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First let me say that it's a high quality book with good art. Now as for use, I don't even like Martin's writing or settings and wouldn't play them. I got the book because it had some very interesting and useful rules that can be backported into other d20 games. The Armor as DR rules are good...

About 5 years ago one of my campaigns ended up revolving around the attempt to stop one particular dragon named Rhumathradraxis. Although the players didn't even hear her actual name until about 3/4 of the way into the campaign. Backstory: She was an Old Blue Dragon with the multiheaded &...

It's fun really just try to visualize it as if you were editing a 300 trailer about killing Cthulu with a spork and a pair of pliers while dropping LSD and smoking crack at the same time.

Not arguing with you on that account. Note this section of my last post. I was aiming at their claims regarding earlier edition HP, where the division between fluff and system mechanics was blatant. The claims that 1e/2e/3e were abstract too matched with the vaguely worded fluff text but not...

Just being pedantic here but he was surfing on a JSF not a Harrier. Even though they won't be past the test squadron phase for a few years.

And if I were going to move to 4e that's EXACTLY how I would describe and play HP. I have no problem with over-the-top. I've played in high level D&D campaigns that exceed Exalted in the OOT meter. My issue is just the people who complain "oh nobody could survive that it's not realistic so...

Nothing against you Lurker but since I'm your polar opposite I am going to explain precisely where I sit with regards to versimilitude and HP and the reason why. Because it's magic he wasn't recovering the ability to duck and weave if he'd successfully ducked and weaved he wouldn't have taken HP...

I agree it could have still dealt with kink & fetishes while reducing it to a small sub-chapter or the occasional sidebar. As it was there was really too much and it affected the voice of the book as a whole. They also got too mechanic heavy when the most useful part of the book was the fluff...

QFT I like D&D for the model of play it uses, the changes in model of play are what has driven me away from 4e. If I wanted to play a game with that sort of play model I would have gone to another system by now. Instead the new edition is bringing an unwanted play model that could be had in...

Burger & Brats if I'm being cheap, which is most of the time. Steak every once in a while, but when I've got plenty of time it's gotta be pulled pork. Can't have a proper BBQ without slow-cooked pulled pork in Homemade sauce, and none of that Texas garbage either. You're supposed to taste the...

Yes, and based on false logic. Simulationism =/ realism. Simulationism can just as easily be in creating a self-consistent setting that meshes with and supports the rules as its own reality where things work differently than ours but still non self-contradictory. EDIT: I've personally given...

The point is that he personally prefers a realistic game and equates this with all simulationism. Falsely I might add simulation does not have to simulate OUR reality merely A consistent reality. And as a result of this is essentially telling simulationists to just switch to GURPS because it's...

1.) At least the red dragon doesn't have nipple rings;) 2.) I think of them all the Monster Manual cover is the best. A bit more comic bookish styling than I'd prefer but it's pretty much how I always envisioned Orcus (Although FC1 had the best Orcus pic ever IMO). I've always stated the...

Yes, with a rose stem across the knuckles when the kid gets it wrong. We are talking about an Imp after all. But at least they're predictable, it's the chaotic ones you'd need to worry about. I mean even assuming through the link an affection for the child was transferred their nature is...

I definitely remember them getting wish in 2e so I've stuck with it. I'll take your word for whether they've got it in 3e, since I never bothered to check.

I would put a fairy dragon about on par with a kender, except fairy dragons get a daily wish SLA. Imagine a kender who can wish scary isn't it? EDIT: Or at least I remember they did in 2e (at least some of them I think it was handled like speaking all languages with a percentile probability)...

Depends if you stat a child as a 1-hd Small NPC then the familiar of even a 6th or 7th level wizard could grapple them into submission. Which seems really odd to me, but entertaining. I can see a cat familiar pinning the misbehaving child to the floor and giving it a swap or two as...

You do realize that a wyrmling is likely to join the mischief rather than stop it. They may be intelligent and wise but they're also still immature. But at least we're not talking about fairy dragons, now THAT could be dangerous.

Just hope it's not an Imp or Quasit familiar:) That said especially once you hit the mid-high levels some of those familiars can be smarter than the kids being watched, or most barbarians and fighters. I'd say that the familiar could watch a child but probably wouldn't want to, it wants to be...

Round these parts a guy used a skid-steer loader to scoop up one of the large ATMs built into a bank wall and drive off with it one night last year. They still haven't got any clues as to who actually did it. Left a nice big opening in the side of the bank.