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My main group is, in theory, playing three hours a week. We often get started a little late so call it 2½. We sometimes have to cancel because too many people have other things come up, but we've easily played more than 3/4 of the 43 weeks so far this year so call it 32 x 2.5 = 80 hours. This...

I'm not sure it's about edgy characters. Well, that's part of it, but I also think that the players who do like to play fundamentally good-hearted characters like playing characters who choose good. They aren't good because they have some kind of inherent good instincts inherited from celestial...

They're over in Draw Steel.

My understanding is that 4e had great initial sales, partially because people were curious about the new weird thing, and partially because they released all the core books at the same time and Amazon had an amazing deal on a gift set containing all three – to the point where it was cheaper for...

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Right, but the point is that Frodo was not the one who succeeded. It was luck – or if you prefer, providence. In a way, the situation is similar to a Magic player who's finds themselves in a really bad situation because of matchup or whatever, and draws just the right niche card to fix things...

The difference is that 30 years ago, Wizards paid $25M for TSR (and Five Rings Publishing Group, but I'm guessing that was a fairly marginal part) and it got into the hands of Peter Adkison who was, all things considered, a fairly cool dude. Not perfect by any means, but fairly cool. Today, D&D...

It's not a source for professional purposes, but for personal use it's good enough. And if you need more, the articles are usually very well sourced to places that are good sources.

The thing is, Frodo didn't have the strength for it. At the end, he couldn't throw the ring into Mount Doom. He got close, but no pipe. What saved them was Gollum becoming overcome by his desire for the Precious, biting off Frodo's finger, and then falling into the volcano. That's the...

You mean Giles's brother? I'm sure they'd be thrilled at that comparison.

Another major difference in 4e is that all careers have a built-in staked-out career path, looking like this: The characteristics marked with a cross are the ones you can advance at level 1, with the copper crossed axes, the silver skull, and the gold shield becoming available at levels 2, 3...

The big counterexample is Discworld, where a significant portion of the books are about making the world (or at least Ankh-Morpork) better through either social or technological progress. There's even one specifically about moving away from the hidebound prejudices of the past (Thud!). I know...

Took us like 10 minutes to figure out first time, and we probably got some things wrong regarding timing (grenades generally have a timer fuse instead of going off on impact). Plus, while I'm not an expert on explosives, I think this is one of those areas where detailed rules don't lead to...

I'm assuming you're talking about 1e or 2e seeing as you're mentioning bonuses and 4e doesn't have that in the same way. So you mean the bit in the career description that looks something like this? These are your potential advances. You can spend 100 XP to either increase one of the values in...

I've mentioned this in other threads about GURPS, but as I recall GURPS 2e and original 3e had fairly reasonable lists of skills and advantages. Then came approximately three billion sourcebooks about all sorts of stuff, many written by people who were experts on that topic, and since they were...