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Heck, I'm sick of elves, drow, dwarves, gnomes, orcs, halflings, paladins, clerics, and so on and have decided that for me, it's time to start playing fantasy.

Review of Fantasy Hero Grimoire II This is the sort of book you only buy if you're already invested in not only the Hero system, but Fantasy Hero as well. I suppose the question then is whether or not it makes for a good buy on its own, at all, or whether you would want the earlier Grimoire...

Hero under the name of Champions first came to my attention in 84 when I arrived at the regular DnD game I'd joined not long before and was told of a change of plans. In the late 90s when Hero games tried to switch us all to Fuzion and abandon Hero system I decided it was time to move on and...

What -in detail- about the second adventure makes it 'not portable'?

What would you have preferred were done differently?

Admit to the player that you lack the same level of knowledge, ask him to help you through the scenes, and let him know that it will take time before he gets full interaction and full benifits out of the situation. Prewarn him that for now, they will all be kind of vague and not meeting his...

You know you deserve anything you get for using a name like that. :p It sounds like everything goes along with this guy coming along with them. Why not let him. It might be fun to run the game from the POV of the PCs becoming his retainers trying to rebuild his empire of blood. :] I'vebeen...

If you do swap the skill points around or give it class levels you should explicitly say you did such in the text so that the publisher doesn't get hit with emails demanding errata from people who think you just added it in.

This is a Lewis and Clark, Magellian, or Columbus style of game. One of the PCs would need to be some kind of census taker... :uhoh:

As a writer, I think of it like this: "Why is this character one of the protagonists?" I could ask players "Why is this character important to the campaign?" or "Why is this character a PC and not an NPC?", but those players who are not writers would probably not see the connections I am...

I haven't read most of the people in the list. My list works out more or less like this: myself - I write fiction, even if only a small amount of it is online... Barbarra Hambley - who's work got me reading fantasy again Tanya Huff Louise Cooper - Her Indigo series mostly Maggie Furey Mercedes...

Just want to quote two things said in the population density thread: And:

Now if I told you - your game doesn't need a combat system to be enjoyable - you'd probably feel I was out of line. I don't need one myself, therefore you don't either. So stop using one. Your probable desire for one is foolish, irrational, and petty - because I don't need one to enjoy my...

16,327 per square mile. Or... 800,000 people in a 7 by 7 mile zone. Seoul Korea, 12 million people, about 230 square miles = 52,174 people per mile. I've lived in both, so I have a feel for both. The first question is not relevant to how I experience these cities. It does not matter if I am...

http://www.discounthobby.com Cheap, fast, and easy to phone or email and get a reply from. Last time I talked to them on the phone, I got them at home from the sounds of it - which to me shows a small dedicated business with a strong sense of customer devotion. Do NOT use new wave. They still...

Depends on where you go in Fahla. Probably as much as 120 or more per square mile in the Lomryian empire - a figure which considers that much of the homeland is still swampland held by feral fey and the great cities on the coast like Coinic can hold a million or more. But it can drop to the low...

There's some validity to that statement. But we don't need to live in extremes either. There's the simulationist who plays Civilization III because it's a cool kick for world design, and there's the simulationist who can't stand Civilization III because the ships are too slow and it doesn't...

Given how quantified DnD's magic system is - it's more scientific than science - it's quite easy to look at from a perspective of 'if we take real world thinking, and add this, that ought to be the result'. Everytime people say 'well magic changes it, and makes that real world analogy not...

So it's "The only needs that are valid are those of people who only care about gamism in order to get into the game, never those who care about story or simulation". Everyone else can be rudely dismissed... Figures.

Whether by magical or mundane means you just have to build up an answer to how people manage the four basic factors: food, sex, order, goods. In the real world that takes population density. In fantasy, if you lack population density all you gotta tell me is what replaces it to meet those...