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My wife and I are looking to host a weekly game night, and are looking for some folks to join us. We are both mid-30's professionals who want a regular chance to play board games and RPG's. Who: 2-4 mature gamers. Newbies welcome. We both work at Texas Tech University, and would not be...

I have a half-baked idea about how to handle ability scores and skills for both the basic version of Next (sans skills) and the advanced module with skills. It partly (or largely) divorces skill levels from experience and ties them to ability scores more closely to make the two versions closer...

My wife and I will be hosting a regular game night in our apartment in southeast London (SE18) on Monday evenings starting May 6. We have an excellent GM onboard who has extensive knowledge of a variety of systems. We'll be starting with Tremulus, and continuing with shorter...

Fair warning: This post/thread will annoy you if you hate the idea of hit points as (primarily) fatigue. I've been thinking about what it would take for the mechanics of D&D Next to primarily embrace the idea of hit points as fatigue without a complicated injury or wound/vitality system. That...

What are the mostly superficial changes you'd like to see in D&D Next, whether from previous editions or from the current version of the rules? There are a couple things I can think of that would make little difference but would give me some warm fuzzies. I would be very happy if a...

Some gamers that live in Woolwich (SE18) London are planning on starting up a D&D 4E game here in January 2013. Thus far all young professionals. Leaning towards Eberron. The host/prospective GM has a thread on the ukroleplayers site: http://www.ukroleplayers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14471

My wife and I just moved to London (Woolwich Arsenal) from the US. Looking for a gaming group. We'd love to find a weekly game, preferably on a weeknight. We play a lot of 4e but would be happy to try most other stuff. The group is more important than the game. We've also tried and liked: D&D...

What's missing from 4e that you would like to see before all WOTC's mechanical prowess gets directed to 5e? Here are a few things I would love to have: 1) An essentialized Warlord. All out with no Daily powers. 2) I would also welcome an essentialized Monk and/or Avenger. 3) Easier to...

What will the rules be for characters falling in lava? Will it affect high complexity vs. low complexity PC's differently? WHY IS WOTC SILENT ON THIS ISSUE?!

My wife and I just moved to Alexandria. We'd love to find a weekly game, preferably on a weeknight. We play a lot of 4e but would be happy to try most other stuff. The group is more important than the game. We've also tried and liked: Cortex (the BSG and Serenity system), Mutants and...

Today's Cavalier article allows you to have a "Celestial Battle Tiger" mount. Very subtle, Mr. Baker. Someone needs to find a way to optimize the AC of a paladin in fur speedo.

It occurred to me that I hadn't seen a thread about the Dungeon Delve characters from Gencon. They were made using Essentials. I didn't get to look at all of them closely, but I did play the Wizard a few times. Here are the highlights from my now-dim memory: Edit: Forget my dim memory, the...

Amazon pushed back, changed date on the WOTC website, and confirmed from FLGS. Three points make a plane. Or a demi-plane. That's right, you've been denied the game and you only get my bad pun as comfort. But I did play it at Gencon and had a good time.

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On the vast majority of powers that affect allies, they refer to "one" ally or "each" ally. Completely unambiguous. But then there are some powers that say "any" ally. I noticed these among the Bard powers in PHBII (i.e., Verse of Triumph on p. 70) but there are a few in PHBI. "Any" is...

I'll be moving to Durham, NC before the end of the month. I will be around for at least 6 months, though possibly for an extra year after that (doing a post-doc at Duke). I strongly prefer weekdays, as I am gone many weekends. My system preference is for 4e, though really I'd be open to...

I don't suppose anyone's whipped up a combat tracker spreadsheet or somesuch for 4e yet? I'm thinking something that rolls initiative and puts people in order, displays hp, defenses, action points, bloodied condition, ongoing effects, and lets me tick off whether they've used their immediate...

I'm going to be working at the Mises Institute this summer and I'm seeing if there are any gamers in Auburn. I'd be happy to run a short Summa Fantasia game while I'm there, or one-shots of various systems. Even if people aren't interested in RPG's, I'm down with playing some L5R ccg. My...

Finally got an offer from a grad school. W00t. I've been accepted to several PhD programs, but (having retaken my GRE's after blowing them the first time) I finally got an offer that will make it affordable for me to pursue a doctorate. I'm waiting on word from one other school, but I'm mostly...

The University of Dallas Dragon Club will be hosting a Dallas gameday on Sunday, April 10. We're located at: University of Dallas 1845 E Northgate Dr Irving, TX The room where we will be congregating is: Gorman faculty lounge; Gorman is sandwiched between the Church of the Incarnation and the...