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Every time I've had a character choose whether to come back from the dead or not it's been for metagame reasons (ie., character I like, want to try something new). I can almost always find an in-game reason for either decision. By the way, I think playing a character who has been resurrected...

Only if the paladin's deity is a real jerk.

I just finished "Nightwatch" by Sergei Lukyanenko. I really enjoyed the story and the world the author created, but some of the characters felt really flat and the prose just seemed awkward. Maybe it was in the translation or just the way the author writes. I will still read the sequels...

The Russians getting upset about copyright violations? That would be so much irony in one place at one time that the universe might implode. I think True 20 could work and is a very slick system, but I think the best suggestion so far is Unisystem (magic from Witchcraft and the rest from...

Unfortunately, Ember has been plagued by some really unfortunate art. Lidda, on the other hand, has the famous "exploding cigar" picture from the PHB. :D

Who is that dude anyway? As for the original question, I suppose I could classify her as "moderately hot". She's no Lidda, that's for sure.

Usually, yes. IMO, there's nothing worse as a player than knowing that your actions won't have any impact on the course of events in an adventure, no matter what you do. You can come up with the most ingenious, "outside the box" solution to a problem and the adventure still chugs along as...

I hadn't really looked closely at the Iron Kingdoms setting in quite a while, but it looks like they've got some cool stuff out there. I'm curious, what is the general consensus on the Witchfire Trilogy? It sounds like quite a few people don't care for it. The criticism I've heard in the past...

I think blasting through DR is a huge advantage at mid to high levels. In a recent game, power attacking helped against a creature with DR/silver. The rest of the party members in melee were doing very little actual damage while hitting more often than the PA fighter. Even my monk doing a...

For 3.5E I vote: 1) Power Attack (really increased in power for 3.5E, almost a no-brainer for any fighter types) 2) Improved Initiative (acting first is great for rogues, but also good for getting that emergency defensive spell up or just getting out of the way) 3) Natural Spell (is there a...

The big problem with assassin as favored class is that the favored class can't be a prestige class or it's, well, pointless. Someone really should have had a good look at that write up before it hit print. It looks like the work of an author who really isn't very familiar with the D20 system...

Yeah. Not happy about the possibility of annoying DRM. The sad fact of DRM for any media is that the people who want to copy and distribute it illegally are going to be able to do so quite easily. It could easily turn in to a hassle for honest users of the content and a complete joke as far...

I think it was Monte Cook who pointed out that Paizo was very clear to point out that Pathfinder isn't a magazine in a "doth protest too much" sort of way. The stance of "it's not a magazine but a monthly, subscription-based book" is kind of odd, which makes me agree with the non-compete clause...

Another vote for Victorian Steampunk. Some sort of Wuxia (Dragonfist...I'm looking at you!) Wild West meets Wuxia with a dash of Sergio Leone...does that have a name? I may have been imagining this, but I think Gareth of Adamant Entertainment suggested a game like this once. I think it's an...

Maybe someone spilled some Red Bull on the WotC servers causing a chain reaction that led to an Intarweb outage in the greater Seattle area...it could happen. :D Anyway, I do agree that some perspective is in order here. The passing of Tom Moldvay managed to stay on the front page of the...

I work in Customer Service and have had to take the heat for a lot of things I had absolutely ZERO control over. As you said, it's part of the job (same with Marketing). The uh, stuff, all rolls down hill, as they say, and CS folks are usually the only direct contact the consumer has with the...

I think the other lesson might be that even the 20 and 30-somethings who are comfortable using the Internet (banking, buying a car, ordering a pizza) aren't as excited about online content as the press release suggests. Game Informer magazine actually just had an editorial about web content vs...

I'm going to boycott them by limiting my WotC purchases to products that don't completely suck.

I was expecting one of the folks interviewed to say "This really sucks. I haven't heard an idea this bad since the Book of Erotic Fantasy". Very disappointing.

Another vote for this sucks/ feel like I was kicked in the junk. I let my Dragon subscription lapse, but I bought individual issues at my FLGS probably 6 months out of the year. With more Forgotten Realms and Eberron material lately I was actually considering starting up my Dragon subscription...