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I may have missed it earlier in this thread, but has anyone considered that the weapon proficiencies we see might mean that UA-style Weapon Groups are in (possibly replacing Simple/Martial/Exotic), so the weapons list may be much broader than it seems at first glance? I don't like the...

Thanks, Nem ;) Were I designing 4e with what I knew today and I was trying to keep it distinctly D&D... Character Creation/Advancement Choose your race, choose your power source, point-buy your ability scores. New power sources can be bought later in the game via feat trees, but are going to...

Rules-Medium. It's nowhere near the level games like GURPS or Hero, and the added ease of a unified resolution mechanic makes it easier to work with than games with a dozen subsystems. I don't mind the level of complexity, but I think the game would benefit from some simplification in actual...

Zero. I love my point-buy.

Am I the only one who finds it amusing that Paizo is describing how discounts can be combined as "stacking"? Darn Paizo, trying to nerf my bonus to bargain shopping.

I started in the 90s with 2e (the black-border books), and am almost definitely switching to 4e at this point.

Thankya kindly, Aus.

Surely, Aus. The work-in-progress rules wiki is here. I've been working on cleaning it up and making all the references consistent with one another.

Out of the box, ValhallaGM has it about right: you can use M&M to run just about anything, so long as you're good at divorcing flavor from mechanics. I've seen high fantasy, swords & sorcery, Star Wars, zombie survival games, and secret agent games all run without an issue. That said, M&M lends...

I would be so much happier with a classless D&D. Infinitely. Which means I'm even more excited about what WotC is going to do with their more generic stuff, like whatever the new edition of d20 Modern looks like. And so long as D&D has humans and human-like creatures with funny-shaped ears of...

I actually don't mind grappling. I've got the rules down and I'm the one to guide my group through it most of the time. But I can still see that there are problems, since all of them understand how to perform other strange maneuvers. The problem with grappling has already been explained in this...

I'll be getting 4e, and it'll probably wind up being my D&D of choice. Of course, right now, M&M still comes first in my heart, and if all goes well, so too will my homebrew system derived from it.

In terms of setting, I've always liked the Warhammer universes. But in terms of rules, WHFRP comes off as some unholy marriage of the miniatures rules and a more-convoluted version of Final Fantasy III's class system. Savage Worlds looks fun, but the system doesn't appeal to me. I'd have to...

I can't resist a good reference, what can I say? But in terms of writing up the setting and releasing it, I have plans to do so. It likely won't be released for D&D directly, but it should be d20-ish enough to get the job done (and the flavor should be easy enough to extract and reconstruct in...

To be honest, I've had no problem converting M&M 2e to a full-on genre-neutral toolbox. Then again, I don't own 1e, so I couldn't tell you if 1e would be easier to do that with or 2e is, but from what I understand, 2e is generally the cleaner, preferred system. There are still some balance...

The more I think on it, the more I become convinced that C&C is to old-school gamers what a "fixer-upper" is to a handy couple going house-shopping. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends entirely on your tastes. For me, it's a bad thing only in that C&C decided to gum up a workable...

It depends entirely on what I'm buying the supplement for. If I'm buying the Complete Warrior's Guide to Smashing, I'm probably buying it for new feats/prestige classes/whatever, and I want those mechanics to be as divorced from fluff as possible so that I can work them into my game with the...

I split the price of the 2E PHB with a friend and his brother. I've subsequently played Rules Cyclopedia with other groups. Then as now (with my tastes in gaming what they are), I've found RC to be wanting.

Short version: nobody knows for sure. Long version: depends on who you ask. The priesthood holds that mankind existed like beasts out on islands in the Endless Sea until the Seven Saints appeared and lead humanity to enlightenment and salvation on the large island of Mideros. The Endless Sea...

Lessee... in the world I want to run next... Humans (Mideros)- Most humans are citizens of the city-state of Mideros, the Last Bastion of Free Humanity in the Endless Sea. Social classes within the City-State include nobles (First Blood, with historic bloodlines, tracing lineage to the Last...