Recent content by Jack Morgan

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...