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Hi all, I have Pathfinder but have never played it yet. It sounds to me like the Rogue is more powerful than the 3.5 version but that his power relative to the other classes is now lower. The problem you all identify with Rogues in combat is also evident in highly optimised parties in 3.5...

The one thing that made me a better DM was this; stop just being a DM and PLAY for a while. And no, I don't mean the 'idle hanging out with friends while someone else DMs' that I used to do as a hiatus in between MY campaigns. I mean REALLY learning to play the game as a committed player. To...

I have no idea how anyone roleplays without a backstory, but if you are, then please continue enjoying yourself and don't worry. For me, backstory literally IS the character, and without one, I usually just end up playing 'myself in funny clothes' as it were. Most people I have roleplayed with...

I forgot to include a plug for my favourite battlemap of all time; truly a work of genius. It is on RPGmapshare, so you have to register to download it, but you can find it here. Ephiarran Highlands | RPGMapShare.com

Hi Buddhafrog, The really nice street maps are Cisiticola's and they are damn good. I used Photoshop to put the grids on; I just make a new layer to duplicate the whole map, put a white grid in between the two map layer duplicates and delete the top map layer carefully so that the grid shows...

Here is a link to an album of my best loved battlemaps http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2845582/1/Battlemaps?h=24c9f4 Most are by the excellent Cisticola (a renowed map maker) except the road map (I forget where this came from). Note that I am posting these versions because I added the grid to...

I looked through my collection of village/town/city maps from the internet and put them into an album on Dropbox for you to steal. http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2845582/1/village%20and%20town%20maps?h=2fefa7 These are all freely available on various sites (Dundjinni, Cartographers' Guild...

Hi all! I have been DMing an E6 sandbox for about 20-25 sessions and we are having a good time. We are using 22 point buy, slow levelling; requiring 3 x normal experience to go up a level and the danger level is also very high (we have lost 8 PCs so far). We also have very low magic; instead of...

If you want to add sound-effects into an RPG, I would use Syrinscape; its free and totally excellent and allows you to create your own soundscapes where you can loop up to two continous soundfiles whilst also automatically adding in loads of other noises randomly. I have created a whole ton of...

Three that haven't been mentioned so far are RPGMapShare.com | Your source for gaming maps and mapping objects and Dundjinni Mapping Software - Bring Your Game To Life and Cisticola's absolutely brilliant maps at Zitting Cisticola - Home The first two also have huge numbers of objects...

Having read a great number of your posts Celebrim, and acquired a good deal of respect for you, I am going to assume that when you say 'Hogwash' you mean you don't agree with that I have said. Fine; I respect you opinion, now please do the same for me and don't include me in your 'rant'. My...

The point I think Dave Morris was trying to make is that WE are NOT representative of all the people who were in the hobby in the 1980s; we are that tiny minority who stayed with it, despite the increasing complexity of the systems on offer. I also disagree with Celebrim; for me every system...

Here is an interesting philsophical blog post, from Dave Morris (who was a prolific RPG and gamebook writer in the 1980s) that suggests that roleplaying games have evolved in a strange direction, with increasing complexity for commercial reasons. Fabled Lands: People don’t want to role-play...

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To go back to your original question where your friend was insisting that science tries to disprove its own hypotheses, this sounds like a misunderstanding of the way that Karl Popper suggested that science be done. His idea was simply that in order to find scientific truth, the easiest way is...

For those of you that haven't heard; OD2 made the TOP TEN bestsellers list on the DTRPG for March see here http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/top_100_small_press.php

I am pleased to announce that Ordo Draconis issue 2 has made it onto the DTRPG TOP TEN best-sellers' list. Come and see what all the fuss is about http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/top_100_small_press.php

I am pleased announce that Ordo Draconis issue 2 has now made it into DTRPGs TOP TEN bestselling small-press PDFs for March. Come and see what all the fuss is about http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/top_100_small_press.php

I am pleased to announce that Ordo Draconis issue 2 has made the TOP TEN of DTRPG best-sellers' small-press publications for March. This is a major milestone for us and all I can say is; come and see what all the fuss is about. see here for http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/top_100_small_press.php

Dear All, EN World Subscribers get another serious freebie this week; access to the latest issue of Ordo Draconis. This fast-selling fanzine is dedicated to gaming in the Lands of Legend, the world originally created by award winning author Dave Morris for the acclaimed Dragon Warriors RPG...