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I would be interested to see if they pull the $5K buy-in. AFAIK, the 5K wasn't there to make WotC any money ... it was there specifically to keep small-press publishers from producing lots of product. I imagine they'll push the dates out. I've always seen it as a move specifically...

Hrm. I generally predict that people will, over time, eventually be producing OGL-based games that are widely compatible with 4E D&D. Essentially for the same reasons that the OGL was created in the first place ... you can copyright the words but you can't really lock down the rules. A "Daily...

The way I played it was: 4 is 4-6 5 is 5-6 6 is 6 Roll 1d6 at the beginning of creature's action. If it comes up a 6, everything is recharged at once. Monster acts. Etc. The group found it interesting. I was hamming it up a little when I ran, saying things like: "You get the feeling...

Similar reactions. Ran this last night. Only four players and my wife was the only person that played WoW. She really took to the class roles. One guy took a while to "get" it, but after playing it seemed to dawn on him what it was about. He played the cleric and thought the powers were a...

To be honest, it sounds like they entirely gutted anything worthwhile about the OGL. Of course they're trying to "spin" it nicely, but what I'm reading is basically that, now, the new OGL/SRD will amount to the ability to create plug-in content (modules, new feats) for D&D and D&D only, but not...

For a D&D-standard game I've used a conversion of 1gp = $5. I then wrote the chart back out and converted the base equipment for my players into PDCs. Unfortunately my website with the charts on it died and I haven't gotten around to ressurecting it yet. It wasn't a difficult prospect, a...

I doubt that +5 Trained/ +5 Focus will make it into 4.0. After playing Saga for a while, that particular rule is one of my least favorite. It becomes quite possible to get dominant with a skill early (lvl1), and generally from what I've seen, any critical skill this is exactly what happens...

I would suggest making this something akin to the Lightsaber Block ability of Jedi in Saga. It's a talent from the LIghtsaber tree (so perhaps a feat or shared tree available to other armored Defender-typed classes). In Saga it turns the opponent's attack into an opposed roll against your Use...

Probably I'll tweak in my own games. If I allow Dragonborn in at all it'll probably be with the males being smaller and possessing obvious colored display organs like articulated crests. The females will be significantly larger and physically more powerful while visually uninteresting and...

Finally somebody brings up a realistic timeline for Goth and some decent music. I think Goths, like hippies in the 80s and 90s, just ... grew up. Not: "Up and out of the culture" but mellowed enough to make the culture part of the everyday, there but not outre. It was very 80s, but there's...

D&D always needs to be a bit more metal. As to encouraging anti-heroes, lone-wolves, in-it-for-me archetypes, and "dark conflicted souls misunderstood by the world" gloom-kittens as PCs, who have no alignment ... jury is out, here. I imagine it'll help catch that teenage element, and teenage...

I'm playing in a regular SWSE game, here's my thoughts: Grenade Rules seem ... odd. We weren't sure how they worked, exactly, as the GM was attempting to use them on us. He seemed to think that he would end up with a -10 to get it into a square across a mid-sized room. Force Disarm is...

We here in the American South-East do tend to get a bad rap. Having lived here for a very long time, it's somewhat ingrained in everyone, even the locals. At the same time, there are distinct cultural differences. My wife is from the west coast and is having severe culture shock. --fje

Awesome. I'll check my email tomorrow and if there's nothing in there I can safely ignore 4E until some time next year when I'll get a chance to pick it up. --fje

It's one of the few RPG books on the "If I could only keep ___, it would be ___." list. CoCd20, Grim Tales, and the original Dark*Matter book. That's pretty much my Big Three. Everything I own beyond those is really gravy. I can do anything I ever wanted to do with RPGs right there. Which...

I've got GODLIKE. Setting? Awesomesauce. It's very interesting, flavorful, and gripping ... but it's hard to really mess up WWII, in some ways. Mechanics? Crap. The One-Roll idea is elegant, simple, and quite interesting to read. At the table, the four groups I've tried it for, all...

Ah, so it IS Oligarchy of Height based. --fje

Hrm, so it IS a random draw. Bleh. --fje

What I'd like to see is, perhaps, some mid-budget animated features on SciFi. SciFi hasn't yet really dabbled much in making animated features, but I think with outsourcing the art to Korea and the like it might be cheaper, for big FX type things like this, to go that route. To bring it on...

Oh, I mean, the movie had issues from top to bottom, really. Even had it been something as simple as pulling an M.Night Shamalyan switcheroo on the tried-and-true Goblin Infestation or something. A simple 1st level adventure would have made for a good storyline. Open with plot-hooks. The...