Timewaster's Guide Archive

Ummm...the whole "Collectable" thing.  Like a CCG, you never know what pieces you're goign to get. In the case og Mage Knight/Heroclix, this makes sense. However, an RPG isn't a game in the sense that there are no winners or losers. It is (Or should be) based around some kind of character or story. As such, the characters use dhsould be based on what is dramatically interesting, not what you randomly picked.

Now, based on the information in the above posts, the new D&D rules are written so as to sound as if they cannot  be played without the minutures. If that isn't an attempt to make more money in the whole CCG wayof forcing people who want to play to buy more to get the pieces they want, I don't see what is.

I've always maintained that D&D (IMO the worst RPG out there) isn't even an RPG, but really a wargame with a story attached. This only confirms my theories. A Roleplay should be about story and character interaction, not mathematics and looking up tables to see exactly how long in milliseconds it takes to shoot an arrow.  Trying to market an RPG with a CCG mindset is probably the most insane thing I've heard since recent memory.

I'd have to vote for FUDGE. It's really handy in its simplicity. Myself and my friends find that so long as we have some scratch paper and a few dice, we can develop an RPG for any theme pretty much instantly, by thinking of some appropriate attributes. The great thing is for lazy people like me who always end up being GM - I don't have toa actually prepare anything, since I can take a setting, be it The Matrix or Cardboard Tube Samurai, and make it up as I go along by FUDGing it. Handy.

Being involved in tests myself at the moment, all I can say is Good Luck!

I didn't know there was a new Tomb Raider film, but if it sucks, I guess it's follwing in the footsteps of the game. At least there's some kind of consistancy there.

Playing follow the leader can get kinda interesting when the leader is four and likes to run around in his underwear.

Ok. All information should be free. All information wants to be free. Music is information. Therefore, I take the typical geek stance that Music sharing is a right. In fact, it is our responsibility and duty to the artists to download their music.

That said though, most commercial music has sold out anyway. Once a group signs a deal, they tend not to be as good, since they're making music not for enjoyment, but because they have to. Being locked into the contract means they have to write X number of songs, and so they just think of what they're doing, and write some underdeveloped lyrics about it over a typical beat. This certainly accounts for the amount of music about sitting under a tree smoking a bong....

Seriously, on the internet there are heaps of amateur music sites, which are legal and really really good. Between a few nerdcore rappers and OverClocked ReMix, I have nine cd's of Mp3 music. Almost all of it is free, and its all very good.

What use are pants if they aren't comfortable? I used to have a pair of uncomfortable pants, and I threw them away, as I simply couldn't wear them.