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Combos that have Creature A immune (or not relevant) to the nasty area attack of Creature B are always trouble; some examples occur earlier on the thread, but I'm pointing out the principle here. The effect really needs to be acknowledged as a minimum +1 EL adjustment at low levels and maybe as...

I've always wanted to know how it is that people who feel weird about people playing the opposite gender never have a problem with opposite gender NPCs. I know, most NPCs are not played for sustained amounts of time, but it's pretty much the same thing. And occasionally, the NPCs are played...

Are there no Pacific Northwesterners replying to this thread??? No mentions at all of Deschutes Brewery? Especially the Black Butte Porter?

Unlike MoogleEpMog, I like the idea of planar travel, and being able to go to other worlds. Like MoogleEpMog, I hate Planescape. The more I hear or see of it, the more I hate it. I'm glad to see on this thread that some people are finally noticing that dungeonpunk started there, instead of...

I can understand the original poster's frustration ... what he's complaining about is a very prevalent stereotype, and it is every bit as annoying as he describes. But, as many of the replies have pointed out, as strong as that stereotype is, it isn't a part of the actual rules. In some cases...

With Victor von Doom, the point is arrogance. In the comics, conveying his arrogance is done by having him rant and rave in ways that work in a static picture but don't work well on film. But for verisimilitude on the character, you have to lean that way. The solution is that Doom still gets...

The Tac-Tiles are 10 x10, so the set of a dozen (that's what I got) gives you a 40 x 30 area at it's most square. And they are great. Nicest feature is that is no longer an edge to the board, you just erase something you aren't using and add it on. I've never needed more than my 12, but I...

Runequest only allowed magic to those who called upon deities in the first two editions, so far as I know. Third edition added their version of arcane magic as well as shamanism as a third type, sort of inbetween. Thanee, you've mentioned "Midgard" in a couple of your posts. I assume it's...

I first ran across this one in Marilyn vos Savants column (the one and only reason to touch a copy of Parade magazine in the paper). It's amazing how stubborn the 50/50 contingent is on this one when the actual test is so easy to do. Of course, I also saw someone write into said column...

Gotta chime in with Hellhound on this one. The fact that depictions in the artwork from the ruins match Plato's description of the plants and animals found, certain customs and even favored color schemes of the Atlanteans clinches it as the origin of the story for me until someone finds...

Yes indeed, Patricia Tallman has done stuntwork. Most notably for many on these boards, I'm sure, is that she stepped in for Gates McFadden on Next Generation. And to name three out of oh-so-many: Susan Ward, Tiffany Bolton, Lydie Denier.

I played a game of one version of GW, I don't know which one it actually was. It was one of the early ones, though -- that session took place in 1981, plus or minus one year. It was amusing, but not a game I could take seriously to play for extended campaigns. My character was an...

Not only do I like this idea, I actually prefer campaigns to be written up along these lines. I like a nice framework to start with, and then do my own thing in. That's why I'm gung-ho for the "backdrops" feature in the Dungeon -- that's the level of detail I want. By the time the third or...

My thanks to S'Mon for providing a fine concrete example to demonstrate the abstract point I was trying to make earlier with the comment about finding plothooks in the moral baggage.

"However... Had you included a third option of "Fatigue Based Casting" I would have voted for it immediately. I don't even know that a good (in my opinion) implementation of fatigue based casting has been produced for d20 yet, but the concept alone gets my vote." Like the psionics in Green...

And let us not forget, for those to whom "High Plains Drifter" was too subtle, "Pale Rider".

Well, I'm in my early 40's, so I remember the popularity of the Western, or at least the last part of that time. Helps that my parents loved them ... but in those days I didn't. I was the comic-books, horror and science fiction fan/weirdo. I only started to appreciate the western genre when...

Wow ... a lot of love for Alternity here. Which I have most of the books for, and have never had a chance to play. I'm a bigger fan of space opera than sword and sorcery. (By which I mean, on a scale of 1 to 10, the fantasy genre gets a mere 9.5.) I've always wanted to give it a try, but...

To me, the definition of "railroading" is a scenario where what the players do means nothing. The worst offenders I've ever seen were the DC Heroes game adventures. Almost every encounter had a section called "Troubleshooting" which was basicly this:" If the players deviate from the plot by...

Calculate saving throws, buy equipment, work out your AC and your hit and damage numbers with the weapons you bought, choose your alignment. Find some guy sitting behind a cardboard screen. Have him (or her) tell you what your immediate environment is. Describe what you do in that...