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"Howzabout" you don't tell me what to think or feel? I don't find references to rounding up a group of people and sticking them in ovens to be funny. If you think pointing out my feelings on the matter is inappropriate, either ignore me or find a mod who agrees with you. Again, please don't...

They would smell just like any other group of people that you threw in an oven. Are you sure you want to continue with this analogy?

"Papers please!" Not voting in any more public polls. I am a compulsive poll-voter, so this is like giving up sex for me. For some paranoid reason I think some fanatics out there are making lists, taking names. I just finished deleting a terrifying rant from the grognard poll that would have...

Fence sitter. I think having a game named D&D as the market leader makes it easier to fill slots in my home game which shares the same name (if not the same rules). I would prefer it if someone more along my mindset owned the trademark, though, so here I am enjoying the fruits of their labors at...

Psionics have a biological psuedo-science explanation for why they work at their root. They're science fiction, regardless of the type of fantasy they show up in.

This is Games Workshop's strategy. Rules every x number of years, with a rotating schedule of codices (splat books, or class books). They tried the lower price point for smaller releases track, and the fan base howled at the loss of background information. If WotC is taking their cue (at least...

I started to, even was designing the campaign world in that way from the ground up - the PCs were actually going to be plugged into a VR on the Warden, essentially playing a MMO until they woke up. I changed course before we even got to the first session and played it straight instead. I felt...

With the right/wrong game master, all of them. Seriously though, Dark Heresy or WFRP1e/2e can be brutal until you get some advances under your belt.

Okay. And...? I'm just commenting because it seems a lot of RPG players have a bad reaction to wargames... and if you dig deep enough it's because the opponent is suddenly equal and the person who supposedly seeks tactical challenges doesn't really know what a tactical challenge is. He also...

Most of them also have an equal chance of one side or the other winning, something RPGs generally don't. But you're right. D&D gained so much popularity partly because the things you could do with it expanded beyond simple combat moves - but this was quaintly classified as "role-playing" by the...

So... in addition to retrocrafting (in your OP), you've also used the crafting system to "decorate Christmas trees". You might fit the label that your DM has given you. To answer your original question: Yes, craft feats are breakable. WotC probably never fixed it because 4/5ths of the audience...

Ah jeez. I've got nothing nice to say about that. CAN'T HELP IT EDIT: Sphere of Annoyalation?

Considering the changes they made when they updated White Plume Mountain to D&D3... have they dulled down the blade here too? Is the Green Devil Face still touch and die, or is it some sort of status effect now?

This is the second topic I've noticed lately that shines a light into the uglier side of online RPG fandom. Again, the reaction is to be as expected... "Hssssssss." Second - it's interesting to note that the original premise (which I don't entirely agree with in this case, but did in the other)...

If you like playing games without the roleplaying, have you thought about trying some of the tactical wargames out there, like Mordheim, Necromunda, Squad Leader, Gangs of Mega City, Descent, Doom, or those sorts of things? A lot of them even have character advancement, have a "lite-roleplay"...

Crafting feats aren't a problem until you either start at high levels and allow retro-crafting, or you get a player intent on stepping on the neck of the game and seeing if it chokes. If you get either of those, drop the crafting rules from the game, stop decorating Christmas trees, and play...

Ah, you made it sound like you thought all (or a lot of) old modules were that way, and not a specific Dungeon mag module inspired by Tomb of Horrors. Whole different ball of wax, there. The idea, I think, with these sort of dungeons is either to accept that it's a deathtrap and play with...

I'm not sure if I ever noticed a lot of that specific method (although it is just another form of the ingrained "left is bad, right is good"), but in general fantasy rpgs starting with the Greyhawk supplement onwards have moved dealing with traps and exploration from role-playing methods to...

Hmm, my campaign world is half the size of Earth, but still a globe. How that would affect how far you can see? I've just been cutting the standard ballpark 3 miles down to 2 and not worrying about it... but it would be interesting to know the correct numbers.

Rant! The smelly gamer thing, while true in some circles, is usually just a lead-in to do what you've done here. Call gamers fat. Hairy. Ugly or otherwise outside the physical norm in some way. Once you say gamers smell, it seems you can say anything about them and nobody bats an eye - it's all...