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I'm not sure about Rahne, but Mystique definitely did, following that old tradition of making villains into heroes once they've been around so long that they're like protagonists in their own right. Similarly, Sabretooth was an X-Man right up until Wolverine recently killed him (wonder how long...

Yeah. That annoys the hell out of me. Steampunk has been used in fantasy so frequently that a whole lot of people think steampunk is by default a fantasy subgenre. So much so that folks like Dice4Hire don't seem to even require steam power to label something "steampunk". On the other end of...

The PCs in the D&D game I'm running are young folks from a town called Cliffpass, deputized by their local city watch to investigate some things the real watch lacked the manpower to get into. We've ended up calling them the Cliffpass Junior Watch, and suggesting that at some point they're...

Any feelings on superheroes and pulp adventure? Because Mutants & Masterminds is awesome (as long as you're cool with point-based character generation) and Spirit of the Century is looking like the coolest thing to happen to RPGs in years (as long as you're cool with new-school narrativist...

My first D&D character was Venger. My friends and I didn't form a party and go on adventures; we played solo at home and then tried to kill each other when we played together. Woah. Now that ain't just a "lol, newb" situation; that is a clinical psychiatric problems situation.

Exactly. It's a hell of a cool concept--particularly the whole alchemy angle they've got going on--and I wouldn't mind trying it sometime, but the whole angle of Prometheans being part of "Lineages" rather than unique beings with no place in the world just seems tremendously, glaringly...

You're playing a World of Darkness game without katanas? Man, next you'll be saying there aren't any leather trenchcoats...

I'd actually go so far as to say that it's a bad player who comes to the table assuming that every published character option is available, regardless of character concept or campaign setting.

It ain't extremely bizarre or even a little bit new, but the Amber RPG was definitely revolutionary at the time, and is still a pretty different experience. I've never been a Zelazny fan, and the game books are in desperate need of an editor, but I'm digging the game all the same. There ain't...

First thing I'd do is scrap the dozens upon dozens of huge, ancient, powerful secret organizations of supernatural beings. Then I'd break down the class-and-race-system-in-disguise character generation and go completely point-based. There'd be rules for how to build vampires, werewolves...

It's a weird party when the characters actually have things in common? Hell, a group like this seems especially easy to explain. Say they're all from one of those dwarf-communities-with-a-large-gnome-population or gnome-communities-with-a-large-dwarf-population that we often see mentioned. As...

My group often has a plate of raw vegetables out for snacks, and some weird store brand of diet soda that actually doesn't suck, so I sometimes end up eating a lot better at games than I normally do. Last time, though, it was pizza, chips, and (hell yes) Mountain Dew.

The Tinman's a cyborg. It's the Scarecrow who's the full-on construct. Yeah, I completely agree with that. It doesn't seem quite accurate to say that a construct is only a robot if it runs on familiar technology. That said, the central objection most folks seem to have for the warforged...

Well, now we know what term Rich Baker prefers.

Well, the big one (in just about every sense) is RPGMP3.com, a crew of English folks who went 1st-to-20th through the World's Largest Dungeon and recorded the whole thing, as well as a few other games (both D&D and otherwise). The absolute best recording quality, though, can be found over at...

The trouble with this justification, of course, is that Strength still modifies unarmed attacks against unarmored targets. But the mechanical justification is a pretty damn good one. Dexterity is a hugely important stat already. If you're going to give melee attacks to Dex, you've got to take...

My current game's setting is something really vague that I threw together for a one-off adventure, so I'd really love the opportunity to come up with something wholly new for 4e. Thing is, though, my players actually seem to really dig the simple pregen characters I made for this adventure, so...

See, I'm really happy about the non-LG Paladin announcement, as I've always felt that classes should be skill sets, not world views or life styles. And I'm totally with Gort on the "Why do we need two holy warrior classes?" issue. The Cloistered Cleric is a better class than the regular...

While I (a dude) am currently running a D&D game for our group, our regular game is a World of Darkness campaign run by one of my female players. She also hosts the games, and she's got a huge RPG background in general.

I live for home brew. A lot of the little incidental mechanics for our weekly sessions are things I come up with on the train ride to the game. It's really rare for me to end up actually making up rules on the spot, though.