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THANK YOU! Finaly someone used the O word. I've refrained so far of using this term as I've been a near victim 2 years ago and will be a victim by the end of this year and I've been scared, enraged, angry, ... Why? Because: a it's the fad of the moment, all corporations are doing it. Believe...

Hey, I can assure you that MOST people feel your way, but the decisions are mate by the suits and the suits DON'T to screw business and they definatly DON4T want to screw profit. That's just the whole deal. WE GAMERS: wan't our game as interesting, abundant and (lets face it) cheap as possible...

Re: irony I'm shure these people were NOT fired because of lack of creative talent. They were fired because in the current games market (seen through the corporate glassess that have to balance a bookkeeping) these people are TOO EXPENSIVE. It's happening on all levels all over the world...

Actualy that's the ONLY thing that worries me at the moment. HASBRO CAN KILL D&D the BRAND. Look what happened to Last Unicorn. They were bought and there product line died. The couple of books that were finished but not yet released were dumped and nothing is heard from them ever again. If...

Re: Re: Re: The Sage? Gone? How can anybody be instrumental in creating anything if they are not asked to be involved or, as you say, are alienated by current decisions. I mean, seeing as the industry works nowadays, 4th edition will be done on request by the license holder, not (never)...

Re: The Sage? Gone? They're keeping the cow and aregetting rid of the farmer. The license (the NAME D&D ...) probably still is worth something to Hasbor, but I guess once the people are gone, it will soon become worthless to them also. It's just to hope that they have the heart to sell the...

There is one major difference. Your analogy is correct except for this: in the military: everybody gets paid the same, and the veterans get paid a bit more, but not extravagantly so. In a corporation the situation is a bit different. And this goes for WOTC (games design) as for my current...

Re: yep I fear it will not take that long ! What scare's me the most (based not just on what is happening with WOTC but what is going on with my current employer [a bank]) is the speed these kinds of drastic changes can happen. At the bank I work for the same thing happened. We were one of...

Another thing you may want to check if you want a realy easy and light beginning is the adventure game box. It has all material you'l need (including dice) and has six adventures, each being a bit more involved than the previous one. There is also lots of advice for a begining DM. I started out...

Actualy I don't realy care what system to use, because... My DM is close to 20 years in the big seat and he's still using his original dice (battle worn, and it shows!!) And everytime I sit down with him to create a new character (which we often do just for the fun of it) he'll let me use his...

Check out spell sorter, it's not mysql or php, but definatly warants a look! http://www.wam.umd.edu/~cadre/dd_spell/

BTW: armybuilder is a mini armylist organizer. Out of the box (CD), it doesn't contain any content except a tutorial system (and probably one officialy supported game system: clan war) But the program works realy well and there's widespread support for dozens of game systems by the online community

Come to think of it, maybe they should have addopted the armybuilder way. Create the TOOLBOX and let us grunts do the hard :D work of providing the content. I have no idea about legal stuff, but anyways armybuilder support is very strong, with a built in easy way of getting/importing updates...

Sometimes things get out of order don't they. I've had Winter's Heart since It was released, but haven't had the time yet to read it (way too many other books to read) Then when the WOT RPG was released, I sneaked onto the net and found me a synopsis of the novel, just to know what was going on...

But then again there's that famous crit table. You're not worth you're salt anymore if all of a sudden your minus one leg or blind or ...... D20 criticals will only kill you faster (or allow you to kill otherwise virtualy unkillable monsters) a WFRP crit (even off one miserable hit) can cripple...

And actualy, I don't realy think you'd have to do it through rules adaptations. A decent GM/DM/... can capture a setting whatever rules he's enforcing. Play the setting and use whatever system you want. The only thing in the rules I can see having some impact on a campaign level is the...

Re: If it's what you really want.. And don't forget the interesting skills and features (what about sex appeal or blather ):D ) Two of the neatest things in the WFRP rules: insanity and COOL!

And now thanx to D20 we can do both things... I mean: with all the D20 stuff coming out (and lets generalize this to all generic systems) you can play several types of settings with the same rules. But there is as much fun to be had in playing a similar setting with a different system. I for...

Actualy, I guess you could say that WFRP has PrC's exclusively. Even the basic carreers in WFRP feel more like a PrC then a class. You don't have classes per se in WFRP and you don't have levels. A character chooses a succesion of carreers, each carreer defining advances in stats and skills. XP...

I've just finished playing the "Enemy behind the Throne" campaign and I must say that the accolade of being "the best ever rpg campaign, independant of system" comes pretty close to being the truth ! Its a great campaign, but in my opinion is best served with the original WFRP rules and...