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I've always treated HP like John McClane in Die Hard. He had a ton of hit points. Everything did damage to him, and by the end of the movie he's full of nicks, cuts, holes, contusions, and everything else, but he keeps going. I have no problem with people doing damage on a miss. Sure, the axe...

For BECMI, it seemed to have just about everything. The only thing I recall not being there was a scan of Orcs of Thar. (Which is why I made it my first priority to scan that one first.) For a lot of the more common things, you can find a real copy used for cheap. But for things like Orcs of...

Yes. This included nearly everything they'd ever produced. The older stuff was bitmapped scans, not the best quality, but it was there (and was worth buying for me).

I'm in the process of digitizing my own RCD&D materials. I can come up with a pretty decent PDF with vector fonts (thank you Acrobat Clearscan) for the investment of about $20, previous camera equipment, and a couple hours of time. (And the cardboard box book scanner from...

That's OK. They don't give two craps about anyone else and are merely using the rest of the population to pad out the bottom line.

I'm probably a "casual gamer" these days. I bought two books for 4e, and probably 3-4 for 3.5e. The reason I'd say WotC should think about casual gamers is there are probably a lot more of them than dedicated gamers. If I can get five people in my group eventually picking up a PHB but not...

Really, forum runner was working until sometime in the last month. Might not have been intended, and it didn't have the newer version o the plugin that rendered lists nicely but it was working. :)

I noticed a few weeks ago that you seem to have dropped Forum Runner (which used to be supported). It was a bit faster and friendlier than Tapatalk, but life goes on.

My answers: Adventuring paladin gains very modest amount of gold but also powerful magical items from his slain opponents. Should he pay tithe according to the value of the items? YES. How about other valuable items such as art objects or gems? YES. Is it possible to "trick" tithing by sharing...

Native apps are nice, but Silverlight does not make a native app. It's yet another sandboxed cross-platform framework that neither feels like nor looks like native apps.

In one very tactically oriented game, I used a build because the character I built organically was terribly ineffective and died a few times. I worked hard to make sure I created roleplaying reasons to follow the build, for example working on my religious conversion for a few adventures and...

Gee, I have a toddler (yours is older) and one in the oven. And I'll probably be moving in July. (Yes, you're among the first to know, O.) For me, I'm planning on keeping running RCD&D. I'd consider playing in other games, but right now, no one in my current group is really hot on DDN. Of...

As I recall, originally DDI was going to be made by a new company spun off from a large enterprise consultancy. So it wasn't an established team with a track record, they weren't familiar with gaming or entertainment, and likely they weren't too familiar with ongoing product development. Most...

I know of at least one: Fonts by Greywolf

I don't think so... It's more of a web-based version of TableMaster from the DOS/Win3.1 days or Tablesmith. The software that's out there to do this already is extremely lightweight and works, so I'd say follow those patterns. (I'd also recommend to use one of their languages, probably...

If you want to map via tiles, I remember seeing Tiamat The Tile Mapper online. Other free software folks use are The Gimp and Inkscape. The Gimp is a paint program similar to photoshop, and Inkscape is a vector package like Illustrator. Both are used at the Cartographer's Guild for people who...

Are you talking about the original iPod, which did not have USB (it was firewire)? The first iPad certainly did come with a USB cable (USB at one end, dock at the other, like other iDevice except the shuffle). That's how it charges. You are correct, it does not use a standard USB (big), mini or...

Merging PDFs is 1990s technology. What's special about the way you've done it? In fact, why would it be at all desirable? I find separate PDFs to be far more convenient since you could have more than one open at once, or you could switch between them with the software remembering where you...

I've always viewed hard drives as consumables, and by the time they die, it's time to upgrade to a bigger one. I'd agree that if the laptop you have is suiting you, replace the hard drive. But if you're feeling the yen for something better... This is a decent excuse.

One difficulty is that any mechanic has to be lightweight enough to run at a table. 4e's mark system is lightweight enough (although it might be near the edge since I've seen a number of folks get confused as to who was marked by whom). Anything involving arithmetic on each monster (like the...