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Class Acts article June 2008 Dragon. Plenty of will targeting stuff in there.

This should answer the stealth question once and for all. ;) How Not to be Seen http://youtube.com/watch?v=zekiZYSVdeQ

Wearing armor in Rolemaster can be a good idea, but you don't have to go that route if you don't want to. Armor effectively acts as damage reduction, causing hits against you to be less severe than if you were unarmored. If you look at the tables, it's often easier to hit people wearing armor...

I had thought about using the WoW female draenei model as a tiefling by recoloring the image in Photoshop. I'll have to try that in my copious free time someday (after WorldCon).

I think it would be great to compile some Obsidian skill challenges in a thread or on the Wiki so other GM's could make use of them or be inspired by them. Hearing how they actually turned out in play is very valuable also. I haven't had a chance to run 4E yet, but my first game is tonight...

Daily items once/day only? Being able to use a daily power on 1 item per day for heroic tier seems extremely limiting. Adding another use each time you reach a milestone helps of course, and does encourage people to reach milestones, but I still expect some complaints from players. Certainly...

I will not be mocked by false claims of music-videoy gameplay. I maintain that the best RPG ever is the Tetris LARP! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LtUX_6IXY

I was rather surprised when I first read the treasure parcel system, but I think I'll come to like it provided that it's not followed blindly. If one of my players were ticking off treasure parcels, I'd smack him upside the head and tell him to stop meta-gaming (well, I'd have a monster smack...

Whatever the WWGD adventure is, it sounds like it was designed poorly for first level characters. You shouldn't be facing several mobs with those sorts of defenses at first level. For a tough encounter (boss fight), I can see doing something like that perhaps, but that should be a deliberately...

The humor tag is missing because this is D&D, so it's Serious not funny. ;) I liked the full frontal nerdity comic personally.

Nice work, thanks! I'll be printing out a couple of these for my upcoming 4E game.

I did not read all of your book, but I liked the descriptions of the alignments. I think that some of the actual powers are unbalanced. I expect some of my players will choose to be good and some will be unaligned (evil isn't an option for PC's in this particular campaign). Why should a heal...

Give it up people. We're all just WotC robots, so let's get back to our mindless kowtowing to the 4E devs. Nothing to see here. Where'd I leave that incense I was going to burn on the WotC altar?

For people who want to interest their girlfriend / spouse in gaming, you might have her read Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress. I haven't read it myself, but it has apparently helped some women understand the appeal of gaming and to get past all the stereotypes. She may not want to play...

That's right. Everyone can use 2 dailies, 2 encounters, and 1 utility power at 5th. Wizards get to choose from a larger selection in the spellbook.

He may well be perfectly happy, nevertheless I am sorry for him because he said he was *glad* to not play RPG's with his wife, or be in a group that included couples or people with children. I think he's missing out on some worthwhile experiences that might enrich his playing, but that's just...

I feel sorry for you. My husband and I have been gaming together since we met in college. Certainly not everyone is interested in gaming, even if their partner does it, but for us it's always been something we shared. Our group is two couples, and two singles.

My kids are 10 and 13, and I'd like to get both of them involved in a D&D game. My older son played in our main group for awhile, but got invited to a Warhammer game with people closer to his age and he'd rather do that one (they are on the same day). My younger son would rather play with his...

I think letter grades would be more useful than numeric ones (A,B,C,D,F), with pluses or minuses added for more subtle gradation. You could also put build notes in (A+ for tactical warlord, B for Inspiring).

But to maintain that equilibrium there still needs to be a certain influx of new gamers as those who become bored and jaded wander off to other pursuits. Without actively pursuing new gamers, the pool of players for a given system will diminish slowly over time. Of course the best way to...