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My collection of PDF gaming and game-related documents is growing, and I would like to be able to read them without sitting in front of my computer. So my genius brain suggested maybe I should look into a tablet. As suggestions from my genius brain go, this one is unlikely to grow my waistline...

All right, I've seen all kinds of questions about how do you work the Wealth system, why not just a cash amount, what happens when characters sell stuff, how do you work Wealth bonus for single encounters, etc. I can't find the answer to my question, which is: On pg. 204 of the d20 Modern Core...

From the fora at Steve Jackson Games, I understand that (at long last) there's going to be movement on GURPS Vorkosigan. But that's not really why I'm squee-ing over here; I can squee over that at SJG. Nope, this is what I'm talking about here: Confirmation of a new Miles book! This is not...

OK, so I've recently had my economy stimulated with a government check. I'd been looking at upgrading my computer's RAM, because both slots were full of 512 MB. I bought one stick of 1024, so now I've got 1536 MB in the computer and a spare 512 trying hard not to get a static charge. Are there...

Two Z-95 Headhunters are no problem for a group in a Ghtroc 720, if I don't let the Headhunters have any concussion missiles. However, the Gthroc's stock blasters are fixed to fire forward, so there's more blind spot than fire zone with the ship. So the pilot of the Ghtroc has to beat the...

I've been working on several adventures for Saga Edition, and I know that one or both of my players may want to carry their blasters concealed. I know that it's a Stealth check, opposed by Perception checks, and that blasters impose a -5 size penalty, while holdout blasters are +0 size and +5...

I am reading Terry Pratchett's novel Thud!, which I highly recommend, by the way, and I'm having a good time except for some very noticeable typos. There are two so far that I've noticed, and both are place names. First, "Uberwald" is mis-spelled "Woerworld" early on. Second, near the end of...

Excellent. TWK

It's like Christmas come early! Dangit! My scarf's not ready yet!! TWK

Hey guys, I need some advice with my CD player. I got it this summer, so it's relatively new; I've chiefly been using it in the car, and not with headphones. Recently, I tried listening to it with 'phones and I noticed that I only get output through the right earphone. In the car, I don't notice...

So, first of all, our elf sorcerer stops playing because he's met someone from Paducah, KY and wants to devote his weekends to her. Okay, we've still got three players and I'm the DM. We can work on that. So we're in the middle of White Plume Mountain, and I'm looking forward to getting on with...

One of the players in my campaign loves him some polymorph. He even went through the SRD MM and picked out some good creatures he could turn into. First of all, I had to take him gently by the hand and explain the HD limit on the spell when he wanted to turn the 8th-level ranger into a hill...

Last session, the party fought some yuan-ti. One of them laid down a darkness spell. I'll be the first to admit I messed that up, because I hadn't reviewed the darkness rules in the DMG. The party had at least one everburning torch. The light from the torch would not penetrate the field of...

Another one of my players hasn't played D&D much since 3E came out. He's got a sorcerer, and he doesn't include me (the DM) in his decisions. He recently leveled up to 9th, and neglected to let me know which spell he took. This, I can live with; I'll just ask him. But sometimes he comes up...

So I'm reading along in the 25th anniversary book of "Against the Giants" about the stronghold of the frost giants, and there's an encounter with a sleuth of grizzly bears. The first thought through my head was, man, they can use that one to work out who killed their leader! Yes, the mystery is...

Hey all, Recently one of my friends sold almost all of his fantasy game books. I'm talking several versions of D&D, Warhammer, Palladium (including Rifts), All Flesh Must Be Eaten, etc. I asked him why, and he said he was worried that it would damage his cred when he was witnessing to someone...

The following is the first of four NPCs I'm making up for my campaign. I'd appreciate any comments, please -- I need some experience designing characters! Male elf, 8th-level bard N Medium humanoid (elf) Init +2; Senses Low-light vision; Listen -1, Spot -1 Languages Common, Elf, Dwarf, Orc AC...

Does anybody have any notes from the development team explaining why the only requirements for crafting simple magic arms and armor is the feat and a certain caster level? Almost everything else needs at least one specific spell. I would have thought that magic weapon and mage armor would fit...

Hi all, I am currently designing an adventure in which the party discovers it must make contact with some elfs who are on the Ethereal Plane. I figure there is a portal to the Ethereal nearby, but I want to make it hard to get open. My basic idea was to write a riddle describing the portal...

In my last session, the heroes discovered a fortress dug into the ground (or at least, covered over by a hill), and watched by two groups of hobgoblins. I put in lots of nice trees and standing stones in the watchers' spots, first because it's supposed to look natural, and second because my...