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Gnomes are a major part of my current campaign, and an important part of my game world. Yet another reason why I will not be switching to 4e. Heck, I have two players who want to play gnomes if their current characters die. Couldn't do that in 4e. Change, just for the sake of change, is...

I own a version from back in the 80s and the most recent version. I am slowly working my group towards a portal which will gate them into the Wilderlands. Now if they would just take the bait... :]

What I can't understand is why a small game company (read Steve Jacson Games) that has produced hundreds of items over the span of about 30 years can keep up with errata for every single product, yet WotC can't give us errata on just the products produced in the last 8 years. Add to that the...

I agree with that suggestion. The Caravan adventure is easily usable with GURPS Lite. Make sure both the scenario and your GURPS Lite are 4th Ed, and you will be fine! Have fun with it. It's a pretty darn good scenario and a great game system. Of course, I am a bit biased.

Without looking at my shelf, I believe I own six D&D 3.0 books. Okay, I think one of them is a 3.5 book, but that is beside the point. I have practically no desire to see a new edition of D&D, especially not the edition they are promoting. I have not been impressed with what we have been...

In my current D&D campaign I have eight players and only one of them is playing a human (Cleric of Kord). Other races are a mixture from the PH and Arcana Evolved: one litorian, two loresong faen, and four elves. The MegaTraveller campaign I am in has the possibility of alien races. Of the...

OK, when you say "six sets" do you mean roll, for example, 3d6 a total of 6 times, or do you mean roll 3d6 a total of 36 times, in groups of 6? I am not familiar with using the term "set" in this way. It would help with the calculations.

How about any of the following: A broken human femur A skull with the top obviously missing. An X made of two bones. A carving or butcher knife. There are some actual cannibal tribes in the world which, I imagine, have some form of religous symbolism with respect to ritual cannibalism. Try...

I have to agree, they can both be fun, and for entirely different reasons. I won't even say that one method is better than the other. I will say that I have a preference (rolling) and everyone I know prefers that for D&D. The only advocates for D&D point-buy I have ever seen are online. I am...

Currently I am playing in an OD&D game that has been going on for 20 years. I am in a MegaTraveller game that plays once or twice a year. I am hoping that our GURPS Steampunk Supers game will start soon. Oh, and I've just been asked to run some Toon. I think that is all I am playing, or will...

Now that they are concentrating on 4e, the chance of seeing any major errata for 3.5 products is pretty much nil. Showing us errata for anything but the latest products has always been hard for WotC, which I find baffling. Steve Jackson Games, a much smaller company with a very large product...

You know, I have seen some amazing dice rolls for stats over the years. Back in 1st Ed days, I myself rolled 3d6 for stats and rolled three 18's. I checked the dice later to make sure they were rolling true, and they were. I've seen times when people roll incredibly well, and times when the...

Sorry, can't help it. I am an editor by profession. Seeing errors in writing is just something that comes naturally to me. It's annoying, and not just to other people!

I am not sure where to send/put this, and I am not even sure if the person doing the front page news realizes this, but there's a mistake on the front page. The plural for coup de grâce is coups de grâce. It is sort of like sisters-in-law is the plural for sister-in-law.

You know, after sleeping on it for a night I have decided that I really don't care how Mr. Noonan, et al., are going to change things in fourth edition. I don't feel like I need to, want to, or can afford to change editions. What minor things were wrong with the current edition are not enough...

I never claimed that anyone was incompetent. Far from it. I do claim that I feel Mr. Noonan is finding problems that just don't exist. As for "countermeasures," as you call them, reading the rules/description of monsters and knowing your players is hardly a "countermeasure." It is what every...

Part of this was quoted on the front news page of EN World (otherwise I would not have known about it): This may sound a bit snarky, and for that I apologize, but I think these comments by Mr. Noonan are quite telling. They tell me that Mr. Noonan and I are quite different DMs. Not only that...

technically, Bushido is in two booklets. I know, I have them both. ;)

Wow, I found the magic system easy to play, adaptable, and gave a certain element of risk to spell casting that D&D has always lacked. I have adapted the DQ magic system to a host of other RPGs. I even used it to add a magical element to Traveller when I adapted that game to Doctor Who...

I think they all should be random. Life itself is random, and the games have always been random. Besides, these games have survived in their randomness for all these years for a good reason. They work.