I would suggest it to anyone, I\'ve never even been into the entire FPS thing, and there\'s only a few third person combat games I like out there, but this one is close to the pen and paper game, and it blends the three styles very smoothly, easily the most addictive game I\'ve played, and I\'ve been gaming since pong

I don\'t know if anyone here\'s played vampire: bloodlines, but I think the system in that one works very well in combining real time third person combat, first person shooting, and RP. I could see that system (with tweaking to make the firearms a little less of a liability) being successfully implemented into an MMO... not planeshift, I don\'t think that system would be right for planeshift.

essentially, combat is handled with use of the left mouse key and your directional buttons (WASD) to create combos. as you pump more points into your brawl or melee skills, you become faster, capable of dealing longer strings of combat attacks, and you deal more damage per hit. all this is in third person. when you equip a weapon, you shift into first person, you have a broad targeting reticle, which, as you rest your gun on one focal point, becomes smaller, as you move, it grows if you fire too soon, you could lose your aim by as much as 45 degrees. I\'ve managed to miss a target at point blank range by firing wildly as I was running backwards. more points in your firearms skill give you capability of weilding larger weapons, increased reticle shrink, decreased growth and even more damage to your hits

a system like this might allow a n00b to get a lucky kill, but it definitely gives the advantage to veterans. I would love to see this implemented into an MMO, it would require some amount of personal skill, yet wouldn\'t give an FPS freak all of the advantage

my wife\'s a female gamer, and I wouldn\'t have it any other way

mostly because it seems like everyone who wants to be invincible in fiction always wants to rule the earth.

I say, when war breaks out, all of the major cities will be hit, but the smaller cities will be spared damnation because we\'re just not major military targets. by the time that war could get to cities like where I live, there won\'t be anyone left to lead the worlds armies.
my biggest fear is fallout driftin in from the cities that are hit. we\'re only a hundred miles from saint louis, which means that fallout could potentially drift all the way to us... I really don\'t wanna glow in the dark, after all, I can\'t sleep with the light on.

Here\'s an arguement I hear way too often. There are too many rules. I say better too many than too few. Have you ever played in a group that won\'t accept that DM is GOD??? it\'s not a pretty sight. the entire group ends up unhappy. The players argue that they automatically have all kinds of abilities that give them unfair advantages in combat... your ambidexterity arguement perhaps. how else is ambidexterity to be controlled, without that rule, you\'d have an army of dual weilding warriors and rouges in every campaign. there are rules that I don\'t agree with in third ed, but as a DM, it\'s at my discretion to change them. that\'s the beautiful thing about tabletopping, (better name than pen and paper) it allows any rule to be changed within reason.

one of the best reasons to have lots of rules is that often an arguement will arise that requires a logical responce that the DM might not have forseen. say in the case of a character and a monster having the same initiative, how is the situation handled? it\'s covered in the DMG. however, if the DM is not satisfied with that rule, he can make a house rule that contradicts the book rule. just so long as there is a rule in front of the players that cannot be argued with, the DM can point to the rule and say \"this is how it is, if you don\'t like it, tough\"


I\'ve run into some sticky situations with \"powerplayers\" people that are just fine with a game as long as they can play it to their advantage. but as soon as the situation turned against them, they tried whining to me to bend the rules in their favors, and as long as I\'ve got the book in front of me, and a poster with house rules behind me, I have no reason to give in.

planeshiftia??? has a certain ring to it...

I\'d say that I\'d prefer a true democracy. every law made is voted on by all citizens, there would be no true national figurehead, like a president or such. I don\'t know all the details, but that\'s why everyone would vote, nothing could go through that the majority of people didn\'t approve...

and I think that education and healthcare should be paid for strictly by the government. those are things that everyone should have a right to

I don\'t hate anyone, really, I don\'t like bush, or our government. what hurts is, I tried to talk to him politely, to tell him that no man is better than me, he started flaming me as a hypocrite, he believes, honestly that I have no value as a human, and this after about three years of friendship. I\'d link you to the conversation, but it\'s on a members only board