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There were "free cities" in the Medieval world. Legally, these cities had self-government; they were technically within a larger kingdom, but were usually ruled by some gorup of notables under a mayor (London, I believe, had this legal status). Most of these governments (if my rather shaky...

About a year and a half ago, my brother bought several copies of the 3rd edition rules in an attempt to get our old group from the 1980s back into roleplaying. It worked, to a certain extent: we have revived our old campaign world, and are currently taking a band of adventurers through my...

These are wonderful, thought provoking posts, all. I am one of those DMs who takes myths very seriously--usually coming up with my own, but always aware that there is nothing new under the sun. I am usually trying to explore some theme or contradiction (a relic of structuralist upbringing: I...

First, let me say that there are many campaign concepts in which alignment would work well. I don't run any of them, however. My main problem with the alignment systm is it makes no distinction between personal and public policy. A person could choose to live life by a strict personal code...

Fitting clerics into VP-powered magic I'm currently toying with a system that adapts D&D style magic to a WP/VP system, and have dealt with clerics in the following way: I have always leaned toward the "clerics gain power through the collective faith of the worshippers" rationalization. So...

I'm convinced! Thank you all for the thoughtful replies. Given the other advantages that fighters have, this kind of tinkering would be out of place. Do those of you who think of the first two to three levels as apprentice levels also refigure level distributions in towns? I assume that...

The tables turned For a fairly amusing demolition of award-winning "literary" postmodern fiction, check out this article from an older issue of _The Atlantic Monthly_: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/07/myers.htm Not only are his examples hilarious, he actually engages in a coherent...

I recently had a thought (or several smaller notions that mght add up to a thought in a pinch): It strikes me as curious that your typical "I've been training with the sword for the past four years and now that I'm sixteen I will go out and rid the world of evil" fighter type hits only 5%...

What might be more interesting is to consider how population patterns would be changed with the addition of some of these monsters into the mix. For example, there are a number of large, flying predators in the Monster Manual. I would think that herd animals in grassland areas would have to...

Some further considerations I like many of the ideas presented here. In my own system, I use a combination of feats (allowing spellcasting in a certain school) and skills (each rank allowing the caster to learn one effect, and giving a bonus against difficulty class of the effects being cast)...

A good idea! Count me in. First, I would second nharwell and use hit points/vitality points for damage. This allows you to mitigate the effects of lower healing powers. I implement many of these ideas in my campaign already. I adapted the Star Wars RPG Force powers system which has magic...

A different side of this problem I have this problem from a slightly different angle. I have a player who is a second son of a local duke and a miracle worker ( most religious functionaries can't perform miracles, so the few who can are quite notable). Given this one-two punch, he should expect...

Another way to deal with lost AC What I've done in my low-magic-item campaign was to allow everyone the equivalent of the expertise feat (up to 5 pts); the expertise feat removes this limit. Everyone is free to shift as many points as they have in attack to defense. This allows the players some...