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Koumei at [unixtime wrote:1186974796[/unixtime]]I imagine there are the few, the proud.

The conceited, the self-important:biggrin:

What I remember most about my time on the WotC boards is as much as anthing else, that experience helped established my overall disgust for every edition of D&D, past and present.

Ah man, I forgot the drooling Yugoloth fanboys:ugone2far:

For me it was the most outspoken fans of Planescape that made me avoid it like the plague. They were like the semi-literate people I met who kept telling me Watchmen* was the end-all/be-all of superhero comics.[br][br]* I didn't read Watchmen until recently, and I do think it's a very good book, but...

1186765070[/unixtime]]The power level of the actual dice-rolling needs to be known ahead of time to make a character appropriate - not just the point values of the characters (that's merely breadth, not focus) or the point value of a single attack (that's easily tweaked if you know the system or ch...

GURPS 4th Edition and Hero System 5th Edition essentially expect you created your Player's Handbook for each game you run. More practically you're supposed to offer players pregenerated characters or character templates as a buffer between player character creation and the whole spectrum of characte...

Silverthrone flashback... need Guinness...

Captain_Bleach at [unixtime wrote:1186379858[/unixtime]]

Play a better system.

What systems would you consider "better?"

Savage Worlds, FUDGE, GURPS, Exalted, Feng Shui, Unknown Armies, Hero System, Runequest, Paranoia...

RandomCasualty at [unixtime wrote:1186336925[/unixtime]]So monsters have limit breaks now? Wtf?

Seems to've worked really well for Final Fantasy.

1186283028[/unixtime]]I started thinking of kinda a gritty wild west style world where the great equalizer isn't guns, but rather magic, a world full of saloons, adventure, outlaws and spellslingers. How's that sound? Actually seems fairly practical. Some classes already exist outside civilized law...

Great minds think alike, but that doesn't explain how WotC writers [br] could've come up with it: Tangent: Since 2000, the design directive for monsters has shifted more toward “one memorable encounter.” When all we had was the Monster Manual, every monster had to carry a lot of weight. Especially i...

Flipping through channels tonight I came across the film The Golden Child , and I remembered the one thing in the film that always stuck with me: the villain's inablity to pronounce the letter "J", an unavoidable "tell" revealing him to really be a demon in disguise. As a teenage...

Saladin, The Animated Series

THIS thread just started making me laugh/cry...

1184433565[/unixtime]]I knew a pakistani guy that said that pakis beleive that black skin means you've been cursed by Allah. 1184463335[/unixtime]]So how does he explain the Muslims in Northern Africa trying to convert the population/making sure that those who are converted stay true? Why worship a...

Just to offer the flipside, something European slavers often exploited in Africa was that indiginous dark-skinned people meeting Europeans for this first time feared they might be ghosts, thier light-colored skin reflecting the pallid skin of corpses or bleached bones.[br][br]It would seem the color...

1184230474[/unixtime]]There was Yugo, the Wolf. Main character hero-type. Long, the Tiger. Wise fighter-type. Shen-Long, the Tiger. Clone of wise fighter-type. Jenny, the Bat. Slut/whore/legs up to your neck. Stun, the Insect. Science experiment gone wrong. And a bunch of others. Jut a comment on X...

Another gem from Kiero: GitP [br][br]Essentially another "thought" exercise about D&D 3.x being inferior to AD&D overall. But when asked why he would even consider running D&D if he felt the need to alter it so drastically, he starts to characterize himself as a martyr for givi...

I said it was an interesting setup, didn't say there was anything wrong with it:biggrin:

PhoneLobster at [unixtime wrote:1184402404[/unixtime]]You have to have HOW many posts to be a 2nd level RPGnetter?

From a quick at this guy's profile, it looks like ranking on RPG.net is based on game reviews you've submitted to the site, not post count. Interesting setup.

I think the sum of it is that the Norse associated black skin with sickness and death, which brings us back around to the evil attribute.

1184361978[/unixtime]]Mechanics-hating nut Kiero, who doesn't even play D&D yet constantly makes threads about it, starts this thread asking what people did to customize their characters before feats, leading to a hilarious series of 'my edition is better than your edition'-type arguments. He's...

1184244437[/unixtime]]WARNING: DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE CRYING[br][br]Witch is one of the "reasonable" people on WotC. I'm not sure which is worse, Witch's arguments of the fact that I still remember enough of D&D to understand the flaw in his argument.[br][br]:shocked: I ju...

1184273636[/unixtime]]1.) When I complete my current campaign, I want to find a rules system (Which does not have to be d20) and/or campaign setting that makes playing non and partial casters as fun as playing full casters.[br]2.) A design that allows the non and partial casters to not be bested in...

Fwib at [unixtime wrote:1184270175[/unixtime]]

Cielingcat at [unixtime wrote:1184256068[/unixtime]]As are white dragons, and red ones, and blue, and green. But the shiny dragons that are named after precious metals are good.

Colour-coded for your convenience!

I like to think of them as Crayola Dragons:biggrin:

1184231206[/unixtime]]The Drow bother me.[br][br]For many reasons.[br][br]Ideniifying evil elves by them being black is just the tip of the iceberg on those guys. Being a Lovecraft fan I see Drow as falling very well into the idea of a ancient advanced culture fallen into decadence. As for them bei...