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Hmm, another necrobump? I've been playing for about 25 years, and when I DM I mostly use point buy. When I play, I'm happy with whatever. I can honestly say I've never noticed a difference in my or my players overall enjoyment of the game or playing style based on generation method. Maybe I'm...

I've got the Greyhawk gazetteer (the first little one, not the LG) and Diamond Throne. The latter I bought for the crunchy bits to stick into my own AU game so I don't use very much of the setting stuff. The former I no longer use as a setting, but I like to read through it and my 1st edition...

Kind of a hard sci-fi guy myself... in that vein, I'd look for Traveller (classic, Mega-, GURPS, or Marc Miller's various republishings - all good), Traveller 2300, or GURPS' other sci-fi efforts. Space Hero is a nice compromise between hard sci-fi and classic space opera. For a more space...

38, according to IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000096/ I always liked the one-off episodes better than the conspiracy episodes, but I imagine Carter would only be interested in doing the movie to advance the conspiracy storyline.

That depends on how you define "truly important". If you mean in the context of how they play the game and what factors bear on some of them surviving that far, then yes, I'm 100% certain a lot of that is left out. I know this because in interviews Mark Burnett has said he edits the show to tell...

Fair comment. But... Getting voted out long before the tribes merge, like Burton and Lillian did, is an indication they didn't play very well, and exactly the reason why I don't believe either outcast can win against any non-outcast. If your hypothesis is correct, then all Jon or Sandra or...

Kinda doubt it. One of the reasons for publishing Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men was that Stan Lee's teen heroes were no longer teenagers - they were twenty or thirtysomething, often married, sometimes with kids, etc. Hitting the reset button let Spider-Man get back to juggling high...

Hmm, I'd say Yesterday's Enterprise was the best of the TNG time travel episodes. Like CotEoF, it built a tension between making things better right now and making things turn out the "right" way. That sort of tension is rare in modern Star Trek time travel episodes, and completely absent in...

Chris Claremont's X-Men got me back into comics in my teens, just a great run. I picked it up right around the first "Days of Future Past"-type storyline, when Kate Pryde went back in time to take over the body of young Kitty Pryde and stop the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from assassinating...

You might have trouble finding a better one, then - prior to Trials of Atlantis, DAOC was one of the better games for getting to the top level fairly quickly and having something other than kill/heal/kill/sell to do once you get there. Game companies (including Mythic with ToA, unfortunately)...

Nah. I think the only realistic chance Burton has to win is to go to the final two with Lil - everyone else will beat him just because they didn't get a second chance, and neither did most of the jury. So the jury will vote for the survivor who made it to the final two without a second chance...

My first conversions for playtesting were Feng Shui characters - most definitely a wuxia-style game. Gaming-wise, wuxia is basically supers with a particular descriptive style, so it should work. You'll want to get fairly creative with the character building system to make sure all the...

Hmm. Yet another time travel episode on the same night they're going head to head against Survivor. I suspect this week's ratings might be a wee bit lower than normal...

I dunno, I thought the Wild Cards supplements were pretty neat, and some of the material on non-heroic supers made for some good ideas (Supertemps and such). But yeah, their more generic supers stuff was generally pretty ordinary, and I never felt the system handled Marvel/DC-type power levels...

And does it with so much style people don't like to get on his bad side, yes. As opposed to the OA Samurai, who is somebody a lot like a Fighter but has slightly different skill and feat access and carries around a katana and wakizashi for the purpose of kicking ass. If you're saying "you know...

I'd probably say "hey, this class looks like it's for people who want to be Musashi", and go from there. From that point of view, it seems to fall pretty close to at least one vision of what it's trying to model. As for the OA version, that's a replacement for the Fighter. There's no good...

I probably didn't phrase it correctly. What I mean is on first read through, it seemed to me that there were some obvious ways to do certain power combos/templates, and also efficient ways to do them... and the two aren't necessarily the same. A player who always looks for the efficient way to...

I just bought Mutants and Masterminds this past weekend, and the V&V comparisons seem particularly apt - is it just me, or is the first scene in the M&M sample adventure basically lifted from Crisis at Crusader Citadel? Gave me a good chuckle. Overall, I really like the book, and I'm looking...

I believe most d20 products just refer generically to higher or lower planes, or use names that suggest D&D's planes (for example, saying devils come from Hell). Any reason why you couldn't make some fairly broad outer planes up? Perhaps one each for Good, Evil, Law, and Chaos. It sounds like...

Hmm, my impression is they're using Voyager-type scripts, just the acting is generally better. That's a common pattern for the franchise - TNG had a lot of early scripts "recycled" from the Star Trek TV series that was planned for the 70s but never got to TV, and Voyager and DS9 both borrowed...