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Gamma World back then was great because you felt powerful for ALL the hit points. I don't remember it poorly. I loved it. Had a friend get stuck on the item chart while dealing with a black ray rifle. About 45 minutes just rolling on the chart with a million near-deaths from near failures.

I was thinking of this old Dragon magazine about the Ashen Compact. Basically, drow, duegar and aboleths created a secret cult to fight their enemies in the Underdark. A lot of blind-fighting, but the spellcaster class was blinded. No sight what so ever. Their 'spellbook' was encoded in...

I'm over in Maryville, and might be interested. Gimme a holler.

You're not wrong. There used to be old posts from Gygax's Q&As on here talking about the connection between worlds; if I remember correctly, that's how Mordenkainen picked up his love of six-shooters and root beer. He essentially became Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name.

Well, the confusion for older players is that in previous editions, even if you went by the 5e rule that planes only have 'one special trait', Ravenloft's special trait was that the realm itself was conscious and could make detection/augury/identification spells give whatever result the realm...

I haven't read it, but I remember Ravenloft back in the day had MANY MANY modifications to special abilities, specifically ones that would allow you to detect evil or to basically locate the source of the danger. The demiplane loved chaos and evil and loved tricking you. Or maybe I'm just...

I like the option of researching spells back at the settlement. I don't see a lot of wizards in my games, and therefore not as much spellcrafting, but it would fit. Another option, since spellbooks would be rare as far as loot: the possibility of non-standard spellbooks. There was an old...

I was looking/thinking of using Mechwarrior: Dark Ages minis. It was a minis game that essentially all the mechanics are printed on the figure itself like Mage Knight. I think it was set after the Clan re-invasion with generally different factions. Some of the figs were infantry squads...

I enjoyed Babylon 5, and it's world building, addressing how humans made contact with different species etc. The Vorlons, and Shadows, had been manipulating human evolution forever; the Centauri, on their declined, tried at first to convince Earth it was a lost 'colony' since we generally looked...

Also, something else I thought of with 7th Sea: You have a base TN to be hit - the defense used depends on what your situation is, for ex, Footwork most times, Balance on ships or yardarms etc, Parry is specific to your weapon. You can use your actions to actively defend/disarm foes. You can...

Thought I'd give you a quick reply. I don't know that the rules mechanically encourage swashbuckler antics more than any other. It's similiar to L5R's rpg system - d10s, skill+trait keeping traits. Now, the GM might give you free raises/bonus damage/etc to encourage a faster looser play, but...

Hand of Vecna I might be showing my age, but look at the first four comics in the Forgotten Realms comics DC put out yeeeeears ago. The Hand of Vaprak might as well have been Vecna's hand -- it just came from an ogre and troll god. Similiar nasty effects

Always looking to tweek my gaming situation. My group is sadly limited in numbers, so any additions can be good. drop me an email sometime. bayushi_seikuro at yahoo dot com

There are a few things I love from Heroes of Battle: The Combat Medic - by far my favorite cleric PrC. Minor things like evasion, Mobility, spontaneous Heal spells, Heal skill as a move action. Things like that. Co-ordinated fire. Rules for a group of archers firing into one square, and...

Also, be honest with them that you want to learn and try to get better at this. Alot of DMs welcome a break from running games, so it's in their best interest if another DM can be 'trained', as it were. Now, I see you'd written that it'll be Forgotten Realms? First, best rule, especially for...

I don't know. I know in other regards, it's better than the bags of holding; if I remember right, in regards to removing items in combat, so maybe it was intended to be a better item in some ways?

I loved about Thor bein' understanding of pre-wedding babies. "How was I sposed to know she was a fetility goddess?" "Look at the songbirds? Did you think she was a bringer of pestilence?!"

My two cents It seems to me that there's a lot of hot air on both sides on this. Which is okay, for speculation. In the Realms I've ever played or ran, things are much more 'regional'. A Vaasan in the Dalelands is unusual. A Luiren halfling in Luskan is very strange. To me, that's a lot of...

I know it's not D&D, but the most fun killer-dungeon I've had the joy of was the Tomb of Iuchiban in Legend of the Five Rings. For one thing, you know going in you're going into a tomb designed to trap a body-stealing blood sorceror, imprisoned in its walls. You know enough of his backstory to...

I'd second the choice of the mageblade from Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed/Evolved. Since it's one class, there's no multiclass penalties; it is exactly what the Spellsword (from Wizards) should have been. Because you're also attuned to your weapon that you use to cast your spells, that weapon...