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Suddenly I want to see Honest Ed's miraculously re-emerging from the energies unleashed by the Hodgepocalypse... :D

In my main group, our system choice is dependent on what campaign/world/story we want to play in. Right now for rules we are splitting our time between D&D 4e, Cortex Prime, Troubleshooters, and my own RPG system (called the Aurora RPG engine). Our currently dormant games use(d) 2d20, 5e...

Looking at all the character sheets I have completely-healthily-no-obsession-here designed, I'd say about 400. ;) Oh! For a single character for a single game... well in that case, usually I try to keep it to 1 double-sided letter-sized page, max. This keeps everything handy and only...

IIRC, 1-2 soldiers was the recommended maximum to include. At face value Brutes often look to be tougher/meaner, but their lower defenses means they go down quicker (and more satisfyingly).

Multiclassing in 4e, especially the power-swap feats, is interesting. I've oft toyed with getting rid of needing a feat to swap powers (ie once you take the entry level MC feat you can eventually mimic the swap feats w/o spending them) -- often, swapping the feat may give more flavour and...

Ayup, that's the path to take to create or adjust a non-MM3/MV opponent. The "halve hitpoints, double damage" "fix" that is commonly bandied about was both a) not what MM3-math did and b) if memory serves came from a very specific instance someone was choosing to do for a very specific reason...

I wouldn't go that far. As I noted upstream, a lot of the marketing humour at the time was very inside-baseball/self-referential that would've confused newcomers. They surely misjudged how certain things might land (again, like satire or sarcasm it's likely going to go awry with some), but I...

Hahahahaha... I totally need to make it happen in game sometime now. :D

Bands, satellites, doppelgangers, the loo?

Not yet, anyway... ;) (Now I'm thinking of a Blood-Bowl-esque tabletop soccer game, hmm)

Understandable; I've installed the builder on a few machines at home and there's a bit of a learning curve to do so (I've now got those steps in a text file for easy reference). It's smooth once that's done fortunately.

I'll let the besmirchment of felines slide ;) But, ouch, yeah too close to home, too real. Maybe this is the true, 100%, through line heart of D&D across all editions: the ability to continually flork up in a string of the most mortifying (perhaps literally for the "mort" part for the...

I'm still waiting for time to post my own 'what would you tweak to make a new version of 4e' thing, but adding a core 'controller-y' feature to each controller class would be one of them. The Protector Druid got one with Nature's Growth, so it could be that kind of encounter-level power or a...

I would say a big yes! I had a warlock playing in one of the 4e campaigns that constantly was doing controllery things that even to this day I often have to remind myself that a Warlock is a striker class. :P I will use this as an excuse to drop my favourite description of the 4e roles: A...

I had read some article before 4e came out where one of the team members (Perkins, maybe?) described how they ran a skill challenge. Which rocked! (At least by/how they described it) So I always ran SCs in that same way and didn't really read what was in the DMG except maybe to determine the...

As an example of just how much everything can be in the eye of the beholder... I'd began playing with AD&D. Moved onto 2e, 3e, and 3.5e. Decades of gaming. And what I saw of the 4e marketing landed very much for me as a combo of tongue in cheek and knowing/loving/ribbing this hobby we've had...

As an architect, I can point you to some good examples! The Portland airport revamp, for example, is getting a lot of attention right now. :) Edit: Airport terminals, to be clear. No promises on the runways, taxiways, etc.

Overpowered? No. But having agency? Having competence? Being able to make my way through the scenario? Those are important to me. And what each of those specifically entail depends on the realm of the specific game/campaign/scenario/theme/tome. So it's more about having what it takes...

Natch... SLAPP is a thing! But I have never seen one so generic that the only Mad Lib part is a single spot for the URL in the middle to be pasted in. Plus it coming from an unnamed/generic named law firm. Plus it being sent from a gmail address. Plus without listing the company or person...

Yes, yes, 1d1000 times yes! :)