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My condolences. No need to apologize for that, I understand completely. I still look forward to getting our game going, but please take the time to do what you need to do, and know that a spot will be waiting for you once you have the time again.

How are those character sheets coming? I don't mean to push, but I would like to get the game going as soon as we can. I've got the basics of the session planned out, and I'll have to update it all if we don't get started before the next playtest packet comes out. ;) Additionally, if anyone is...

I'd forgotten about that movie, but that's basically it! We fake a spirit infestation, get the mark to pay with a lot of fast-talk and mumbo jumbo, then I fake the symptoms of an angry spirit while you put on the banishing spirits performance. We get paid, the rich and gullible get duped, and...

I had a thought for our characters to have a link in their past, if you are interested. If you've seen the movie The Frighteners, then I'm basically ripping off Michael J. Fox's character (pun totally unintended, but I embrace it wholeheartedly). If you haven't, I highly recommend it. The...

If that's how it ends up working, I don't have any problems with it. Party on.

Thanks. I probably didn't make this clear enough before, but I am ready to go as soon as we have character sheets up! Like I said at the beginning, I'd like 3 to 5 players (4 is ideal), so as soon as we get another character sheet ready to go I can get the in-character thread started. I also...

I've heard it both ways.

I share your concern. If warlocks, wizards, sorcerers, illusionists, shadow-casters, invokers, and psions all exist, you want there to be something separating them. Pretty much by definition, that means some will have things that others don't get, and will use magic in ways that other classes do...

I think I'll try the kitsune (though from here on out I'll refer to the character as a nai-nek-chai). Another question, should my fox form appear to be a normal fox? Right now it's an anthropomorphic fox thing, and that doesn't fit with other nai-nek-chai. I'd be very fine replacing it with...

I'd rather not see a rogue, or any other "base" class, that has to roll a whole lot more dice during its turn and make a whole lot more decisions than other characters. If you give the rogue the option of rolling skill checks to improve other checks, it becomes in the players best interest to...

I am ready and excited, and happy to have you back. Glad your trip concluded safely, hope it was fun! The character sheet looks great, Marik looks ready to swing into action. Do we have any other character sheets ready or almost ready? If you have any questions or need some help, I'm happy to...

I don't agree 100% with your dislike of at-wills. Your specific example was apt. The rogue player had in mind a description of the action he wanted to take. He wanted to stab something with a knife. "I stab it with my knife," he says, and proceeds to follow the instruction given on his sheet...

This looks like a lot of fun, so count me as definitely interested! What about the kitsune race from the new ARG? I'm totally willing to play it as one of the Nai-nek-chai, just one that happened to be descended from foxes and is more precocious and quick-witted than other Nai-nek-chai of...

For one thing, as I recall, it wasn't just 300 men defending the pass. Close to a thousand men from a nearby city and other parts of Greece reinforced them, fleeing only on the last day when defeat was obviously inevitable. They had also partly fortified a hill, I believe, which served as a...

Man I love Eberron, but I don't think it should be the default setting. For one, there is a lot of stuff unique or endemic to the setting (warforged, dragonmarks, artificers, psionics etc.) that would pretty much need to be included to run it, and the PHB looks like it's going to be crowded...

Ok so I'm double-posting, which is bad juju, but I think that a discussion of all the ways that my players screwed up before getting the heist wrong (horribly, horribly wrong) will be as useful, maybe more so, than the story of when they finally got it right (related above). The first attempt...

Oh man, doing some serious dusting off of the old rpg notes . . . First thing to know, this was in a game that took place in the world of the Matrix movies. Yeah, total nerdgasm, but it was the spirit of the times and I freakin loved that game. Made my own system for it adapting AEG's d10 dice...

Along that line, I wonder if post-release we'll be seeing stuff like "I thought that D&D Next was looking great during the playtest, but hate everything they did to it for the final release, so I've been playing a game using the combined playtest rules . . ." and "Recruiting for a D&D game using...

You can play FATE with tons of dice rolling, monster hunting, and combat. It's pretty fast paced and (at least the games I've played) pulpy so it handles battle well. It is rules lite and assumes rather narrative-centric play, though you could choose to run it however you wish, of course.

Not a bad plan, but I think that giving the monsters an accuracy boost to get their attacks (for at least some enemies) into the "sweet spot" where they only have to roll between 10 and 12 on 2d10 to hit would have a huge impact on their lethality. For what it's worth. Hopefully I'll have the...