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Torog is a little purple bird, chirping in a meadow. Torog is a chaplet of pretty flowers, which smell bad. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green. -The Gneech :cool:

Do "other players" count? ;) Seriously tho, in my case, it's probably goblinoids/orcs, not the least reason for which is that the last campaign I ran was Red Hand of Doom, which is crammed full of them. I also tend to run mostly lower-level games generally, which is another factor. Second...

This was pretty much what I was going to suggest, but Klaus beat me to it. :p For non-flying mounts, you can do the same thing and have it split into two -- a goblin on a warg could be statted as a single unit that, when bloodied, might have a certain chance (say, 5 or 6 on d6) to split into...

Wait, who's this "Jonathan Tweet" person? Did he do anything I'd know about? -The Gneech, whose words should never be taken too seriously

The two are not contradictory. I'm the player who's always looking for NPCs to talk to and setting history/details to suck up -- but once initiative is rolled, I love to kick butt and take names. And you can have some mighty fun roleplaying in combat, too. You don't need to be a pirate to be a...

I'm seriously loving me some Goodman Games 4E stuff. Punjar is a terrific setting that in one stroke managed to get past my hostility to 4E (and let's be honest, there was a lot) and find the good stuff on the other side. I'd go so far as to say the new Dungeon Crawl Classics have made 4E not...

I just started looking over this AP yesterday. As my players thoroughly enjoyed Red Hand of Doom, I may run this one. I'm curious, tho ... any sign of the Ghostlord? -The Gneech :cool:

So it would have a strong influence on the weak-minded? -The Gneech :cool:

It's a tough question to answer. I'm still "a customer" in that I buy almost every Saga Edition product; and I've made a conversion of Saga Edition for my fantasy games, since 4E's races and classes are so annoying for the most part. Redo D&D to be more like Saga Edition -- classes should be...

By that logic, what do you need rules for combat or casting spells for? I don't see an inherent difference. What are skills and abilities if they aren't knowledge/expertise? Again, I don't see the difference, unless you're saying that the "genre at hand" in D&D is only the business of hacking...

I can't actually address whether 4E can or can't -- I haven't studied the 4E skill system enough to say from direct experience. (1) I was primarily trying to address Mallus' question in regard to why having mechanics for "non-combat" skills matters to some people. The prevailing opinion seems to...

The whole "skills for crafting" and "mechanics to encourage RP" question is sort of hard to explain to people who don't instinctively get it; but to some extent, it's a matter of focus. When you create an RPG character, you have a limited amount of resources with which to build it; allocating...

I've always been behind in my pop culture knowledge! Or at the very least, my pop culture knowledge has always been different from most others'. I don't know Final Fantasy from a hole in the ground, but I saw Daffy Duck get rickrolled at Dragon*Con and can name two roles Herbert Lom played...

Ah, okay; I just didn't recognize the name. I'm not sure I'd say he eclipsed Kwai Chang Caine -- anybody who knows Li Mu Bai probably knows who Caine is, but not necessarily the other way 'round. Him, I know. Ah, okay. I've not had much exposure to Final Fantasy in any form, although I know...

Who? Who? -The Gneech :confused:

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women. -The Gneech :cool:

3E ain't no hybrid. Don't be silly. The ability to allocate skill points is no more of a "point buy" game system than 1E/2E thieves being able to assign % points to their climb walls/open locks abilities. Sheesh. :erm: -The Gneech :cool:

So "D&D fans" didn't like 3E? News to me. There's no reason why a well-made game can't appeal to both sub-sets. -The Gneech :cool:

I'd like to see the HERO System given a heavy-duty streamlining. Why the heck does something simple like changing a character's size category need half a page of powers? Sheesh! Let's get back to the days when the Champions book could be a 100-page softcover and still do just about anything you...

I could get behind this, as long as it was modular enough to use or toss specific parts without leaving any major holes in the game. (Although the "power source" concept and terminology really rubs me the wrong way -- but that's for some other thread.) -The Gneech :cool: