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I hope to GOD that I get the chance to sic that particular puppy on my players. I think I hurt myself just by reading his stats. Also, if my players are reading this, MWUAHAHAHA!!!

Last Sunday I came this close to generating a TPK for my 4th and 5th level PCs when they went up against a pair of harpies. Round 1, the harpies started to sing. Everyone failed their saving throws except the warmage, who just kept firing at them while they tried to take down the party. If he...

Isn't it funny how one's choice of words can completely change the implied meaning of two otherwise fairly similar utterances? Who'd have thunk it?

This goes back to the old argument about whether following the DM's plot hooks constitutes railroading. After the DM has spent all week coming up with a handful of different directions the campaign could go, fleshed out some plots and NPCs along those options, and given the players their choice...

It seems pretty clear that this: is fairly different than this: Emphasis mine. According to this, WotC says that it's possible to convert from 3E to 4E by rebuilding your character using the new rules, contradicting you. They also merely encourage players to start at level 1, contradicting...

No man, bring back random potion miscibility tables from AD&D 1st edition!

In any case, the reason why there's a metaphysical or political reason is because the players discovered a plot hole. They caught the DM with his pants down, and so the DM comes up with something. The DM has the choice whether to run with it or not. It's his prerogative.

If the players are trying to break the game, I see no reason why I shouldn't attempt to foil them. Trying to make a million gp on a get-rich-quick scheme is trying to break the game. They know they're not supposed to have that kind of wealth without actually earning it. I can't imagine a...

Congrats on 2000. Also, your games look like fun!

I always sort of liked the idea that dryads actually looked like shapely human women, and were extremely attractive to humans, up until you touched them. Then you'd notice that they're actually made of wood, are cold as death, and you can pick up splinters or chiggers from them. If you've ever...

There does seem to be somewhat more WYSIWYG in 4E, doesn't there?

I'd rather that they were more like the Grindylow from China Meiville's The Scar. Those mothers are scary.

Well, I can, and have, make FUDGE suit whatever group I play it with. Having a simple core system upon which to build is actually quite liberating, and I think it's a pretty good idea to start from an abstracted, easy-to-understand system and add complexity with optional rules and supplements.

This is not a new taking point.

Well, I got a sahuagin in my "4E preview" Deserts of Desolation booster. I don't know if that means anything.

I'd get a lot more posting done if I could just train my kids to hunt their own food.

You know, I love this and I hate it. On the one hand, it makes the world more interactive and deep. On the other hand, my players end up traipsing across the known world if they want to accomplish the basic tasks involved in levelling up their characters. On the way, they encounter...

Seriously, I am an advocate of foisting prep and background work onto the players wherever possible. I do enough just organizing everyone to show up at my house at the same time. Prep for the game on top of that is tough, and any additional responsibilities involved with trying to cram the...

I'm totally on board with you there. I can't stand keeping track of unidentified magic items. I have the choice of either stating the magic items don't work until you identify them (a la Diablo II), or I just make it easy to identify them. I went with the latter route.

Yes. Exactly. Why should the DM do all the work? There's crunch work, and there's fluff work, and both of those can be offloaded onto your ungrateful players so that you have less prep, and they feel more involved to boot. As an added bonus, they're not going to argue about their own...