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Fiend Folio! I like the weird stuff. I also like the dabbling in other mythologies, like the Pacific stuff (berbalang, penanggalan).

Translation: "We want our game to be controversial, but if you don't like it you suck. It is supposed to be a controversy with just one side to it... the side of servile flattery." Also, "Our game is so innovative that everyone loves it and the reason this guy gave a negative review is because...

Right. Because 700 people voted in the poll since yesterday but the only new comments in the thread are 2 people saying they don't like 4E. Show's the mentality we're dealing with in this hobby sometimes, unfortunately.

I think the polls are good, but there is an issue in the "love" and "hate" language. I voted that I "hate" 4E. That doesn't mean that I want to punch it in the face, any more than the fact that I "love" Classic Traveller means that I want to marry it and make babies inside of it. The language...

I tried it for several sessions. I liked the way my character came out, but then in actual play... "Hate it!"

See, Shadowrun seems lame to me. But Barrier Peaks rawks. I don't see why "fantasy" is the prescribed series of tropes that excludes whole swaths of the fantastical. What's not a fantasy about blasting a ravaging Froghemoth with a laser pistol in one hand while hewing at pod people with your...

And you've resisted the temptation to kill that character all this time? I'm in awe of your self-control. :p

A sure recipe for awesome.

I applaud all forms of Lennonism, tovarisch! ;)

Yes to both? :angel:

I sympathize regarding the issue of religious gamers because I am one. The issue is complicated because a religion will identify certain moral absolutes, but each person who is a believer will also have an individual temperment. For example, the health of a person's prayer life and the amount of...

Ah. I'm a philosophy guy. I love the pure formality of numbers... each one as if uniquely its own species, like the very angels themselves.

You calling me a liar?

I'm afraid I simply cannot imagine why someone would want to count and manage little symbols (comets, hammers, green clovers, etc.) when they could use numbers instead. Beautiful, crystalline, pure numbers. Have we lost an appreciation for their loveliness?

I think that's a backwards interpretation. A 14 Strength doesn't net any bonuses in combat... so a 14 is considered average? Perhaps I'm more mathy (even though I'm a letters guy), but 9-11 seems average to me; 12 at the most. A 13 or 14 is definitely someone above average on a 3d6 scale. Maybe...

Right. There are some games that rake you over the coals for having a low stat in something (except maybe CHA, the perennial dump stat)... 3E designers bragged about hiding bad choices in the game to trap those who didn't understand the system backwards and forwards. Whereas in OD&D, having a...

There are few games so bad that they couldn't be some fun for some group somewhere. This isn't an indictment of the particular game you mentioned, but I think there is some possibility that the problem you describe (a problem, since you're not have much fun) is related to the system you chose...

I was being a bit cheeky. But yes, I think that all your maneuvers/attacks are on cards, and I think wounds/criticals and other things are on the cards, too. Like you get hit, so you draw a card; if it's a critical you flip it to the critical side and whatnot. If one were to seriously argue...

Is Munchkin a boardgame? Is Dominion? They're both discussed on BoardgameGeek at least. Well... WHFRP3 is obviously a card game!

This might be a bandwagon worth jumping on. I think I'll do a rewrite of Pathfinder / D&D 3.75 that gets rid of dice altogether and uses a full game of croquet as a resolution mechanic. The game comes in a POD (r) storage system and includes over 2,000 styrofoam packing peanuts as well as a full...