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A couple of things that prevent this from occurring with the houserules I use: 1. Not sure why you'd think you'd go 5 higher in your example. If you dropped a from a heavy load down to a light load, your -6 Init penalty would go away (and you'd end up with a new Init of 11). Drop from Med to...

Sucks to be last in initiative order, doesn't it... Carrying a heavy load and roll low on initiative? Then you'll be fumbling with the straps on your pack before you can ditch it. Let's say you normally have a +2 init and are wearing full plate (Max Dex +1) and, with the additional weight of...

For me it is very very simple. I don't care where on your body you carry all your stuff. Just know that I want an accurate adding of the weight and you shouldn't plan on having access to all of it during combat unless you don't mind going last in the round because I've houseruled t hat medium...

Based upon how we've done it in our D&D game, it really doesn't seem to be a problem at all. You just have to wrap your head around a few ideas that seem non-intuitive at first: 1. Use of dice pools seems to be a must as it drives probabilities far better than a single d20 roll to-hit. 2. DR...

If this comes to fruition, I stand corrected on WotC getting their act together. :)

That approach would just piss me off to no end. I've no desire to be tied to their crappy DDI and the idea of "holding back" an entire library of product that is already sitting on an idle server somewhere waiting to be made available is going to turn people off. They certainly aren't going...

First - I messed up the orc's first attack in my example - his rolls (after being wounded) should've been 9 and 14, rather than 9 and 10... Mea Culpa. As to how fast it plays - all the work is on the DM and players before hitting the table if they are smart - no different than the detail on...

First - I messed up the orc's first attack in my example - his rolls (after being wounded) should've been 9 and 14, rather than 9 and 10... Mea Culpa. As to how fast it plays - all the work is on the DM and players before hitting the table if they are smart - no different than the detail on...

I'm sure someone can do a search from a few years ago when Scott Rouse accused me of calling him a liar when I questioned WotC's approach to pdf products (but I didn't expect them to then go and pull their entire back catalog as well.) I once again predict that unless they do a watermarked...

The problem with that approach is that the FLGS would have to actually function as a store like other businesses do rather than the "gamers hang out here, I stock stuff I like regardless of whether or not it'll sell, and maybe get some sales" model. My nearest FLGS is more a "game and comic"...

Pretty much all of the D&D/d20 rules, regardless of game, stink when it comes to handling of armor if you are looking for anything more than a "this arbitrary number meets that arbitrary number" in that there is no "reason" for why the numbers are what they are other than trying to scale with...

I'm gonna stop your plot in its tracks: what if the PCs see the town under siege as they arrive and decide to turn around and ride to a different town instead? I know that that is what my players would do unless they were playing Dudley-do-Right or law-and-order types of characters. I'd...

It'd be different it was sports where the players may be way more talented at it than you. But watching a bunch of people who may be at the same or lower level of competence at the activity than me? Nope. Now - if it were a commentary show, that'd be different. But watching people do what I...

Regardless of whether you use AC, DR, Active Defense, the single biggest factor in making things simple is to end the AC, BAB and hit point arms race - it looks like you've limited your bonuses to both defense and DR - do you stack any bonuses from magic, natural armor, etc.? I also like that...

I prefer a third option: Armor as penetrative divider damage reduction - armor has a value that gets multiplied by a weapon's penetrative value to result in an effective armor value that reduces damage. I'd use the critical multiplier as the penetrative value instead of using it as a crit...

Where do I begin... For a quick and easy game, I like d6 (and it is free!) rules - fantasy, sci-fi, all there. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of work to build your own system using the d6 rules. For super-heroic (but not supers) gaming, my preferred system is TORG. I managed to purchase a...

In no particular order: Alternity, d6 Star Wars, d6 Space (I actually prefer to d6 Star Wars unless the intent is an actual Star Wars campaign), Classic Traveler, and Star Frontiers. Of them, I like Star Frontiers the best for a quick beer-n-pretzels game.

Really very simple - inventory management and encounter management used to be a part of the game that is now considered "not fun," so most people don't do it to the level they need to. How many of you record details of encounters with NPCs? How many record the details of how a magic item was...

Mature (40+) group looking for one or two more players for our Forgotten Realms campaign using Pathfinder rules. We're currently involved in the Cormyr-Shadowdale-Anauroch series, but vary source material for follow-on campaigns. We've played in Eberron, Kalamar, Greyhawk, and DCC's Aereth...

You just have to do one of two things: 1. Restrict the options in the games you play. For example - if you play Pathfinder, you could say that your players are only allowed to use the core Pathfinder book and that the spiked armor, spiked shield, and spiked chain are not allowed. Spells are...