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Good to hear that so far this had had a happy ending. It's long been my contention that the reason that RPG's are not more popular is that all it takes is one bad experience - especially one bad GM in a visible public place, like a mall store - to turn someone off RPing forever, or make it years...

I've met quite a number; I AM one who has done that. The idea is that it shouldn't be a restriction, esp. just to pander to spell icons. I was hoping that, at last, 5.0 might have generic damage and allow us to skin it as a specific energy type using feats or something similar but alas...

We usually expected it as such. I suppose you could have said 'I worship nothing', at which point the GM would most likely have said. "Cool. BTW clerical healing or restoration doesn't work on you". (We also ignored that silly 'spells of third level and under come from the cleric, not the deity'...

It's hard, indeed. I only met MZB once and thought the discussion she led on writing was very well done; I've also enjoyed many of her books, and have every issue of the magazine she edited. It was really hard to hear about these allegations and even harder to hear that many people in the SF and...

I would also suggest eaieducation.com The 150 dice set used to be $19.95; they may run specials or sales to get it down to that price again.

Amazon, mostly. Our local game store isn't really anything to write home about, plus they actually mark some things up from MSRP. They're rude, have harassed a couple of my female players, and they basically exist so the owner and his friends have a playspace. If I had a nice FLGS where I hung...

As far as I know, there's only the one: Mazes and Monsters. And soon: Dark Dungeons. There are a bare handful where you see characters playing D&D or something like it; ET is probably the most famous.

I wondered when we'd finally get a 'The art direction sucks/rules' set of posts, given the huge controversies in 3E's early days about the 'dungeonpunk' art style and poor Hennet's questionable sartorial tastes. So far as I can see, the art direction is very much back to the 'more classic' lines...

I've done this for several movies in the past, but since I get up so early it's dropped off to almost nothing in recent years. Thankfully, we have theaters that will sometimes have a 7pm or 9pm showing of a movie on a Thursday, as well as a midnight showing.

The more I read about this movie, the more it seems like a miss. When one of the main cast tweets that 'they're just making stuff up' on the fly, the director repeatedly states he wants something 'grounded', and also denies he ever made a superhero movie (Chronicle), as if that were some kind of...

All other things being equal, all non-PHB material is on a case-by-case basis unless I have something very specific in mind or someone makes a very convincing arguement. I will not be having Dragonborn in any new D&D game because I don't think they are very thematic, and I hate 'monster races'...

That's why I read the line 'In life, as in war, etc' as 'Might makes right'. The strong crush the weak under them to get what they want, as the strong crush the weak in warfare. Thus, evil.

Truly iconic characters are very rare. After you get past Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Spider-Man, the field becomes very, very thin.

I don't think there has ever been one, because the first thing people will do is make 'instantly-shut-down-the-wizard' arrows with it. Having it as an extra-planar material is sensible, since you can then say that it loses this property when off it's home plane. About the closest thing I can...

I was looking at the ideals, flaws and such that were appended with the various alignment tags as defining your alignment at the same time since your personality directly influences your alignment and visa-verse (as in, if your alignment is forcibly changed through a magic item, for example...

It's setting material. It's as compatible as you want it to be. Only once they delve off into the Rebellion stuff does it start to conflict, but the Rebellion was pretty much the end of anyone's involvement with GDW anyway so there's not too much of it.

I would recommend finding as many Digest Group MegaTraveller publications, adventures or sourcebooks as you can - 90% of Traveller is the setting, and they defined, re-defined, or nailed-down almost everything decent and fun regarding the Traveller setting. Their sourcebooks are fun...

Shy people are slow to warm up to other people, and situations where they may encounter a lot of strangers. "I don't want to go to the masked ball, there will be a lot of people there I do not know." Curious people are mostly curious about things and situations. "I have to know what's in that...

Right now I'm reading The Barrow, by Mark Smylie. (He is also the writer and artist behind the Artesia series, and The Barrow is set in that same world). I'm just a little ways into it, but so far it's pretty awesome. The prologue alone should be used as the fiction piece in a D&D book (part of...