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Which of the following common fantasy races, decked out with the run of the mill fantasy tropes, do you dislike the most, and why? (Courtesy Elemental Elf)

Dwarves

Elves

Gnomes

Half-Elves

Half-Orcs

Halflings

Humans

Orcs

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votes: 52 comments: 31
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 Snargash Moonclaw
Well, I never would have expected to see a floorplan for this in a public site URL

 Elemental_Elf
I'll be finishing the requested topics in my Aeolond thread tomorrow. Sorry it took me so long but this has been a weak of hell...

 Loch Belthadd
woah...

 Snargash Moonclaw
Don't say you weren't warned: URL

 Phoenix
It was one of those chocolate caramel ones. No worries.

 Nomadic
my word, did that gentlemen just swallow a turtle?

 Wensleydale
Hoots, mon, here's a caber for ye Jimmy?


 Nomadic
eh?

 Llum
Merry Canada Day

 Lord Vreeg
Guys, I'm going up to Maine for a few days, up the Sebago House. Be well and creative.

 Phoenix
Phoenix is immune to crits.

In the tavern.

Today, at least.

 Nomadic
looks like my attack did a crit on the tavern and activated my special ability (silence target on critical hit)

 Nomadic
Chocolemon mupcakes

 Llum
So for something apparently super-secret, there sure are a lot of AFK people in the CBG mIRC

 Steerpike
mushrooms are surprisngly hard to draw for me...

 Lord Vreeg
so I'm an elitist...

 Biohazard
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

 Elemental_Elf
Why can't we just have a thread like normal people?

 Lord Vreeg
we'll continue in the super secret room of CBG chatness...

 Elemental_Elf
I prefer a more rigid system and have players wiling to have the rules bent and/or broken when and if necessary.

 Nomadic
I like to have a loose guideline to function as a skeleton that I can anchor stuff to.

My personal preference though has been for on the fly gameplay. Enough rules to keep things moving, but not too many that you get bogged down in crunch.

 Elemental_Elf
Amen Cheo!

 Cheomesh
Well, things have to change and evolve, don't they? I've come to the conclusion that having rules to cite beyond "I say so." allows better co-operation.

M.

 Lord Vreeg
early D&D=guidelines, rules lite, Heavy DM adjudication-talent was critical for a good game.
Mid era D&D foci was on the player, with optimization of skills/feats, etc. It put more focus on the players than ever before.
4e puts the focus on the rules first, letting the rules do more of the work to put less stress on the GM or the players.

On a diffefrent level, 0d&d was written by older geeks to communicate with older geeks, and 4e is wrtten for older geeks to sell a product to much younger geeks.

But most importantly, 4e is written for such a hugely differnt play style than 0D&D that it finally caused an old-school backlash. Just a completely different game.


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Setting Author Q&A #4 - Let's Talk About The Bronze Setting

 Ishmayl on Saturday 25 April 2009 - 11:12:41 

Update - May 1, 2009
The Setting Author Q&A for the Bronze Setting has been rescheduled for Thursday, May 7 8:00 PM EST. Anyone not showing up will be henceforth officially deemed "Uncaring." My word is law. (But I won't be able to make it, Thursdays don't work for me. I care, I really do!)
/end Update

The next Setting Author Q&A has been tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, April 28th, starting at 7:30 PM EST and going until everyone knows everything there is to know about the Bronze Setting. See this thread for details.
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Wiki Accounts

 Ishmayl on Saturday 11 April 2009 - 09:29:11 

This is a very important announcement.

Yesterday, ten new accounts signed up to the wiki, none of which (as far as I can tell), are members of the CBG. I am assuming they are spam accounts and blocking all of them. If you signed up yesterday or today (April 10th and April 11th, 2009), you need to send me a PM here on the site and let me know your user name, and I will unblock you.

Thanks,
Ish
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