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Hey, just a quick update on my entry, or possible lack of one. I had to take my wife to the ER today, she woke up with severe pain. Turns out to be a large kidney stone. We spent all day at the hospital and she's back home on pain meds. I got the ingredients late Sunday and made some notes...

Savage Worlds with Zombie Run or John Wick's Shotgun Diaries (18 page zombie apocalypse complete system on RPGnow for $5)

For what it's worth, Hussar, I've just seen this thread, read it, and agree with you pretty much completely, and identify with the elf problem. Have some xp to soothe your head bruises from banging against a wall for 11 pages. :) Edit: You must spread some XP around before giving it Hussar...

Timing works fine for me. I won't be around much Sunday evening, but Monday's pretty open and I'll still have some time on Tuesday for spit and polish if needed.

I'd take all the dollars I made selling the books, put them in a stripper purse, and find my parents and tell them to wait a few years and invest all that money in my name in Microsoft stock.

How about the words 'troll rage'? Cause I got this adventure about troll barbarians... But seriously, AllisterH is right. There is a big difference between what a game company can outright "authorize", while still defending their IP, and what they are fine with but can't give the weight of...

None. There really is 'nothing to see here'. Post your content, have fun with it, if WotC someday sends you a C&D you might have to take it down. It's not like the thought police will show up at your residence and whisk you off to some secret gulag.

I agree completely. Every move they make is interpreted by some to be the dastardly machinations of an evil empire and nothing will make them think otherwise. But it's hard, from an objective standpoint, to call the 4e launch a "fiasco". The launch was hugely successful, their marketing...

I don't much care for the swordmage myself, I meant a multiclass version. You can be a fighter/wizard from 1st level, long as you take the feat, power swaps over your career get you a split of about 2/3 fighter - 1/3 wizard, more like 50/50 if you take a wizard paragon path or paragon...

All editions but one, it was the same classes - dwarf fighters (or just dwarves in the old days), human wizards, and fighter/wizards (elves in the old days). The exception was 3e, as fighters sucked, and that edition never did fighter/wizard well. You couldn't start as one and the caster level...

Time for the poor man's wizard, the sorcerer, to make his exit.

Absolutely. And if the players feel that the DM is cheating and setting arbitrary numbers designed to thwart their strengths, they may well get offended by that. If a player cleverly and carefully designs his PC to have a to-hit number 4 higher than normal for his level, but then you...

Professional poker player. Clearly an 'other'.

How else would you interpret BryonDs comment? It is indefensible as innocent, honest criticism. And that's before you consider that every post of his is an attack against 4e players with his signature or his own posting history. "I don't like the power structure of 4e, feels too gamey to me"...

The big reason creating NPCs in 4e is easier is because NPCs and monsters are not built with the same mechanics as PCs. It was an experiment of 3e to build all monsters and NPCs with the same rules of creation and advancement as PCs. It was not a part of the game before 3e, and was not...

I've never bought this idea that 3e character creation is so free and wonderful. I always found it confining, and confounding. I HATED making characters in 3e. It's as Cadfan describes it, a ridiculous level of jumping through hoops to meet prereqs and twisting and contorting mechanics into...

The cornerstone of Buddhism is a response to the suffering that is at the heart of the human condition. The Four Noble Truths are: 1. All of life is suffering 2. Attachment is the root of suffering 3. Detachment is the means to end suffering 4. This is the Way (the Eightfold Path) Sects...

I think the key is to ignore specificity. Just because the older module says there are 3 orcs in room 1b, does not mean the story requires 3 orcs to be in room 1b. Look at the older module in general ways, the general story, the general encounter layout, and look to how you can bring that over...

It occured to me one day that even after two years in one campaign, I could not picture the PCs, what they looked like. I knew their names, had in depth knowledge of their personalities, habits, foibles, etc., knew some of their gear, their stats, but I couldn't close my eyes and picture any...

Well, I find preparing makes winging it a lot better. I always do this. For example, for my Savaged Firefly game, I have some generic stat blocks in my GM notebook, too. Along with a sheet of random NPC names and quirks, a system by which I can improv trouble on the ship (Reavers to...