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I generally host, which has been discussed above sufficiently. :) I'm located in Baltimore County (just north of the city line) and every time I look for players, I always find that southern MD / Northern VA / Wash D.C. crowd but no one reliable or interested in Baltimore itself. :( I've had a...

Apparently as much as ignoring message board trolls...

Yea, that kind of sums up the entire experience. This was a 36 year old father of two at the time, mind you... not some 14 year old. He also holds the record for the biggest temper tantrum I've ever seen one human throw when something didn't go his character's way (well... didn't go the way *he*...

I have a friend who works odd hours (gets up at 4-5am, may work 12 hours or more a day, 7 days a week...) and will push himself to the point of exhaustion. If he's had a week+ crunch as can happen to him, he'll literally fall asleep sitting up if he's not speaking. He'll try his best to stay...

I think this example is a sad fact of life that doesn't have to be. To expand on your example, if I may, you can say your character fears fire. So when the house is on fire and you have to save someone, then when your character braves his worst fears and runs through the building to grab the...

Is it normal to have so many lurkers that don't come out of the woodwork to sing the poster's praises for a story hour? I know Sep.II, P-kitty & Old One get a bajillion "Wonderful!!1!" comments after every post... it's like a page / 2 page to every single post ratio. Is that common in Story...

This has become a huge thread, but I can click the "last page" button and it will skip directly to your last update. It takes at least five or more pages to do that, so starting a new thread would condemn me to a life of scrolling for the new installment... :) Yes, I'm lazy. Why do you ask? ;)...

Situations that neuter a DWS: Underwater. Moderate to Heavy wind. Snowstorms. Pretty much any kind of severe weather.... A number of spells... Protection from Missiles, a number of Wall spells, sphere of invulnerability... Tower Shields. That's a list of ideas that took me less than a...

I don't think gnomes and halflings get a fair shake in most campaign worlds. No one ever really concentrates on them, and the best "flavor" examples I can recall are Tinker Gnomes & the barbarian Halflings from Darksun (those buggers were hard-core!). While those are great examples, now ten(?)...

Clearly, if a product does not have less than 200 pages and require at least three pages of errata within two months, in addition to having more than five books "planned" within a year of initial release that will even make the first book more than 50% useable... well... then it's not an RPG...

To my mind, this is also an exact illustration of what I'm talking about. Some players would rather, when faced with something out of the box, would cry foul. Trust allows for the game to go forward rather than stall completely!

Double True To me, this doesn't mean that the DM is perfect, never gets a rule wrong or maybe fudges things for the games' sake. This means that I trust that even if he does something that's wonky or against the "rules" *coughcoughguidelinescough*, that he keeps it balanced and fair in the end...

You forgot for paying off Jabba the Hutt. ;) Of course, he was stacking all that loot onto the falcon, but never *paid* the slug. Hmmm...

That is with the supposition that he actually cares. I think the point is not what that means about the topic (in this case V), but rather that, like a light switch, he has two choices. If he doesn't hate you, he lusts for you. Period. On or Off. According to V's theory, it has nothing to do...

I think the debate for what is or is not worthy of a DSP is strictly a table-by-table discussion that should happen with just your group and remain in that context. My group has a few characters that courting the Dark Side, but I'm rather strict in the Good/Bad diacotomy and have a particular...

While I think that this was true to an extent, I think the way you are presenting it is out of context and exaggerated. The vehicle/starship rules re-write, for instance, was a great improvement and had nothing really to do with Ep II... it was simply fixing a clunky, uncoordinated and difficult...

Focused Freeform? :) As a player I like having the ability to strike out on my own, but some DMs cannot flow with things off the beaten path. In that case I would rather the best game the DM in question can present, in the style he is strongest in. Unless, of course, he states ahead of time...

I'm far more disappointed by the changes to Lightning Bolt than Fireball. :( That melting point issue makes me realize that alot of the DMs I've played under don't really remember to count this in... When was the last time that your DM ruled that all the coin the monsters were carrying in...

If the terms or hurdles to the contract with Lucasfilm are still present, I fail to see how releasing another edition of the system will make anything work or sell better than it did/has. The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing twice and expecting different results. I hope that this...

If you're looking to DM after that long of a hold, I'd like to throw a subscription to Dungeon Magazine into the list. By all accounts, the magazine is really in one of the best golden ages it has seen in a long, long time. And having fresh adventure ideas, already laid out for you, is probably...