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I think I'm in the minority here, as a DM that's actually RUN a spelljamer campaign. Two actually, although one was just a week-long one-shot running through one of the SJ modules. The campaign that I ran was actually pretty successful, I think for two reasons. First, I made my own solar...

I've never had a truly huge level/power disparity in any of my D&D games, the worst it's ever been was a 2-3 level difference between highest and lowest. In that case, there's generally not that much difference in power level, and the gap closes quickly. That 3000 XP everyone in the group just...

Based on the expression on her face after the stabbing, I kind of got the impression that she did it herself. More questions about Sylar, and one answer. HOW did he manage to re-start time? I doubt he has any kind of time-control power, and I also doubt he has the Haitian's power-cancelling...

See, when I first scanned through the topics in the rules forum, I saw "Quick! Grapple a Furry!" not "Grapple & Flurry!". I was prepared to be duly horrified...

I'll have to check my DVR to confirm, but I think her response to Claire's question was to smile mysteriously and say "I've made mistakes in the past" and "that kind of life is no good for you". She doesn't confirm that she has powers herself, just that she's been caught up in the power scene...

He's also overconfident and smug. He's got to taunt the ineffectual hero and let him go, he's an archetypal Villain, that's his narrative obligation... I think this results in a resurrected Roy taking some levels in some fighter/mage prestige class, after several strips' worth of...

I like the sound of it, and I'll second the opinion that this could be a nice final resting place for the poor, tortured Polymorph spell. I haven't actually seen the variant, though. Could anybody post some more specifics on how it works? Instead of replacing the Druid's stats with an...

I think it can be argued that the success of Sin City had as much to do with getting 300 quickly greenlit as any political agenda did.

The explanation that I always gave for the reason they can't just Beam a new bridge module into place (and I don't remember if I read this somewhere, or just made it up), is that there is an upper limit to the size/mass of an object that can be transported. As an object gets bigger the amount...

Honestly, I think you've got enough of an overall plot right there. Work out some specific adventure ideas that you'd like to play out (maybe allies of the pimp come for revenge, or there is a kidnapping, or the group is contacted to help with a major heist, etc). But you've got the seeds...

Without Wizards publishing D&D material, we won't have a canonical source of "real" D&D, but D&D won't go away. It will change, the business of publishing RPG books may evolve-or-die, but D&D will still be around. We have the OGL, and a robust internet community...we didn't have these things...

An important part of getting the players invested in the game is as simple as giving them what they want. If a player is not interested in interacting with townsfolk in the nearby village, for example, no amount of back-story and NPC development is going to make it interesting for them...

To play devil's advocate about the Fence... Pseudoscience It is a sonic fence. As pseudoscientists know, all animals can hear sounds outside the range of human hearing. Thus, percieving the dangerous nature of the ultrasound they are hearing, they instinctively avoid the area, even as the...

Hmm...I'm thinking of another genre/sci-fi show of recent years that was shown out-of-order and in wierd and changing time-slots, and how much that effected its' long-term viability. This sorta' thing shows a fairly large lack of support from the network...even though there's a world of...

I've had a creepy thought about Sylar. He's essentially a polar opposite/dark-mirror reflection of Peter, right? Peter is a twin brother. Sylar should have a twin, too. Of course, it wouldn't be an over-protective, stable figure like Nathan. Oh, no... "That sound, in your heart. What is...

Unlikely, I think. If so, he would already have Claire's power, after having been near her in the locker room. Peter absorbed her power, and was patched back up after the fall almost immediately. Sylar was still pretty messed up. He would also have Hiro's power, from when he was in the...

Easy. Knowing that he would need Claude as a mentor, Peter [channeling Hiro] goes back in time, [channeling Claude] invisible, and [channeling Sylar] telekinetically pulled the trigger, knowing that this is what Claude needed to make his escape. And it's logic like this that says Peter's gotta...

We'll have to see. If they did, innit the most tragic thing EVER?

Excellent episode. I missed signifigant chunks of it (the opening bit, and the part where Ted started losing control), but I'm still a little unclear about some of the "revelations". We saw HRG's boss, but still don't really know who he IS, or who they all work for, right? We already knew...

Whenever I've heard the term "Gish" (which, in 15 years of gaming has only been recently on the internet), I am reminded of the words of Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel. To quote from his seminal work, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Who am I? My name is Ish. On my hand I have a...