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Y'know... his comments were brilliant. It's probably the first clip on YouTube I've ever listened to, stopped, then watched again. Thanks for the link!

Erol Otus! Well, assuming he's still working; I'm not sure what (if anything) he's done since the Hackmaster Basic cover last year :)

I've found the responses thus far quite inspiring, and they're definitely helping me with forming a more concrete idea as to where I'd like to go with deities in my upcoming game. Thanks! As far as specifics responses: Very cool, I like it! Y'know, before this thread, for some reason I'd always...

Though it never really interested me before, I've recently become intrigued by how people handle religion and deities in their D&D games, especially as I'm not sure what to go with for my next campaign. So, ENWorld-goers, I'd like to pick your brains a bit! What religious pantheon, if any, do...

Clicking the "Messageboards" drop-down causes it to actually go off of my screen to the right. If it's relevant, my screen resolution is 1280x800, and I'm using Firefox 3.6.8. The navigation at the top says "Gamer Seeking Gamers" rather than "Gamers Seeking Gamers". It's missing an 's' in the...

Ideas, though it pains me to post them publicly where the people making the bots could just check ;) What is the name of this website? You are registering for a ______. ("forum," "messageboard," "website" etc) What are gnomes good for? ("nothing," "stew," and "punting" are all acceptable)

Quorums! ;)

Moldvay/Cook all the way :) My dad actually taught me (and my siblings) D&D using that system when I was pretty young. I'm currently in college, and I actually most frequently play Moldvay/Cook B/X. I'm even starting up a campaign next week ;)

Though I haven't gone... Presumably because they can only host so many people, and it's a much better alternative than charging through the roof to limit the number of people who come :) Plus, it makes sure the experience is new for everyone.

Used right, "save or die" is appropriate sometimes (especially when compared to outright killing a PC), but it's far too often used as a "gotcha! you're dead." moment. In that situation, I totally agree.

While indeed very, very true, whenever I think "evil campaign" I get a specific concept in my head. Certainly, "evil" itself is less explicitly defined when we discuss it as a concept, but I think in terms of an RPG campaign concept, when someone contemplates it, they're looking for something...

This has been on the back of my mind for the better part of today, so I figured I'd throw out a bit of a brainstorm as to things you can do with evil PCs: Have them work for a criminal organization, i.e. with a crime lord Have them run their own organization Infiltrate the opposition (whether...

If my post made me sound like a jerk, I apologize. I have a bad habit of wording things really bluntly. In fact, I actually think the battlegraph boards are quite cool! If I ran more mini-centric games, they'd definitely be on my purchase list. What I was getting at is: the custom size is...

The first difficult you'll notice is that, typically, evil tends to be proactive, but "the good guys" are reactive. In other words, usually it's the good guys out to thwart the evil guys, but the evil guys are the ones coming up with what to do. This makes adventure planning harder, as you'll...

To be completely honest, my first impression is that you're asking people to invest in a glorified cardboard box with a handle. I'm not sure I see what makes it so special, honestly; it looks the same as those boxes kids have when they're selling candy bars. EDIT: That unintentionally came off...

It's abnormally long, to be sure. That being said, it's hardly a huge company with a lot of backups and resources, so it's possible that the you-know-what hit the fan when they were trying to migrate everything and it's tough to fix.

Depends on what you're looking for. If you want something really intense, complicated, but powerful? Something like Campaign Cartographer might be more appropriate. If you just want "I can plot out a wilderness map pretty easily with basically zero learning curve, and it'll look nice" then...

PC death's capability to irk me is independent of whether I'm the GM or a player ;) My biggest issue comes up when it seems like there was no way possible to prevent it; that is, if the death can't be attributed to any bad decisions. If you at least could've run away, or avoided the combat, or...

Put in another vote for keeping things split, but rearranging the board order. :) And while we're at it, could we have the navigation from the main page be, y'know, not a mess? Or, at least give an obviously link to the forums. You have to hunt a bit to find where the forums are, and even then...

On the upside, if you take the book(s) to a print shop, you can probably get them re-bound pretty cheap. Obviously, chopping off the spine and re-binding it will change the "niceness" of the book, but if you use them enough it's worthwhile to keep them from totally falling apart. Obviously, if...