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Today it seems like Fantasy and Sci-Fi are "in." Probably starting around the time the Lord of the Rings movies came out, a lot of that changed. But growing up, somewhere along the way I learned that my love for fantasy was weird... maybe even a bit shameful. I remember being young in the 90's...

Ultimately, the problem with spontaneous casters isn't the extra spell slots, or their freedom in spending them it's how they learn their spells. Arcane magic on Athas only comes from study- no creature has inherent magical ability. Psionics, yes. Magic, no. So how to rectify a Sorcerer who...

Once upon a time I ran a 3.5 Dark Sun game for my group. My players really enjoyed it, but I was super stressed out by the experience. Ever since they have been begging me to do it again, and lately I have been giving it a little consideration. One of the things that I struggled at the outset...

I know we have a few White Wolf people on this forum, but the games mostly only get brought up in passing. I am curious what people's reactions have been to 5th edition Vampire and what you think about the possibility of Werewolf and Mage 5th edition.

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So, thematically, the Warlock is a caster who has made some kind of bargain for their magic. But the "cost" aspect of the class is mostly left to the DM to decide and act on, or not act on. Maybe your patron asks you to do little side quests or something, which is fine, but there isn't any...

So I had this idea on the way home from D&D tonight. In D&D, languages for the most part aren't terribly useful. Your GM might give you a hand out that's in Dwarvish or Abyssal or something like that, and either A) one of your characters speaks it, so the GM hands over the translation, or B) you...

So I had this idea for a superheroes game a while back and I was recently reminded of it. I kind of worry that it's a little too high-concept/complex/weird, but maybe you guys would have different thoughts. Basically the idea for the campaign is that there is a fictional comic book company and...

Shadowrun has never done a proper reboot since its creation and while that is admirable, I feel like SR is dragging a lot of baggage behind it. There are aspects of the game that don't really serve the game very well as a whole. Some of my sticking points are: Balkanization. The game kind of...

This, to me, is amazing. So happy.

I haven't been able to find many reviews of it that get into the meat of the supplement. What do you guys think?

It's looking to be my turn to GM our group, and I have had the Alternity PHB for ages, and something about it kind of fascinates me. Any thoughts or recommendations?

I think it is pretty much agreed that once you get to the last 5 levels or so arcane spellcasters tend to overwhelm the game. I have only taken one spellcaster to 20th level, who was an abjurer in our eberron campaign. But I was thinking... what if you took 7th, 8th, and 9th level sor/wiz...

One of my favorite products from Green Ronin was the Complete Psychic's handbook. I have never been completely satisfied with 3rd edition psionics- it just doesn't feel right. Psychic powers should feel like the next step in the evolution of mankind, not like a new and improved magic system...

Ok, just to clarify I am not a long time fan of spelljammer, and only recently bought the PDF from RPGnow. I thought I would jot down some of my thoughts on a conversion... -Ship Combat as a Skill Challenge? Now I like the idea of the party working together to run their very own ship...

I brought this up in the two roguezilla threads, but I thought this issue deserved its own thread. In the above article, does it say that the rogue recieves a total of 6 skills (Stealth, Thievery, plus four skills from the class skills list) or does it say they recieve 10? (Stealth, Thievery...

So Shadow will be a power source, eventually, and presumably this means that characters draw power from the energies of that plane... So what about the Feywild? Could energies be drawn from that plane, and for what purpose? I don't know what has been definitively said about the primal power...

So what do you think of it?

So I was kind of irritated with Eladrin, Tieflings and Dragonborn in the PHB and my beloved Gnomes being pushed aside. The possibility that some classes will be abandoned for new, shiny classes like Warlock and Warlord. And I would still like to see everything that was in the 3.X phb appear in...

I was just wondering... as editions progress, are you finding it more difficult to create your own settings and forge your own path, or have the new editions been making it easier to come up with your own content?