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Most people who want a D&D experience with GURPS go for their Dungeon Fantasy set of .pdfs. It gives you templates for D&D style classes as well as suggestions for emulating dungeon crawls using GURPS. If you like tactics, you'll probably like GURPS, since most people say you have MORE...

Why? Shadowrun has got a great core story, it's a little like D&D conceptually, and it had a huge run of novels (40+ and more recently 6 additions) that proved the world background was engaging and interesting to many people. The new version of the rules (for most people, anyway) is...

I think if you're talking about PbP style games, that's certainly true. I've been playing in an occasional Shadowrun game online, though, that's been a lot of fun. We use voice chat with an IM / Whiteboard setup. Using IM in conjunction is fun because you can have side conversations between...

That's what I pretty much figured. Thanks for the help, everyone!

I was looking at Complete Warrior the other day, at the Hulking Hurler in particular, and it has an example of a Stone Giant. Now it claims that the build is CR 11 (I'm guessing because a stone giant is CR 8 + 3 levels of HH). But as a PC, what level would it be considered? Level 11, because...

I love it; it's easy to make characters, easy to make enemies, and fights are (usually) fast. I disagree with Karl about mixing cards and initiative; having the card out on the table makes it easy to tell who's next; people can go in different orders every turn; and getting a joker means you...

Not that you should count on a fight here, anyway. If the PCs -are- heroes in town, then it should be easy enough to get an excuse to talk to the old lady during the day. They could do recon (thus seeing the dogs and maybe discovering other things) and even sneak off with the journal then if...

What do you have against peas?

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

Does anyone know how these lists are put together? I ask because I'm in an Eberron game, and I'd like my halfling druid to have more dinosaur options for his Summon Nature's Ally spells. Are there any alternate lists available?

GURPS Mysteries (available as a .pdf from e23.sjgames.com) has good advice on running mysteries, particularly where magic and monsters are involved (on both sides!)

11 - The Lost Ark A skeleton of a long lost ship, the size of an oil tanker, half-buried in the desert sands. Was it built in anticipation of a great flood in ages past? Who built it and what secrets might it hide? 12 - The Walking Colossus A colossal stone man that walks across the land...

I thought Dragonstar was GREAT! I loved the possibilities - the evil dragons taking over the empire after the good (and the good -letting- them, all of which resonates with modern life if you're of a certain political persuasion), the idea of having a dungeon inside an asteroid ruled by...

So I just got back from a 3e game - old school dungeon. Part of Reynard's "Abyscor" world-in-development, if you're following that thread. Anyway, the dungeon had a puzzle in it that you had to answer in order to open a door, and the way that you got to the answer was through clues based on...

Get all upset and storm out of the room, never to play again? Go for the TPK? That way the poor guy isn't alone. [Sorry, couldn't resist... :] ]