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Gary really seemed to like making character creation a gamble with "bonus rounds" for more prizes. Roll stats. Roll hit points. Roll for exceptional strength. Roll for Psionic ability. Then you had gambling in play- random magic item generation is really strange if you think about it...

Oh ho, we have a name drop for Matt Decker (TOS: "The Doomsday Machine")!

I know there are Voyager fans out there, but a lot of episodes just seemed boring to me. There was a lot of pointless filler all around. I found few of the characters even likable. That didn't mean it was all bad- Janeway's coffee obsession was always good for a chuckle, even if her...

The Cleric was long in this strange position of being, on paper, one of the strongest classes, but in practice, they got relegated to "heal bots" and even though they could use most of the combat-oriented magic items, Fighter classes generally got priority for those. For example, there's...

Even with it's flaws, SNW is still the best Trek we've had after a long dry spell. Every time I have an issue with something going on, all I have to do is think about Voyager and all sins are forgiven!

Yeah, just think about Kirk's experience with this episode while watching "The Enterprise Incident".

I think it's likely more that armor training isn't as hard as the game makes it out to be, and that many armor restrictions and penalties are unwarranted.

This. Also, slings. Had Gary never heard of Balearic Slingers?

I've encountered quite a few DM's who would insist they were right even when the language is clear as day, lol.

It is one of the high points of the game. Though the one time I played Rolemaster, I found myself on the Shock and Stress critical tables, and some of the results spawned some pointless bookkeeping (like permanently reducing an enemy's stats mid-combat, which then leads to having to do some...

Let's be honest- nobody really knows how the Bard class is supposed to work. Snarf has probably done the most in-depth examination of it that I've seen, but there's still a lot of questions (like Half-Elf Fighter/Thieves becoming Bards) that I don't think were ever answered. But there might be...

At least, until critical hits enter the equation. There are some patently absurd results on the various tables, lol.

While they will fall short of a Fighting-Man (or Paladin), there is also the Monk, who gets 18 d4 Hit Dice. With a 16 Con, that's 81 hit points on average by level 18, comparable to a Fighter 11 with 17 Con. Rangers get 11 d8 Hit Dice and are a sub-class of Fighter, so I believe they get the...

I'm pretty sure in 3.x, intangible creatures were said to make no noise...yeah, here it is: "An incorporeal creature moves silently and cannot be heard with Listen checks if it doesn’t wish to be." So I have no problem with one being silent. I mean, if an Owl can make virtually no noise in...

From the Rules Compendium: Checking the RC, I noticed the Minion rules say nothing about being defeated, destroyed or killed, just the following:

Agreed- the resulting Cavadin was a hot mess to run for as well. I tried it once, and did not care for the results. I vastly prefer how 2e handled this sort of thing. You could be a Paladin Cavalier. Or a Paladin Wilderness Warrior. Or a Paladin Swashbuckler. There's more than one flavor...

I think so? It's been awhile, but I think the ones I'm thinking of were in a supplement (maybe Red Steel?), adventure, or Dragon article, because it was detailing some new weapon. I just recalled being fairly impressed with the idea of multiple mastery levels, especially as compared to how 2e...

Something I'd forgotten about, but "alignment as faction" was apparently on the outs in 1e by Unearthed Arcana, with it's infamous Comeliness mechanic, which had Evil-aligned characters treat negative Comeliness as if it were positive and vice versa (apparently ignoring the fact that Evil is Sexy.