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More minis (proper stuff like Reaper or Black Tree Design though, no randomised collectables for me) or maybe some Mongoose Mighty Armies stuff. Conan: Road of Kings Paranoia XP C&C: Monsters and Treasure That's about it as I've generally got enough gaming stuff to get on with

Something worse - Interrupted Campaign Depression, which is what I've got with my Wilderlands campaign at the moment. Thinking about starting another campaign as a two player one in the Wilderlands again, but using C&C rather than modded 3.5 (no doubt it will turn into modded C&C, but hey I like...

Got to say I voted single class, but most of the time I prefer to fit the classes to the concept, though a lot of my concepts are iconic single class types and in 3.5 I'll happily take a cleric or druid anytime.

now started The System of the World by Neal Stephenson. Also reading ENGamer #3 for review purposes and assorted computer manuals and online documentation for work.

In a polytheistic mythos like the Greek/Roman one, more worshippers would tend to equal more bragging rights among the other gods (a strong justification knowing how the Greek gods are often portrayed), rather than affecting their actual power.

Diaglo has been hired by WotC as lead developer for 4e D&D - back to basics! :D

Initial thoughts. Much more to follow. The easiest explanation is the one from Terry Pratchett's Small Gods, their power is in proportion to the number of worshippers that they have, whether in terms of temporal power (200,000 worshippers trump 200 and could field a reasonable size army) or...

Personally I'd say leave it with the website, unless you want to make the pdf distribution email only to users with a clear usage agreement specifying for playtest purposes only, and that feedback was mandatory (though not with specified times, e.g. 'By requesting this pdf you agree to provide...

I call gnome too.

In the games I've played at first level we've not had a scholar character. Generally combat is more deadly and I found that it moved faster despite the apparently more complex rules, partly as there is less of the usual spellcasting going on compared to D&D and the prolonging effect of healing...

If you want to learn either Oracle or SQL Server there are now somewhat cutdown versions being made available for free by Oracle and M$, the open source systems like postgres and MySQL are free as well. I've generally been an analyst/programmer for most of my career in IT, usually on...

I've read most of the series (except the last one or two) and I like them as a satire of typical adventure fiction as Flashman is so obviously only heroic if forced into it by circumstances.

"the plays the thing..." To me its about the game really, the roleplaying is part of the game, but only part of it, if I wanted to act I've got plenty of chance to join amateur dramatics groups.

I voted no as I'd say the sheer volume of rules and excess of options makes it less suitable for beginners. If I was going to introduce newcomers then I'd use Castles & Crusades as it uses the strong iconic fantasy types - mighty warrior; stocky, tough dwarf; intelligent, but weak magician...

OD&D, Metamorphosis Alpha, BD&D, 1e, RQ2, CoC. what is this 2e people talk about anyway, never encountered it myself? ;)

About 30-40%, but a lot is creating NPC's which may be reusable in other situations so the total over time will drop, when I first started GMing again it was probably higher as I had some time when I was out of work and lots of time and I didn't know how much prep was needed for 3.5.

Personally I like systems that are appropriate for the setting /gets off fence Personal favourites: D&D memorisation and Runequest2 combo of common low level + rare high powered.

Actually Conan's setting lends itself well to episodic games and the low levels of magic mean it can run combat faster than other D20 games making it better suited for one off games.

A lot of people have done things like resizing the hexes to represent 5 leagues or 25 miles across. I think that the original was supposed to have 3 league hexes or 5 league hexes, see a thread on the Necromancer boards for plenty of discussion of this...