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I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I think the 2cnd doctors companion Jamie, might qualify as the "rural" type.

Furthermore, if you buy the companion there is a simple system therein that lets you make your own classes, or discard them all together.

1. this is a great thread. 2. Rules issues aside, humans/demihumans have two legs, most creatures have four. There are very few animals in the real world that can't out run/ run down even the fastest humans- this includes large heavy animals, like hippos and bulls. Furthermore, while it is true...

I definitely agree with the main point. There is also a revised damage track explanation on the Green Ronin website. I know I'm in the minority, but i don't find the damage track any harder to deal with than endlessly checking off and replacing hit points, but that's probably because I'm...

I notice a lot of posts saying that you only need the PHB to 'play'. This is a false dichotomy. To people outside the hobby sitting down at the table and rolling dice is playing- regardless of which side of the screen you're sitting on. The fact that you need at least two books to really do this...

On the other hand, i find True20 waaaay easier, but YMMV. Combat can have a pretty high lethality index, though.

I think a good boxed set is the best way to go. With good, evocative cover art that shows what you are going to be doing- you know like fighting a dragon for it's treasure... Also, i think the "Advanced" label was, by design or not, one of the smartest marketing moves in the history of RPGs. We...

I'd been out of RPGs fro a while. I ran an epic Earthdawn campaign that was so successful that everything we tried after felt like an anticlimax (even Earthdawn, itself). meanwhile i got married moved across the continent, and then 3.0 came out. I bought the PHB, the DMG and the much maligned...

an island inhabited by a cyclops and some sheep. I totally just thought that up.

i haven't seen either game, but i have fond memories of playing a six foot tall, cigar smoking, mutated black rabbit wielding a blaster rifle in GW 1e. Good times. There was always something about the art in the original Gamma world that I liked, too.

you should be playing 1e monopoly; it is the one true system.

I'm in the nothing crowd- i'm interested in Ptolis, but I know I'd never run it. I'd like to read it, just to see how it's put together; but i can't justify the expense. I've been gaming since 1978-79 and I've bought three setting books in the entire time, all used for less than 10 bucks. One i...

We got through at least one round, i swear it! :D

As a True20 fan I plead guilty to moronism. I'm just not interested in complexity. I can understand it's allure, though; it just isn't for me, although, i did play Champions once- for about a half an hour. :)

I'm just setting up a new campaign. i give the players the option of reading the hand out or giving it a miss- lots of people in today's world don't know anything about history or world affairs, I don't have a problem with players that chose ignorance. it mimics real life rather well, actually...

I'm writing a fantasy setting for true20, and the way I'm handeling different types of spellcasters is by making power lists. If you are a snowape shaman you have access to one list, if you are a Murian Bloodmage you have access to another, if you are a priest of the Bone God it is another...

point taken, but in the early days the 3-18 ability stat block ranged far and wide beyond D&D. CoC had it, Ruinquest had it, V&V had it and probably lots of other games I never saw or played. Most ability score s were identical or similar to D&D regardless of the way they were generated, you...

I just did this with a True20 game. Some advice, for what it's worth: - keep things moving, when there is one player you as the GM have to have something going down all the time. there is no player to player interaction to fill the gaps. - have one major npc (mine was a 14 year old kid the pc...

Earthdawn 1e. I had heard nothing about it, but the art was cool- lots pf color plates, neat paintings and what not. I got it home and read it through; we played it and much to my surprise it was a huge success. The funky dice really added to the drama. The magic system wasn't so great though...

I mostly DM and my main problem is I get bored with the setting. when I get bored things get destroyed. Way too many play sessions end with the party riding away from a burning town. I think i've just watched Akira too many times.