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Simple: form and function. Netbooks fail to meet the needs that I have. An iPad looked like it would, so I bought one. So far, it's satified my needs, exceeded my expectations, and is actually quite useful for my purposes. For anything major, I've still got my desktop machine. It's all about...

I'll grant without reserve that current pdfs are not an ideal approach to the digital approach. Given what most gamers are demanding their rpgs behave as (instruction manual and art book) there's not much choice though. Producing 2 entirely different versions isn't practical. I believe most...

I don't tend to use one, but MapTool is likely the one I'd use if I were on a full computer. I just bought "Battle Map" for my iPad: Razeware | iPhone and iPad Apps for Gamers | Battle Map A bit pricey for an app (especially with the exchange rate) but it's got a fair amount of functionality...

Near future? No. Gamers have too many excuses for why they "can't stand" digital products. Since there's an option, the majority of them are going to stick with what they have, rather than moving on to a new format completely. The demand that rpg books be half coffee-table art book, half...

I don't play 4e and have little interest in playing it. What everyone seems to like about the game as a player, I've got no real interest in. I do run a 4e game. It's been fine so far. I will not be picking up Essentials based on what I've heard so far. I just don't see that it's bringing...

No, I put that note in for a couple of reasons. 1. I'm still learning the rules and don't have all the errata memorized. 2. WotC loves making rules like "forced movement doesn't provoke OAs" and then making some class that can or providing some feat that lets you. Since I don't own all the...

I guess I have to ask, what's the point? One reason for going mini-less is because of a desire not to deal with all the fiddly bits of miniatures. This approach certainly doesn't seem like it's going to be _less_ fiddly, there's just a bunch of additional stuff to keep track of. I mean, it...

That's the theory. Of course it means that if someone wants to play the more complicated class but doesn't want to play the extra resource management game, then they're left out in the cold. Yes it's classic and always been that way. It used to be the wizard was the more complicated one. Moving...

I haven't really followed Essentials news and hearing that their class-design is going back to the old way of varying complexity kills it for me. It also bothers me that it sounds like regardless of what happens with the Essentials line, classes are just going to be that way period. One of the...

I ran the BESM d20 system for about a year; specifically the version of BESM d20 used for a game called "Everstone: The Bloodstone Legacy". It is hands-down my favorite version of d20. It's not _perfect_ but it does an awful lot of what I want. If I had to do a one sentence summary of Everstone...

One thing about doing a dice tower type thing is noise. It's going to make a horroriffic racket the way you've got it set up. Apply some green felt material (or anything else relatively smooth but sound deadening) to the parts where the dice hit as well as where the dice are landing. For your...

I post from your future (New Zealand being way ahead of most of you), so I'm automatically awesome. And if that wasn't awesome enough, just watch the LotR movies again; yeah, I live in middle earth. How's the future look? Not too bad. I can even give you a head's up on a couple of things to...

The Fluid4e link is a pretty good one. It seems a little involved for my own personal tastes, but I think it's got bits that can be incorporated if you want. Taken from a post I made elsewhere is how I'm going to handle it: I don't know about here, but I know there seems in general to be a...

Whoops. Thank you and Tequila Sunrise. That's why I came here. :D I see the format I should be using is on page 138 of the DMG 2 with a +1 at levels 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27. Thanks for the suggestion, but I have to admit to being intrigued by the idea of leveraging the Disease track. Thanks...

*sigh* This was better formatted, but the post go eaten and I don't have the patience to go back and do it all over again.... I’ve got a list of houserules I’m planning on using (or thinking of) and I want to do a quick sanity check before I make them official in the game. The upcoming session...

Well, you can read the rules for yourself. They're included in the d20 Modern SRD. You can find it here: d20 ModernSystem Reference Document One thing I know a number of folks don't like is that mecha add to the operator's stats. So there's an extra pile of Hit Points added to the character for...

I've seen some pretty hardcore people that had zero interest in running games. And then there's me who's really casual and happy to run a game, although in the case of D&D it's not going to be strictly Rules as Written. I don't think it has anything to do with "casual" vs "hardcore", simply...

Rifts d20... yeah, this has come up more than a few times over the past 10 years. So a lot of folks will talk about how it's hard to do a conversion because Palladium is so rabid. *shrug* Palladium's approach to things doesn't make it _easier_ I grant, but that's not really the problem. The...

I'd dig seeing a revision as well. I've got both the GT books and a couple of the pdfs as well; it'd be interesting to see what changes you've made (or would make) in light of the time that's passed, greater experience, and of course Trailblazer.

Looks like you've uploaded the Psionic power sheets twice.