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Just to play Devil's Advocate here: It's been rather disheartening to me that, over the last few years, I'm seeing more and more people who don't pay for any of the gaming products they own, and think that's fine (or worse, actually feel that they hold the moral high-ground above those of us who...

Owlbears are Fey now. Just sayin'.

Only the Runepriest really stands out for me so far. The Monk looks like it might be ok, and I plan on taking a closer look at the Seeker (at first glance I'm not sure it's really up my alley). I'm not really that enthused about the psionic classes flavor-wise, and I don't think I like the...

IMO: damage is not the primary purpose of any of the Runepriest powers.

I just got the search function working again (I just updated Firefox and for some reason it seemed to have screwed a number of things up), and oh boy I notice the debate... I guess I'm best off asking the DM. A lot of this seems like it shouldn't normally be an issue with careful timing of...

OK, so I'm working up a defender for a game I'm in, and I think I'm about to play my first Paladin since 1e. So I've been re-reading the books, and I'm finding Divine Challenge a bit oddly worded... I figured maybe it would have been re-written for clarity somewhere, but the Compendium just...

I've only had a look, myself (I should "borrow" my friend's copy; he has FFXIII and therefore probably wouldn't even notice...), but I don't think you can even use any of these powers without activating one of the riders, making them just as good as any other 1[W]+Stat power, with an added bit...

The rules are very specific about when and what checks you can make, and yes I think the GM has to be very firm about it. This is why earning checks from your traits is so crucial - not only do you get a check in the player turn, but also increase the chance of earning a failure (you need a...

Personally, I think this tends to make the dice more important in Mouse Guard, not less. Or at least more interesting. Gathering and rolling the dice, and the results thereof, have a more dramatic impact on both the feel of play and the development of the story that, say, 4e where you have a lot...

Mouse Guard and Burning Wheel are both really awesome, IMO. I've had great fun running MG for a couple of friends; the "Mice with Swords" thing creates a kind of simplicity that is more (elegant) than just a "basic" version of BW, and I think that the rules really do the source material justice...

One thing that is key, for me, is that a Raid can be spaced out over several nights. This was one of the things that really appealed to me about the digital gaming space that the DDI was supposed to provide. It would be much easier for me to schedule 3 mini-sessions a week than it would to try...

Good reason? Not IMHO. I really can't explain the lack of skills for Fighter and Barbarian, unless the designers just plain forgot about siloing, and especially combined with the class skill lists it has a tendency to make skill challenges a lot less fun. Fighter and Barbarian get 3; the vast...

(Apologies if I get any of the terminology wrong, I don't actually own the game, and while I have two friends who are really enthused about running it we haven't gotten together for a session yet.) But just the basics involves picking out the right set of dice from 6 different kinds, and then...

For me balance (specifically in-built balance within the rules) just isn't much of an issue with 1e. I'd probably go with Labyrinth Lord at this point, but I don't think I'd change much of anything (at least formally) if I had to do the work myself. One of the points (for me, at least) of going...

I indicated "Search or other Site Features", but after reading through the rest of the thread I don't think I actually count. I have an ongoing Community Supporter subscription, but I don't think I'll be resubscribing on the monthly payment plan when it ends, especially since I would get...

First of all, I want this. Badly. Well I'm hoping that the only real issue with simply running it as one continuous adventure will be leveling. I can get around that easily enough. To each his own, personally I haven't seen an RPG yet that can really simulate a fictional world with any real...

While this may indeed be the case the player may simply have had vastly different expectations from what the experience turned out to be, even if purely because of the mechanics. Someone who hasn't been following the news on the FFG site or ENWorld could easily have expected something much more...

Personally, I don't want to play in a convention game with someone who just doesn't want to be there. I've done it, both as a player who's expectations where just not being met and opposite such a player, and it's awkward & uncomfortable in both cases. I'm not suggesting that anyone should storm...

IMO "for no apparent reason" does not equate to "because it's broken". I don't buy that. If WotC had intended for Expertise to exist from the beginning, it would have been in the original PHB. If WotC believed that the pre-Expertise math was broken, Expertise would be errata instead of a feat...

I guess I just still don't see why it has to be a design flaw. If it was negligible, then why bother? And what about other factors? I mean, monster and PC attacks don't have the same effects, for one thing most monsters don't do much special on a critical. Even Sure Strike becomes effective if...