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In Terry Pratchett's The Last Continent all politicians in Fourecks are arrested and imprisoned as soon as they're elected. Because it saves time.

Maybe they are, in their respective worlds - they could be part of the plot - all these powerful mages need to all work together. I also see the campaign as epic level, so the PCs truly are the best of the best - the Mages in Black can't deal with a threat this big on their own, but they do have...

Okay, so I had this incredible idea for a mini-campaign. Epic on every level. The background to my specific idea is that it is a follow-up to my most successful campaign, the 2E/3E/3.5E campaign which ended in the PCs becoming 20th level and saving the world etc. etc. And this campaign was...

Is there a good (free) program that's good for making encounter maps etc. It needs to be easy to use and with a grid attached. I'm sick of drawing them by hand in grid books. What do ya'll use?

Having read through the 4E rules (though, as regular visitors will no doubt know, being underwhelmed by the whole product), I'm interested in the development process that occurred to create the rule set. Since it's far more of a ground-up rebuild than the change from 2E to 3E was, I'm interested...

Ooh, I get it! My opinion differs from yours, so I suck! And it's perfectly OK to say patronising and condescending things. After all, I have it coming because I think differently than you do! Of course!

I think I've finally sussed out what was bothering me. Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition is NOT an update of Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition. It is a completely new game. The rules, world, systems - everything, have been completely rebuilt from the ground-up. So much so, that what they have...

I'd rather not get into the very vigorous discussion about mechanics v storytelling - it was just a casual observation on my part. But I can respond to Jay. So I will. I still dispute that wizards outclassing everybody, or anybody, was ever a problem. Someone suggested this is because they...

Wow, what a lot of debate I've generated. My work here is done... Actually it isn't. Let me respond to some of the comments and clarify a few positions... PLAYS LIKE A VIDEO GAME: I stand by my comment, but I understand why people might disagree. The reason I say this is because a great...

Despite some level of skepticism, my group played our first 4E game today - a prepublished module for 1st-levels. I know there's been a lot of "edition wars" going on, but please note this is not me taking sides - I simply wanted to point out what I thought was good and what I didn't as a...

I think I have it. In this instance, the problem is me. Umbran's post is what has made me see the light. What I hadn't taken into account is that Facebook, and to a lesser extent MySpace etc., have created an entirely different kind of human relationship. "Substantive contact" as we've put it...

But... Couldn't you get the same information through email or picking up the phone? Isn't that a far more substantive form of contact? And if you don't get along with people...why do you care when they get married?

Okay. Something weird's going on. I joined Facebook. But here's the thing: I'm not quite sure how. I must have agreed to join and done the consent and terms of use thing, and indeed I remember doing so. But I'm not entirely certain why. Leaving that aside, here's a question for the great...

Upon the death of Gary Gygax, librarian, writer and unapologetic geek Tom Goodfellow, who it seems has stolen my life since I'm all three of those things, wrote this rather snappy article in defence of gamers everywhere for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The one question he...

On behalf of STARP, rest well, Gary Gygax. When you roll up a new character, may it be as creative and influential as your first.

Forget the Hypnotoad. I wanna see stats for brain slugs!

I'm about to start a d20 Future campaign but, in order to make combat a bit more perilous (my players love to start fights they can't win :] ) I was going to use the Vitality/Wound system from Spycraft instead of standard HP. But then I discovered the idea of a Massive Damage Threshold, whereby...

OK. From my last campaign only: GARTH: "Hey, guys! Check it out! I grabbed the giant's sack!" DM: "The sack contains five rocks and an old side of beef." ARTEMIS: "All hail, O Mighty Treasure Hunter." ROMANA (to the half-dragon): "If you continue to annoy me, I will skin you alive and then...

I agree. Besides, why wait for 4th Edition? Start now with 3.5, and when the 4th Edition comes out you can do what most of us will do - look at the rules, discover they suck and that the whole system is designed to compete with online gaming, complain it'll destroy the game as we know it...

A basic one, but it needs clearing up. I'm in combat against four orcs. I have two attacks. The orcs each have just one. Now, say I win initiative. I go first in the round. Am I supposed to make both my attacks at once, or make one, then the orcs make theirs, then I make my next one. What if...