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Much more like Mi-Go and their false promises.

Unless he is literally talking about old-school classic literature, lots of fantasy books (esp. those written in the Nineties and beyond) use the D&D tropes these days.

I really love the Bazaar illo and 'The Delver'. Some fine old-school style indeed. (Gug's head and mouth are all wrong) :)

The premiere I'm most looking forward to is The Flash. I watched the first episode and it is just a bundle of awesome. They have some very ambitious plans, and I hope it catches on like Arrow did. I want a decent DC-based show with a real superhero in it. Can't wait for Arrow third season. Mmm.

I was most pleased by something I later read was done entirely on purpose: they do not have Ichabod repeatedly and humorously frustrated by modern technology. Throughout the first season he repeatedly adapts to the modern world as he needs to, learning how to use a cell phone, etc.

Comparing game characters to fictional ones is usually an exercise in futility. Fictional characters have all sorts of advantages that game characters generally do not, first and foremost being 'whatever the writer wants to have happen'. Hawkeye, Cap, Batman, pretty much any modern corporate...

Do we know if they'll actually be better? Liquid promised us the sun and the moon as well, and look how that turned out. An Access database that didn't even do templates. D&D player 38 years and counting

Something that speaks to me personally, mostly, or that works for a societal change I want to see happen. I'll drop in a dollar here and there for random things, but most of my charitable giving comes through our state employees combined contribution thing, where we can choose from several pages...

Nah :) Only because of past events are you not seeing five year old threads reborn to plague the living :) --EDIT-- Ooops, I was wrong.....

I've never played a warlock before, so I made one for my first D&D 5.0 character - we play tomorrow for the first time, so I'm very interested in how this works out. So far, it's an interesting set of implications from your abilities and The Pact. The idea that you always are using the highest...

It got you to post, link, and mention the upcoming movie, didn't it? Mission accomplished.

That's really a player expectation problem than a world-building problem. Unless the players are specifically playing psychopathic amoral murderhobos, then they're going to recognize and respond to civil authority despite their own personal power. In general, it's been my experience that the...

That people keep seeing movies about the power of love, and reading books about farmboys who become famous, would seem to indicate that they don't in fact get tired of the basic story framework - just when it's done poorly.

I do character voices, sometimes, or I'll at least indicate a type of accent they may have. We usually use a grid or tactical map of some kind. We use Heroclix or D&D Minis for PC's, usually some kind of counter or the zombies from the board game 'Zombies' for crowds of NPCs. I try to find...

Never gotten there. I've played since 3-book D&D. Previous to 3E, I never saw a game go past 13th. Our first 3E game lasted until we were 17th. After that, things tended to drop off sharply and end about 12th to 13th, when the system started to break down.

Yep. I've literally sat down, explained the campaign structure, then had people fixate on character ideas so antithetical to that structure that I've abandoned running it before the first pencil hit paper.

It'll be interesting to see what the suggested demographics in the DMG will be like. I'd prefer to look at magical healing as a fairly rare thing, as the Cleric writeup certainly implies that empowered clerics are rare things. I like rare magical healing because it ups the drama factor. Heck...

Once you have a group of very high level magi who are friends and allies of each other, it becomes pretty difficult not to. Discounting Elminster, you still have The Simbul and her six other sisters, and Khelben and his network of people. The Tarrasque is a even-level encounter for at least two...

How interesting you mention that. King's Quest V drove me away from video games for over ten years, except for Civilization and SimCity. The next video game I picked up was Chrono Cross.

As would almost anyone. I think the 'softening' of both tabletop RPGs and computer RPGs have done a huge service to both hobbies by vastly increasing the number of people that stick with them. Certainly there is some degree of pride in beating a 'Nintendo-hard' game, but you can bet such things...