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Buy it for me and I'll pay shipping for it. RCD&D is a consolidated version of Mentzer Basic/Expert/Companion/Master's D&D. It's simpler and more freewheeling in most respects, although it has rules for some things (like domain management, mass combat, weapons mastery) which are past AD&D...

I won't say never, but I've been primarily a laptop user for a decade or so. Right now, I have a 13" MacBook Air I use. But it's awfully nice to go upstairs to the 27" display when I'm working in pictures or big documents. Which reminds me of another thing to check for: the quality of the...

I'm putting together a one-shot where the characters are all humanoids. What should be on the tavern's menu? Rat on a stick is the easiest place to start, but the crew here have got to have some inventive ideas for a tavern run by a gnoll and habituated by orcs, goblins, kobolds and more.

Well, that makes sense. My info is a little old, since I haven't owned my own PC laptop in a few years (since IBM sold to Lenovo). But here's my recollections: Everyone's support sucks. Dell's sucks really bad. HP's is useless. Never directly dealt with Toshiba. IBM's hardware support was...

From what you say, you should be happy with almost anything. My usual concerns on laptops are around durability, and I've been very unhappy with several vendors, but since you won't be hauling it around every day, it won't be subjected to as much stress.

Only as players. In fact, I think all D&D players should be elfy-elf blond girls in short skirts. Especially the guys with beards.

Well, there are a lot of folks who aren't fans of 4e. It might be insulting to 4e fans that the language isn't carried over, but is it worth bothering the other folks who didn't like 4e? If DDN is going to be acceptable to players of all editions, then there will be compromises from each...

Languages change by generations. A race that has a very long lifespan would tend to keep the language the same longer. Perhaps different elven regions speak in dialects (i.e., Québec vs Paris, or Mexico vs Spain) but they'd be close enough to get by. As long as all the elves had a reasonably...

I believe that DDN should have drinking in core. Instead of HP, every time the character gets hit, the player takes a shot. Depending on the PCs con score, the drink might be water (25 con) or vodka (8 con).

There are dozens of initiative trackers out there already, many of which already do status effects. I'd suggest explaining how your tracker will be different from others. I'd also recommend spending lots of time on the UI. Folks on smartphones and tablets have grown used to very responsive...

I'm going to say there won't be any backwards compatibility, because anything you could directly use from previous editions will reduce the products you need to buy new. The splatbook business model requires system incompatibility.

This is awesome. I've always loved collectibles which are THINGS the collector loves. People who collect things in little sealed boxes because they think that they'll appreciate in value make me sad, because there's no personal connection there. For instance, I'd love to do this with original...

In my experience, I want a combination of this, too. For me, that means there are a bunch of combats that are quick. But there's still room for big set-piece battles as the climax of an adventure. The difference in time between different combats, the different level of tactical decisioning...

This is a great experience. Last year I signed up with Thunderfoot and it was two hours well spent. Unfortunately, I'm not going to gencon this year, but I'll be signing up again next time I go, probably next year.

It's a lot more time than I would spend on an ongoing game, but since it's a one-shot, I can schedule it for June. That gives me months to get things together... Half hour here on the sign, some hours there on the terrain, but spread over enough days that I can do it even with everything that's...

I've been too busy with work and a toddler to run an ongoing campaign, but I was reading through old Dungeon magazines and found a gem of an adventure in Dungeon 22: Rank Amateurs. It's a fun adventure for humanoids in BECMI following the Orcs of Thar humanoid classes. It looks perfect for a...

This is MacGyver. He doesn't merely survive. He'd wrap up the entire Zombie Apocalypse by the end of the hour!

That's one of the reasons I liked the Alphatia sourcebook in Mystara. It DID give spells for heating your house, as well as building it.

The iOS mail app will search the from, to, or subject headers, or all three at once. It won't, sadly, search the body of the message. Wait...just found out that in iOS 5 it can search the body, and will search the body on server searches as well, depending on the server. (Apparently not on...