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I'm also confused, Scoundrel sounds a lot better than some of the names they come out with

I bought it for the princely sum of £6 from a shop called Booksale, surreally they upped the price to £10 the following week. It's certainly playable, and I've been playing with Fiancee's nephew (7yrs), and he's been enjoying it. For a good sorta review, they've got a recording of it being...

Usually not labelled, but only 'cause I've never thought about it. Also "Potatoes spread to the rest of the world after European contact with the Americas in the late 1400s and early 1500s" So it's not such a given really - not that D&D has much in common to any period of history.

I don't think I would force a character to do something, I'd use tools to strongly encourage it though. As Spycraft (2.0) is my game of choice, I'd allow a character to spend an Action Dice to refuse the action (no roll required) In other games with no such mechanic (i.e. standard D&D), I'd...

I like prestidigitation, but I can't motivate my players to use 0th level spells, except for the occaisional cure minor wounds, and they even tend to overlook that for any other healing available. Next game I start I plan on allowing free access to cantrips once a caster can access 2nd level...

Okay, a reaction like that has instantly put me off buying anything.

My daughter's still a bit too young for this (err, she's 3 months), but I've been slowly converting my 7 year old nephew. I've been going for a tack of boardgames getting increasing more RPGy. So we started out on the D&D boardgame (since it only cost £5 from a discount shop) and now we're...

IIRC correctly, in M&M the conversion to hit points was as simple as 1 point of toughness save = 3 hp (or maybe 5, as long as you're consistent it doesn't really matter). The same applies for damage.

Just out of curiousity what is meant by this statement? I've not looked at much 3rd party d20 modern stuff, so maybe it's obvious.

I like rulesets that allow me to be truly heroic, Exalted, Spycraft 2.0, Falkenstein and so on. I don't like having to do stuff that doesn't happen in books/films - such as checking for traps on every door.

It's just nice to remind people that vanilla ain't plain. Though plain is nice (essentially frozen cream). So Vanilla ain't plain, and plain doesn't mean boring (neither does vanilla)

Magic is great fun - provided you don't take it too seriously. If it's just you and your friends you can buy a deck, trade a couple of cards between you to tweak a little and play for quite a while, when you fancy something a bit different buy some more cards and mix them up a bit. Magic was...

I like dwarves, but I'm not keen on how they're portrayed. I don't like this whole crazy berzerker stereotype. My dwarves are the calm in the storm, when everything is going crazy around you, you can count on the dwarf to be a pillar of stability - unfazable, methodical, patient and difficult to...

Personally, if a player started walking around with a 10' pole, I'd get antagonistic with them. But in as many narrow windy corridors with low ceilings - require skill checks to get the thing around them. Use traps with a 20'+ radius and generally do all I can to convince them that the bloody...

As of late I've been inclined to ban most stuff. Either PHB, or PHB and setting books (for Iron Kingdoms). If someone brings something that they really want to use I'll consider it, if it says mongoose publishing on it, I usually just say no - as that stuff tends to be so far out of whack I...

Our local ice-cream place does both plain and vanilla ice-cream. And I actually prefer Plain. In D&D I tend to prefer playing a core character. I like playing the common man - the farm-boy who serves in the militia and becomes a fighter. Or the street-urchin who grows into a rogue through his...

I was planning a campaign setting based around this sort of principle. It was an old world where everything had been pretty much tamed and the various creatures of D&D had filled niches in the civilised world.

Hmm, for some reason I misinterpreted that rule when I used to play - I assumed mundane object was something not particularly useful - something like sunglasses, a zippo lighter, a can of hairspray etc. EDIT: Besides which the whole paragraph about this was a tangeant anyway - I think the d20...

The spycraft gear system is quite tied in, i.e. your two gear progressions Wealth and Gear are tied into which class you are - that said if you're aware of this you can compensate. Personally I have no problem with with Spycraft Gear, I view it like Firefly - you have a few things that you...

I second that, personally I was really impressed with d20 modern coming up with ideas to replace D&D and make FantasyModern (which is essentially what Grim Tales did). But then I played a couple of games of Spycraft and realised how much better it was. With SC2 now, its pushed the bar just that...