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FASERIP Marvel was a serious competitor to Champions in the 80s, despite being a very poor system by comparrision. This system doesn't have to be as good as SaS, Hero, or MnM. It doesn't even have to come within a continent of close to as good. By being 'WotC' and thus 'official' it will...

I can take several days, weeks, months, or years to make a character - but then I have to visualize that character and its story before I ever sit down to do game stats. Once I do put it to stats, the first version is almost never a good reflection of the concept. And of course, once the...

I'm in the same boat. 2e seems good, but it is the amount of changes seen between ADnD to DnD 3e, to get the amount of results seen between DnD 3.0 and DnD 3.5. The internal logic of 1e is gone, replaced by a case by case sort of rules system. That might be good if the internal logic of 1e led...

DnD chose to omit something 'so basic' as the damage save in its core rules. As well as something 'so basic' as a point based classless character design system. We should be 'sorely dissapointed' over this.

WOTC has put out a DMG II, and Green Ronin an Advanced Gamemaster's Guide? Which is more useful and why? Opinions? Which would be more useful for general gaming and not just DnD? Is either any use at all?

Ever since I saw the first 'Women in Gaming' mailing list pop up in the 90s, I've been milling over the idea of making this in my head... The current thread on this topic has me milling the issue over again, and I suppose it might be time for the list I've just started to arrive on the scene...

I thought I'd take jeffh's list and just rearrange it for how I've seen it play out in my games. Used every session (or nearly so): Diplomacy Gather Information Sense Motive Spot Used fairly regularly: Listen Bluff Knowledge (mostly the creature lore skills) Search Survival Tumble Used...

Yeah, that's kind of how I felt: "The concept of IOSHI is absolutely fascinating, but it might be one of those things that works in fiction but fails in gaming. Despite that I desperately want to try it out, and want to see if anyone else out there can get it to work without losing sight of its...

Note: This is a review of the tri-stat version of Ex Machina and not the upcoming d20 version. If using it to consider the d20 version, pay attention to my analysis of the genre section, the GMing the genre section, and the four settings. The rules part of this review, once again, only applies...

Review Goals: Arcane adversaries is a compilation of magically themed villains for Champions gaming. Barring the monster guides for Fantasy Hero it has been quite some time since I picked up a Hero system “enemies” book. I should put in a disclaimer here – while I ran Champions as my super hero...

What's out there that I can use on my Palm Pilot for RPGs? Anything with maps, random dungeons, GM tracking, names, or whatever? Moved into the Palm world recently when I got an old Palm with a wireless keyboard and realized I could use it as a mobile word processor with quickword. Now I've...

I doubt both of the final assumptions. First, from what I hear the author was not an industry insider, he just has a name similar to one. Proving or disproving me on this will only take a very short amount of research - I'll leave that to awake crowd. Second, I doubt an industry insider could...

When I say 'up' their reviews I mean the idea that a reviewer might give a higher score than they felt a book deserved, and gloss over problems in their description of the book in order to keep getting sent free games. As for people who simply like to review, I'm one of them. But I'm also a...

Just cut your next send out to only those people who did write reviews, plus another few extras who were NOT on your first months list. After a few months you'll have a stable list of people willing to review for you - especially if you're willing to keep the ones who don't give you perfect...

This complication is why you get reviewers who get sent complimentary copies - such as the staff reviewers here. Of course the problem there is that if you get sent a number of bad products you risk getting black listed once you review them... So some of these reviewers might 'up' their...

Dark Champions is Hero's entry into the 'Modern' genre. This new book is Espionage/Danger International -and- the old Dark Champions combined into one new sourcebook for Hero 5th edition. On the back cover we're told "Dark Champion discusses and describes the modern-day action-adventure genre...

It's a current thread. Didn't see the part where the guy imploded at the time of my post. I was commenting on the top post. I've got a double bit of confusion though - The publisher is highly rated, and yet feels under attack. I just don't understand that. The publisher then attacks anyone...

I'm looking at your reviews now, and you have an amazingly high score. So I have to ask: What criticism?

You gave a 4 out of 5, and they complained? The company deserves to go under, whoever they are... Talk about stuck up and snub nosed. I've given reviews of 1 or 3 to companies I liked, and not heard one complaint. In the specific cases it was deserved, and for the 1 got a public apology over...

Turakian Age Review: Note: While writing this review it was announced that Turakian Age won the Ennie for best non d20 setting When you pick up a setting you tend to want something that you can jump into fairly quickly and play. You want it to inspire you with a full on list of fun ideas and...