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Um, no. D&D Next does not get any kind of pass based on "loyalty to the D&D brand" or anysuch nonsense. This kind of poppycock drives me nuts. The product should be evaluated on its own merits. Specific to your questions: 1. If I'm not playing D&D Next, I'll be indifferent to it. I'll be...

Thanks, folks. Several of these ideas helped make things "click" for me. I think in the past, I expected the players to be more proactive than reactive, and built adventures around that assumption. That's fine, and works very well in Fantasy RPGs where players may have limited...

Great movie! Finally an accurate portrayal of Bane as a character. A spectacular finale to a trilogy that understood that the best Batman stories aren't about focusing on Batman exclusively, but that it's the characters and their inter-personal dynamics with each other that are an equal share...

Mainly I'm talking about the detailed setting locales & set-pieces. The reference to the scripted nature of the medium mean that in a movie/comic/game, whatever... if I want to have a car chase or a battle at a particular location, I've found it more difficult to ensure the characters arrive at...

Mutants & Masterminds, 3e. Combat is fast and the system allows you to build just about anything. And I mean, anything. You can look at the Roll Call forum on the atomicthinktank.com forums and find everything from statblocks for movie & TV characters to video game characters. Oh, and...

Hi, all. The vast majority of my time as a RPG GM has been spent running various FRPGs. I’ve utilized various adventure formats over the years, from sandbox to plot-on-rails, but my most successful adventures and campaigns have followed the format of specific NPCs & monsters for setting the...

Gotcha. Good point. I'm in the "Wish them well but we'll see how it goes" camp myself. At present, I'm not sure I need a VTT. However, at least on paper, I like the approach Paizo is taking.

Given the uproar on this board over the D&D VTT getting axed and the fact that some folks apparently were only interested in paying for DDI to get the VTT, your little reminder is hilarious. We'll see what, if anything, comes from the Paizo announcement. But this is the wrong topic in which to...

A couple of years ago, I posted about my successful endeavors to introduce my kids (Ages 5 & 10 at the time) to table-top RPGs. That first step was a rousing success, resulting in multiple ongoing Pathfinder campaigns and a toe in the water with the beginnings of a Mutants & Masterminds 3e...

Note: This is not a commentary about gay characters in comic books. I have zero problem if a character is created & written as a gay character. This is a commentary about retcons, cheap publicity stunts, and corporate stupidity. So Alan Scott, the original non-Green Lantern Corps, Green Lantern...

As a sidenote, the best use of 3D I've seen since Avatar was Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides. Pretty much the entire movie has well-done 3D elements to it. As for this tacked-on, afterthought 3D approach, I wish studios would drop it all together.

Wow! This'll take some time for me to go through & digest, but very interesting stuff!

Either you saw a different movie than I did or you were in a theater with audio issues. I don't know what mumbling you're talking about. I understood every word Ruffalo said in the film. I also disagree with you about Chris Evans as cap, but it's pretty evident from your discriptions that...

1. Because if the characters are done well, they're interesting enough for fans to want to continue watching/reading about the characters. Question for you - do you only run a character once in a RPG and create a new character every session? If not, why not? Same idea. 2. Because often...

Gah! Black Panther was the one I was trying to remember! He's a favorite of mine and my kids.

Additionally, there's the element of villain character development to consider. In the comics, Loki was the Avengers first opponent. Loki was established in Thor. Moving forward, they'll likely not have that advantage. The villain characters will need to be established as well. In most...

So audiences want new stuff, but need to see the same old stuff (superhero vs. superhero)? Which is it? And no, intros in other films don't address it. If the Avenger roster doubles, you can't provide a balance of story/screen time to each character. Avengers already clocks in at 2.5 hours...

An Avengers sequel needs to learn from the X-men movies mistakes and avoid "insert new character here" syndrome. The movie established the team. Let that be the team. The more characters that are introduced, the harder it gets to provide adequate story/screen time for each character (see...

Watered down? The guy was used as a rag doll and the floor yielded to his body. Yeah, he felt the punch, maybe some bruising, but the guy was talking and walking later. The SHOCK of being attacked in that matter took the fight out of him as much as the pounding did. If anything, I liked the...

Sorry if this is dumb question, but I take it that Slumbering Tsar has evolved beyond its origin as a prequel to Rappan Athuk? I'm trying to reconcile a product that takes you to level 20 as a prequel to anything... :confused: Thanks!