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<ignoring the 4E conversation> Yes, a few years ago I fell in love with the Dragonstar setting. I got some people to try out an adventure or two, but could never get a group to play it.

Favourite: Barbarian, Cleric (of the strength variety), Warden Least Favourite: Warlock, Shaman

Well, for one thing, the word "advert" would give it away to me. :P And you people aren't the only ones to stick in the odd 'u' here and there. We spell colour etc. the correct way in Canada too. My spell checker has a fit when I write RPGA modules, as "armour"/"armor" comes up pretty often...

These have been slow in coming for me, but I'm there. 3) I prefer more hits than more average damage anyway, since psychologically I hate to miss. I've been "optimizing" to-hit above almost anything else, and I tend to choose effects whenever I can. 4) I find that when I have only 1 daily...

Here's another article we had photocopied (I started playing in October 1990, and reading current issues of Dragon some time late in 1991). And we did indeed always go with Escrima (we plugged all the OA crunch into our vanilla Western setting - if you can call roaming around killing things and...

The problem a lot of people that I know had with the Waterdeep one was that the skill challenge, while fun, was far too long. Also, the combat encounters were seen as too dull. I don't necessarily agree - I thought it was a fine adventure. Personally I only chose my three favourites for the...

In general, you can do these as mentioned above - you basically just report your regular home game to the RPGA. Up until recently, this would qualify your players for mail-out rewards. Now, the player reward program is pretty much done with, but there is still a DM reward program that you'd...

Let me say at the start that RPGA gaming is all the gaming I do in my life, and has been all I've done for a decade now. It is the optimal style of play for me. I can't imagine ever finding another way to play that is more satisfying to me. For the very first time? Yes, it absolutely is...

I find that the adventures with the best skill challenges were AGLA1-1, CORE1-2, and DRAG1-1. Each of these has a fun skill challenge with opportunity to use creativity and have a laugh. I can see how they would be death in the wrong group though.

I think, if you'll pardon my usage of these over-used terms, I prefer my "fluff" to have a fictiony, prose-y tone, and my "crunch" to have a written-by-committee textbook tone (although I do like it when the textbook style occasionally has moments of informality - dialogue between the writer and...

One thing to consider- if your created game system is meant to be robust enough to deal with players trying to eke out every bonus they can (in other words, a system that doesn't rely on the sense of fairplay of the players to maintain balance), then balancing mechanical advantages (other...

I'm one of the biggest 4E fans in the land, but I agree with this statement. After trying it out (or watching other people try it while DMing) three times, I've never done it since. Now all traps are treated as immobile extra combatants, and dealt with accordingly (very infrequently someone...

I like it, but would have hoped for some racial feats (and maybe a paragon class or two) like they did with warforged. Without those it's not that much of a playtest.

I had to check your "location" to see if you were one of my high school chums (you ain't). All through high school (grad '93) we played with a never-ending cycle of dual-wielding drow rangers (and Tasselhoff clones). There was always at least one drizzit in the party, played by one of us or...

They made another Hulk movie. They can make another D&D movie. Frankly, I still think the best thing for showcasing the hobby is showing cool people *playing* D&D in otherwise unrelated movies or TV shows, not showing actual gameworld characters having adventures. The problem is doing it...

So, what it looks like from all our anecdotes, is that 1:4.3 (ie 19%) might be about right. Home groups are a bit higher, and the convention crowd is a bunch lower (but less numerous) so it probably works out...

To be fair, in addition to only observing the "plays in public" crowd, I also really only have observed the "plays D&D in public" crowd, not the White Wolf crowd, or any other game that might swing more toward female participation.

It's entirely likely that stable home games have a different ratio, but I'm reasonably well travelled among the "plays in public" crowd, and I stand by my 10:1 ratio for that particular portion of RPGers. A 10:1 ratio means that for every two full tables, there is one female (well, 11:1 would...

I found that the Paragon Paths and Epic Destinies were far more interesting that those in Martial Power. I have 4 arcane PCs (I play RPGA so I have many PCs), and found things in there to interest all of them. Although, some of the Epic Destiny "when you die" effects are so good that it would...

To go a bit further... In my local RPGA club (population 40 or so members), I would imagine that the population is roughly normally distributed, with mean: 30 and standard deviation: 6 at a guess. In non math-talk, the vast majority of people in my club are between 20 and 40 in age. The ratio...