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This is how most games I run, apart from D&D, tend to go. I've found that as long as what's happening is interesting, exciting, or funny, no one really minds waiting their turn. Well, for 5-10 minutes. You don't want to make it an hour while the ninja sneaks around or whatever. That will...

Forked from: 4E Consequences: Being passive, cautious, or a loner is now unoptimized I agree. 4e may not be built for the lone wolf, but rather than say 'that's badwrongfun', I thought I'd start a thread about games where that kind of style is rewarded, and how to best run one. The game...

Do you ever buy software? Commercial software is, as a rule, late, lacking in promised features, and buggy. Part of the business.

I really like Dread style questionnaires for getting to know characters better. (if you don't know Dread, look it up - awesome game) The way this would work is you just hand our a brief questionnaire with essay questions for the players to answer. Since they're already established, I'd just...

It would seem to me the solution to the ice mage/fire mage is not in changing the monsters, but in changing the spells. Maybe the ice mages from the north have spells, especially dailies, that have a 'resistence effect'. They Slow the opponent in addition to the lessened damage. Maybe the...

We ran the game with the Ludi system on Saturday, and I loved it. Not having to write down numbers, get the order right, and so on made the fights run a lot faster and smoother. It works out to the same, but it feels like beating the GM for initiative means you get an extra turn. I plan on...

If they move the pricing up for Game Table, I hope there's an option where you have a lesser subscription. I'm not interested in playing on the computer at all, and don't want to pay more for it. I recall hearing they were having trouble with DRM. And such a program isn't simple to put...

Put me down for anti-tomb of horrors. I can think of nasty tricks, but stuff like that takes me out of the game. Why would there be magical rust monster powder in a scabbard, apart from 'to screw the PCs over and destroy their items!' I can't think of any reasonable explaination that this...

For starters, violating copyright isn't a crime.

I'll cop to having pirated books before, though not the 4e ones. I don't like PDFs and rarely buy them - only if its short enough that printing is affordable. And then I still have a product very much inferior to a printed book, so it has to be really cheap. $10 is probably my absolute cutoff...

Same thing got me. Thankfully a friend was in and got me a room.

The best fix I've seen is Rel's house rule, which I'm eagerly stealing. At chargen, you answer two questions. What did you do before becoming an adventurer? and What do you do in your free time? Whatever the player answers, the GM will assign an ability score and treat that as a trained...

Its not fantasy, but you could always go for good ol' Call of Cthulhu. The game has barely changed since the 70s. I'm running Shadows of Yog-Sothoth right now, one of the old school mega-adventures. Copyright 1982 baby. Really, hardly any changes, and those that are there are easily worked...

But the way expected DCs climb, your choices boil down to max it out or have it be useless. Splitting between two, or more, instead of putting a point in it every level will only wind up with a useless bonus. The DCs in the game scale with level, meaning if you want to have a chance to do...

Am I the only one whose group figured out that if you just pick a number of skills equal to your points per level and keep them maxed out, you'll be best off? Most everyone I gamed with did it that way, and it makes it feel just like 4e, except with more math to do.

So golf isn't a game?

I'm not interested at all in generic material. I don't really like setting material in general, which it sounds like most of the examples are from. I only really enjoy setting material when its deeply ingrained into the system. For example, there's almost no chance that I could use a generic...

I think this is by design. 4e encounters are meant to be interesting and engaging, with a lot less encounters where you blow through them.

I would read the user agreement very carefully before I tried that. Most people tend to be touchy about running spiders on their databases, even if they aren't a pay service. I doubt that's the kind of thing they want the users doing. I would be very surprised if you would be allowed to query...

To steal obryn's line, 4e D&D is very good at being D&D. I would not use it for other things, but rather other games. If I want Cthulhu, I'll play Call of Cthulhu. If I want survival horror, I'll play AFMBE or Dread. If I want wuxia over the top fantasy I'll play Exalted. On the Cthulhu...