Recent content by Zappo

The campaign would start at 1st with human-equiv races only, but as it progresses, the PCs will be able to "recruit" NPCs to their cause, and may end up playing them. Abilities such as Regeneration really break the game economy; but that's fine, trolls just won't be an option.

That's sort of what I'm getting at. The monster abilities can indeed take the place of class abilities or feats - or, to make it more straightforward, entire class levels. You could figure out a way to break them down further so that the PC can exist at a lower level and "grow up" later, but I...

Hi all, The current standard 5e approach is that there is no such thing as 3e's level adjustment, and every playable race must be balanced with each other. This is very reasonable, given that LA had many major issues. That said, I'd still like to figure out how to use as a PC a character...

Toying around in my mind with three concepts, all Planescape variants. In bold the one-line summary. The PCs are all members of a sect, founded by a fallen celestial, whose self-appointed job is, in their view, to do the celestials' "dirty work", to use the means that the upper planes do not...

Thanks, that's good advice! Nagol: good point about MO preference. In my mind, that issue gets addressed in part by presenting concurrent missions, i.e. there is plot pressure and the same PCs cannot be everywhere at the same time. Not sure that would work in practice. One potential problem...

Hi all, I'm toying in my head with some potential ideas for our next campaign. One of these is a novel way to represent a setting where the PCs are at the head of a secret conspiracy or covert faction of some kind, and waging a secret war against some other such cabal. The basic idea is that...

Thanks for all your suggestions. When the time comes, I'll check out SW and 5E. NerfedWizard: thanks for the offer, but here I'm specifically looking for fully-developed systems (as time is currently my most precious resource).

And it has a "spare time" system too! I'll definitely take a good look, thanks. It has a strongly-coupled setting, which is a bit of a minus for me (I'm fairly sure we'll want to go for a familiar setting this time). I'd love to hear more suggestions.

When we're done with DH, everyone will be up for a change, and they definitely won't want to go back to the 3E family. 5E looks like a strong candidate, but I'd love to get pointers to things that are maybe outside the mainstream but seem to have potential.

Hi all, I'm starting to think about the next campaign we're going to play after we wrap up our current Dark Heresy game. After playing a ton of systems over twenty years, I have a pretty good idea of what major problems I have with RPG systems (for my group, at least), and I'd love to get...

Balterkn: for some reason I didn't get a notification of your message. I'm going to try to attach it. edit: works. Do attachments expire eventually?

I have a more-or-less complete version, by which I mean that there's an ending even if it is a bit too abrupt for my taste. It's 260 pages long, and has 7 full chapters. However, I no longer have access to the hosting I used to use. Would anyone host the files? The doc version is 3.8 megs...

Hi folks, Well, RL happened. Without getting into details, near the end my spare time quickly dropped from "hours per day" to "OMG incoming deadline!". We played the campaign to the end, but I was never able to write down the ending. I might have a somewhat more recent version on my home...

No. In fact, I think that all games should have both the possibility of success, and the possibility of failure.

- no open shares, even if you are firewalled. I learned that the hard way.