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There are a lot of obvious picks here that... by all rights should be remembered here: Star Wars, MERP, TMNT, pretty much any MWP Cortex game. I'm going to throw out Street Fighter: the Storytelling Game.

Kachilk'cha takes surprisingly reasonable precautions before examining the plague victims-- she hangs a waxed cloth over her mandibles, unfortunately making her look like some petty warlord's executioner, and pours half a flask of dwarven spirits over the cloth and the other half down her...

I was twelve in 1993. I'd been trying to get into D&D for years, after finding my babysitter's Basic and Expert boxes, but my mother didn't think D&D was a good idea until she started dating a man who played. He was quite possibly the single stupidest human being I have ever met, and his...

I am apparently behind on the news on several fronts. I'll stop speculating until I've caught up.

Kachilk'cha has worked plagues before. So much experience, so many opportunities. She begins examining the plague doctor's patients eagerly-- but not so eagerly as to forget her prophylactic training. OOC: Medicine?

If I'm wrong about that prediction, I'm much more likely to be wrong about the other one. If they release it under Creative Commons (or the ORC), that's... pretty much a guaranteed buy from me. If they release it under the OGL... I'd have to think about it, long and hard, but that'd go a long...

I'm not sure. I am definitely picking up TOTV, and Level Up (again) if it's rereleased under a different license. Considering the new D&D core will probably be 0% open content, it might be better if I don't buy them or read them, you know?

Broadly speaking, I encourage my players to make characters who have romantic interests and pursue them, but-- again-- only the mildest of flirtations actually occur "on screen" because we are all uncomfortable roleplaying that kind of interaction with any kind of specificity or intensity.

Certainly, romance is an important part of our games and "romance" is... a character detail. But I game with my family. We don't go any further than "fade to black" because that's just not how any of us want to interact with each other.

It gets better. The D&D you loved is still as good as it ever was, and in the 21st century... it's going to continue getting better every year as third-party publishers continue supporting it. You will even see third-party conversions of all the new stuff you're missing out on, making all the...

I'm in terrible physical condition. I'm morbidly obese and suffer from multiple debilitating medical conditions, and with hard work, discipline, and a little bit of luck-- hopefully I will be dead soon. Frankly, I am perfectly comfortable being fully nude in public. It's the public that's...

"Carapace is not so much being. Flesh underneath, not mammal flesh being. Superior insect flesh." She... preens. "Not offensing, intended. Parasites infesting mammal flesh, not infesting insect flesh. But other parasites infesting insect flesh, not infesting mammal flesh. Very few parasites...

I also meant to include the monster design, full stop, as good as it's ever been and as good as it ever will be again.

Kachilk'cha starts to address the plague doctor, and then stops. Before she makes her presence known, she backs off to a "respectful distance"-- what the mammals considered respectful and half again-- and assumes a less... combat ready posture. She tilts her antennae far forward, in a display of...

I'm not really a fan, and some of the answers you've already gotten are the reasons why... but there are a few parts of the system I really admire. POWERS: Every character has class actions they can do all day, every day, and big class actions they have to marshal and only deploy when the time...

I am Chaotic Evil, and I play a lot of Chaotic Evil (or Chaotic "Neutral") characters because that's... where I'm most comfortable. I like to play Bards and other healers because... well, I like the fantasy of having power over life and death, and using that power to keep the other PCs alive...

Body armor saves lives, period. I'm not arguing that modern kevlar and/or ceramic polymer body armors don't save lives... I'm arguing that late period plate-over-chain-over-quilt is still viable protection against modern weaponry. It's no longer relevant for logistical and economic factors, but...

I actually agree with these two, if you replace "darts" with "hands". But I don't necessarily think Wizards should be unable to to throw more-or-less unlimited balls of fire out of their hands. I just think Fighters should be better at it. And 4e rituals were vastly better than 5e rituals for...

I am not going to question the honesty of this statement, or make any predictions about these promises not being kept-- but I will say, I'll believe that these are products are not "one shots" when I see the seconds. I believe they were always planned to be one-shots, but I will accept it as a...