Question #1: Does the assumption of encounter equivalency hold up?The level 1 abilities sort of held it up (close enough for government work) but what about the most powerful ones? Let's look at level 27 ( Read more... )

Ok, so given the previous assumption, let's look at psion powers versus encounter powers on a per level basis.

( Warning, tables ahead )

Ok, so I ended up staring at the Psion and pondering the question of how its power point model compares against the standard build. To do this really requires an assumption, and that is that an at-will power with it's maximum augmentation is comparable to an encounter power of the same level. So before anything else, that assumption required some ( Read more... )

So, WOTC has released the Psion, with the summary in Dragon magazine and the chargen material in the character builder, and it's really, really interesting. It's enough of a departure from classes we've seen to date that while I think it has some pitfalls, it seems clever an interesting ( Read more... )

So, this has been a really fantastic stretch for me for board and card games, and I figured I'd run through the goodness.

Race for the Galaxy continues to be our go-to game. I have lost track of how many times we've played. The two player game holds up really quite well, but playing with my wife is a welcome pleasure, and the wife-friendliness ( Read more... )

Gonna take about a week off the internet. I'll still be grabbing my podcasts, and I've got a few windows scheduled to check email in case anything important comes up, but otherwise I'm pulling the plug for a bit. Curiously, this is not a result of any particular internet badness. Rather, I just need to gather my focus a bit more effectively, and ( Read more... )

judd-sonofbert put forward a really fascinating challenge to try to capture the feel he enjoys about China Mieville's New Crobuzon (The city from Perdido Street Station and other books) using D&D and it's magnificent weirdness as a starting point. The rules, such as they are, can be found here, but in short, they call for taking three humanoid races and three ( Read more... )

So, many of you know that drivingblind is in the hospital right now, with his wife, omphaloskepsis in labor with their first child. I'm giddy for these two and I want to do a little something for them, and I'd like your help ( Read more... )

Gareth Michael Skarka has gotten some unlove for the fact that he's doing the game version of Perdido Street Station, or at least feels he has, so I want to take a second to voice a public vote of confidence ( Read more... )

This had some legs on twitter, so I’m elaborating in a more spacious environment ( Read more... )