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continued… This is an unorthodox approach to D&D. It is not for everyone. Please read and post your thoughts, PRO and CON for how this system could work, not whether or not you would play in it. In order to examine the concept of running D&D as a GM-less endeavor, let's break down some of the...

heroism? cowardice? opportunist? As an aside, Jack7… what do you think of a game-world that just is… devoid of a moral compass, alignment, or any other superfluous measure of ethics and morals… what do you think of a game world where the PCs do what they want and ultimately live with the...

On an emotional level, I find the idea kind of gross. My birthday is coming up, here's a list of things you can buy me. On an intellectual level, I would rather the PCs have to be more creative with their use of the magic items I give them, then derive the benefit of a flaming sword that...

Hey Mallus. Let me address what I can. I agree with your first point. There's a difference between being "entertaining" and being an enabler. I'm using the term "entertaining" in a slightly pejorative manner in my posts. The GM is not a TV show writer/producer being paid zero dollars to put on...

Forked from: Why the World Exists See post #2

Thanks for the response Firelance. If even 1% of this… … is true, then I can only assume you and I come from very very very different schools of thought about gaming. I can't imagine we game the same way or for that matter, play the same games. If my assumption is false, I apologize, but I...

Jack7.... good post. Again. What about a consideration of what activities make a character Heroic. Instead of gauging the world on alignment, but rather acts of courage, you (in effect) create a new game or a new way of playing an old game. One of the things I've written about before is that...

The majority of what has been so far has been about world creation, realities, wish lists, and so on. A lot of that is prep work for someone. Even if it's fun for him to do, it's still work and requires time. Yes. Excellent point. Entertainment is those things. But watching is passive and...

another thought TV and Movies "entertain" actively while keeping the audience passive and disengaged from the action on the screen. They don't provide TOOLS for me to entertain myself, they entertain me, so I can passively sit back and "enjoy the show." Books engage and force me to think and...

Lanefan... i respect your right to disagree, although I'd be curious to know more than just "jim is wrong." Why do you perceive the "entertainment" avenue of RPGs to be the path to fun, rather than the zero-prep, everyone has to work it path to fun that many indie game prescribe to? In other...

fallacy This came up earlier… and I apologize if it's a forked thread… but I thought it bears some discussion. The DM is not here to entertain. I don't know where this fallacy started. I'm sure early gamers assumed the GM was enjoying the game the most and therefore was responsible for doing...

Does anyone remember Earthdawn? It had a system for putting XP into magic items to unlock future powers, so you kept the same weapon forever, but it just got more and more useful. Is "finding" treasure such an enamored trope in gaming that we can't move away from it. Does it prohibits players...

I am still reading the entirety of this thread, so I'm not sure if this was said yet… …but scavenging the dead for treasure, isn't very heroic to begin with. Handing a GM a registry of items he can pick up for the "treasure shower" fits right in with the mercenary manner of this gaming trope...

i concur, the cadence is very different from the rest on the list... i liked it myself as for a compilation, we are way ahead of you

new charts some new mercenary company charts were posted to my blog. 100 new ones to be exact. enjoy them.

how embarrasing ugh okay 20 more names coming shortly (maybe 40) i can't believe we missed this i blame jeff's cat EDIT: Okay. I took Jeff's list, edited it, and added 80 more, so there's 100 mercenary companies on my blog. Just follow the obnoxious banner below to my extra-needy website...

being one of the leads on this project, i'm obviously biased about it's usefulness and strengths. this book is, however, a fantastic addition to a gaming library and will be useful long after 3.x and 4.x have dissipated and been replaced by 5.x automaton RPGs. the team spent a lot of time...

it is worth XP

question speaking of reviews… does anyone have a favorite chart from the book, yet?

you earned it enjoy and enjoy the rat