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Love me some dinos in my RPGs. I recently wrapped up a supervillains game in savage worlds, and one of the PCs took a raptor as an animal companion. Which means his nemesis needed an animal companion, so I got myself a shiny new T-Rex to play with.

The more I think about the elemental power source, the more I want classes broken up by element. Earth=defender Water=leader Fire=striker Air=controller Just break it up like Codex Alera does, and go to town. I never confused their furycrafting with D&D style arcane magic.

That diary is an incredible piece of gaming future history. There are so many developments you see in SW that are being mirrored in other games, even 4e has a fair bit of Savage to it. I'm glad you enjoyed the game.

I love D&D... And D&D loves me.

I played second edition in the library at my high school during lunch. When third edition came out, some friends of mine used to skip sixth period with me and game. Memories...

And my PC significantly reduces my prep time. I've done it both ways, and I looooooove me my compendium.

I like this statement. I may steal it. Either way, SW is a wonderful lesson in game design from an abstract angle. Their whole idea of the "black box" effect is an interesting one, and nothing will teach you how to reflavor with flair like that little ten dollar book.

Good point. I'll give you that.

This is a lesson I learned in spades with Savage Worlds. I've used that system to run just about everything under the sun, including games that I was told "couldn't" be run with it. If you tilt your head just so when setting up a game, it's amazing what you can do by thinking outside the box.

I'll agree with the first bit, and disagree with the last bit. WotC really showed no interest in winning back lapsed 2e players with 4e. Even if some jumped back on the bandwagon, most didn't.

Right here is the basic problem with trying to capture anything involving an "old school" feel. Put quite simply, old school means something different to everyone who likes it. If you ask ten different "old school" gamers what "old school" means, you'll get ten different lists of criteria. As...

I reject your premise. Feel isn't necessarily tied to mechanics. Doing a 1e feel is easy, just do an adventure with the grimness/moral ambiguity/wackiness of 1e. Throw in some particularly deadly encounters, as well as traps that have a good chance of killing. Use a bunch of classic...

I'm not sure about the fire resistance thing. The zone isn't technically an attack, and the fire resistance thing specifically states that your attacks ignore fire resistance.

Which I like. It's not too much more damage, and it's avoidable damage.

That was my exact first impression. Suddenly, that huge area is amazing.

There are, however, topics of conversation that aren't broached respectfully. The listed comments are inflammatory, not because you intend them to be insulting, but because they frequently are found insulting. Just because you aren't insulted by them, doesn't mean nobody else will be. In any...

Actually, a lot of people claim that. It's one of the finer low points of the edition war.

It's also a matter of showing restraint and wording things differently to avoid inflaming the situation. Whether you think it is or not, the statement "Edition X isn't D&D" in any of it's variations is an inflammatory statement. You may not get upset about it, but it's a hell of a trigger for...

Even they don't really do this. Tobacco companies release new varieties of cigarette all the time, and Budweiser has released something like ten new beers in the past two years.

I'd say with a few exceptions, like artifacts and the new "rare" magic items, as well as story-based items, the PC's should entirely be in charge. As a DM, I'm too busy focusing on making a good story and making interesting characters, as well as controlling an entire world. Every bit of...