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I like Earth & Beyond quite a bit. There's something relaxing to traveling the stars at thousands of kph with soothing ambient music and a warm chat channel or two to keep you company. For those complaining about camping and the like, you can go a long way without fighting much at all. If your...

Apologies if the therad has moved away from the "Where were you when..." topic, but I'm just now seeing this, and I wanted to toss in. :) I was driving to work at the time. I work for a national video gaming publication, located in California, so we're on Pacific time. I was listening to Howard...

I ran a "Champions" game a couple years back that had a few interesting special points: 1) The game was so rules-lite that when I converted it to Aberrant, no one noticed. ;) 2) The game was played with a light sense of humor. Not quite the level of The Tick, but along those lines. The extent...

Wow, isn't this a walk down memory lane. I went to school at RIT (where they used to hold RWAG and Rudicon... I dunno if they still do) and used to WORSHIP Crazy Igor's. In fact, the store I go to now in the SF Bay Area is called Gator Games, and I still call it "Crazy Igor's" about 50% of the...

I and a friend played Maul of America on the counter of a gaming store in Berkeley, CA. I remember it being fun, with a certain amount of both tension and comedy, and it was also easy to play. Basically, you're in a mall when zombies erupt forth, and you have to be the first person to collect...

My group's D&D world is a bit odd. We started in a generic D&D setting (the City-State of the Invincible Overlord) and began to overlay Kalamar over it, then Dragonstar. My new game is in the same world, some 30 years later, and I want to more completely draw the world into Kalamar (while...

Well, I did sorta want to make magical items, mostly because my party needed them, but that was because the GM was being stingy and eventually I took over the GM role. If I were to be completely true to my concept, I would have taken the exact path I advised to you, but rarely do things turn out...

From Someone Who's Played This Very Cleric I played a cleric of Fharlanghan for 10 levels, so hopefully I can give some advice. You can do this without changing the cleric class. The cleric is only one of the most versatile classes in the game. Ability Scores: Dex and Intelligence were my best...

Well, I don't really know what the party will be yet. The thing about these guys is that they tend to run into a situation blades first, without caring a lot about how loud they are. I'm hoping that maybe if they're afraid they'll wake a sleeping dragon, they'll think twice about running about...

I am about to start completely over with a new campaign, level 1 characters, etc. with my current gaming group. I was trying to come up with some interesting ideas to keep the early levels from being just a Fed-Ex dungeon crawl after another, but I want to keep a certain amount of the...

I don't know the history of why Wee Jas is involved in Death. I seem to remember it being something like, she was responsible for shepherding dead wizards after battle, or something like that. I don't remember. Wee Jas is much more Magic and Lawful Neutrality than she is Death, but she does...

I liked In Nomine in theory, but the horrid dice-system (in my opinion) and the light-hearted tone sorta did it in for my group. My players always seemed to turn it into "In Toon-ine", somehow. Nobilis characters seem MUCH more powerful than In Nomine characters, and they're MUCH more abstract...

I've never played Amber, mostly because of the anti-diceless swell against it, so I have no Amber-ometer to trigger. :) I've read the reviews on RPG.net, and they're all great, but RPG.net reviews tend to be descriptions of the book more than descriptions of how the game would run. I've read...

When I first looked at Nobilis, I went, "Oh great, another pretentious game where the players are uberpowers, and where Random word are Capitalized and Turned into Game Terms." The GM is called the Hollyhock God, the players are Powers, and each Power has an effective anti-magic shield called an...

For my own defense, the "flowery prose" bit referred more to description than RPing-vs-handwaving scenes. Like: 1) The blade glows softly, and the air around it mists with condensation; becomes 2) The sword is magical and does frost damage. I prefer description 1, but I've been beaten with...

Well, in this case, it was a dwarf NPC. This guy ran the game for a couple sessions a few weeks ago, and for his own information I told him that the captain was a Fighter 7/Pilot 3. When they found themselves aboard the ship, they were all level 5 Kalamar characters; by the time the dwarf...

Well, I admit to railroading. I get very nervous when I'm improvising a story for anything other than the deeply-homebrewed parody version of Champions/Aberrant I ran a couple years ago. A fateful session of Sorcerer turned ugly when I overestimated my abilities to improvise a non-comedy...

Well, honestly, the scene did play out in a summary manner, but mostly because I was caught off-guard by the idea of them trying to take over the ship. The "offending player" co-GMs D&D sometimes, so he knew the level of the captain and that the party could pretty easily kill him; I'm not...

Well, we do play other games. We alternate D&D with something else about every other week. I'm actually thinking of trying Nobilis with this group, oddly enough. Thanks for the advice and all. It's good to pour this stuff out from time to time. ;)

To ForceUser: It hurt a lot. At one point, I just looked at him and said, "Look, do you want to stop playing? Because you're obviously bored, and we can just pack up and go." He said that yes, he was bored, and that he felt railroaded, and he wondered if things were going to "get somewhere."...