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That's not a matter of tells so much as there being very few cards left to give anyone a hand that can call even an innocent bet. Slowplaying is often a dumb thing to do, but a flopped boat is the exception that proves the rule. I'd say that the major difference between poker and D&D from the...

If this is the angle you're coming from, then why run one of the APs? Dungeon prints lots of great non-AP adventures, as do Necromancer Games, Goodman Games, Green Ronin, Wizards of the Coast. Plus there's all the freebies available for download from WOTC. Rather than shoehorning your players...

Some settings that should work fine: Greyhawk (assuming he's willing to say "no" to requests for weird PrCs and races, since technically they're all there) Forgotten Realms (under the same conditions, probably harder to do) Kalamar the Scarred Lands the Wilderlands (and/or the City State of the...

Well, that depends entirely on how big the pie is. Vancouver's relatively affluent and seems to have lots of gamers, so the pie is a pretty decent size. And there's actually a lot more than six - a local gaming website has 16 local shops listed (that's for as far away as Langley, about an hour's...

I've never quite understood how these guys operate. It's obvious they make most of their money from CCGs, minis, and comic books, but most of their shelf space is RPGs, wargames, and models (at least last time I was there). Have they cut down on the space dedicated to RPGs recently? That I think...

Crown of Shadow was released for 1E Midnight by FFG, it's an intro-to-the-setting minicampaign that takes characters from 1st to 5th level. Price on the back of my copy is $14.95, I don't know off-hand if it's still in print and/or available as a PDF.

If I'm buying a product, in general I'd rather see statblocks. If I'm creating the NPC myself, I'm more likely to come up with the background first, and am often comfortable faking the statblock. By that I mean, I'm happy to write down a finished set of combat stats without going through the...

I'm a pretty big fan of using real-world maps for my campaigns, just makes the work easier. My Arcana Unearthed setting, for example, bears an uncanny resemblance to the east coast of North America (though as of yet no player has seen a sufficiently large-scale map to realize that). I have a D&D...

I have played it, and it doesn't. IMHO character generation is easier than M&M (and Hero), if not as well written. It's a fun game, but not what the OP is looking for AFAICT. Hero is probably the OP's best bet. An OOP contender could be MEGS, the ruleset Mayfair used for their DC RPG. It had a...

I think your proposed rule will probably make guns deadly enough that nobody will risk a gunfight if they can possibly avoid it, which might make for a boring game. If you're going with VP/WP, you might consider having the damage to straight to wounds when the target is flatfooted, and otherwise...

You can indirectly, if the free content is driving sales of other products. This is the concept of a "loss leader".

Well, I was able to conceive of it while also understanding what you had actually been doing, so I don't think I'm particularly confused about the data. I don't really think the question is so far beyond the pale, as the rate of XP gain is pretty significantly affected by substituting more...

I don't think either option is wrong in general. In your case specifically, starting from the creation of the world and filling in history from there is a relatively tall order, I'd probably go with a single pantheon to simplify that end of the workload. I personally think that alignment...

I would guess he was wondering if you were using AD&D giant stats for the D&D3 encounters, which would make an individual hill giant around CR 2 or 3, rather than 7.

Yeah, for martial artsy prestige classes you can get a lot of mileage out of old kung fu movies, where the hero often goes through bizarre training sessions without realizing what they're trying to teach/test him. From the prestige classes you're interested in, the Tempest could have a quick...

Yeah, given the 2.5 hour limit, A Dark and Stormy Knight would be my choice, too. It's a pretty nice example of a one-session dungeon crawl. Of course, you could always just grab a small map from the map-a-week archives, plop down 4-5 encounters (say 1 at EL 1, a finale at EL 3 or 4, and the...

Dunno about the adventure paths, but I found the pace was pretty accurate in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, which spans about 10 levels (4th to 14th or so) and took my group about a year to get through it (spread over two calendar years, we took breaks to play other stuff).

Er, WOTC still owns and distributes (or licenses for distribution) all of TSR's product line, so it seems pretty reasonable to me that they inherit any problems associated with those products. Part of the due diligence required when purchasing an insolvent company is to ensure all their debts...

Yes, yes, and if you hang around the messageboards at http://www.mutantsandmasterminds.com/ you should find links to all sorts of conversions. As Crothian notes, that would be Freedom City, which is a relatively silver age-y fictional city with some fairly obvious Marvel and DC influences...

... it means you're gaming with somebody who hasn't played nearly enough high level D&D, or Champions. Arithmetic isn't some magical gift, it's a learned skill that improves with practice. And it's not too hard to get that practice in if you play the character from 1st level on. I can see the...