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I'm pretty sure my group would refrain from attacking that goblin, suspecting a trap. And after spending an hour or so of unsuccessfully trying to figure out what kind of trap it is, they may either decide to leave it alone or try to have a talk with the goblin. In other words: Yes, it's an...

What makes faerie tales and fables (and maybe myths, as well) different from the Fantasy genre is their purpose. Imho, they're first and foremost meant as allegories. Fantasy is usually 'just' entertainment. I always felt that Tolkien's work was a strange beast and doesn't really fit in well...

Well, I believe, _some_ encounters should be difficult - very difficult, even. However, if every encounter is very difficult, the game quickly stops being fun. Imho, you should strive for a balance. I still think, the D&D 3e guidelines were perfect: You should have very few easy or "impossible"...

That's pretty close to our group, except I'd swap the percentages of 'getting ready to play' and 'unrelated anecdotes'. These days, we only manage to meet every other month, at best, so there's always a lot of unrelated stuff to chat about.

I suppose that could happen. There's definitely a higher danger to get stuck, i.e. failing to come up with an idea how to make progress. But it could also work in your favor. When playing with a (large) group it isn't uncommon that one or several characters find a clue, and the rest of the...

You can, if the AOE only targets enemies. As mentioned above, the caster then gets to decide who's to be considered an enemy for that casting.

Then why don't you suggest a couple of other holidays from different countries?

Uh,oh. Now we're entering tricky territory. I wouldn't really consider Faerie Tales, Fables, or Myths part of the Fantasy genre. I've seen people call the 'Gilgamech' epos either the first Fantasy or Sci-Fi story interchangeably. I'm not sure I agree with either idea. Imho, Fantasy and Sci-Fi...

I think it's okay for standalone sessions, but I'm not sure I'd care for it for a whole campaign. I used to do solo sessions sometimes to play through events that involved the backstory of a single character. Having said that, I'm quite intrigued by Pelgrane Press' Cthulhu Confidential. Since...

I've read quite a few novels that are clearly 'just' Fantasy. In these novels the authors made no attempt to explain supernatural events in any way and sometimes didn't even bother to put down some rules applying to 'magical' effects or abilities. It's often harder to tell if a novel firmly...

Absolutely, and the idea of a US of A is even more ridiculous... Such a place could never be real!

Alas, that's very much my own take. When I was a kid my favorite superhero comics were the ones about the 'Legion of Superheroes' in the 30th century, especially if they featured Wildfire prominently. A TV show would likely look really cheesy and thematically be turned into an angsty teenage...

That's true. IIRC, I stopped reading after the 4th novel 'House of Chains'. It's not that I disliked the novels, but it's really hard to get back into the story after a break.

In 4e there's two kinds of AOE damage: One kind also affects allies (aka 'friendly fire'), the other only affects enemies. The former would be problematic to use in a crowded street, the latter isn't affected, since it's up to the spellcaster (or power user) to define who is to be considered an...

I was thinking of a lightning bolt spell, which could result in a crit that required the consultation of three additional tables: First, an impact critical, then an electricity critical, and finally a fire critical. I always felt that Rolemaster would be a perfect system to be used as a basis...

Indeed. Rolemaster was a lot worse. Some spell attacks required rolling on four different tables to determine the outcome. One of my favorites in MERP was 'you stumble over an invisible turtle.' Also quite memorable: the one time we actually tried to play MERP my character tried to slit the...

I wonder if that already worked in 2006...

I'm not sure you could turn that convoluted mess into a watchable tv show, to be honest. It's also very much over the top, so it would require pretty good and thus expensive special effects and likely be rated R, too. Still, it would be nice, if they could pull it off, as that would relieve me...

That's something I wouldn't have liked (and hated about the Essential classes). Imho, it was one of the greatest achievements of 4e to make all classes equally complex by using the same mechanical framework. At least he's acknowledging that! I kind of agree that the skill challenge system was...

That's something I wouldn't have liked (and hated about the Essential classes). Imho, it was one of the greatest achievements of 4e to make all classes equally complex by using the same mechanical framework. At least he's acknowledging that! I kind of agree that the skill challenge system was...