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I always thought the 'F' stood for a four letter word of great notoriety, followed by -ing. :p

Better leaks as in, rather than leak the finished PDF near the end, put up lots of online whispers and rumors over the process, have people posting snippets in forums here and there... and then coming in the next hour and saying that info was not supposed to be posted, etc... More or less, the...

You can play a video game with the monitor turned off, but it wouldn't be wise. But while 4E may feel like a video game, it isn't one. So... You can play Warhammer without minis too. I suppose. Might be a tad hard to do, but in theory it is possible. To answer the key question, I prefer...

Heavily dependent on Pathfinder getting it -right- from the fan's POV, and others joining in with them rather than competing. One risk is that every single 3rd party house will put out its own 'Pathfinder' like version of 3.5, leaving fans with a thousand different games to choose from. At...

What happens when WotC puts out a splatbook later on and adds its own version of these things, then SRD's them? Are you then forced to pull your product from shelves and burn unsold stock?

This should get split into a separate thread... But... Keep in mind that in the old days it took less than 5 minutes to make a complete new PC. You could have your toon die on your turn, and by the time the table ran back around to you be ready with Ruin Explorer the 2nd, a new toon of a...

One thing I -am- looking for is a tool that has an easy ability to find other players and games. A very small tool that I have to bring my players to would not meet that need. I need a tool with an active community and a good 'looking for game / hosting game' tool.

Just a long-winded theory, but... :P RPG players -usually- are very bad at teamwork. Too many iconoclastic personalities. I suspect that 4E 'by the numbers' is a lot easier, if 'played right' - as in, played the way they assumed it would be played. Which is a style table top RPGers are, again...

Any opinions on the different methods of gaming via a virtual tabletop online? I'm aware of: Fantasygrounds OpenRPG Webrpg (defunct?) and soon DnD insider Any others? Opinions on which is best? Which of them has the best toolset for 'finding other people' who are looking for a game? Which of...

Some of the sample characters are well known for their poor design and/or art. Flames about this on the Green Ronins boards got so bad at the launch of MnM 2e that one mod made it a bannable offense to mention certain things, like the art of the Martial Artist. That said I don't recall flames...

Imagine war by long range missile. Two planets in the same system have fired all their nukes at each other. It's going to take about 8 months to a year until the nukes reach their targets. Now all we can do is sit on our respective planets and watch the incoming doom. The war has been fought...

Doesn't forum drama usually take at least two people to create... This same poster started a thread a few days as the 'DM' in this issue saying they knew a player who used the same account was about to cheat. Now we've got part 2...

3E's launch used the net to its advantage, 4E's launch has been hurt by the net. Aside from any other concerns about the systems themselves... 3E had a masterful internet launch, and 4E's was a pure mess. When 3E was in buildup stage, it "suffered" from all kinds of leaks. This website we're...

My GURPS 4e player's book and my Silver Age Sentinels book both fell apart shortly after getting them. For GURPS it was a known issue that many customers had. So many that they sent me a second copy free, along with who knows how many other people. That must have really hurt them financially...

Don't get True20 Adventure Roleplaying or True20 Companion. Get True20 Revised instead. It's the above two books combined and edited for a lower price than the original rulebook.

Different people play well in different ways. Some players use a backstory to give them a solid footing to launch off with. Others find the story from the events of the game. Don't punish either style by rewarding the other. Just let them choose what works for them, and as you get things from...

I'm starting to think Dragonborn make better Avengers than protectors because of the breath weapon issue. Essentially, it becomes a racial power that they aren't able to maximize. Con bonus to Healing Surge is rough for a paladin. After you max out Str (or Cha), then Wis, your next step is Con...

An avenging paladin, basically a DPS toon (damage per second), yes, but a protection paladin is more interesting in being a target - and in a min/max game, in any choice between increasing your chance to be focused on and dealing out damage, the protection paladin should choose chance to be a...

Obviously a little different than a Dragonborne, without the breath weapon... but for my half Elf I've been considering: St 12 Co 14 Dx 12 In 10 Wi 14 Ch 18 Or: change: St to 8 Wi to 16 Other than when I have to make a basic melee attack, Str is useless as far as I can tell as I'm going all...

Present notion on limiting the bonus feat I gave those half-orcs would be to limit it to a racial feat: At level 1, take a bonus feat that is either Orc, Human, or Half-Orc, or take one of the Orc racial powers as an encounter power.