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I have a Nintendo DS. I'm not getting a PSP any time soon. What is the closest thing people have seen to something like the old SSI Gold Box games? I'm looking for: - Small group tactics (as in, a team of five or six) - Moving on a grid in combat (not virtual as in Bard's Tale) - Fantasy...

After seeing a couple of Etsy stores in which people used dice to make jewelry (pendants and earrings, mostly), I was hit by the awesome coolness that would come from taking a d20, slicing it cleanly in half, and using the half-die as the stone for a ring. (I used the term cabochon, but since...

I'm running a siege game this Saturday in M&M, and I've got people with some big boom effects. We don't use minis, and I want to ensure that I'm letting their effects get about the right number of bad guys. 1) A heroine hovers in the air and throws down a Burst Area 10 blast into a crowd of bad...

I'm running a game on Saturday in which an immortal ninja warrior is going to meet the son of the emperor the ninja clan once served. I want this to be a supremely cool moment. I'm quite happy having the son (who is now a crazy alien-implanted chi master making deals with necromancers -- um...

This is a bit far afield for most, but I had a good time last year, and I'm running a game again this year. The convention (now called a Festival) is called Pure Speculation: http://www.purespec.org/ I haven't figured out what game I'll be running -- last year, I pulled off a heist caper, and...

My wife gave birth to our second son on Thursday morning. :) Pictures (first set is the birth, second set is an older set of my older son, Garrett): http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=tbz6v4a.bib60zuu&x=0&y=-g33ty1 And the story, for those interested. It's long, and I'm only writing it once...

So, there seems to be a lot of anger going on right now. In the spirit of defusing anger and getting everyone back to their core values of gaming and mocking poetry, I'm cross-posting a bit from my blog: The Munchkin (with apologies to Noyes; best experienced while listening to Loreena...

First off, apologies if this has come and gone and I am late to the party. It was new to me. :) http://dicepool.com/catalog/quiz.php When my friend took the test, she came out d4, and was... very enthusiastic. Given her level of verve for a polyhedral test, I thought that I should offer my...

When I was a kid, I got SSI's "Wargame Construction Kit" just a bit too young to appreciate it. Now, about 15 years later, I'd love to find a game that does (in a modern fashion) what that game would have let me do if I'd figured out how to use it properly. I'm looking for, essentially...

Hi, all. Let's all be clear on this: this is Tacky letting off steam. I don't consider myself a Powergamer, except that apparently I totally am. My character-creation philosophy is "Make a character concept, then make the best possible character within the rules for that concept, and then play...

Although hopefully this is the kind of thanks that ends up helping Wulf in return. I gave a presentation (mentioned in other threads) at a local con up here in Edmonton about working at BioWare as a writer. That was today. On Friday, two days ago, I found out that my idle, "Sure, I might be...

I have no idea if this is the right forum. General kind of made sense, as did the Software forum, but really, I dunno. So here we are. :) I'm speaking at a con called Pure Speculation, which runs October 13-15 in Edmonton (in Alberta, in Canada). It's a small con, but it's the first time I've...

One of my work buddies wanted to go see a gaming store that he'd just discovered in the area (I'm in Edmonton, which has a few gaming stores, but not many). I didn't exactly need anything -- between Grim Tales, M&M2E, and the SRD, my gaming needs are pretty much met for any game I want to run...

Hey, all, And again -- awesome system, awesome system, awesome system. So very glad that I finally convinced my players to make the shift. 1) Someone mentioned a short errata that had been published, but I haven't found it on the Bad Axe Games website. Can somebody toss me a link? 2) Does the...

So after failing to get my old group to switch from d20 Modern to Grim Tales, I got a partly new group for an e-campaign, and got them all into Grim Tales under the "It's d20 Modern, mostly" banner. It's worked really well so far. I really enjoy the new treatments of the classes, and I'm having...

I left a few months ago when things seemed to be getting bad here. I'd been away for awhile and hadn't seen the big enormous thread-loss until well after the fact. Hope everyone is doing okay.

Was curious as to whether this was just me, or if others have tried to come up with oddball characters to take advantage of peculiarities of the rules. I'm actually doing this with a follower NPC going with the PCs (playing something that's d20 Past, roughly) into a war-zone. He's a berserker...

I've been invited to play in a game, and I've been trying to come up with a fun character concept. From what I know of the DM, this is going to be a story-rich game, so, for my money, it's imperative that I play someone with enough skills to be useful in a wide range of situations, and not...

Well, just got my form rejection in the mail. Anybody else? (I am pleased to note, though, that one of my buddies has been invited to send in the whole thing.)

Dude, and it's on topic and everything! I sold a story to an anthology a few years back, and the anthology turned out to have some pretty big names in it. I was really excited and only a teensy bit ashamed of the fact that I essentially wrote the story out of spite at a guy in my writing group...