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I don't like the UA system because it looks like one heck of a lot of bookkeeping. Shadowrun had a system of "drain" where the spellcaster would essentially make a saving throw to avoid being damaged from using magic. What ended up happening though is that PCs would min/max and use a few...

I quit for five years. Best thing I ever did for my love of the game. It's a hobby, not a spouse. Walk away and take up water polo or something. A few decades down the road, who knows? Maybe you'll pick your dice back up in the retirement home!

He's hosting the game at the game shop itself. He'll have a large player base at least.

I was in the game store today and the clerk told me about me her fiancee's upcoming Ptolus game. The idea is that since everyone has different schedules, it's an open game. Ptolus takes place in a city and in cities people are constantly coming and going all the time. So he's going to use the...

Yes, but there is such a thing as trying to maintain verisimilitude, to say nothing of the fun of speculation. One factor to think about is that necessity is the mother of invention. Why discover germ theory when there are enough magical healers about to at least keep disease in check, if not...

I don't but my players expect the standard Tolkien tropes. I can deviate from them, but not too far. If elves are into blood magic and dwarves are naturalists, they'll be irritated. What I have noticed is a devotion to the D&D logo. If I were to come up with a race of psionic lizard folks...

Any way to get more than the title?

People don't buy Print on Demand. OK, a small percentage do. But very, very few. The small publishers who you see doing PoD aren't really doing PoD. Their print runs are so teeny tiny that the only people who will handle them affordably are PoD printers. WotCs production values are much...

The first combat encounter is too hard in my opinion. The recent trend for adventure paths/campaigns has been to start out with a hard one. Monte Cook did it in RttToEE and apparently started a trend. It's easy enough to fix though.

You beat me to it. Just a joke, Bill!

Some possibilities: * He deliberately wants to destroy the world and knowingly take innocent lives because he plans to disperse his godly essence and bond with the world causing it to reform but in a measurably better and less evil state. He is not doing this out of some heavy handed form of...

I found the RSS feed to Google Reader for the message board, but only by searching on Google's Reader site. Are there other ENWord or CM feeds? Thanks in advance.

I'm optimistic about the content, but how am I going to read it at work during lunch? The site is filtered. Frankly, I'd prefer the content delivered to me over email.

You'll have to run the convention circuit and set up demos and the like. The Game Manufacturer's Association (GAMA) would be another stop though there is much debate (and far more drama) about their efficacy for new publishers. There's another game publishers association but I forget their...

Oh! Let me guess! Am I right?

I'd love that too, but it is unlikely. The problem was that TSR didn't get the rights to republish Dragon like they did. Not their fault in my opinion. Back in the 70s and 80s putting magazines in electronic format was science fiction. So certain parties sat down and pointed out this...

Oh, sure. Try to lure us with quality products from seasoned hands that bring adventure and intrigue while drawing on myths from our own legends for inspiration. You think that's going to do it Erik? Well, do ya, punk? Bah. I'm picking up my dice and going back to Synnibarr...

Traveler? That's right kids. Back in those days all game genres were covered. The specialization we have in today's market was crazy talk then. There wasn't stuff you could easily drop in your game? Too bad. The down side was that you basically had less stuff you could easily convert...