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I must be the only naive one here, cause I think D&D 4e will come out at GenCon 2010, with plenty of warning first. Editions of D&D seem to have about a 10 year shelf-life as near as I can tell. When they actually start working on it, it will probably take about two years, so I don't think we...

This all sounds sensible, I don't have as much of a scence background as I might like so I certainly acan't think of anything to refute that. I'm not sure I'm sold by the space combat not taking place at high speeds argument, even .1 C is *fast*. Are the physical effects of acceleration the...

Also, I am not sure that all of the WotC Modern books have been of that high of quality, as opposed to ther other lines. d20 Past was pretty bad, for example, and Green Ronin's Ultramodern Firearms was better than WotC's gun book, IIRC. Obviously, I say this as a writer of 3rd-party Modern...

Well, if it makes other races rarer than humans (only play one if you really want a 6), isn't that kind of a good thing in most games? Usually, the other races aren't as mysterious or rare as they are in most of fantasy's source material, because there are as many elves or whatever in...

Turn the PCs into monkeys at some point, Thanee. It's a no-brainer. The all-monkey issue!

I think the big differences between homebrew stuff and a product are utility and clarity, other than that it's just matter of quality and finding a publisher. I say utility, as far as is it useful for gamers besides yourself? Obviously, a guide to the customs of a race you made up for your game...

The lowdown on the Ellis JLA/Stormwatch thing This team appeared only in flashback. Henry Bendix, Stormwatch's evil commander, had previously assembled this early Stormwatch team, but they had all been killed except Apollo and Midnighter. They were a purposeful JLA analog. Lamplighter (not...

Shadowdale? I think have that adventure. Isn't it Part 1 of the Avatar Trilogy?

As a coincidence, just before I switched over this forum, I finished reading... The Best Palladium Quote Ever: Read the whole post here. You know, I think the real lesson of the WotC article is (and the author doesn't say it, but he seems to be thinking it...) that Epic gets kind of silly...

Star System Travel Time at 1C (the Speed of Light) Alpha Centauri 1591 days (4 years 131 days) Barnard’s Star 2164 days (5 years 339 days) Wolf 359 2840 days (7 years 285 days) Lalande 21185 3026 days (8 years 106 days) Sirius 3132 days (8 years 212 days) Epsilon Eridani 3840 days (10 years 190...

I'm a little hurt that no one has come out and recommended Sons of the Gun, which I was lucky enough to edit for Big Finger Games. I can't take any credit for this (other than, you know, adding commas and a couple sidebars) but it is a really useful book of villains, and I would in fact go so...

I forgot Martial Arts Mayhem! That product gets my ringing endorsement too.

I know that, for me personally, I have been using point-buy of one kind or another in other d20 games for so long that the effect of racial modifiers in True20 does not represent much of a difference from D&D. I have always felt that PC ability scores had too much of a long-ranging effect to be...

Ah, FASERIP... I've heard there are still people out there playing it. Someone mentioned Heroes Unlimited. I would advise you not to bother with it. While does fit the OP requirement of complexity, that complexity is unnecessary and doesn't really pay off in any way. The Palladium system has...

I think the best Martial Arts ever published for any d20 product are in Pan-Asian Collective for the SPYCRAFT Shadowforce Archer setting. I had no use for Shadowforce Archer, but this particular book had amazingly cinematic, easy to integrate well-developed martial arts feats and rules that were...

Just wanted to make sure that you're aware of all the info for D&D stuff ported to Modern in the Arcana files at the main MSRD site, in case you're just working off the Core Rulebook. Go here (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/msrd) and download the articles under Arcana if you...

Do it! This idea works well and I've done similar things. In my opinion, the key is, do not stress too much over whether the previous 48 hours do not happen in such a way that the characters get to the exact same spot. That way, railroading is not a problem, because you just don't bother to...

If we do, I think the responses on the "what was your first module?" thread are an adequate demonstration that the one to convert would be Keep on the Borderlands. Based on nostalgia factor alone, I think that they could sell it, rather than just put it up as a free download, and do very well. A...

I'd like to see them combine these ideas and do a Hong Kong/John Woo style book. You know, with all the wire-fu and some more exciting rules for gun battles (a la Spycraft) and a stunt system, the whole thing. If they could possibly do a better Modern Player's Companion than the utterly...

To my mind, the original Vampire was horror. You had to keep doing horrible things or your character's instincts would force you to lose control and do truly awful things. It was personal horror, fear of your own body and self, which I think was scarier than, say, Ravenloft. Also, Wraith...