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That animation in your signature makes my browser slow way down and scroll choppily. I'm not sure if anyone else is feeling that effect.

Yeah, that's what I was picturing. Maybe you could support straight point buy (1 point = +1 to ability), graduated point buy (1 point can get you +1 up to 14, 14-16 cost 2 points each, etc), or something like that. Dunno, just a thought to get the ball rolling.

How about doing something with the point buy system?

I'm actually quite famous. Nobody knows it except me, though.

At my local EB Games, they seem to be liquidating their stock of D&D/D20 books. I'm not sure if this is nation wide/world wide, but there were some good deals at mine. I picked up Call of Cthulu for $22.99. They also had Tome and Blood, The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, and the Book of...

JH NameGen Gold, the premium name generator from jhanson.com, has been updated. This revision added the ability to use custom HTML headers when exporting your name lists, the ability to import a name list into the Rule Wizard, and two new rule sets - Dungeon Names and Artifacts. You can get it...

If you are a linux fan, check out the Sharp Zaurus. Any of the models, really. It runs linux, so you can put all kinds of interesting stuff on it. It runs java really well, so PCGen might even work.

In no particular order - Tolkien Terry Goodkind Anything swashbuckler related (Three Musketeers, old Errol Flynn flics, etc) The Beastmaster (go ahead and laugh) Star Wars the gold box series of AD&D computer games Daggerfall Dante's Inferno Heart of Darkness - Josef Conrad my history classes...

Near my house: Potter's Pub The Diamond (baseball stadium) Shockoe Bottom and Shockoe Slip (2 sections of town) The Fan (another section of town) King's Dominion (theme park) One-Eyed Jacques (FLGS) The World of Mirth (toy store) Near my parents house, you have: Lost River The Polar Caves The...

Thanks a lot, Chaz. And remember, if you ever have any features you'd like to request, I'm always glad to add them in. Just send them through the contact link on the main www.jhanson.com page. :)

My last group had a barbarian, two wizards, a rogue, and a ranger. The one before that had a fighter, rogue, ranger, and bard. Nobody in my groups seem to like clerics, for some reason.

I just wanted to let everyone know that the newest revision of JH NameGen Gold will be available in just a few days. It incorporates two new features that have been requested by several users. The first one is the ability to use a custom header and footer when exporting your name list to HTML...

Definitely wipe and reinstall. It'll clear up all your issues.

Another good thing might be a dice rolling program for making truly secret/silent rolls. A collection of generic dungeon maps, or something that makes random dungeons could be useful too.

In addition to the other great programs mentioned here, I'd like to recommend JH NameGen Gold, and that's not just because I made it. The fact is, I always used to have an issue coming up with decent names on the spot. JH NameGen Gold will generate names for people, towns, taverns, spells...

I'm the one who said "cookie-cutter". And I HAVE tried point buy. In all the games I have tried it in, the parties have ended up basically the same. Big strong boring fighter with low charisma, super smart wizard-type with low charisma, exceptionally wise cleric, etc. In the games I've tried...

Definitely rolling. I like the luck aspect, plus it helps avoid making cookie-cutter characters.

Use it as a roleplaying opportunity. His character obviously made a deal with some dark powers in order to grant him success. Use that. I think it's time for the dark power to come looking for his character. They don't just give you powers like that without expecting something in return...

Ah, well, I dislike sci-fi quite a bit, so Alpha Centauri is out for me. Notice that none of the Master of Orion games made my list...

We wing it a lot. It allows for a very fluid gaming style, with few interruptions and some very cinematic/heroic scenes. We manage to be fair and reasonably consistent, so nobody in the group cares whether it was "really" supposed to be 4d6 or 3d8.