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Some RPGs are written by people who are true students of a centuries-old classic literary work of art, and make the rules and gameplay as close a match for the source material as possible. King Arthur Pendragon RPG, based on the literature surrounding King Arthur. True20 Tales of the Caliphate...

The modern trio of Goblins, Hobgoblins, and Bugbears is tough to break into. Each has a more-or-less clearly defined space in the imaginative space. Norkers, Snotlings, the blue psionic ones, etc....none of them can quite compete with the big three. I've looked at various creatures that could be...

New comics company, strong start, first issue Isom #1 coming out soon. Would love to hear more about it or more what everybody thinks of it ............ +(ish) please - as in, I'm just happy that there's a new comics universe being born. Feel free to share what you like or dislike. Just please...

What makes one creature a goblinoid, and another creature not a goblinoid? Modern D&D and pathfinder draw a line around 3 main species, so that goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears are all goblinoids, but orcs, for example, are not. Eberron changes much of goblinoid lore for the Dar of Dhakaan...

Elves (and their various relations) can serve a Prime Material community as a natural bridge to the Feywild, both attracting otherplanar threats and having wisdom on how to deal with them. At least that's one way of looking at how a contingent of elves (or Eladrin, or even half-elves) living in...

I've been having a suspension of belief recently over a commodity that is buyable just about anywhere - bread. Here's what got me stuck: 1. Bread is a cheap, freely available staple food. 2. You need huge fields outside the walls to make lots of bread. 3. Huge fields outside the walls will...

So there's a forest with animals, fey creatures, and lots of dryads especially. Then the sky darkens, Mt. St. Helens erupts and covers the entire forest in mud, or a Tunguska event flattens it. However it happens, the trees are killed, buried, and maybe petrified or something. Obviously all the...

A couple years back I had my eye on a new fantasy rpg setting, but I lost track of it and now can't find it. It may have been kickstarted. 4 or so sourcebooks were planned. One was for the city of humankind, with a name that was a play on a word that means human, like Andro- or something like...

Although I missed the Reach of Titan kickstarter, I'm very interested in it. Updates have been a bit slow recently, so very curious what type of info was covered in the "New Shiny Update" for backers only. Any chance of a hint or two from a kickstarter backer?

Most of the time I think of something, I discover later on that I'm just remembering something that I've read somewhere before and half-forgotten. So...... Goblinoid tribes, orc tribes, gnoll tribes, human barbarian tribes, and whatever else lives out beyond civilization. A charismatic leader...

I never really did like Dark Sun's take on the half-dwarf, and last night was lying there awake anyway since a storm was brewing, so was thinking about what might work better. Height somewhere in between humans and dwarves, girth too. And I vaguely remembered that I had seen a half-dwarf before...

Remember Fallcrest, back in 4th edition? A point of light composed of people from whatever races supported each other against the darkness, very different groups thrown together by circumstance into a working whole. So I was thinking on how to recreate a "fallcrest", using only those fantasy...

Does anyone know where there might be a more-or-less complete list of demon types from the Forbidding with descriptions taken from the Shannara books, or do I have to search page by page through Elfstones of Shannara, Jarka Ruus, Straken, and the more recent books that have Forbidding...

I almost named the thread sell me on Numenera, but there's just one specific thing that's ruining it for me. The artwork is beautiful, the npcs, locations, and whatnot are awesomely weirdly imaginative, but it seems that there is no point to any of the weirdness, that it is just weird for the...

Hey everyone. So I'm prepping for my game and I realize that one of my players is not about to read through the general equipment list when he gets equipment for his PC - he's pretty young, lots of big words and all that. I was thinking that I needed a graphic to help. I figure weapons and armor...

In the last month, I've been re-reading some of my old 4e books, and I LOVE so much of the fluff and core assumptions (DMG1 pg150). Many things I like are fantastic, turned up to 11. What would it take to alter another setting with some of these assumptions? I'm specifically thinking of the...

Where are the best discussions going on online for S&W/OSR?

What would happen if I tried to play Swords and Wizardry complete (0e retroclone) with unconverted Pathfinder monsters? Would PCs be a different effective level against the monsters?