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Doesn't this kind of GMing debase perception skills? What's the point of playing a rogue with these skills if the GM just turns around and gives people without the skills the same information?

I'll tell you what's in it for me when I stay at a session after my character dies: 1. Social Companionship: I game with friends. I like visiting them every week; we have plenty of side conversations and digressions in our games because this is social time for us to hang out while doing an...

It seems like everybody has over-reacted. First of all, I don't see why the wizard's player did not make the list. He could have told the paladin after receiving the information from the rogue. Sometimes people's sessions are boring because their PC gets sidelined by injury, death or being in...

I have to second what Altamont Ravenard has said. The advice I would give is kind of dependent on the ages of the gamers in question. I mean no offense by this; I just remember that the social strategies I used when I was a gamer in my teens were different than I use today. Because this sounds...

Once again, Gary, I see intentionality where it might not have been. I have been assuming that you based a chunk of the cleric class's spell list on the miracles performed by St. Cuthbert in Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert. The Create Water, Flame Strike spells and various other seemed to indicate...

Gen Con really reminded me of how far I've departed from writing for a general audience and how much my games have lost as a result. I love writing games that are hyper-intellectual puzzles that require outside research, enable massive meta-gaming and are generally elitist "guess what I'm...

Depends on your line of work. Most hard-drinking, performance-oriented professions like academia, politics, acting and music do a large portion of their de facto hiring in bars. Certainly, I've benefited from this.

I've always pegged them as being into wine. Fortified wines -- yes. Distilled wines -- not so much. As for the ale, I can't imagine any elf going for a beverage that made him urinate or belch more than is absolutely necessary. Also, you guys are forgetting one of the crucial mined commodities...

Dwarves are big importers, especially of charcoal. Like herdsmen, dwarves and city-dwellers, dwarves like in societies that are highly dependent on trade or tribute. Fortunately, dwarves have all this gold... Actually, the main thing that limited European beer production in the Middle Ages was...

In my 1986-90 Runequest game, we always ordered pizza. Even the time my friend Steve's grandma tried to make us buy tuna casserole from her ("I know just how much boys looooove tuna casserole. It'll only cost you $2.50 a piece!"). And because I was such a crazed information backrat, I have...

First of all, if Mendelian genetics were true, there would be no way to explain the ecosystems and species of D&D worlds. So I think we can safely start from the assumption that D&D worlds' physical laws are going to be inconsistent with ours. The question then becomes: how much do D&D's unique...

McRow, I have to say that of all the people I didn't meet at Gen Con, I talked about you the most. Every time I heard "I thought you were fungusite," I would recount how I didn't take it personally because I'd been calling you "Mr. Cow" in my head for the past four years. I hope you don't shun...

See -- helpful as ever! You solve two mysteries in my post instead of one.

I realize, now that Billy has completed his posts, that I do need to produce the big summary post about the event. But, to quote Wim. Vander Zalm (kiznit you know what I'm talking about), "You get to the end of these things and there are so many people you want to thank and then you miss someone...

Thanks Chris! I found it really difficult to locate the publisher listings; I still can't get there from the main page. Hopefully my review is now posted. I'm guessing there is a delay before reviews by first-timers are approved.

Runequest, from the moment I first discovered it, became my game. I was a thirteen year-old D&D player in 1985 when I first picked up Runequest in 1985 and from that moment forward, my AD&D books began to gather dust. As I grew up and became more sophisticated in my thinking about world-building...

Forgive my idiocy but I am trying to post my first review and I cannot figure out how to do it. I think this problem has two parts: (a) There is not yet a database entry for Mongoose's Runequest (b) Even if there were, I still can't figure out how to post a review at all. There is obviously some...

And yet you did not turn up for the game! :mad:

I've now been trying to find this game for 40 minutes and am posting this from the Embassy Suites lobby in frustration/desparation. Going back to the ENnies booth, totally defeated.

Please check at the ENnies booth regarding meeting time and location for the Thursday game. Failing a notice, assume we will meet at the booth and proceed from there. Friday's game will convene in the lobby of the Embassy Suites because I know Buttercup to be skilled at finding gaming venues there.