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I'm really digging the new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game.

I never really liked DC much outside of Vertigo, but I am definitely intrigued by the idea of China Miéville writing a superhero book...

Spider-Man himself certainly hasn't been cut off from the rest of the MU, but aside from the whole Norman Osborn thing you could say that most of his rogues gallery is in the "street level" silo (which Spider-Man shares with Daredevil, the Punisher, the old Power Man & Iron Fist, etc.). Which I...

No comments about the aliens? Their design wasn't familiar to me, and I didn't catch the name in the movie. Wiki says they are "Chitauri" which I also don't recognize, but apparently they're the skrulls of the Ultimate universe. Or not. Do the Ultimate aliens look like the ones in the movie...

Ah, I loved the Gold Box games, and the ToEE game. The Bioware games and their derivatives had better stories, and great companions, but I was always fighting against the stupid real-time interface to get my guys to act the way I wanted. I would have loved to see a 4e turn-based game. I was...

I don't know if that really works with the racial power. But then, I suppose you would be reflavoring the racial power as well... There was a 4e dark sun story hour where one of the characters was mechanically a shardmind, but in the game was a human who had been somehow transformed into living...

Well, I dunno if maybe you didn't see a lot of the 2e products, or you're forgetting a lot of the garbage that TSR was shoveling out in those days. The company farmed a lot of work out to freelancers who had no oversight or coordination (or quality control, from the looks of things). Which led...

I'm guessing you weren't around for a lot of AD&D 2e. Hell, even the 1e UA was extensively re-written by errata (that was published in Dragon and that you taped over the original text). And even then it was still a pretty bad product. Not to mention the crappy binding on that one...

Here is the Pathfinder SRD on monsters as player races. They did away with LA and treat monster CR as LA for races with > 1 HD, so it's definitely friendlier to the concept than 3e was.

Learned from the 3.0 PHB, although I was a little confused at first. I thought at first that moving adjacent to someone provoked an attack. The general idea was pretty easy to understand, though.

I'm with Kzach on feeling that Melisandre's seduction of Stannis was a bit rushed (as was the poisoning scene last episode). But my main objection is the "how" of it. A bastard son is not something that would help Stannis, or motivate him to break his vows IMO. If he thought sex with her was the...

PF's skill system, while not my personal ideal, is still leaps and bounds better than 3e's. CMB/CMD replacing the hodge-podge combat modifiers from 3e is also a welcome change. PF's Fighter is actually a decent class, with actual class abilities and better feat support. Some of the other...

I don't think that's really possible within 4e's system. You mention that you're unsure how to weight the dagger's value to a PP, but there's also feats and class features to consider. Rogues get a +1 to hit with a dagger, for example. Fighters can get +1 to hit with different classes of...

Here's a quick example of a point-buy system for weapons: Damage Die (cost) d4 (-3) d6 (-2) d8 (-1) d10 (0) d12 (1) 2d6 (1.25) To-Hit (cost) +2 (0) +3 (1) Skill (cost) Simple (1) Martial (0) Superior (-1) Hands (cost) 1H (0) 2H (-1.25) Range (cost) Melee (0) Ranged (1) Quality (cost) High...

I don't know of any charts, but the 4e items follow a pretty basic formula that only breaks down in a few places. +1 hit, a larger damage die, and most weapon qualities, all have the same cost - let's call it 1. The cost can be offset by lowering the damage die or increasing the weapon's skill...

Welcome! One possible solution is to make the players do that sort of thing for you. Present the situation and ask them how their characters fit into the story. Barring that, the mere presence of powerful drug dealers creates enough basic hooks to get you by. The PCs could be in it to clean up...

I'm inclined to cut him some slack here - he's not a robot, after all, and it would be natural for him to get defensive around the subject of his duel over Cat. But to look at it another way, who says he wasn't being subtle? The topic of the queen's incest is public at that point, so he's not...

Not really.

I have read the books, and thought that scene was good. It was rather shocking to see Littlefinger throw the incest in her face like that. Her response says a lot about her character. Effective only in the short term and crude and a little desperate. I thought the episode was really good. My...

Greenfield is right. It says so right in the template. Lycanthrope :: d20srd.org Level Adjustment Same as the base creature +2 (afflicted) or +3 (natural). In addition, a lycanthrope’s character level is increased by the number of racial Hit Dice the base animal has. As for what the...