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No, the time is always wrong for electronic dice. Sometimes a player will pop out with an Iphone or laptop... instead of a DM screen, I should probably just lay a hammer out in front of myself. It's not a freakin' video game! If you want electronics, play an electronic game. If you want to...

So you want a game I think is cool to turn into ultrasuck? Well, then the same to you, buddy.

I'm not saying there aren't work-arounds... I mean, you can even go buy blank dice and make your own dice if you want. It just seems to defeat the purpose of spending $100 on bling bling. It's also a strange model for core books... surely they don't expect that each player will show up at the...

Having watched the seminars... it seems to me as if they've lost their minds. A hundred bucks? Decks of cards? Fiddly, funny dice? You buy an expansion to go beyond 3 players? What if two players want the same career? Well, buy another $100 copy I guess. What if the Ref wants to design his own...

Ban it?!?! We should give it a medal. :lol:

If you're excited about Dark Sun, I suggest that you NOT read the books. They take the setting and basically blow it up, from what I understand. Instead, start planning the sort of adventures you're going to run in a Dark Sun not destroyed by a novelist.

OD&D (1974). For one thing, there are almost no rules. It's all rulings. I don't have to look up a bunch of stuff in a book during play, nor waste my time memorizing rules. It's all on-the-fly adjudication. For example, two sessions ago an evil shaman tried to overbear one of the characters and...

PC's right. Old School is not about nostalgia for me. The system that I'm running (Empire of the Petal Throne) was published when I was 2 years old. Two. I by definition cannot have nostalgia for it. That system is in fact basically just a house rules set for the original D&D system (OD&D)...

Troll. Folks, Piratecat here. Calling someone a troll in a thread accomplishes nothing. If you see a problem, report the post using the little triangular exclamation point to the left of every post. Don't post just to say "troll."

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They're rebooting back to the first boxed set? I'm impressed.

Didn't mean to hurt your feelings, fraulein. I don't wish them unemployment. I wish them to stop screwing up things I think are cool. In my best case scenario, after the ruination of FFG they all go on to become millionaire haberdashers and live long, well-adjusted lives.

Best case scenario: they produce 20 million units, sell five of them, go out of business, someone else negotiates for the WHFRP license and brings it back down to earth. Funny how if you want to play it with more than 3 players you're supposed to buy extra packs.

This, I endorse. :) As a Referee, I don't sit down and say "My game is going to be about the dialectical relationship of justice and mercy." Because to make it about that, I would have to force certain issues. Instead, I look at an adventure as a "scenario". In other words, "You (the PCs) are...

Epic Fail. There's no reason why what a game is about (if it's even about only one thing or small set of things) should be boiled down to stats. Wick's exchange here reminds me a lot of the Forge, which also seems to be attempting to reduce game play into a codified set of mechanical...

Yes, that's the way to do it. Yum. Though I haven't really delved into them, I do like the Mojito. The seem dangerous, though... it's a booze with the smoothness of a Sprite. Exercise caution!

Cugel the Clever.

I hope you didn't think I was talking about cooperative storytelling or any of that jazz! The furthest thing from it. Take Classic Traveller for example. There's no unified task resolution system. There are a fair number of skills... it's up to the Ref to make a judgment call for each and every...

But why would the halfling with the dagger go first? All other things being equal, I'd think he would never go first. Or are you saying that a "judgment call" and a "fit of pique" are indistinguishable? Because if a Ref told me that the halfling with the dagger that charged the line of halberds...

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