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Been too many years to remember the details. I've run it and played it. I remember something about a Kendar tied to a rope used at the black portal near the beginning... but I don't generally remember to many characters dying in it. S1 is one of those 'random roll gets you' modules. You can get...

I'm not so sure there. Smut and tabloid seem to persist on a notion that an outry is exactly what drives up profits. If they burn a 1000 of your books, they had to buy them first in order to burn them. :) - course while that might help its own sales, it might do so at injury to the sales of...

I JUmped the shark in my last MnM campaign when I decided to run a Christmas special. What was meant for one session took 3 or 4 I think... The basic plot: After deposing the Easter Bunny a renegade faction takes over Christmas town and imprisons Santa. Near the end when the PCs manage to rescue...

Well I'm in Daly City and kind of in the same boat. I usually GM, but not so interested in doing so at the moment - trying to get past making plots that get too complicated with meandering red herrings. :) By Heroes, did you mean Hero system, or something else?

Everytime I try one of these things there's just something -wrong- about the feel of them. Often it comes down to something as simple as the default posing of the toons, and how animated that is. For example, the breathing WoW toons do, while overdone if you analyze it, really draws you in -...

I just would have liked it to be the same core principles.

1980 or 81, at a step cousin's house, he had me make a level 1 character, gave it 400 hit points, and ran me through module S1. I made it to the lich, avoiding every trap and monster but one arrow-door. Then he just declared that my character was dead and it ended. Experience was pretty bad...

If you can find it, the old Lace and Steel had an amazing system for 1v1 dueling using cards. The rest of the system was also great, although it was a fantasy setting where the PC races were humans, satyrs, centaurs, and pixies. That said, drop the setting, use the system. It did start to...

I'm not sure we really even need a book of this sort. Even the people who want to explore these themes - they don't need game rules for it. I'm sure there are other, better sources, that can be adopted into roleplay that takes place at the table, with the clothes on, rather than other parts of...

Since I've been in MMO land so much these days, this is reminding me of having a character there specialized too deeply in filling just one single, even if vital, role in a group. The problems arise when you don't have your group there with you. That's very common in online computer games, but...

Always been this way for me. Even when I was in very active groups - it just meant I was reading even more... I think a lot of the -kick- for this hobby for many is the reading.

A small culture item. Like some short lists. 3 favorite foods, local costume (fashion), coming of age ceremony, a few games locals play, the preferred beverage, common greetings, 3 ways to get into a fight you didn't mean to get into, 3 ways to win someone over. Short bullet point lists in 3s...

Cali's a big state, with a diverse set of opinions. Now which part of Cali are ya'll talking about? Personally... all I know is 4E is about the point where my gaming group died. Multiple reasons for that, and a disagreement over system choice was only one of them.

Don't compare 4E to past versions of DnD. When I think of an at-will magic missile, I think of how, in most other RPGs as well as in most computer games, my magical character has something on her list she can spam. Be it 'wanding' in World of Warcraft, or casting that low rank fire-bolt in...

GSL: No sex. No gore. No racism. Pathfinder: No "adult content," offensive, or inappropriate for minors. - technically, Pathfinder is more restrictive in that it is vaguer - and thus could capture more, but it allows-by-omission racist content, such as the d20 Solid! (blaxploitation) book that...

Probably just a preemptive avoidance of a Pathfinder book of erotic fantasy... If you want respect, the last thing you want is to be associated with porn. On the other hand, if you want commercial success, the first thing you want is to be associated with porn... :p

Zip codes here radiate out. Everyone in a metro region will share the first 2 or 3 numbers, and two adjacent codes will just have the last number different. So it is a handy way for gauging 'viable distance'. Example: LONG URL of google image search If I see a 940xx or a 941xx, I know that...

Yes, but... What if I live in Oakland, you live in Berkeley, and another player lives in Emmeryville, and a GM in Richmond wants to start a game. Which city does he pick? All of those are within 1-5 miles of each other - and all share the same game shop. They're close enough that decades...

Anytime something people have a lot of vested emotion in radically changes you get camps of people dedicated to defending tradition and camps dedicated to advocating for change. When it is the 'powers that be' that iniates the change it becomes even more muddled, as you get the traditionalist...

The most useful thing I could think of adding to the search tool for this would be the ability to search by the first three numbers of a zip code, and to sort the results by zip code. That would be particularly useful for people living in large cities: San Francisco area, LA area, New York...