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Nah, he's just got better products.

Think again. Printing posters is $10 per sq ft, at least at the local Kinko's (and my experience is that prices nation-wide are very similar, with the local one being, if anything, cheaper than many other places i've been), which means $240 to print that out at Kinko's yourself. Laminating is...

Funny to see the 'buffing up the kobold' thread, since i've been meaning to ask something related for a while now. I don't have a problem with kobolds being weaker than the other races, in fact i think that's part of their appeal. I want them to be the bottom of the totem pole, all...

Kinda depends what you mean. If you mean personal opinions completely unrelated to the product in question, then, no, i've never not bought an RPG product because of them. Or, at least, not solely because of them--can't rule out them contributing to tipping the balance on a product i was only...

in response to "double swords are silly": You hold up a silly cartoonish villain with an even-sillier name, using a 'kewl' weapon that exists for no other reason than to prove his leet skillz, in a movie that fulfills the 'sequel rule' in spades, as supporting evidence for the...

OK, so where do you put the spikes? If they're not going to be where you risk hitting your own arms, that eliminates the chest, sides, abdomen, hips, thighs (except maybe the backs of the thighs), groin, shoulders, and side of the head. If they're not going to be where you risk hitting your own...

I've chopped and split wood, and watched worldclass lumberjacks do the same. Even for them, using a heavy maul or even some of the larger axes consists of strike, reset, strike, reset, strike, reset. Now, i've never actually been in combat, so i'm conjecturing here, but i doubt that you have the...

this one. And, upon reading further, i'll add: And that's why i said it depends on your exact required definition/form. If a ~2' straight, two-edged blade on each end, with an overall length of around 6', qualifies, then it existed. If, on the other hand, you want something that was...

Well, it depends exactly what you mean by a two-bladed sword, but, to a reasonable approximation, such things existed historically. That is, a weapon that was 2' of blade joined to 2' of blade, with a foot or two of handle in between. I believe repeating crossbows are also a legitimate...

In D&D (of all stripes), 'XP', pronounced 'ekspee', is the only acceptable shorthand for 'experience points'. In other games, 'XP' is never an acceptable shorthand for experience points, even if they are actually called 'experience points'. In other games, they may be called 'exp' (pronounced...

Sure, that can be cool. My complaint is precisely that the races in the PH aren't particularly different from one another, and don't have any internal variation. But if you give them some variety, and actually play them differently, then, yeah, that'd be cool. One thing i'm doing for my next...

See, now that seems to be the impression i get from most D&D players, and why i started this thread. It sounded like that was the norm (at least 'round these parts), while my experiences are closer to human, dwarf, non-PH races, half-elf, halfling, elf, in that order (with gnome and half-orc...

Not a perfect fix, but a significant remedy: mid20: replace all instances of rolling a d20 with rolling a "mid20"--roll 3 d20, and discard the highest and lowest. This significantly decreases the instance of very high and very low rolls. Some consideration needs to be put into how to deal with...

What i dislike can be summed up as: too druidic. If i want someone who is a warrior and survivalist, at home in the wilderness and a bunny-hugger, i can play a druid/ranger. If i don't want the bunny-hugger aspect, the ranger should be the class to do it, but currently isn't. So, ditch the...

After a couple of discussions regarding what is "D&D", and my championing of Arcana Unearthed as being a better fit than D&D3E, i noticed that the most-common sticking point was the races offered. Skipping ahead several steps in my thought chain, we get to this thread. Currently, i'm using...

Yeah, i can accept that. Though it points up a difference of POV: the fact that it *matters* that it isn't balanced, and isn't balanced, is why i'd say it isn't particularly elegant. Which, i think, is the exact inverse of what i said lasts time. Hmmm... maybe just a semantic problem. Anyway...

Whereas for me, it feels like 50% of Hero, with 90% of the required effort. I've just never figured out what it gives me that Hero System doesn't give me either better, or easier. Ditto Tri-Stat dX, nowadays. Personally, i think that everything that GURPS does, CORPS does better; several of...

Well, "relatively simple and elegant" are highly-subjective criteria. If you agree roughly with where i'd draw the line, however, that would eliminate all but Four Colors al Fresco, Panels, With Great Power..., Truth & Justice, and maybe Capes and Hearts & Souls. Even Marvel Universe crosses...

Actually, i believe it's precisely because the Hero System model doesn't really work that well for supers, and has thus left a lot of people dissatsfied, that there've been so many attempts at a good supers RPG over the years. And i don't think any of them succeeded until designers figured out...

Given the complete lack of specified preferences on what sort of supers game you want, i'll recommend several. With Great Power... Advanced Marvel Super Heroes Marvel Universe Mutants & Masterminds Four Colors al Fresco With Great Power... is in many ways the best supers RPG i've yet seen...