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Well, these days I don't plan on picking up any d20 book until I've seen a review. (Well, I picked up 'Year's best d20', but that was basically a review of the best parts of a bunch of books. And it was like $20 anyway. :) I like the idea of alternate magic systems. I'm looking forward to...

So, while browsing the dealer's room at Tacticon last weekend, I came across an interesting titled book by Green Ronin called 'SpirosBlaak' - it's part of their Mystic Vistas line. And I could not figure out what the heck it was. The back was a bullet list of what seemed to be generic crunch -...

I had four tables of it being demoed at Tacticon last weekend. I got to see a copy and thought the cover was very nice - apparently everyone had a blast during the demos.

Denver also just had one of it's gaming conventions - Tacticon. And even with some people not showing up (generally one-day people, probably because they were coming from far away and didn't want to deal with the higher costs of gas), we still did a bang-up business in sitting gamers in seats...

(In response to "I like Palladium. The books are large, informative and affordable.") There's probably a number of exceptions. I can't really point to any Palladium book (that I own) and say 'This book was a waste of my money'. They are packed with interesting ideas, and they're written for...

Well, I just finished being the RPG coordinator at Tacticon this last weekend, and I didn't hear any complaints about the games. We had a mix of living campaigns (Greyhawk, Arcanis, etc) and judge-created classic mods, and as far as I know most people had a blast. But then, we've got a pretty...

So, what are the differences between The Sinister Secret and the Saltmarsh as presented in DMG II?

I think what I'm going to do is to ingore the 'unable to get certain spells'. Instead I'm going to go with the idea that you have to make a Spellcraft check to cast spells opposing the plane you're on, and high level spells cast on an opposing plane may attract divine attention. Casting Cone...

If you're not willing to go out and buy 'The Complete Brewer' to get all of the power-feats, then that's not my problem. :p

Well, did they fix that powergamer trick where you took three levels each of Barbarian and Sorcerer and were able to cast Wish once a day with the 'Magic Blow' feat? I'm not going to stop playing 4.75 until that loophole is fixed!

We've still got games like this in Denver. We have a number of independant GMs who like to run one-shot games like this, D&D, Call of Cthulhu, and a mess of other games. (I'm one of them. :) At Genghis Con in February, I ran two different CoC senarios, and a Space Munchkin senario. There's...

You missed the 'Brewer's Nose' feat, which gave a +2 to Craft[Brewing]. That's a +11, and now 'Taking 10' means he creates some darn fine beer without trying hard. And I'll call you on the Knowledge(Beer) skill - There's no such skill in D&D, because D&D's only interest in beer is how much of...

You know, you want BESM d20. The 'Anime SRD' is available online - google around for it. Given the anime roots of Gold Digger, this would probably work pretty well.

I've been the RPG coordinator for Tacticon for two years running - in fact, Tacticon starts on Thursday. (On Thursday! Dear god!) I don't have to worry about hotel liasoning or the other various game types - just handling DMs and games and the RPGA. (The convention webpage is at...

So - You've got Manual of the Planes, The 3.5 DMG (which seems to reprint a fair bit from the MotP), and the Planar Handbook. Where are the dozens of books that Planescape has been spread across? I'm interested in the big PS, but these seem to be the only official WotC books about planar travel.

If you don't mind me asking, what books on SQL Server might you have? I've got a bit of old code here at work that I maintain that's hard to find references on. Any books on perl? Python or other open-source technology? Those are more useful over the long time frame than other books are...

Hey folks. My 'Expedition to the Barrier Peaks' campaign has taken it's planned side-step into a plane-travelling campaign, which means that my players are currently exploring a level of Hell. This is all well and good. But as I've been boning up on the planar travel rules in 3.5, I'm not...

*shrug* I, and at least one other person, run in both BRP and d20. But some people do only want to play one way, and that's fine with me. But when both sides are trying to convince a guy to run it their way...

Interesting idea. You might check out Savage Species, if you can get your hands on a copy, although you may not want to buy one. You could set up the mind flayer as a 15-level class that the players advance through - minor abilities to begin, and then slowly gaining abilities as you go on. SS...

Pretty much here, RPG.net, and Pyramid's internal boards. (They're subscriber only, and I like the signal-to-noise ratio.) I occasionally browse the Forge or some of the company boards. Poor Guardians of Order boards. Still not up.