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Available, yes. Speedy, no. Regrettably, Paizo's website is dead slow for me on all platforms in all locations.

The Star Frontiers setting had major issues for me. It was a frontier, which is, you know, on the edge of civilization, except there was nothing but the frontier in this case. Also, that frontier was pretty sparsely described. In the unlikely event that WotC does release a new edition of Star...

So, they've finally made a screen that is about the right size to serve as the Enterprise's main display in the Classic series. :D More Trek tech coming to life.

I don't care whether any release bombs or not. When I heard it was coming out in 3D, I shrugged and went on with what I was doing at the time, not even remotely interested in seeing it again. George Lucas has utterly destroyed the Star Wars franchise from my point of view. Letting Greedo...

I was pulled into AD&D in the summer of 1980 with a promise of, "Hey, it's like Tolkien, it has elves, dwarves, halflings, and wizards in it, and you get to play one of them in a fantasy world." I went to a game, was handed a character sheet, and was hooked forever after. I knew nothing of the...

Railroad is not the exact term, though when I read a Sherlock Holmes story, I feel like a player in a railroaded RPG game. SH is the author and the author is SH. The author invents carefully contrived case circumstances that nobody can solve, nobody except SH, who does so using evidence that...

I had to go with this. I actually use all of the other above options, depending on which player is playing. Some players want to roleplay and then roll. Other players aren't going to be able to figure out what to say if their lives depended on it and they just roll. And so on. That's just...

I like Fading Suns a lot myself. It has all the tech, psi, and even magic accessories to play space opera in whatever setting you design. You can drop psi and magic if you don't like them. Spaceship construction is very simple, sometimes a little too simple for my tastes, but it's rules light...

For one item, $180 for a copy of the Planes of Conflict boxed set from Planescape. I thought it was a bargain, having seen it for much more on eBay. The listing from the seller was Mint condition, but I didn't really understand. It came in the original shrink wrap. I'll never sell it, yet...

That is not my recollection of the discussions involving the last battles. </runs off to get book> I find the relevant discussions on page 123-124, where it specifically talks about walking across the Grand Council Chamber and what conditions lead to battle, which are very few (such as passing...

RPG Gamer 20 (31 years) Apologist 12 (10 years answering e-mails for customer service.) Programmer 6 (But thinks he is 12-15th) Anti-Social 5 (but thinks he is 20th; borderline Asperger's syndrome.)

Anything not listed in the Corebook's reference list? Some staggering major omissions from the novels list are: The Golden Age ~ John C. Wright The Golden Age The Phoenix Exultant The Golden Transcendence The Orphans Trilogy ~ Sean Williams, Shane Dix Echoes of Earth Orphans of Earth Heirs...

Top 10 Geek Must Read/See List, Avoiding the Obvious This lists avoids obvious choices such as Dune, The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix and so on. If you haven't read or seen that type of material, you aren't even on the Geek radar, much less worry about a top ten list. The Golden Age ~ by...

My brain is hardwired to accept sorcery, elves, dwarves, faux medieval European settings and mythologies, and the maps of new lands as cool and awesome. In fact, if there is no sorcery (magic) at all, I generally regard such settings as dead and dusty. If there are no maps, I generally won't...

The Traveller Wiki has a drugs category in which a few appear to be "recreational", illegal or otherwise: Drugs - Traveller RPG

Friend and bro-code are not legal concepts. Aiding and abetting and accomplice after the fact are. If you have solid information about a murder and do not reveal it, and it is discovered later, you can be arrested and prosecuted (depending on how much they have against you), and found guilty.

I did get that e-mail, yes.

In my opinion, of course: Whether "the gods" can even be challenged, or even understood, by mortals is established at the time of milieu creation. If they cannot be challenged, they tend to be the type that do not personally appear, or do so only rarely or in forms that are either invulnerable...

I don't know why, but they inspire thoughts of Drow from the Forest of Mir. I don't even know if the trees in the background are the right kind.

I voted for hate as DM and Player. I suppose, in extremis, if my entire game group voted to play such a game, and they were all my long-term friends, I might give in. Not sure I want to explore that, though. I am happy to see others play them if they want, as long as the "evil" doesn't go...