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Ayup. Prep is one thing, because you can do it solo, in pieces over the course of the week or whatever. Slowing things down once everyone's gathered around the table is much more significant. I'm not worried yet, I don't sweat previews when I can avoid it, but it's a valid concern. Now founded...

I disagree. I don't find that PTA (the one game among those you mentioned that I've any experience with) offers much if anything in terms of tactical play. It's like saying that if I don't want to eat the entire pie, just a slice, then I should eat cake instead. One of the reason that 4e...

I don't think everything needs to be a "gateway product". It's something I can enjoy for it's own sake, and if it sells to people who aren't actually interested in RPGs I think that's icing on the cake. But that does assume that it's done well, I think that a shoddy product could well hurt the...

Well, I'm not really a fan of you-know who, but the board games have been damn good fun so far, "Legend of..." should be more of the same. What's going to be interesting (to me, at least) is seeing if there's any published / potential use for Conquest of Nerath as a tool for handling...

I can't tell if the OP is looking for more of a wargame or an RPG, but I'll throw out my suggestion of Mechaton. You'd need the rules and some legos... the indie rpgs un-store

So I ran this session today. We only ended up playing two and a half hours, but we got two encounters in, so I guess it was about twice as fast. For the first encounter I had a Fire Giant, a Fire Giant Firedancer, and a Fire Giant Forgecaller, all leveled down to 13. It wasn't really swingy, or...

Hard-core 3.5 fans are going to like Paizo, hard-core 4e fans are going to like WotC. The difference lies in the middle ground. Players who prefer 3.5 but don't like everything in Pathfinder can buy the game, make the changes they want, and pretty much be done with it. 4e players who want to...

There's also Hop Up, but it's from Martial Power.

Huh? The movement portion of powers is optional (unless otherwise specified), and you only provoke an OA by leaving a square. By RAW* the DM has no room to disallow a trick because you didn't leave your starting square, or to cause the trick to provoke an OA (unless something in the specific...

You've got me covered.

That's not completely true. You didn't have the same type of mechanical validation of the character's actions, but those validations only cover specific choices / circumstances. In 1e / 2e you had no specific rules for for sliding down a banister or swinging from a chandelier, but you still...

I have to admit that this was just a few ideas I threw together overnight after reading the thread on simulation & skills over in 4e Discussion. I had considered making a submission to Dragon out of this, but I just don't have the time to flesh it out. I tried to balance these against other...

D&D rules aren't realistic. You might get realism in the fiction, but if I had to give a numerical value to the "realism index" of various editions I'd say: 1e: exactly zero. 2e: not enough data for a significant result. 3e: exactly zero. 3.5: exactly zero. 4e: exactly zero. The only issue...

Well, I hope I get in. I seem to have opted in, except that I haven't been getting any other communications... I'd contact customer service to double-check, but apparently I don't have permission to actually use that link...

When I was playing 1e AD&D I played a number of half-orc characters. One of the things about playing a half-orc (one of the fun things, IMO) was that you just knew the NPCs where going to mess with you. You where practically playing a monster! If you where lucky (or not, the phrase "with friends...

Good times, indeed! I can't give you XP right now, but you're seriously making me want to move to Portland... OBOT: This is yet another really cool concept that I think I would have a hard time fitting into a game as a DM (and as a player... oh, wait, I never get to play...); or, rather I think...

I'm sorry, but I hate this argument. The battlemat does not do anything to make players think or pay attention. I've regularly had the same players who use this argument in defense of the battlemat spend 2+ minutes asking me to describe what everything I've drawn is, even if I just described it...

Well, to me they seem like they didn't accomplish what they set out to accomplish. "Failed concept" is just my opinion of them, I don't have huge amounts of experience with the classes (I doubt I'll ever get to play any of them, especially since I have at least a half-dozen character concepts...

The only themes we've seen so far have been the Dark Sun ones, but they already allow a limited amount of multiclassing - and at least in some ways it's better than standard multis. You aren't required to take a theme that matches the role or power source of your class. And since you can swap in...

Craft and Performance Skills Craft and performance cover a wide range of skills. When you learn a craft or performance skill you must choose a particular craft or art that you gain proficiency in. Craft and performance do not count as class skills for any class unless you take the appropriate...