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Interested in starting up a Seattle WA game? I play a variety of systems, including most versions of D&D/Pathfinder. I have long wanted to try out Savage Worlds and would be open to other possibilities as well. I enjoy DMing, but would be interested in other options as well.

Yeah, I suspect that this will end up being a good thing, one way or the other. The best that can happen is some really cool movies. The worst is that we just pretend the series ended after Revenge of the Sith.

I agree. But Star Wars is one of the very good fictional examples of a team story with a lot of characters involved in the plot in an important and interactive way. It fades a but by Return of the Jedi, but the original movie is a fantastic example of spotlight sharing for a team of heroes...

I think the Star Wars example is actually a decent fictional adventuring party. You start out with: Luke, Ben, Han and Chewbecca (plus 2 Droids) You swap out Ben for Leia. Later you swap out Han for Lando. The party splits apart a lot, but they all have different specialties and some...

I agree with this analysis. Good discipline for a game designer would be creating Han Solo or Obi-Wan Kenobi with a 25 point buy. The same goes with Elric or Conan. Trickier are characters specially spelled out as being exceptions. Sauron or Gandalf being some sort of celestial being and...

Space Opera likely has just as much appeal as traditional fantasy games. Star Wars would be as appealing as Lord of the Rings as a setting. (think of Knights of the Old Republic versus Baldur's gate). What I think Fantasy had going for it was the module and the very basic idea of getting rich...

Nice article and very much to the point. Great find.

I am not sure about this. Rolemaster (the original middle earth setting) was fairly high magic (at least by level 10 or so) and featured a lot of "walk on characters" who were human spellcasters. There are a lot of settings that could be interesting (e.g. Umbar) that are never explored in the...

My two biggest cash sinks as well. Although Troll Lord is occasionally slipping into my list . . .

I am trying to resist C&C products but these sorts of cool items make me doubt my resolve. :erm:

This is an extremely good reason to keep archaic items in circulation in a fantasy campaign. It also adds a level of immediate and interesting flavor to magic items, in a very low cost way. Plus, armor and weapons that have been effective in the past may stick around for a surprisingly long...

Perhaps, but some really cool adventures can really improve a games popularity. I know that some early good modules helped teach us how to play and led to a fair amount of loyalty to the AD&D brand

This is a pretty amazing group. I was a part of them when I lived in Gainesville and they are sorely missed already

Agreed. While the WotC subscription was inexpensive, it does make me look at the value proposition more carefully. I am happy to pay for tools, but my expectations go up a lot relative to services that are free.

It helps that it is freeware; one feels a little less slighted when something that is planned but not paid for doesn't pan out. The DDI community did not make specific promises but there was a general theory of "nice things are coming to cntinue to make your subscription worthwhile". THe VTT...

I understand the want to not throw good money after bad, but people could potentially have a lot of information (adventure notes aka Journal and character sheets) in the tool. Three weeks is not a huge amount of time to extract that information without a way to download it. Yes, you can do...

I think that this observation is the key point. It is perfectly okay if powerful Dark Jedi are capable of doing nasty things to you if, in parallel, you can do nasty things to them. The Noble likely has allies and friends. The Wookie can do very savage things to the Dark Jedi if he gets next...

I think that this is absolutely correct. One of the great things about Basic D&D that was mostly replicated in AD&D is that the rules are very loose. You can change one class, set of rules, or subsystem without doing a lot else to really alter the balance in the system. The downside is that...

I rather like the leader angle and it seems to fit with a lot of the action hero types (most of them act as inspiration of some kind). Even characters like Rambo seem to be able to take command of a situation out of an innate charisma. That isn't a bad niche for a class to have, even in a very...

How is this different than all heavy armor wearers having a 10 dex when you cannot stack dex with armor at all? Or an 8 if penalties are also eliminated? This is not a big issue if the range of dex bonus is small (like AD&D where god-like dex was six points). But in 3E, it is quite possible...