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Exactly. This is basically an edition war in all but name....except we're all being polite about it...which is pretty incredible, given the thread is now 70+ pages. I get frustrated to no end to get told that for the last 10 years I haven't been running the game properly, since described...

While I don't necessarily agree with everything that has been said, I do agree with these points. I suspect WotC went this way, as they were starting to crystalize the whole "striker, tank, etc." roles, and the game was intended for use for adventuring, going in dungeons and all that, and to...

Weird that we had multiple wizards in our game over the 10 years we played 3E, and I rarely saw those spells ever get used. My players apparently had no idea that they "had no choice in the matter". :erm: Banshee

Given that both Color Spray and Sleep have Will negates saves, I'm still leaning toward the fighter.....unless you're talking about your whole unit consisting of 20 lvl 1 mages, so that whe they run into 20 lvl 1 fighters. If in any way the fighters outnumered the mages, the fact that half the...

I find in practice, in 3E, including random encounters that can disrupt the party while they are resting makes a big difference. Occasionally, they just find a new spot to camp and rest up again, and get lucky with no encounters the second time......and then other sessions, it results in a...

I disagree....generally, magic (assuming arcane magic) is being used only by characters with INT or CHA scores of 11 or higher *and* the training to use it. That's basically like 1/6th of the population at most, and the majority of them will have low level magics anyways. You can bet that not...

If you still play 3.5, you may want to look for the supplement "Legends of Sorcery" by RPG Object. They have a channeling spell point system. Instead of slots, you get points. You use points on your spells but have to make a successful roll to case your spell. Conceivably you can cast high...

Oh, it can be a pain.....but closed systems can be as well. Pick your poison, I guess. Nobody's built the perfect system yet...neither Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Banshee

You say that like it's a bad thing. It's a matter of choice. Apple, as a company, make choices about how their devices work, how their OS works etc. Because it's a closed system, if you don't find their choices convenient, you have to go elsewhere. Simple things like....Flash. On a PC, if...

There was a system for that in 2nd Ed. in Players Option. It was the Channeling system. Basically, it relied on spell points instead of slots. When you cast spells, you had to roll a save to avoid becoming fatigued. It worked pretty well...made spellcasting very difficult and it became a...

In Scott Bakker's "Prince of Nothing" series, the sorcerers (known as schoolmen) are quite powerful. They're known to be quite deadly...to the point that armies keep their own units of schoolmen to use against each other. However, they're also somewhat fragile and delicate......so typically...

I haven't tried Android devices, but I can say that, IMO, the iPhone is cool....but I wouldn't say it's just outright "better" than every other device. Yes, it was the first really good touch smartphone. But touch is overrated at times, as is Apple's way of doing things. I've got both a...

I've got an AMD and played about five characters in the original game and never had any problems. Banshee

Is the Jim Butcher who writes the Dresden Files the same Jim Butcher who used to be a D&D designer? I think this was back in the TSR days. Banshee

I started the month with The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou, the second in the Templar Knight trilogy. I thought it was quite excellent, and liked it better than the first in the series. I just finished "The Stolen Throne" by David Gaider. It's one of two books in the Dragon Age universe...

Not a bad approach. Of course, you could have your rare half-dragons who are PCs, and they're some of the only ones. They're a race I've always wanted to try, but never actually did in all of 3.0 or 3.5. I had *one* player run one back when they were first released on 2nd Ed.....that's it. I...

These are excellent novels (the ones I've read so far). I've enjoyed them. Banshee

I suspect you're correct......I'm sure it's a metaphor....whether for gays or people of different ancestry or whatever. If I think about it critically though, I can see what they might be trying to do......but trying to use undead kill monsters who treat human as cattle and see no value behind...

I assume that the weakness of the central control center might have been something that just affected individual battles. It's not like it affects all their troops. I figure they have to find *some* way to wrap it up in two hours, in case it doesn't do well enough to justify a sequel. If...

That's not cool...and definitely grounds for a complaint. Regardless of what they write into their legal agreements, as a customer I don't think you have access to read their agreements, let alone agree to them, until after you've opened the box, and possibly attempted to install the software...