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http://www.mcdojo.com/ Make sure you read some stuff about the nature of martial arts and make the distinction between knowing martial arts and knowing how to defend yourself. They're not always related... Having a black belt in some martial art doesn't necessarily mean that you know how to...

Schilling also wrote a review of Planes of Power for Electronic Gaming Monthly. I can't remember which one, however, :cool: - Rep.

Hey all, I'd have to agree with zouron in my advocation for a more free-form method of playing this theoretical 4th IR. I have one simple reason for this. To me, the first IR was much more about the value of the ideals presented in relation to what the Industrial Revolution brought in terms of...

Yes, but I meant that it was substantially less work to play in the IRs than it must have been to run an IR. :D - Rep.

Hey Edena, I'd like to thank you for those kind words you've already said about the way I played Iain Payne during the first and second IRs. They really made my day when I read them, so thanks! :) I've always wanted to run a Kalamar Industrial Revolution, but I've never known if anyone was...

Just for the record, I believe that being an artist is a real job if you approach it from a fundamentally economic standpoint. Jobs are about livelihood. From all of that comes things like quality, and reliability. But, of course, I approach jobs as a "work to live" game rather than a "live to...

Once an artist decides to sell his or her work on the open market that art is now (or at least should be) subject to market forces. As many have stated or agreed with, part of the trouble with art is that it's value is fairly subjective after we figure in the cost of labour and materials...

The only named swords that I've used so far are both for magical rapiers: the first one was owned by Mischa, the leader of a Halfling/Goblin mafia called Moira after his departed wife; and the second is Whistler, named for the sound it makes when it's used in combat. Whistler is owned by a bored...

Hey Edena, After seeing your thread in the General Discussion form, I thought I'd drop by here and send you my regards. Welcome back, and may you stay for as long as you wish, :cool: - Rep.

Welcome Back! Hey Edena, Another excellent post on your part. To be honest, I've not much to say because it seems to have been said before I even got here. :) So, I'll keep it short. I agree with whomever said that heroism is an issue of player and character, rather than system, but at...

Female Names A lot my female NPCs' names usually end with the letter "a" in some way, shape or form. Jaena, Vanazha, Atayla... etc. I sometimes find it hard to get away from that... I've been aware of it for a while, so I've been trying to use a different form. - Rep.

At the same time, I don't think anything he suggested was in any way malevolent. I can actually see an overconfident fighter-type villain doing this... To put in crude terms, I don't think the DM is screwing over the Players as much as the Villain is screwing with the Characters. It seemed to...

Hmm... I think I understand what you mean, but assuming that Kyrel is an NPC, would it not be faulty to assume that Xarlen implicitly believes what his NPC implicitly believes? Though I lack any level of direct understanding of the situation, it seems that it wasn't Xarlen who wondered if the...

Oh, okay. Yeah, I was talking from a more "this is what I think it might be in a lot of other groups" rather than "what is happening in my/your group in particular." Of course, it assumes a lot of things. But in order to make any theory in a social situation, one really needs to make some...

I think that part of the reason that this can be (or usually is) an awkward issue is because a large number of groups are populated by guys. In the end, however, it seems that it really comes down to each individual member of the group and how they collectively react to such situations. It may...

Sparse set of notes, andI refer to them during play, but... ... I find that I create the minor and major NPCs fairly extensively. I try to avoid the 3E stat block because I don't like it all that much. Basically, I try to hang any and all adventures of my creation on characters and their...

Also, a lot of players seem to be unable to articulate what it is that they liked and disliked about any given campaign. Personally, I find that a significant stint as a DM really helps in that department. Still, for those players who will probably never take a seat in the DM's chair, it seems...

A Nuclear Reprisal Inbound From Outerspace... Long ago, back when I was still in Secondary School, I used the name "Catalyst" and later "Catalyst001" until such a time that I discovered that the name was quite numerous in the places that I inhabited. Plus, hehe, I never really liked being...

Elusive Player Input I think it really matters what form of player input that we're talking about... I can't remember how many times that I've tried to extract some form of feeback from the players. While it's not exactly an interrogation session -- far from it, I would think -- I find it...

D20 Modern - Spycraft Unlike myself, however, who lacks Spycraft but surprisingly owns a copy of D20 Modern. :rolleyes: :D :p :cool: Translating Ground Control is still somewhat difficult, I'm not sure what to do exactly with aircraft rules. Not to mention the powered armour used by the...