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Love the topic and love the idea of compiling and sharing some best practices about pacing. I wrote a blog about pacing, in particular with 4e. I was honestly SURPRISED at my inability to get more than 4 encounters into 4 hours. Since then, I've been experimenting with some ways to...

We used an Access db at my last job, and ever since then I've thought a great deal about doing a database that collects all treasure, character stats, npc stats, magic item stats, and creature stats. You could then pull all kinds of reports to auto generate encounter stat blocks, and compare...

Aspects So, as a fan of podcasting, I've heard a lot about using indepedent RPG publisher ideas to improve the storytelling components of rpgs for several years. Further, I've purchased several and been impressed by their concept, and I was a huge fan when 4e introduced the concept of skill...

Columbus Area Boardgame Society runs the room. They are INCREDIBLE. The library is beyond your wildest imagination. Mayfair will have an entire room/library as well, with multiple copies of EVERY property. You've GOT to stop by the Amorphous Blob Games room. We ran over 100 games last...

Yep, I played some DJ back in college. I loved the system, but my players really had a tough time getting over the hurdles from D&D. The character development was compelling, but complex. The magic system was all over the place, 1st edition style. The magic really had the feel of anything is...

I love to blend in some "old-school" inspiration to juice up a modern campaign. In this case, I3-I5, the Desert of Desolation Series by Tracy Hickman looks like it would be a perfect fit.

The E6 movement explores this concept in interesting ways. The basis of the question they asked is "how do you extend that sweet spot" where the math all seems to work. I know one of the things I miss from 1e D&D is the ability for a group of 1st level players to take on the 7th level guard...

Ry - Trailblazer is by Wulf here on the boards. He did this under his "Bad Axe Games" banner. I thought he did the best stuff in the independent, small press market. I got a copy of TB, and it was full of delicious crunchy goodness. Not exactly up the alley of how you describe the IPR...

I'm quoting Joe Goodman. You could also be quoting Amazon.com, or ICV2, or Alliance. Pretty much all the same story.

Welcome back, Ry! Long time no see, I hope all has been well with you. You said you've been playing some non D&D type games, care to share your findings? There's a good article by Joe Goodman about the state of the industry around her somehwere, as well as the Greg Leeds thread on this board...

Then file in the US. The world is flat, my friends.

Honourable Guvnor, First, congratulations on your continued succes. Congratulations on the success of the website. Millions of hits=awesome! Thank you, as always, for being open and willing to have a public dialogue, man do I respect that. Regarding sigs - much ado As it regards...

Rechan, All of that = AWESOME! You're getting XP, good sir!

Awesome, PCat! Thanks for the referral, I'm in. Can't wait for the new book!

El Mahdi - awesome links. Thank you! NewJeffCT - check out my blog for my first 4e campaign experiences, including quite a bit of skill challenge love, following along the published adventure path from WoTC (module/not dungeon). http://www.enworld.org/forum/blogs/ashockney/ Also, you can...

D&D - The pen and paper RPG (Char Development, Storytelling, Roleplaying) D&D - The boardgame with miniatures/module expansion packs D&D - The collectible card game (standalone or cross-over to RPG/B-game) D&D - The online MMOPRG (Uses the same engine as boardgame) D&D - The resource building...

To all ENWorlder's - You can add your TESTIMONIAL to Gary on the memorial fund website as well.

To answer your questions directly: 1) Stormbringer (Chaosium) has the effect you're looking for. You tie something like HP to level, but if you want to gain "defense" "to hit" and "skills" you need to USE them in game time, and that gives you a "chance" to improve each during training between...

Very cool idea the Jester! I like the aspect of quicker char gen, and agree this would work. It would be cool to be able to do "anything" that your character wanted with narration and AP spends. I can imagine that there would be certain "thresholds" of cool abilities that would be available...

I wrote a 3.5 module intended for publication in Dungeon, then it was cancelled... The module was 17th level, and included four beholders and 8 xorn in one encounter. That was nothing but good times.