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Seriously?!? What about this hodgepodge of attempts to appeal to the pre-teen emo set inspires you? :-S But themes did exist long before this class! They go all the way back to 4e Dark Sun, just a couple years on, while Heroes of Shadow was one of the last splat books to come out. I certainly...

I've written sci fi short fiction and even got paid for one of them. Is this paid work?

I was messing around with creating my own Vampire Vampire Vampire when I came across this amazing thread. Given the subject matter, I thought a little bit of thread necromancy might not be inappropriate. :p Anyway, so I'm building a Vryloka Vampire with the Vampire heritage feats (RAW says it's...

Well, I've been waiting for the opportunity for MONTHS and this Saturday I finally get to run my first 13th Age game for our group. We're a relatively new group that's been playing through some 4e modules for the last few months. The group enjoys the tactical aspect of 4e combat a lot, but they...

How do you replenish dice? And how often do you roll for these countdowns?

I feel like as gamers, what we think we WANT is rules-heavy and what we actually NEED is rules-light. It's easy to get addicted having different options and customizing and optimizing and all that. I have lost many hours of my life fiddling around with various character builds. But once you...

[/LIST] I'd go a lot farther. The 'Trained' bonus needs to be drastically reduced. In general, skill bonuses need to fall inside a narrower envelope. At first level, it's by no means inconceivable that the gnome rogue in your party has a +11 Stealth check while the dwarf cleric in heavy armor...

Buying consumables, purchasing your own castle, bribing guards, paying back student loans... The sky is the limit. It's MONEY. Someone somewhere (sorry to be so vague, but I can't remembered) described gold as the player's lever to alter the world. That's pretty cool. If you approach gold as...

Well TBH this was kind of an unofficial rule for many 4e GMs. In a game where magic items give players substantial bonuses, you have to make sure that the players don't get too many magic items. In a game where gold can buy magic items, players will use gold to buy magic items. Ergo you...

Thanks for the news about the new n.e.w.!

A tuque!

As linguists say, a 'language' is just a dialect with an army and a navy.

You can ASK before, but here's what will happen: you'll get generalities about not stealing and taking life. Those are obvious. What you won't hear about are the edge cases, like where the DM decides your character is being too much of a jerk or doesn't like the way you spoke to that barmaid at...

You see a schism, I see a healthy diversity. Looked at through another prism, in the past people who wanted to play a fantasy RPG had one real choice. Now they have many. They can pick a game that caters best to their tables' preferred play style. They can try out Pathfinder or Dungeon World or...

It's very easy to say "just laugh it off" when the joke isn't about you personally.

Good thoughts, Pemerton. Apart from any moral or philosophical arguments, what constitutes "Lawful Good" and "Chaotic Neutral" are going to be judged by a human at the table, and that human is the DM. What constitutes "lawful good" behavior? DM fiat. In some cases the DM's preferences and the...

Looks pretty cool! And I definitely want an antimatter baton.

I give out tokens during my games which can be redeemed for things like adding +1 to a roll, recharging a spent power or rerolling the dice entirely. I have started asking for re-caps of the previous session (via email) in exchange for tokens for the next, and have so far never failed to get a...

Has there been an official statement regarding a tactical module within the last year or so? Because honestly, I'll believe the existence of such a thing when I see it. I'm not really sure you can just tack tactics onto a game that doesn't already have them baked in at some level. I think if...