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As we're about to retreat, we receive yet another message from Lya, asking for yet another parley. This time, she discontentedly congratulates us on what appears to be our victory for this challenge as her camp is being a total mess, orcs are screaming for their mommies and she fears that...

Old one, but I loved Tonde Burin aka Super-Pig as a kid. My Little Pony is a really great show as well, and especially watchable as an adult with all of its humor and pop culture references. More magic and slice of life though. For movies, you may consider Momo (old one and a great book on...

Trust me, there are puzzles that have more than one solution. But they tend to be more complex. One of the best ones that comes to my mind is the "rainbow room challenge" from the Zeitgeist adventure path where you'd have combat in a color puzzle room and a plethora of choices. Oh and it comes...

The Stanfield problem was mentioned in the Player's Guide. And I guess this was specifically written for Stanfield as he, um, tends to occupy his posts for a very long time and has a unique ability to recall and be his old selves. By the events of adventure 10, deva kind of change (don't want...

Back again, but still busy :) Guess I'll finish the next entry this weekend. And yeah, our campaign is still waaay ahead of this recaps as we had to deal with "Wolf and Men", Majordomo Executus, a Cameo with a Margarita, a Dragon Damsel in distress, and Proto-Borg without a Queen (I guess?)...

Map Railway challenge Hah, found the map:

Ah, I understand where you're coming from. So your proposed mechanic is kind of meta-educational to point a finger at the sometimes not so obvious power imbalance between DM and players. That being said, I think discussing "just RP it" as a commonly used method in the DM guide would be a good...

But in a game with INT/WIS/CHA this would be then the DM's fault, wouldn't it? Telling a dork to "persuade that baron" in character while ignoring his stats or skills and the tell him how he failed because he didn't use his "obvious weakness for cute kittens and love of being addressed with at...

I guess that this is doable, but I generally don't think that getting rid of mental scores is a good idea. Why? Because it creates a major imbalance between the effectiveness of more intelligent or persuasive or socially adapt players. Plus it one-ups the already omnipresent problem that some...

I haven't seen them in 4e either. But they should not be too hard to convert.

Oh, I'm basically the same. My group has been plaing for 15 years now with the occasional break and they are more focused on the RP part as well. I joined another group recently, but I asked the GM (a colleague of mine) about the style beforehand (homebrew world and a healthy mix of all...

I don't know whether discussing the semantics on who or what could be defined as a "gamer" via outside means leads us anywhere. The statistics have their own definition (someone who plays video games every now and then) and with that definition comes other implications, like knowing how to use...

It also depends heavily on the type of strategy. One of the many games I'm playing is a fantasy city building browser game. Strictly PvE, so no plundering and all player-interaction is either trade or other means of cooperation. Women are so common in this game that one of our GMs regularly...

umm... but technically Candy Crush *is* a video game? Just like, you know... Tetris? MMORPGs are a different genre than puzzle games though. Still puzzle games are often first steps to get into the bigger world of gaming ;)

And women tend to have a higher chance of not filling out the gender box as many have had bad experiences being a "girl on the internet". Even if the EN forums are a relatively safe and welcoming space. (I've received some creepy PNs back in the days of the official WotC forum and I know that...

nope, we're definitely not. And some dudes are pretty defensive (to the point of being verbally aggressive) when you dare suggest to play their favorite system a bit differently. I was literally being told in another thread that I played D&D wrong and should be looking for another system when...

Since I currently don't have enough time for another recap and I promised some sort of feedback on the whole track-building challenge a few posts back, this one will be purely "mechanical" in nature. As a disclaimer: We're not exactly your average D&D/PF crowd and certainly have adopted our own...

It is quite a bit different in Germany, and it totally depends on the field. Physics and computer science are worst off with numbers slowly creeping up ~3% (from 23% to 26%) over the last 5 years. Don't have exact numbers for applied engineering (there is a difference between more "theoretical"...

Yep, yet in the sciences one could argue that at least women would have tried to get into them because they are, unlike gaming, not a hobby, but some sort of calling. Or at least offering well-payed jobs. But nope, the situation has been (and in some ways still is) so bad that even today many...