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Giving choices back in the hands of the DM is a good thing. I do not see a fundamental opposition between a game system that provides you tools and set pieces that make prep work a breathe, and choices that allow the DM to tailor the campaign's exact tone, content and game play to the...

*nod* What about DDI and the rules updates that will align its contents with Essentials (akin to the magic missile update)? I've seen many a 4E fan actually quite worried about this. There might be a huge discrepency between the DDI content and how it will compare to the original Player's...

How about an actual Scottish Highlander that travelled through the Multiverse accidentally and crashed onto Golarion somehow? :lol:

1. Do you avoid Forgotten Realms products? 4e FR products, yes. Other FR products, not really, though I'm not running FR at the moment. 2. Do you like either Pre or Post spellplague only, and if so which one and why? I prefer Grey Box FR. Pre-Times of Trouble. I'm okay with 3rd ed FR. The...

I'm an O/AD&D player, and I'm going to check it out. Whether or not I adopt it as one of the games I run heavily depends on what I read in there, so I'm not exactly "powerless against it". We'll see.

Congratulations are in order. My best wishes to you both. :)

Basically. There are some heavily mitigating aspects to playing a Monk character. None of crippling for the smart player and DM (who includes stuff like the brass knuckles alluded to earlier in this thread and similar items), but all in all, it is not an easy class to play under typical...

Whatever game exists just as a digital database will not see any play at my game table. Not that I refuse for the game to evolve and adapt to new audiences, but I play with actual people, at an actual game table with actual books laying on it. If the all-digital is the way of the future, I...

Just read about your marital problems on the other thread. I really think you are doing the right thing. Take care of yourself, your wife, and your life together. Get the hell out of the hole you find yourselves into. Work at it together. There's just no time for gaming in this sort of...

You've got your world and everything. That's cool. Now, set all that pile of stuff aside for a moment. You'll come back to it gradually, when needed. Think of how you'd want to start the game. What is the first thing you're going to describe to your players? Where are they? What's going on...

It works with Fantasy as well, in the sense that aspects that would be psychological and subtle in the characters' psyche in a story set in real life can be made concrete and visible through a Fantasy medium. A character with a dark side of his psyche could be an Hannibal Lecter type of psycho...

What kind of NPC would I go for? I guess it would heavily depend on the character I'm playing. It's the kind of thing where I actually try to think and feel as my character, instead of going for a "type" I would prefer in real life. It's part of the fun of being someone else in a weird magical...

I have a question for you: why do you care to the point you create a whole new thread asking people feedback about it? It seems kind of counter-productive, because it gives people yet another occasion to rant a little more, to take a little more offense, and to throw snarky comments at each...

OD&D AD&D First Ed Stormbringer/Hawkmoon RuneQuest 3 Vampire the Masquerade, 2nd Edition Nephilim, 2nd edition (French version) In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas Mythus Lejendary Adventures MERP Cyberpunk 2020 WEG/d6 Star Wars Iron Heroes Arcana Evolved Man. So many more. That'll do for now.

Depends on the state, I believe. ;)

Everybody knows I'm into RPGs. When I'm asked about my hobbies, I talk about RPGs. I'm pretty much the antithesis of the "RPG Closet gamer", and never had any problem with other people. It's all a question of the manner in which you approach the topic, really.

Just a note here to rave about cperkins' AD&D3. This is a real gem right there. Dowload it and have a look! Who knows? You might find the D&D middle ground you always wanted. In any case, kudos Chris for the hard work, and for sharing its fruits with us! :)

* The idea of Defenses ratings * The unaligned part of the alignment system * The Iron Heroes bits (see cperkins' post) * The emphasis on group tactics and team play (how powers combine and so on) * The Rituals system I actually like some aspects of 4e quite a bit. It's the implementation, the...

I think you should read Baugh's "opinion" again. Very poor form indeed.

Absolutely. Hence my suggestion to start the game when they are prisoners (with the players knowing this when they are creating their characters prior to the game), and then play the part where they escape, which makes their choices meaningful, instead of railroading them being caught with no...