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The first night that we made characters it took us a while to make them. The next night I decided to make another character and it went by really fast. -=Grim=-

That's some expensive reading material. :confused: The combat is as complicated as you want it to be. There's the basic system which is *really * basic, and then you add whatever advanced rules you want at whatever speed you feel you are ready for. -=Grim=-

The book is frickin' thorough, detailed, and realistic but smooth and easy to learn. My girlfriend and I had a shootout the other night: after grazing her neck with a round from my revolver, she blew a huge hole in my chest... thus ending me. The shot-clock is an amazing innovation for RPG...

Naw, you don't need to use every rule. I ran Hackmaster successfully without using the complex critical rules (we did the AD&D "double damage" thing - I know, I know... "yawn") or character training stuff. Hackmaster is easy to tailor to whatever level of complexity I want. Sometimes we...

Go with Kalamar then. Everything you really need is in one book: the core book> Everything else is just extra stuff you can take or leave. If you can afford a few sourcebooks go with the Player's Primer (as opposed to the Player's Guide), Strength and Honor (the Hobgoblin book, a race that is...

Since your players aren't familiar with the setting, you really should get (or have them get) the Players Primer. That book is critical, IMHO. Other books are less critical, but just as good.My top 5 books for Kalamar, besides the core book and Players Primer, are: (1) The Players Guide (2) The...

Meh, I'm an unabashed Kalamar fan. I love the realism and richness of the setting. I also voted for Conan: Hboria is another fantastic setting. Kalamar reminds me of Hyboria in alot of ways. I actually use the Conan OGL game rules for the Kalamar setting. Conan's sorcery and focus on gritty...

Pffft, what would Thumper know? He's a giant talking rabbit with a laser gun? :lol: -=Grim=-

OK, I lied: OGL Conan RPG is tied for first with Kingdoms of Kalamar. I'm a huge REHoward fan, so I was mad skeptical about it being d20. But, I'm also a huge Mongoose fan, so I bought it anyway. I love it. The reason I remembered to tie it for first place with Kalamar is because I use the game...

I've played scores of fantasy settings, from the famous and well known to the obscure or homebrew, and three stand out as the ones I like the best for pure fluff that makes sense, is playable, and fun to read: 1) Kingdoms of Kalamar. -Hands down this is my favorite setting and the one I've had...

Hey folks. I usually only chime in for threads about Kalamar (or Earthdawn), I know. And instead of my own words Ill grab what this dude Oghma wrote a while back. It basically says what I want to say only better: Amen. Apparently you either love the setting or hate it. And it is rather far...

Yea but the fact that it says Corebook IV on the cover shows that its one of the core D&D3e books as well, suitable for use in any setting like the PHB, DMG, and MM. <shrug> -=Grim=-

BOOYAH!! Thats exactly it. Its a generic, yet flavored world setting. Generic in that people can recognize it, yet flavorful with its Roman-like feel to alot of it, and the whole Orcs and Hobgoblins are PC races stuff. I dunno. I like all the settings. My boy Chriss always DMs FR, and I enjoy...

I can agree, even as a Kalamar fan and a student of medieval history in my senior year... the KoKCS book is indeed a dry read for the first few times you try to look at it. Even worse than most of the bland documents Ive had to translate from French or Latin in college (ones that described such...

Yea, Im one of those Hackmaster and Hero system ones. Heh. Im tired of this "my setting is better" bullsh-t. Every setting has its ups and downs. EVERY. ONE. Every setting has its fans, and who cares what yours is? I like Kalamar. Some of you like Realms. Others AU. Others, whichever... I...

Aye, and they have their own very, very detailed racial book, as do the Orcs. Neither race is 2d in Kalamar, and theyre both far from fodder races. As for Bards and Gods, I had my one bard I never got to play worship Risk, the God of Chance. Then again, he was a con man more than a...

Egads, you must have been doing something wrong! Kalamar is far from dull. Yea its Humanocentric, but it still has Orcs and Hobgoblins as PLAYER races, and the Kalamar player guide rewrote the races to get rid of that silly ECL idea, so all the D&D races are there from the get go. And there...

Erm, not to add MORE Kalamar to ya list, but the Fury in the Wastelands book can be (like the Players guide) used for ANY setting. What is it? An Orc book! But not just another un of the mill Orc book. Nor is it so original that the Orcs arent Monster Manual Orcs anymore. No! FitW lets you...

Well, I guess its my turn to chime in. I cant say I dislike SL. I appreciate the meta-plot and gritty nature of the game. But I have to put Kalamar over SL and the other systems and Ill tell you why: 1) I find the nations to be realistically carried out in game design. The interactions...

Earthdawn did own, as does Planescape, but my all time favorite game setting (aside from Middle Earth, which is in a league of its own) is the Kingdoms of Kalamar. Its the most realistic and intruiging setting, has the most colorful races and classes, and the coolest ideas for a setting. Hands...