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No. I for one am more than ready to welcome a Joker with nothing whatsoever to do with the Burton/Nicholson version. With Nicholson, I kept expecting him to break down a door with an axe and say, "Here's Johnny!," then run around with a bandage on his nose for half the movie (and maybe taking...

My feelings exactly. I prefer PrCs as setting-specific 'jobs/callings' rather than strings of feats/abilities/crunch. IMC, they provide a limited number of benefits to characters who elect to pursue a course of action/religious calling/pattern of behavior/etc. Lately, I've been converting...

Maybe not; but it does if you want me to look at it. I have d20 Call of Cthulhu and d20 Conan, and several other things that have piqued my interest over the past few years...all of which I picked up solely because they were d20 compatible. The only non-'D&D-ish' system I currently use...

Whereas my group prefers randomness in both. Our current game went 'old school,' in that we not only roll hit points, but character generation was 3d6 arranged in 'character sheet order (1st roll to STR, 2nd roll to DEX, 3rd to CON, etc.),' and character class was decided after we saw what the...

But for others (me, for example), that sort of content would be a major reason for me NOT to sign up. Of course, another would be exclusively 'on-line' material to begin with, because I am only interested in purchasing tangible physical product. I can count the number of pdfs I've ever...

Y'know, I would love to see somebody do a single-volume hardcover 'generic d20 Fantasy' book (similar to the old D&D Rules Cyclopedia) with stripped-down basic rules for players and DMs (jettisoning the miniatures-dependency rules), a short-form "Monster Manual" chapter, and a bare-bones...

I will do so, and will be awaiting any subsequent announcement with bated breath. :) A setting developed by the assembled Paizo group is probably one of the only things that could tear me away from Greyhawk...at least, for a while. ;) Regards, Darrell

Oh, I know; and I won't. "On-line content" is utter garbage as far as I'm concerned, regardless of its quality. Oh, I downloaded the Dungeon on-line enhancements, but only because they were free, and have really done nothing with them other than put 'em onto a CD for 'future reference.' I may...

I tend to run mine using only the 32-page D&D Gazetteer released right after the initial release of 3e, the expanded gods list from Complete Divine, and Dungeon magazine (includin' that big ol' map they released). That's all I've really required for the past several years; but then, I pretty...

Hmmmm... I wasn't going to pick up the Drow book, but if it's going to include a chapter on Erelhei-Cinlu, I may just have to. For me, the real 'must-buy' is the next Dungeon Tiles set. Regards, Darrell

8 years in Gran March/Keoland here; as well as 2 years in a "set in Greyhawk" 'homebrew' island-chain area based on a reversed map of Hawaii. The geographic size of the setting used isn't important. Regards, Darrell

A) D&D does define a character outside of combat abilities. All it means is that in my games, CHA and the 'non-combat' skills and feats see more use than they may in someone else's game. B) Whether you call it 'conflict resolution' or 'task resolution,' it's still rolling dice to see if you...

Often, but not necessarily. I'd also counter-argue that the 'game' is more than the 'rules.' Many aspects of roleplaying, especially those that my players enjoy, can't be quantified by 'rules.' That doesn't make them any less a part of the 'game.' Regards, Darrell

How so? Our group leans a bit toward the 'free-form acting' side, admittedly; but we use the D&D/d20 rules system for task resolution and character definition. I've never heard of any requirement other than that for 'playing D&D.' Regards, Darrell

It might just as easily be said, however, "if you are just going to sit around and roll dice (and that's pretty much all combat or task resolution boils down to), why have a defined character (race, class, etc.) at all? You might as well just hang out with your friends and roll for highest...

In my personal view, any weapon with a bonus greater than, say, +3 and which has more than two 'descriptor words' in it's 'game-mechanic' title qualifies as an uber-item, as do things like staves of the magi and such. Things like +1 to +3 swords or charged wands aren't uber-items, and are fine...

Throw in another voice for the all-too-useful Basic Game Box. Regards, Darrell

In my experience, gaming-wise (which, admittedly, may be an anomaly), those characters aren't 'in the shadow of' the other characters. They've stood on their own and made their own contributions to both the party and the game. The Commoner character became the driving force behind the party...

OK, I kind of see what you mean, and I think that kind of game is silly, too. I just don't handle things that way, and I don't think it's 'inevitable,' either. In my games, that fireball will engulf whoever happens to be in its area of effect, and the big, bad troll will go after whomever is...

Nope, that's the other guy. I believe balance is unnecessary. :) Regards, Darrell