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God, how I envy you D&D players with your choice of off-the-shelf campaigns that'd last more than a year. I can't even get a Traveller campaign that's good for a couple of months. * looks envious *

Act VII: The Pay Off - Fitting Out Date: 227-993 to 258-993 Imperial. Location: 069-526 System (0721). They reached the shipyard at Fonnein Orbital about eleven days late, mostly thanks to the runaround and delays at Kerin’s Tyr, and missed their booking. “I guess we shouldn’t have traded at...

Act VII: The Pay Off - Charter Complete Date: 217-993 to 219-993 Imperial. Location: Sentry System (0921). “Welcome to Sentry, Avarice Rewarded. Please proceed on transit vector sent via channel 237.” “Roger Sentry, channel 237” Silea sent back. “Look at all the blips. There are hundreds of...

I'm playing a librarian with some psionic and magical skills and a spear in a GURPS fantasy game, a Merchant in a T20 Traveller PBEM, an ethically challenged mechanic in a Classic Traveller game, and soon I'm playing assorted Maziani in a StarCluster troupe PBIRC in Chris Cherryh's...

The milk has obviously gone to your head.

For me as a player, it's "The Third Man", which happens to be my favourite film. I'm digging a secret cave in a nearby golf course to avoid all the Serenity inspired PCs I expect to see from October.

Yeah, spot on. ICE need to live in the real world on this one.

Let Sepulchrave loose on it. Or play Nobilis.

I've never found much need for them in Traveller, where most of the combat is with guns. Drawing dots on a sketch map works fine.

Sort of. Normally it prints on part of the paper, and makes the margins bigger at the top/bottom or sides. You normally get a slightly expanded or shrunk version of the original content and odd margins, which is mostly harmless. Something like RTF or HTML would reflow the text to fit the new...

This reminds me of a lot of people using a gritty/deadly system to try and recreate another series that's low-life but not deadly (because the major/PC characters have script immunity from real harm) -- those who try to use Traveller to play Firefly. I've seen it, and it ain't pretty. They...

I was perhaps a little disillusioned when it came out, because it seemed to be the same old same old. They already had FR and Greyhawk which are pretty near identical, and then along came a third vanilla setting. I would have like it to be different in the way that Planescape or Birthright or...

Just as a rider... Some of us who use electronic documents to e.g. paste bits together from various places, organise, and print them really don't like this. So think carefully about that if you get into publishing. [Also, when one copies from PDFs it usually inserts hard line breaks and loses...

If I were to play D&D, I wouldn't mind playing a cleric "because the party needs a cleric", but I don't really want to play a religious character. So I guess I'd prefer the "no deity" idea. I'd be pretty underwhelmed if I offered to play cleric as a favour to the group, and then some...

What I want is published adventures that I can use with a minimum of effort. Conversion takes effort. So more adventures in less settings would be my ideal. Putting them all within 50 miles of the same city, or 10 parsecs of the same star system, or whatever would be even better. Then linking...

You could have a look at Lazybones' Story Hour You too, huh?

I GM as a quid pro quo. I don't like GMing sessions as much as playing, and I don't like GM prep at all, but if I GM for the people I play with some of the time then they'll GM for me the rest of it. It beats no gaming at all.

Some people like GMing, and do it for fun. Others do it because it needs doing -- either it's their turn, or nobody else is prepared to, or because nobody else can do it satisfactorily, or there just wouldn't be a game if they weren't GMing one. Which are you?

640 pages sounds like a pair of 320 page hardbacks. Does the article happen to mention anthing like that? If so, does it mention what the split is? Overground + underground, gazetteer + everything else, setting + level 1-20 campaign, pink toothbrush + blue toothbrush?

The toolset bundled with Neverwinter Nights is about halfway there. Something along those lines could do it. But I can't imagine anyone in the RPG "industry" commissioning bigtime software on this level. It would take Hasbro rather than WOTC.