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I’m a thirtysomething dad and IT professional living in the Austin, TX area. I started gaming way back in the day, 1982, with the TSR space opera game Star Frontiers. Since then I've been an avid roleplayer. I went to 5 Gen Cons, was a regional Triad for the RPGA's Living Greyhawk campaign, helped start a gaming club (the FORGE) in Memphis, TN, et cetera.

I GM and play a variety of RPGs; currently Pathfinder is in heavy rotation as well as various non-D&D-based games.


Jun
27
comment How can I balance giving the party a teamwork feat?
The only problem with this is that the OP wanted the feat to be the result of training, how I read it...
Jun
26
revised 3d6 vs a d20: What is the effect of a different probability curve?
added 478 characters in body
Jun
26
comment How can I balance an encounter with reinforcements?
Are you asking just for effective CR calculations? The one answer seems to just be "random ways you could bring in reinforcements" - is that what you're looking for, or just making sure you're hitting the right difficulty?
Jun
26
revised How can I balance an encounter with reinforcements?
edited tags
Jun
26
revised Where to find game session reports?
added 80 characters in body
Jun
26
comment Spell to change the appearance of minions?
Maybe you could narrow down what versions you mean when you say old school. To some that's "pre-4e", to grognard snoots it means "only pre-1e"...
Jun
26
comment How can I balance giving the party a teamwork feat?
Yeah, I don't know anyone who has ever bothered to willingly take a teamwork feat; even classes that give them for free like the Inquisitor end up having to give abilities that let them activate with other party members that don't have that same feat - giving them out for free is about the only way they'd ever see play.
Jun
26
revised How can I balance giving the party a teamwork feat?
added 25 characters in body
Jun
26
answered What is the point of a spell component pouch?
Jun
25
answered How can I balance giving the party a teamwork feat?
Jun
25
answered Where to find game session reports?
Jun
23
comment Any good resources for would-be authors of a line of gaming products?
@Sardathrion, I would encourage you to divide up this question - you are conflating authoring with publishing with running a game line with specific advice with places to go for advice and probably a bunch of other stuff, which means you're going to get a bunch of possibly-not-relevant answers (which seems to be already happening below).
Jun
23
comment Any good resources for would-be authors of a line of gaming products?
As a mod, CW is only for answers we really want to have the whole community chip in on and update over time - not for bad questions. Vote to close if you don't like the Q, CW isn't a fix for that. There is probably a good CW-able question about game writing but this one isn't it, it comes close to running afoul of too broad/not a real question.
Jun
21
revised Differences between D&D 3.X and previous editions
edited tags; edited title
Jun
20
comment What's a Denver accent sound like?
I understand everything you're going to say as justification, but I think this is off topic for RPG.SE.
Jun
19
answered At what level can a fighter gain damage reduction?
Jun
17
revised Is there anyway to “gift” D&D Insider?
edited tags
Jun
12
answered How would an illusionist hide a castle?
Jun
12
answered How to design an RP-balanced party?
Jun
12
revised What characterizes a “Modern” role playing game or gaming system?
added 40 characters in body