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I never had the chance to play this game before, but I am now planning to run next month the Stormrider adventure Jumpstart for Ars Magica second edition, at a public meeting in Lisbon, as an homage to Greg Stafford. Ars Magica is a game which was undoubtedly influenced by him (Glorantha...

Under the Hollow Hill and Burned Over (Apocalypse World PG-13).

Deadliness How do you manage the apparently insane deadliness of the game?

1) Otherworld 2) Saurians 3) Underworld 4) Fae P.S. But then again, my references are more things like Artesia and Chivalry & Sorcery rather than Exalted and Anime.

Yes. In that sense It feels more D&D. And it feels less 3e.

I GMed for years DnD (BEMCI), AD&D and AD&D 2e. 3e I run for little more than a year after its release, at which point I gave up the game, for a number of reasons but must of all for its increased complexity. I have bought, read, run or played many other systems, but none for as much time as...

That's the assumption I am working with, too. My guess is that the number was initially fixed as 8, and then, at some point, given the increase of PHB number of pages, increased to, maybe, as much as 12. If sword-mage was, for instance, referred to as a class that would not probably be out...

There will be 12 classes in PHB1: The Paladin, The Cleric, The Druid, The Ranger, The Fighter, The Warlord, The Warlock, The Rogue, The Swordsinger, The Bard, The Wizard. The Sorcerer? A Barbarian can be a Fighter, or a Ranger, a Bard or a Rogue. So can a Civilized Man. What do you think? J.