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Take a look at Guild Wars: Nightfall. This semi-MMO that came out last year has a north African norm for its setting. Most of the NPCs look African. They kind of remind me of the features of people from Sudan. In character creation you can a range of skin tones you can pick, from light to...

I -DO- find it frustrating to see a lack of diverse artwork in DnD, and it -does- impact my interest in playing the game. Quite often I have to will myself back after feeling pushed away... It only gets worse when I try, in utter futility, to explain it to the caucasian gamers I know or to...

There are a lot of differences in feel between GURPS and DnD. The note on faster rounds, slower movement above is one of the biggest 'smacks to head' you'll get when you jump into a GURPS combat for the first time. In looking at the books you might come away thinking an archer, who gets 1 shot...

That just goes to one of the things that frustrates me in this whole powers concept. If you integrate perform into the class, then you have to start asking why only a bard can manage a ballroom dance or play the violin... On the notion that being born with magic is somehow X-Man like, that...

The problem for the sorcerer is that if it goes striker that's the warlock, and if it goes controller that's the wizard. Biggest complaint people used to make about Sorcerer in 3E was that it filled the same purpose in the party as a Wizard. 4E should change that. But if it does, what to make...

My biggest complaint about GURPS for fantasy has always been a too pre-defined magic system. 4E was a bit better than the past attempts with some of the on the fly casting options, but still not open enough for me to define a system as would fit a setting I might conceive. I'll have to flip...

I would say that this is essentially what they have done. GURPS has as much in common with 'the traditions of DnD' as 4E does. The same claim cannot be made about 3.xE however. 4E is the first time a game claiming to be DnD dropped a large number of the 'sacred cows' and at the same time...

GURPS is Hero with all the powers and disadvantages prebuilt and a lot of the flexibility removed. Its not a bad game, but in playing it one is often left to wonder, "why am I not just playing the game this is obviously a tool-down of?"

This. People need to remember it. And if you want the direction of that game to go in a different way, get active on its forums and suggest the way you want it to go.

First edition Mutants and Masterminds was an example of a rules light version of OGL. But then second edition came along with more rules crunch than the Hero system, ending that experiment. But True20 seems fairly rules light.

Stereotypes aside, of all recognized minority groups in Police departments, Lesbians are the most professionally successful, and Gays are the most unsuccessful. Reasons for this are open to speculation, that is just the statistic based on career success in terms of hiring, retention, and upward...

I've played almost only female characters since 1985. I've gamed with people who play only their own sex, only the other, flip a coin, don't write anything down until expressly asked, make it up to suit the individual character, and so on. Never had anyone express an issue over it other than...

Take two Viagra and call me in the morning. ;)

Amazon reviews work through a reader voting system. If you find a review useful, vote it up. If not, ignore it or vote it down (I forget if you can vote down, but I know you can vote up). Over time that gives a lot of credibility to its reviews, even the badly written ones. But it takes time...

Trademark violation is serious business. What are possible damages? In a provable case they could potentially add up to any and all profits ever made with the infringing product. Depending on varying degrees of intent and / or bad faith, additional damages could come in as well. One common...

Before you can craft anything you have to go right click on the herbs and loot cloth from your foes, then go to... oh wait... wrong game. Sometimes its hard to remember this isn't WoW. Well, I guess there's one thing MMOs have that 4E doesn't - crafting and non combat skills. How strange is...

I'm going to agree with kaisoku here. Its really not proper to be reviewing that book yet. Rather, get on pathfinder's website and hit them hard about everything you want addressed in the game before it gets finished. By opening it to an Alpha they are asking for it to be analyzed while it is...

Today I went out and bought the setting book for Pathfinder's setting. Tried to order the True20 Adept guide too, but the store says it doesn't exist. Keeping my options open.

I suspect that the split has split me off from my former gaming group, but time will tell.

DnD as you have always known it is now called Pathfinder. 4E is some other game that now has the branding, but the game you knew that has evolved since 1974 is now Pathfinder.