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World of Warcraft Boardgame: 6 hours Arkham Horror (base set only): 2 players, 8-10 hours (it is fuzzy - I had a migraine). A 2 player game when one of you is geared up to kill monsters, the other is geared to shut down gates and the monster slayer has the "Paddy Wagon". It just kept going back...

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I know you are developing your own home brew but a look at Earthsea from the Ursula le Guin books might give you more inspiration as to how the world worked with lots of small islands - trading, wars, invasions - that kind of thing. My own current campaign took inspiration from Earthsea but...

The original Deadlands was where I met the system the first time and I loved it because it fit the premise very well - the decks of cards, the poker chip, etc. The Savage Worlds system does away with the thematics to make it more generic, however it is quite easy to add your own thematics as...

Another system that is less dependant on playing cards but was always good was the "bennies" systems from Savage Worlds. Three ranks of "chips" that gave you various bonuses (in D&D I would hazard +1, +2, +5 for the values). These were awarded on top of experience to encourage roleplaying and...

Rogue is the obvious choice and there is the Midnight Cloak fighting style from MP2 D

Australia here and I usually buy from Amazon. For some reason the importers in this country think that they can gouge the small people by not even looking at the exchange rate and using a base formula that includes doubling the US price to start with before applying a compensating factor. I do...

I notice you are using UHU glue to stick things into your book. How does it go with the "crinkly page" thing that UHU does - since it is water based? And what will you do in the future if something is re-errated? Just paste on top? I'm currently printing out all the errata and wanted to do...

My first gut reaction was to use the Hybrid multi-classing system so that they could at least have "a bit of this a bit of that" in their general builds. I've done this kind of thing before and it always boiled down to the story. The encounters you develop should use a lot of minions and only...

Could I get a citation to that guideline - seems my brain missed it :) I don't like the idea of giving away all the information up front until they've experienced it, however if the RAW states it I will do it since I'm running a 100% RAW game as my first campaign to ensure I understand the...

Greetings, just a quick question regarding auras - more specifically those auras that are subtle in effect rather than overtly damaging. Players are told/supposed to know when a creature is bloodied, or when a creature is a minion as far as I understand it. But how about auras? When a player...

I agree that freeform sandbox campaigns (as most of mine are) do not work with the parcel systems. I do not have an issue with the monetary parcel idea. In fact it is a great idea to keep your power creep under control, however the magic item based on character wish list does mess up the...

In my playgroup we have all come to the conclusion that Dwarves are the best race for a lot of things. As for the feat choices they seem to have the most racially based feats of the system - and a Dwarf battlerage vigor with an ability exchange is going to be scary also. We have not tried out...

We also snagged the prequels (1 & 2) for a bargain price - and yes our little one does not see zombies. At 3 years of age its a fight to keep him from the D&D game (it starts when he "should" be in bed). However he seems to have a knack for rolling dice and helping daddy create encounters...

My wife and I have been enjoying House of the Dead - we got the collector's edition with the two gun shells. D

So does the "Essentials" line indicate that they will be stopping the Player's Handbooks and Dungeon Master's Guides? D

Well game is on tomorrow night and I will be trying a couple of things mentioned here. My first experiment is the double static damage option. If this changes things on its own then I will be happy - this means that I simply need to get the MM3 and back edit my monsters. If the test does not...

@mneme - My campaign is totally story based - they have no dungeon based encounters at all since this campaign takes place above-ground and in cities exclusively. However the ideas everyone has suggested regarding time limits, red herrings, and so on are things that solve my problem on a...

Your greybrush technique is very well explained. What do you think of a flat white prime (*GASP*) but then followed up by a black or brown wash? It seems to achieve similar results to what you have described. D

A couple of things to answer some queries/statements. 1) my party tends to go 1 milestone, maybe 2 at most per day. It is the party's choice and I am not going to force them to do something they do not like on a regular basis. For a specific section of the campaign perhaps (race against time...