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The problem with all of this is that amount of people who would pay for this sort of convienence in relation to the larger RPG "community" is SMALL. The table top RPG community is also notoriously CHEAP and tend to complain about spending money on ANYTHING. They complain about subsciption...

Watch ALIENS to the very end of the credits. Near the very end you can actually hear the skittering of a facehugger from the right to left audio channel. I first noticed it on all of the home video editions of the movie (on Laserdisc, DVD and BluRay) and thought that maybe it was something FOX...

The theatrical cut of ALIENS is easily my favorite James Cameron film and it's hands down one of the best seige films committed to celluloid. The pacing of that film is relentless even during the setup in the first half. Between the emotional trauma that Ripley is clearly suffering from, the...

I think that in some cases that using Electronic tools to facilitate your game and using pirated materials are two different things. I dont run 5E, but in the game that I do run using electronic tools to facilitate my game in the form of the ability to quickly access rules material is a BOON and...

I decided many years ago that if a game has no PDF suppport then I'm not playing or supporting that game. There have been one or two exceptions since that time (Most notably the FFG STAR WARS game) but for the most part yeah. 5E had thier basic rules as a PDF so that's not too bad. This is...

My thing is this: have your players make a back up PC or two and have THEM figure out how those backup PC's are related to the characters and story. Have them come up with a decent insert/introduction point. I'll never remove character death from games that I run. What I tend to do is try to...

To me this is like saying books are better than movies or TV. Or like saying that TV is better than movies. Video Games and TTRPG's are two very different things and I'll go as far to say that the consistency of a good video game is preferable to an uneven or bad Gm and obnoxious / bad players...

Of course you would. Youre the one arguing that everything is D&D. And it isn't. The OGL is the system kernel not the brand. Listen, I think that you are so wrong about this that you're several light years away from being right. Youre not going to convince me and I'm not going to convince...

I think that there is a level of intellectual dishonesty that's going on in this discussion that unfortunately is typical of nerd fandom and people who have to be right. The OGL has it's origins in the idea of open source software. Because this is closer to what we're actually dealing with than...

Just walk away man. Your sanity is waaaaaay more important than this. Just Walk away...

I'm exactly the same way. Just replace the Surface with my iPad and it's the same deal especially since now there's a version of OneNote for iOS and OS X. If there's no PDF support for a game? I'm not running that game.

My players and I use mobile devices in our game all the time and it's never a problem. It's all in the attitude of the people at the table. I can find pretty much anything faster on my phone or ipad (using RPG Books, I play Pathfinder) than my players can in the book. By the time they've...

If the RPG community is a microcosm of the population in general what youre saying simply is not true. The RPG community is just as racist, sexist, homophobic as the general population is. In some cases even MORE because of how niche and insular it is. This hobby being overwhelmingly white and...

Besides, these days as much as I love RPG's the overhead for them is just too much. I'm leaning more toward board games and miniature games to intro them to my son and his friends as well as my brother in law and his friends. Overall I find them easier to learn and setup and you can play with...

I have almost no need for a game store. What I'd LIKE is a place to play that was easy to get to, well kept, clean and professional. The product I can get pretty much anywhere (including directly from the publishers these days) but a service? Good Service? THAT'S hard to find. Somewhere with...

If it matters at all I'd support it, but being that youre posting this in what is pretty much a D&D Stronghold I think that you might get a better gauge if you posted this over on the Paizo boards. Somehow I think there's just waaaay more traffic for this over there...

Also...isnt a new edition pretty much a shoe in to win Ennies? I mean I'm pretty certain back when 4th Edition came out it won a crap load of Ennies not because it was a great game (I'm not saying that it WASNT a great game) but really because people were excited over a new edition of D&D. I...

Hussar I'm not arguing ANYTHING Hussar. Me arguing something implies whether or not I feel I havent gotten my inital point across or am trying to change someone's mind. I pretty much feel that I've gotten my point across in my one post to Zil and pretty much dont care if I change anyone's...

Yeah you just hit the nail on the head Zil. I guess that the RPG industry gets to redefine what outsourcing / not outsourcing is for them while the rest of the world has this idea of what outsourcing is in any other case. For me I consider it freelancing (individuals) to outsourcing...

I'm not sure I'd limit based on size but I guess a 17" laptop might be a BIT much. But I have no issues with a standard sized tablet or smartphone. Also I'm not sure if your use of "toys" is meant to be derisive (and apologies if I'm reading too much into it) but we're playing a game of pretend...