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My Combat Pad is so old it predates Paizo buying it from Open Mind Games. I ordered magnetic strips in various colors, so (1) PCs, bad guys, NPCs, spells, and "events" are more distinguishable in the init order, and (2) I could write on them with permanent marker. (So I have "Bad Guy 1"...

I like every change made by Pathfinder to the 3.5 rules, with the following almost insignificant exceptions: (1) The overdone power-up of the rogue. Hit points, skill points, skill consolidation, talents, increased damage, sneak attack almost everything ... the rogue made out like a bandit...

... You make a good point. Jeff P.S. I love hospitals! "No, you don't! You love Taco Bell!"

Even then it's been difficult. I consider my players to be all of the above, but they still ask me things like, "Is there a manhole cover nearby that I can grab and chuck at the guy?" (I run M&M.) I've been very explicit that not only can they take the lead in narration, but that I think it...

Sounds like Age of Worms to me. If so: There is a massive (and IMO pretty cool) equalizer for the heroes built into the Adventure Path. As a player, I enjoyed it a lot.

My tastes have changed considerably. As a kid, I wanted "realism." As a late-teenager into my early 20s, I added "complexity." I slowly dialed back on my desire for complexity and similarly my preference for realism morphed into satisfaction with verisimilitude. These changes resulted in...

Great video session. I posted the link on my Facebook page, in hopes that my nerd-curious friends will give it a goggle. Somebody wanna tap the OP for me with some XP? Apparently I did so too recently, although I have no recollection of it.

My screen name is the name of the character I play. Everywhere.

FRP Games has it for $52, but shipping will eat into that savings, I imagine.

It's worst for me when I'm the DM. As a player, I feel a pang when I lose a PC I'm enjoying, or when someone else loses a PC they're enjoying. But as a DM, it's more of a loss. It's not exactly because of the PITA of bringing in another PC, but rather a recognition of the loss of all of my...

I, personally, am fairly terrible at it. But the huge -- and frankly, I would have thought obvious -- difference is that NPCs rarely have, are expected to have, or realistically can have the depth of characterization a player should be bringing to a PC. Frankly, almost all -- and I mean almost...

Do you understand why I'm amused, though? The way I see it, there are two possibilities: (1) The male player accentuates the female gender of his PC, in whatever subtle or not-so-subtle way, so that people know he's playing a female. (2) The male player plays no difference in the PC. In the...

Just to make sure I'm enjoying this properly ... Some people are arguing, "Whether the PC is a man or a woman makes no difference, so of course DMs must allow cross-gender PCs!" And other people are arguing, "Whether the PC is male or female is so important in many ways, so of course DMs must...

Mirror. (Or other optic solutions, like a focused prism.)

Nor have I, but I just don't even care. I disallow all sorts of character concepts -- and so does every other decent GM out there -- and yet an infinite number of character concepts remain. "I can't play a psychotic loner who has no real reason to stay with the group?" No, you can't. "I...

No. Sometimes. That's true for "all their character" for some authors. I do think it's more difficult for most or all authors -- in novels, where there's time for deep characterization -- to create and portray cross-gender characters. Creepy? No? Believable? No, but it has nothing to do...

Intellectually I love RuneQuest's system (it's called Basic Roleplaying now?), but the truth is that the "level-up" gives the jolt of progress and significantly increased power that helps keeps me (and most people, I think) coming back to the table. In-between systems, usually using points...

I tend to create PCs who are just slightly too dysfunctional, emotionally, to sustain a romance. It's vaguely possible that I do that as an unconscious choice, simply to avoid it, but I don't think so: I don't have anything against the concept of romance in RPGs, and have done it a few times...

Negative? Not at all. I loved my MUDding days. (It might be accurate to speculate that MUDs are why I'm anti-MMORPG, though.) No, there's really no association, and I believe I'm being objective. (It was both, BTW ... at first they assumed, and then when they asked I lied, and by the time I...

Deadlands (first edition). I loved the setting, and liked the mechanics and gimmicks okay (though the designer's understanding of probability was weak). Just never got around to playing it. Other RPGs on my bookshelves that I never played (unless noted otherwise, I liked these on reading)...