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On Stranger Tides I've always wanted to run a game based in the voduo/pirate world of Tim Powers on Stranger Tides. With the release of True20's adept book, combined with their True20 freeport pirate stuff, this just might be doable (for me) now.

T20 Jdrakeh is right about the powers. I enjoy True20 a lot, and I'm presently running a campaign in it. But the powers section is by far the weakest part of the game. I also use a variant of the damage track. The by the book damage track is fine, but a bit fiddly for my taste. Other than...

Bitten, Stolen, etc are better than Dime Store Magic - I like the character better. Laurel K. Hamilton's Anita Blake books - well, the first three or four are totally different, and much, much better than this later soft core porn/monster schlock she's writing now days. If you can get your...

Well..... it fits, but its a bit weird... okay, a lot weird.... but Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf. Its part of a series. Its worth checking out. Oh, and I like Simon Green too - though they are trashy summer time beach reading, mostly.... I was trying to find the names or author of this...

The defining book with those qualities. Dune.

True20 has the Lux Aeternum setting. Its a swashbuckling space opera type deal - think the three muskateers in space. Not bad. There is the Serenity game, built around Firefly. I've heard bad things about the ruleset though (but anything firefly can't be all bad). D20 traveller is something...

Well, True20 has the LUX AETERNUM setting available, which is swashbuckling space opera style space adventures. Its interesting. For a rules light superhero game, you can check out Truth & Justice. It has an interesting settings book (I can't remember the name though) where your superpowers are...

Well if you don't like True20, its almost certain you won't like D20 modern, since they are very similar. So, you might want to find a Borders bookstore or somewhere with a copy of D20 modern, and settle down to peruse it before you buy. Or, check the Modern SRD online, of course.....

Heh. I tend to avoid WOTC books because they are poorly written, and tend to be ill balanced compared to third party products. To each their own, I guess.

Feh, I buy game books like candy, and read them like novels. Price ratio for my stuff sucks.

I'm interested I'm interested, but I'm not sure if I can make this friday. I'll know weds night for sure whether I can.

Oh, I agree, I fell in love with the Forgotten Realms waaaaayyy back in the day, when you only heard about them as the background in dragon magazine articles like "seven magical blades", and etc. Great history and detail, and the first few supplements were like that. Then it all started to get...

Well, if you want to spend a bit of money and have a toy site to play with, you could register a domain name (I would register at godaddy.com), then get a small site at some place like a small orange. A small orange will host a tiny web site for 25 bucks a year, and you could run wordpress on...

Yeah, I've got both. I've skimmed the framing part. My time will free up in the next week or two, and I'll have time to catch up on my reading.

Indie games the Shab al-Hiri Roach http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12312.phtml Basically, its a roleplaying session, not campaign. This is kind of a party game rpg setup. I haven't played it yet, or read the rules even. I'm registered for a game of this at Dragoncon this year. The...

Even though this has devolved (as most long running threads tend to do) into a not very interesting minor flame war, I'm going to toss in a pertinant piece. Many independant RPG's are at present exploring systems which increase player control and participation, while decreasing GM power. (They...

Hmm, I thought this information was customarily given out as bardic knowledge checks.....

This sounds similar to what Primetime Adventures does (which I haven't actually seen, just listened to the have games will travel podcast on). The points they award have an ingame use. I'm not, however, sure how well my players would handle awarding their own conviction. They have a tendancy to...

Hmm - your specification there seems arbitrary to me - You are arguing that one side gets to decide what is the punitive part. An RPG is a group project, for the purpose of having fun within a certain set of parameters. The parameters have some flex, which is decided by the group. While the GM...

Oh hush you, its just the easiest example - it could be told in the context of a rpg session. Attack the substance of the argument/post, but don't take cheap shots - your better than that. (And, one of my guilty pleasures as an adult is that I no longer have to keep my *%#@ room clean...