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Unfortunately, sickness and work obligations have postponed tomorrow's game until next weekend. In the meantime, thanks for the tips! Regarding the massive damage rule: Though this might be blasphemous to Lovecraft purists, I'm aiming more at dark fantasy than at horror with this campaign...

Only 144 pages. Less than half the length of the bloated PH. Good for Guardians.

lalato, very well put! I can't add anything to your spot on post. :)

This Saturday night I'm having four gamers come to my house to play d20 Call of Cthulhu. The campaign's setting is unusual. It's set 200,000 years ago on the lost continent of Mu. The technology level is medieval. I'm also using the massive damage rule from D&D instead of from CoC so the...

What about Last Unicorn's Star Trek: The Original Series RPG? Has anyone looked at it or played it? What do you think about it?

KDLadage: I love the concept you presented, but I would revise it considerably. I think the core rules should be one product (whether a single book or a boxed set containing a number of books) and that single product should cover levels 1-20. This is for ease of reference. It's convenient to...

I agree with JeffB. Come Gen Con, the "core" rules of D&D will total almost 1,000(!) pages and cost almost $100.00(!). That's asinine. The core rules of D&D should have the following characteristics: 1. Be only one book that covers the essentials of play up to 20th level. 2. Be no more than...

How successfully does this game capture the feel of the original Star Trek TV series? I've been looking for something that doesn't have anything from the movies, The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, or Enterprise in it. I understand that Prime Directive has continued the storyline of the...

The Mods’ Happy Birthday In black cyberland Two Mods made a fun site That really was grand. Try, you’ll like it, you might! “An E!” One shouted. “That would be very nice.” “An N!” One pouted. “And give me back my dice!” “What shall we call it?” The mad Mods shook their heads. They couldn’t...

Has anyone ever played the Prime Directive RPG by Amarillo Design Bureau? A second edition of it has been released using the GURPS rules. (For those unfamiliar with this game, it is based on the old 1960s Star Trek TV show, but not on the movies or any of the newer Star Trek series.) Is the...

Thanks to everyone for the info, and thanks to Morrus for the excellent link! :)

I have heard that a few years ago WOTC did research on how often gaming groups actually gamed. From what I gather, they found that the average group: 1. consists of a DM and four players 2. plays once a week 3. plays four hours per session 4. continues the campaign for 18 months Have I been...

OK, after pondering the question, here's my answer: The 20th Anniversary Edition Call of Cthulhu RPG Click here to see it: http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu/rpg/2399.shtml

Hmm. That's a tough one. Let me think about it...

Can the winners of this contest use their prize money to buy stuff from Natural 20 Press?

I seem to remember that J. R. R. Tolkien wrote that he wished he would have given all the Hobbits/Halflings middle-class English names. Consequently, the best source for Halfling names are Charles Dickens novels. Example: Theodore Scommins

Does anyone know when WOTC is supposed to declare which of the three wins the grand prize?

This is an example of why I think that Elements of Magic is such a cool concept.

I still play 1st edition AD&D. How compatible would Elements of Magic be with 1st edition? How much work would it be for me to convert EoM to 1st edition?

There are only two kinds of non-standard fantasy races: 1. The sort of stuff Monte is giving us, which is open to the charge of not being a completely new idea. 2. Completely new concepts (such as floating intelligent jellyfish), which are open to the charge of being too off the wall and too...