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Welcome to EnWorld Chris! You guys are doing an awesome job with the podcast :). Keep it up!

I did this in a Dark Sun game some years back. I took one of the plot hooks from the back of City State of Tyr (Night on Traders Way, iirc) and ran it as if it were a Scooby Doo episode. It was great fun and the players didn't catch on until the very end, when the corrupt templar was dragged...

These are from my Mage: the Ascension chronicle, not D&D, but thankfully players saying daft things transcends system boundaries :D : "Well, what's wrong with a small nuclear reaction?" "Yeah, I think we're gonna win and we don't need much of a plan!" "If you don't have Paradox, you're doing...

In my games, the torus on which Sigil sits is itself an ancient being of this type, akin to a dragon sleeping with its tail in its mouth. The City of Doors was built atop the creature's sleeping body, taking advantage of the portals that the dragon dreams into being. Game lore states that "the...

Bizarre. OR... awesome! Sometimes I don't even tell them what game we're playing. We had this kick-ass game the other week where half the group thought they were tackling the Tomb of Horrors. Turned out we were playing the Willow boardgame. Ha! That showed them!

Always. My players don't know their characters' hit points, so all the numbers are kept behind the screen and they get a narrative representation of what's going on.

I recently joined Forsaken Studios, an indie games studio. We're making a sandbox MMO called Embers of Caerus and we just launched our Kickstarter to raise funds for our prototype, which we'll be showing to investors to secure serious funding. Please swing by our Kickstarter page or our website...

My laptop has begun to die. Hard drive failures reported, and thus the end is nigh. While I consider repair, I am also considering a replacement. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5472z (P6100, 6gb ram, 640gb hd) and I have been very happy with it indeed. Well, up until today. I am looking at the...

Yeah, that's absolutely what it was. From a story perspective, I loved that touch. I thought it was a great twist that Rick and co were doomed to be attacked by the herd one way or the other and had little say in the matter, days if not weeks before they ever arrived at the farm. The wheels...

I played a fair bit of Torg back in the day - its rules were a precursor to Masterbook. Torg used a d20 instead of 2d10, but many of the concepts and rules were the same. I found it a spectacularly enjoyable game. Once you understood the basic system, you almost never need to refer to the...

So long as he converts them into Explosion Dogs afterwards, he gets my full support! :)

It's right at the end of the Knights of the Nine questline - Umaril the Unfeathered, iirc. You get it automatically as part of that questline.

Yeah, pretty much everything from Planescape: Torment. Even now years, later, it's hard to find a better rpg. The painting and assassination missions from Oblivion were great as well. So was the one where you infiltrate the Imperial Palace to steal one of the Elder Scrolls using those awesome...

Well, now that we've given you some suggestions, would you like to tell us your preferences so that we can give more precise answers? Or is it still a secret ? :p Another great game to check out would be Bioshock (and its sequel). Really brilliant environment, frightening antagonists and a...

Oh hell yeah, Mass Effect! Great stuff. have yet to play the second one, but Mass Effect 1 was brilliant. A bit slow to get going, and with a few too many side-quests, I think. But the last few hours of gameplay are sheer genius. The end sequences leading up to the finale are better than...

What kind of games do you like? That would help with finding some recommendations... Just off the top of my head, though... For shooters, I can't really agree with the praise given to Halo. I found the Halo games to have moments of genius interspersed with long stretches of suck. I prefer...

I wouldn't do it either, myself. But the option is there all the same. It becomes less sketchy if you don't have any payment methods attached to your gamertag (such as if you redeem store-bought code-cards to get your MSpoints) but you're still liable to be banned if your friend does something...

The Xbox360 licensing system isn't completely restrictive - you can effectively lend licenses in a limited fashion. Their system works like this: When you purchase DLC, it is licensed to you in two ways: 1) You download it onto the console on which you purchased it. At that point, anyone...

Excellent. I love the way that "pit" is used as a verb :D I will have to be sure to pit a few characters next session. I used to write up modules like this as well. However I threw out pretty much everything from my first year of gaming when I moved onto AD&D after and year of Basic and...

I'm not overly fond of Brit, to be honest, but that's because I consider myself English. I don't find it offensive, though. My gf (who was born in England but all her family are from Belfast) considers herself British as opposed to English and my niece (whose mum is English and dad is...