pumping out buffs, wardens, defensive spells and what not -...

The demand justifies the existence of a product. If there are people that would like to play under the OSRIC system, and would also even pay for adventures made for that system, there is no need for more arguments. I don't plan to play OSRIC but in my eyes the system has a right of being around...

N1 - Dymrak Dread After the big smashing of heads and limbs there was that picture of a proud adventuring group that tried to haul that huge carpet out of the caves (with a Halfling clinging to it, half hanging in the air - half walking) , through the swamp and the forest right to the next...

Add this to your sentence: no longer exist....in the US market. If you look at Europe, D&D and D20 are not the biggest players in the house. Depending on country they are sometimes perhaps third place or even less. Since we didn't have that huge exposure to D&D in the 80's and 90's, the...

This is being written by someone that played AD&D mainly and who gave up on 3E about 2 years ago: I never considered inter-class balance as a game-breaker/maker since I play D&D. I couldn't care less if a Thief is not that cool in combat. If I wanted to play a thief I'd have other motivations...

The Ebstorf Mappae Mundi was the biggest and most accurate map of its time, made around 1300. http://www.landschaftsmuseum.de/Seiten/Museen/Ebstorf.htm Here is image material about the Hereford Mappae Mundi, made around the same time as the Ebstorf map: Hereford Mappae Mundi Here is a good...

One of the better arguments in this thread, and its one of the main reasons I'd like to see AoO in 4e as well. What way, except using magic, is there to prevent the oponent to just rush by and make kebab out of the party mage if the fighters do not have a way to prevent the enemy from breaking...

The Joker (especially the Jack Nicholson version) Lo Pan from Big trouble in little China Thunder/Rain/Lighting from the same movie Don Vito Corleone René Belloq (Raiders of the Lost Arc) Norman Bates All evil roles played by Gary Oldman :) The Devil (Al Pacino) in The Devils Advocate All those...

The nice thing about the Germans is that almost all the players do play on about the same level of quality. They do not have superstars or once-in-a-century-players in their team. Having said that I am not too sure that the absence of Frings will hurt the the team as much as some may think...

Wasn't Ricardo the goalkeeper that scored a penalty in the Euro 2004 against England?

*g* Yeah, you don't need skill or technique to win against Argentina /irony mode off