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Okay, three years ago my family and I went to Disney World for about a week for our 10th wedding anniversary. Here's what I'd recommend... If you can afford it, stay at one of the resort hotels on-sight. The "moderate" resorts (we stayed at the Port Orleans Riverside, and it was great) are...

I was lucky enough to find the book and all the DVDs at my local public library... I checked out the book and the first few DVDs just to take a look and get a feel for it. The program, apparently, has three different possible schedules for the 90-day workout... The classic, standard version...

I'll second Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh... It's a smaller dungeon crawl, with a decent plot. Great module. Like I said, it's a bit of a fun-house ride. If you don't mind the... eccentric? ...nature of the challenges, it can be a lot of fun. It's certainly not a module that can be taken...

Uno A self-balancing electric unicycle that originated as a 17-year-old student's science fair project. Later models transform from a unicycle to a motorcycle and back... In that same vein, there's also the Bombardier EMBRIO:

You might try looking at White Plume Mountain... It's a bit of a fun-house, with regards to the traps and some of the encounters, but I found it a lot more fun and a lot less "gotcha", than Tomb of Horrors.

In regards to 4E, "range", I'd agree with... "Wide range" I'm less certain of, depending on your definition of "wide". But yes, D&D (and especially 4E) is a game that expects the PCs' abilities to be within a certain range for a particular level. If their stats deviate wildly (in either...

That wasn't exactly my intent... I was using 4E (and D&D in general to a much lesser extent) as an example of what I was trying to get at. Which is: Every RPG is designed with a particular purpose... A genre it's meant to emulate or a play style it's meant to support, for example. A game...

That's a fallacious argument... Certainly any given DM, with enough effort, can do what ever like with any game. That's not what I talking about. I'm talking about what the game is designed to do. The rules of 4E, for example, have very explicit guidelines on what kinds of encounters a...

Because there is a difference between a "sub-optimal character" and the "reluctant, unprepared hero trope". While a character can be both, one doesn't necessarily have to be the other and vice versa. Saying that D&D is not designed to handle the reluctant hero trope, does not mean that...

Sure... but he same applies. If you intend on staying in that completely new field, you begin to train and retrain (multi-classing and retraining!) so you can excel in that field instead of your old one. You may hang onto a few of your old skills that provide an unexpected benefit, but much...

I sympathize with you, Kzach, I'm often in a similar boat. I have a lot of fun building characters in which the statistical optimization and the background role playing motivations go hand in hand and inform each other. At any rate, my take on the situation is this... In D&D, we play...

Aha! I'd never before noticed that particular rider in the spell... Always thought it just use the standard encumbrance rules for flying. Thanks!

I understand that... I just find it entertaining to sometimes imagine a DM and players behind the scenes, regardless. And despite Rich's protests to the contrary, there are times the comic certainly lends itself to it. It's all part and parcel to the conceit that the characters know about...

No, that would require taking the comic strip and also the game it's based on more seriously than I'd care to. Also, I have the occasionally unnerving ability to change my mind if a better argument or explanation presents itself, and also a talent for arguing multiple viewpoints and even...

Or V's DM doesn't bother to pay attention to the encumbrance rules.

Check out the weight range of an average kobold... It'd be not unlike carrying around a typical 4-year-old child. For a typical kobold, he'd only need a Strength of around 11-13 to stay unencumbered enough to keep flying, by 3.5 rules... For as high level as the OotS presumably is, that...

Of course, they could just be Bluetooth capable sunglasses.

There's a sneaky little page hidden on the Dark Knight Rises website, with a photo of Catwoman riding the Batpod. Enjoy...

It's kind of like how no matter how much you order for Chinese take-out, it's always ready in 20 minutes.