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To me, Magic is about wish fulfillment, and exploring its consequences. Going beyond the mundane, doing the impossible, without being hindered by thos pesky laws of nature. Look at what people wish for *outside* gaming: "if I could fly, I would..." "If I was invisible, I would..." "if only...

i'd imagine that the "fairy ring" quote was more opinion-forming than the "town guard" quote, especially considering where and when they were published; the pre-release books ought to have been aimed at existing fans, rather than the supposed 14-year old WoW-playing recruit... Together they...

Yes. Cash/treasure is really "the other kind of xp", even if it isn't explicitly labelled as such, and the character abilities you buy for this other kind of xp is embodied in magic items. This is true whether there are magic stores in the world, or you have to do with what you find during...

Yes, it really makes the blood pressure rise again. It really was the first major warning flag, and it was a red flag indeed... Then when the PHB appeared and Skill Challenges was nothing at all like what had been in the prerelease books, but only some kind of Yazee, and rituals just an...

It isn't gritty until you suddenly, unexpectedly die from random crossbow fire from the bushes. No declaration of combat start, no hp, no healing, no save. "Conan" or "Die Hard" are not gritty; they have plot immunity a mile wide - if the hero(s) die it's over for a lucrative line of stories...

Mearls rather stepped up than down, but still away from the designing... From Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Skills in D&D) "I'm no longer a game designer [...] I'm a manager [...] I don't do the actual design work [...]"

If you are concerned about the characters' efficiency, why not nudge the monsters' level down a notch?

Would not touch it with an eleven-foot pole. I'd like my character's build A) evolving as part as the story and B) reflecting the character's personality. "I'm good at handling animals, because during the siege of Azure Forest, I found this lost wolf cub, which I subsequently raised during...

I *know* I am odd, because I don't care much for combat or optimizing for it... ;) ;) I'm the "traipsing through fairy rings" player detested by the 4E pre-sales material...

This. Combat outcome in RPGs depends heavily on GM tactics - whether you concentrate your fire or spread it, how your monsters handle marks, whether they risk opportunity attacks, if they take time to coup de grâce, etc. Makes comparing outcomes kind of pointless.

Playing in two weekly campaigns using my GMs (Starfox) homebrew cinematic fantasy Feng Shui derivate "Action!" (Action - Hastur). GMing one almost-weeky campaign using the same system, and one weekly game using a bastardisation of the "Maid the RPG" rules. Together, these have kept my quite...

Wow, that graph is really amazing! What's interesting too is that so *many* are increasing their numbers by such a large percentage. Gaming recession over, or "just" a successful store?

Edit: did not add the poll in time. Please disregard.

IMHO, its not "Stormwind", but "Goldilock" and the "Red Queen". Let's assume that the GM runs "Goldilock" encounters, i.e."Neither too hard, nor too easy, but just right", a k a "balanced encounters". After all, too easy encounters are boring, and too hard ones are disruptive, right? In that...

In the "main" campaign where I play, two players, of which I am one, came from another campaign that made us very paranoid (yes, also Shadowrun) a few years ago. Our new DM wants his players to be active and do things. He also dislikes resurrection, because of how it influences the world, and...

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Isn't the Dark Sun example the kind of power creep that is trivial to handle by doing a "Red Queen" on it? If the players hit too well, increase monster AC, if they do too much damage, increase HP, if they are too hard to hit, increase monster to-hit, etc. It's the most basic adjustment you can...

There are two common complaints against splatbooks and other optional rulesets: 1) Power creep. 2) Increased complexity. If you put a "price" on their use, options can be unabashedly more powerful (such as e.g. Gestalt rules), without complaints about power creep - assuming that the price is...

It also ties in with the WoTC mantra that adventures don't pay off (which flies in the face of Paizo's successes). Given that supposition, you really want adventures to be low maintenance.

In the MMO world, PvP is the Holy Grail; since PvP:ers spend all their time duking it out with each others, they are active, but low maintenance. You don't need to make a lot of new quests, maps, NPCs, monsters, since the opposition is other players. Back when I used to play the MMO City of...