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Yeah, 13th Age's fighter and bard have what are referred to as "flexible attacks," where the abilities you can use are determined by whether your attack roll came up odd or even. It's worth noting that this approach was generally hated, and the 13A fighter was frequently called a letdown even...

I guarantee if he did, it would be flooded within hours by people who wanted to insist that 4E was bad and wrong and the worst thing to ever happen to D&D.

Just passed 55 and I'm still thrilled there are so many games out there to try. I have some nostalgic fondness for the games I used to play back in the day but I have no desire to ever go back to them when the newer stuff suits me so much better. Getting older doesn't mean you have to get...

Try "In the Barn," the story he did for Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions, set in a world where women are not sentient and raised and treated like cattle. Or his early novels Chthon and Phthor, where there's a species of alien women whose brains are wired to treat hatred and abuse as affection...

I remember playing this, but it was published as House of Hades in the U.S., since I guess the publishers thought "Hell" was a little too stiff to put in the kids' section of bookstores.

Having someone in the party trained in Medicine and either the Battle Medicine or Ward Medic feats (or both) is really useful for recovering HP between fights, because it's always best to go into a fight healthy as possible.

Also getting Sebastien de Castell's name wrong. (His Spellslinger and Greatcoats series are well worth reading, by the way.)

The infamous D&D woodburning kit came out in 1983, a year before Williams was hired at TSR and two years before she bought out the Blumes and took over.

I don't recall, but it was likely Villains and Vigilantes or Gamma World.

Don't forget the bit about dealing with problematic players by having them get attacked by invisible ethereal mummies or hit by lightning bolts out of nowhere.

Pixies were an official player option in 4E, although they came along pretty late, in the Heroes of the Feywild book.

Since it comes up a lot (A LOT), I will also note that the dictum to "be a fan of the characters" does not mean simply handing the players wins with no effort. My favorite example is Spider-Man. If you're a fan of Spidey, you're going to want to see him in stories where he's stressing out over...

Giant Corporate-Owned Comics Superhero Roleplaying is a Cortex Prime hack that recreates MHR without the Marvel intellectual property; however, it's not a complete game in itself. You need the Cortex Prime rules.

That's basically Icons, which traces its DNA to both FASERIP and Fate. Along with Cortex/MHR, it's one of my favorite supers RPGs.

13th Age usually calls that type of monster a Wrecker.

Started with Holmes Basic, played lots of 1e/2e/3e back in the day, but if I had to play only one edition it'd be 4e. I have zero interest in going back to older editions other than maybe for a one-off nostalgia game.

Based on the playtest beta, monster layout hasn't changed.

I'm a Tom & Jerry, Super Friends, and Looney Tunes kid.

I first quit D&D in the early 2000s after it became apparent to me that 3.5 was broken and unmanageable; there were just too many overpowered spells and it was too easy for casters to dominate the game. I was skeptical of 4E at first but when I tried it, I found it was exactly what I wanted...

No weirder than the Forgotten Realms -- and a hell of a lot less weirder than places like Tekumel or Jorune, I'd say.