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Same here, never seen that issue crop up more than once. In my experience a good DM will use that approach by the players to demonstrate how dynamic the world is and that plot urgency can bite you in the hindquarters. "Hey Ralph, can you and 100 of your buddies come over. We had some...

RE: OP In skimming the posts I did not see a reference to Midnight, which does provide for dworgs. I suggest looking at how dworgs are treated generally. Fantasy (and Science Fiction) is riddled with the Half-breed trope. My view is that rpg games are replete with mechanisms like this...

I am another of Mac's players. The set piece was fantastic to look at and even better to play on. My character was one of the characters that missed an Athletics skill check and took the trip down into the drink. Nothing like a lava bath to work out the kinks. Aside from the overwhelming...

QFT. Hands down the best game system I have seen, played and GMed in recent memory.

I tend to agree. Aside from the reason you suggest (i.e., pride), I think that the largest reason is that 4E is too young to really assess whether a more or less restrictive license will better achieve WoTC's measurement goals. I'm not sure how many quarters will be needed to gather enough...

Point of Order: WoTC's lawyers, if they are like any other corporate lawyers that I know, have absolutely nothing to do with the policy (read: business) decision behind the GSL. It is the business leaders at WoTC who said, "Hey, Mr./Ms. Attorney, draft up a license agreement that does the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLhZZvTzNUY From Young Sherlock Holmes

Before I answer, let me say that I will be yoinking several of the ideas already listed in this thread. Props: 1. Pictures, perferably portraits, of NPCs. I definitely mix it up, not every NPC gets a portrait and not every NPC with a portrait is a reoccurring villian/ally/neutral. Keep...

My son, 7 1/2, really enjoyed the compilated Bone by Jeff Smith. I highly recommend it. Oops, damn my eyes for not seeing M. Chance's reference to the Bone series. I definitely second that motion.

You hit upon one of the touches that I enjoy so much about Etherscope--namely, its use of a eugenics systems ala A. Huxley's ranking mechanism from "A Brave New World." Here is a brief summary from Psion's review [http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=review&reviewid=2886110]: "Etherscope uses...

I have and it is probably my favorite setting and rules that I never get to play. We all have that game that we expect may really scratch a particular itch--unfortunately, I cannot seem to get a critical mass to play. Since reading "The Difference Machine" I have found Steampunk conceptually...

If the human PC is no longer going to be the template or default PC race, then I could see both of the 1/2 races (i.e., 1/2 elf and 1/2 orc) departing. With the push to having "monsters" as viable PC races, the need for the 1/2 orc is diminished (not to mention certain details around the...

QFT, though I would add Moorcock's Corum series as an even clearer discussion of Chaos v. Law. Heck, any of the Eternal Champion stories would serve.

Fair enough--Numion raised the point of Nethack and I agree that point deserves consideration. I slightly revised my response to footnote it above and I'm happy to add IFs or MUDs where the visual representation is not intended to define the situation. I do think that much of the conversation...

LOL, I think we need a "Speak with Dead" spell to find out, as he is somewhat . . . er . . . stiff at the moment. Ouch, that even hurt me. :p

Nope, I think the exact opposite. The gap between the verbal description of the tabletop DM and the player is filled by the player's imagination; whereas, no such gap* exists in the computer game and therefore the player's imagination is not employed in that fashion. I am not saying...

I'm almost afraid to dip my toe into the water lest it get bitten off by the circling sharks. ;) However, I have been thinking about this poser and two thoughts occur to me: 1. Visual representation--the computer game is the complete definition of the setting, actors, etc.; while the...

My thanks to everyone for confirming my conclusion, but especially for adding the additional thoughts. As gnfnrf points out, this guy will be complicated in tracking his stats; though from my understanding of Eberron, it seems like barbarian is the logical (roleplaying) choice, but not so...

I'm new to Eberron and not 100% conversant with its rules--I did not see anything that would prohibit the stacking of rage bonuses (i.e., class trait--barbarian) with shifting bonuses (i.e., race trait--shifter); I thought I would throw this out to the august panel of experts. Did I miss...

Karl, No problem with the threadjacking, I won't press charges! ;) You find the game under cyberpunk on the rpol.net site, it will be easy to find its the only Etherscope game. As for the character idea, sounds good to me but perhaps you should consider the other character sketches-- 1...