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I roleplay once or twice a week but we dont play D&D specifically. Sometimes we play D&D for a few months before rotating to something else.

M&M gave me a much better understanding of how d20 should work under the hood by putting the rules and feats in a clear and strait forward manner without relabeling the same feat 20 times. For example a single feat that lets you pick two skills each getting a +2 rather than having 10 feats...

/tangent You two would love the elves in Desolation. They have been rejected by nature...

My Saturday morning group is probably 25% in character, 25% out of character and 50% out of game, my Thursday night group is 75%+ in character and almost no out of game talk once we get started.

Midnight, the my only complaints with it are that its too D&D not enough Middle Earth and that the Heroic paths ended up as a cool idea but I would rather not have the added complication. Overall though it and Kingdoms of Kalamar were my favorite 3e settings.

I keep meaning to get a copy of that and Nobilis but alas I always end up buying something else. Last time it was Desolation ;)

I would look at Ubiquity (system behind Hollowed Earth Expedition and Desolation). While they do have attributes and skills its more or less a feat tree for all your special stuff be it social, physical or mental. The thing I love is I can make a charismatic fighter and be effective in both...

I think the two are intertwined. I mean for me I have 2 groups. My expectations on my Thursday night group is very different than my Saturday morning group. Thursday group is heavy deep roleplaying with little to no homework, we just show up and get into character for 3 hours. My Saturday...

Good Luck! (and I hope your able to!) I never run D&D any edition anymore because I can't run a heavy rp game with it. I get bogged down in the rules. I am More than willing to play in a game with a DM who can (they seam to be few, if any) but for me I have to pull out another system to enjoy...

I agree, demos are great. I was at the release party at Numos and played my first time there. Then I passed on PAX and ECC demos but I still think they are a great idea and may try it at this years PAX.

I don't mean it to sound harsh just matter of fact. I am a married 30 something and when I have had a awesome GM I have litterally told my wife/boss etc "I can't, I have my game that day". Now this is not to say that this always happends but if I'm having a great time I make an extra effort...

Lord Zardoz, It sounds to me like the game you run might not be what some of the players are looking for. This is really at leased a two fold problem. 1. Your style vs players style 2. player style vs player style I would suggest ending your games 15 min before when you would normally end...

/agree Unless you have a great memory D&D has always been a pain to remember the rules. 2e before all the options wasn't strait forward but the rules (and exceptions) were fewer.

Once a week for 3+ hrs, we cancel if more than 1/2 the players can't make it. I try to run it serial enough to do this but running anything pre-written is problematic as they expect alot more time and everyone there. For experence I like to take a nod to White-Wolf and ask my players the...

Playing: Vampire the Requiem & Desolation (OMG Desolation is THE fantasy game I've always wanted! well more or less) Running: Shadowrun 3e Wanting to Run: Dark Ages Vampire Wanting to Play: Dragonlance DL1-13 using Desolation.

I'm not sure if the OP is still reading but here are my thoughts. DL1 did a great job of having things happen in the world without the PCs. Tracking what the army did. Thumbs up to that. B2 did a great job of having an area to run a long term game. Now some from Shadowrun Harliquin - Did a...

I'm really enjoying Desolation right now. Unfortunatly it is a Fantasy game and I feel you need custom dice (we are using the heroscape attack dice) to make it flow smoothly. It is really simple and fun when using the heroscape dice though. Most people I know went from D&D to Shadowrun but I...

I always strive to be the best DM/GM/Storyteller I can be. Some of this is practice another part is finding other guys I can steal ideas off of by playing in their games or just having converstaions with them. The more I do this the shorter the list of guys is that I can steal ideas from.

Sure and it would looks something inbetween M&M and MRQ depending on how skill focused you want to go. MRQ can be found for free here Main Page - MRQWiki [edit] If your going no levels I would just take the MRQ character build and stats. Divide the skill scores by 5 and play with the d20...

Personally I would use the idea of bloodied, with maybe instead of like 4e make a -2 to -5 penalty to everything when bloodied and also need arcana checks at 10% to 25%. The only other thing I might do is 0 level spells can be cast at anytime, there is no spells per day for them.