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Preparing for the game is also fun. And it's something you have to do before the game, so you should make it as fun as possible. If the books are uninspiring, then only the people who are already playing the game will manage to pick their way through them. That's not a good route to growing the...

I'm not going to buy the books until I have a confirmed group and campaign that will be playing it. I got burned with 3.0... I got the books when they came out thinking "I don't have a game now, but I'll have the books for when I do." By the time I had a game, 3.5 had come out. :rant:

We'd had tablets with a full OS on them since 1991. What will make them a better idea now than they were before? Actually, they are today. The core OS and frameworks are extremely close. The UI is different, mostly around user view to the filesystem (i.e., they don't have one). Metro is very...

Area of effects seem pretty easy to put together... how many pixels per square do you need?

The way I run it, you've just lost your turn. That's OK, your next turn will come around quickly. I like it, because it mixes stuff up more.

I love those dice. In fact, I have an extra set of them because I misplaced one if the dice for a while. (How often do I play in the dark? Not often, but in a dim room, with a flashlight... I swear it rolls the elder sign more often!) I'm not as much a fan of the metal dice. They scare me...

The PHB should be interesting and engaging so that people who pick it up are inspired to start playing the game. The books used to be a gateway into the hobby, and tons of folks have anecdotes how they started playing from these books without really understanding what they were doing, because...

Here's what I do. Specifically, I don't handle things like 1d3d4, since I've never seen that in use. I also don't handle expressions within a roll, since I haven't seen that one either. So "d" binds to the numbers adjacent to it and has the highest precedence. qexpr : '(' expr ')' { $$ =...

An important thing is that as the DM you can choose how expensive you want it to be. You can run an excellent campaign with nothing more than a few books for years and years. You can get the books used or nearly free depending on the edition you want to play. Or, you can go wild and get minis...

Thomas Phinney, a renowned type designer and contributor to the CoC campaign adventure Masks of Nyarlathotep, is working to produce a digital revival of the Columbus typeface, used to typeset the original Call of Cthulhu logo and within several supplements. He's planning to build not only the...

How are app developers competitors if WotC isn't in the market? They could license this stuff out so that someone else could write the app (as in the past).

The Indy Zoo is definitely one of the best in the country, imho. Something else to look at is the Children's Museum. It's great for adults too. Maybe not romantic, but a whole lot of fun.

To me, this is more of a statement that to a lot of people, an app isn't that useful if it only contains the SRD. Wizards has shown that they're not interested in satisfying the desires of this market, but they are interested in preventing other people from satisfying this market. Which is a...

Illustrator could definitely do that. I think that's doable, in a fairly automated way. Not sure, but I'll play with it. The hyperlinking of the hexes is completely automated, which has been a fun indesign learning experience. My only concern is keeping up with your output! Now that I've...

I love this thread. I got distracted the other weekend by the hex numbers, since they slightly overlap the hexes, so I've gone overboard and started converting the map to Illustrator with Thorf's excellent symbol library. Along the way, i figured I'd bring it into a single file so you could...

I've been in too many giant corporation meetings lately... hence synergy and facilitation. It's probably amusing, in a horrifying way, to fellow cube farmers.

I think that DM should be replaced by Synergy Facilitator. The game is not about the person running it, it's about the players. At most, the one running it needs to divorce his or her own ideas about the game and provide a neutral arbiter for those actions the players want to perform, hence...

I almost entirely agree with you. From the stated situation, I think an improvement could be made if the associate said something like "Great! If you have any questions, let me know." It's a subtle difference, but I could see someone interpreting the described behavior as the associate turning...

The SRDs are the best way to go if you just want the crunch. If you also want the fluff from the PDFs, what I do is to load them all into DEVONthink, a Mac app that can index and manage lots of file formats, including PDFs. It lets me annotate things, takes notes in RTF, and combine lots of...

Turns are a lot easier for me to keep track of than arbitrary units of time. I can tick off turns (actually, I wrote a program for that) much more quickly than I can add things like "Ok, searching this room took 7 minutes, and it took 15 minutes to come down the stair while searching...