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Re: Tesla Motors - It is important to note that Elon Musk's blog is less than three months old. In an industry in which it takes years to design, develop, produce, and bring to market a product, it is quite premature to determine that Musk's gambit is a success - that remains to be seen. It is...

Each player will start with a stable of 5 characters; abilities will be generated by 4d6 drop the lowest, arrange to taste. Play whichever character(s) you wish to adventure with this session.

Assuming I ever actually get a chance to play 5th Edition, I think I will determine what I play by building a random character generator and rolling on that: random abilities, random race, random class, random background. This should pretty much ensure that most any character I play will be a...

Love the concept! I think for my purposes, I'd vary the class tables a little for each race. For example, Dwarves would produce more Clerics and Fighters and less Rogues and Wizards than Elves would. So... 60 Human ... 15 Dwarf 30 Fighter 10 Rogue 20 Cleric 05 Wizard...

There is a Q&A thread with Tim Kask over on Dragonsfoot in which the origin of the monk was discussed. Make of this what you will. Dragon Magazine labels itself 100% official content. In Dragon 274 "Rogues and Royal - Heroes and Villains of the Robin Hood Campaign" Friar Tuck is a 5th-level...

Dyson's Dodecahedron is a great resource. His maps section should contain enough blank maps to suit your needs.

Enlighten me as to how this is possible. In 3.5 the Dungeon Master's Guide Tables 3.2: Encounter Difficulty, 3.3: Treasure Values per Encounter, and 5-1: Character Wealth by Level are related in such a way that, if they are strictly followed, they should not produce a character below expected...

It's good to see the ooze is immune to being prone. ;)

No, but that is because 1) they are giving away the Basic set for free and 2) they haven't announced support/adventures for Greyhawk. The former appears to be exactly what I am looking for in D&D while the latter is my preferred setting. I'll buy if/when they produce products for Greyhawk.

I notice. I have been a strategy gamer for a very long time; it is actually hard for me not to notice. However, I also approach RPGs a little differently than I approach other games. With a game like 1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons I will absolutely work to maximize every dollar...

I'm experiencing the same problem. Good stuff, Remathilis.

That's not a no-win situation. That's the DM saying that all orcs are irredeemably evil, and that the duty of the paladin in his milieu is to destroy all orcs. In that situation there is a win - kill the orcs. To make that situation a no-win one would be more along the lines of the following...

The Bard's Handbook by Dictum Mortuum is a great resource. As for skill distribution, I'd go: Bluff 4 ranks Craft (alchemy) 1 rank Diplomacy 4 rank Knowledge (arcana) 1 rank Knowledge (dungeoneering) 1 rank Knowledge (local) 1 rank Knowledge (nature) 1 rank Knowledge (planes) 1 rank Knowledge...

Ah! So to follow pemerton's logic... EGG decided clerics cannot fight with edged weapons because of old stories he read about Archbishop Turpin who was a member of the Twelve Peers who are also known as Paladins, hence Clerics are Paladins?

Huh? Since when are clerics paragons of chivalric virtue? Certain clerics could be, such as those of Heironeous, but clerics of Beory? Lirr? Zilchus? I am having a difficult time understanding which definition of chivalric their clerics fall under!

Interaction between players and having character creation guidelines are two separate things.

Mixed. We use a character stable approach; each person creates 4-6 characters for the campaign. Characters are created without consideration for what already exists in the collective. Each game session, a player chooses one of their characters to run. At this point there may be some discussion...

Sorry, but no. James does not deserve a "Thanks!" for what he did. When he apologizes to the community (and, to be fair, he may have but I haven't seen it), then I grant him acknowledgement. I will give thanks and credit to Tavis and the rest of the guys at Autarch for making good on James's...

Let's start by tossing those (soft) guidelines. If I am running my final campaign it will be run in the style I am most comfortable with: an emergent sandbox. Now, on to the show... Greyhawk, Spring 585CY. The City of Greyhawk, Greyhawk Wars, and From the Ashes define the base setting. Rary...

IMPOSSIBLE TO ANSWER. I run a Swords & Wizardry game and a 3.x game. I also ordered the D&D Starter Set. I am planning on continuing my Swords & Wizardry game (Circle the Wagons, fellow Grognards!), continuing my 3.x game (Thriving as is!), and trying out the D&D Starter Set (On the Fence). So...