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I think that central asian steppe cultures are distinctive enough from Chinese to warrant mention as a separate culture, even if you are painting with such broad strokes.

Well, I imagine Ore Mountains or Erzgebirge, because that is where I am at the moment and if local lore is to be believed, the mountains are full of dwarves. They look like molehills compared to Alps...

I have seen such statements before on ENworld and I would like to know exactly what you believe is this balance that is so destructive to the game. My understanding of "game balance" is that metagame reasons (rules) should not eliminate meaningful choice. For example, if all weapons do d6 damage...

I use these a lot: http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/ http://www.sacred-texts.com/ http://www.pantheon.org/ http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html And here are some links: http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/myth.html

Never underestimate the amount of mythology in Tolkien's novels. Well, I am somewhat biased, because some of the most important persons in Czech mythology are half elves, in fact. But in european mythology as a whole most wizards have nonhuman heritage and fey heritage is by far the most...

Actually there are many historical examples of such weapons breaking some of them famous (such as the assasination of Albrecht von Wallenstein). This must be even more true of rapiers which are intended purely for duelling.

Since when are half elves not traditionaly mythological? In fact all 3.x races have pretty solid mythological roots except half orc. Granted, for someone from central europe gnome=dwarf.

I have doubts. D&D doesn't lend itself well to minmaxing (at least compared to GURPS). Minmaxing is very detrimental to games, because it creates player imbalance and causes wrongly priced abilities or more obscure and interesting abilities to be overlooked. I am a strong believer in class...

You guys are just nuts. In GURPS, an average person can inflict maximum sword damage to an average unarmored man and they would still live. To suggest that this is realistic is utterly ridiculous. With handguns it is not much better, here the system at least acknowledges that you can die from...

OK, I rest my case, you do not understand. Lets talk about mechanics. True. But as I warned, mechanics is more than character creation. When discussing GURPS it seems inevitable that some people forget this. Min-maxers and powergamers love GURPS, no doubt.

No, it is not. In GURPS sword does about 1D damage and 9mm handgun does 2D+2. In reality, if somebody hits you with a sword, you die; with handguns you probably die (without modern medicine at least). The above mentioned numbers actually work in D&D fantasy or modern day "reasonably realistic...

Yes, realism. GURPS is an ultimate simulationist system; everything must be realistic even magic, psionics, force fields, blasters...nevermind that default genre is medieval fantasy. This kind of schizophreny shows up more often and as a result GURPS does modern day campaigns reasonably well and...

GURPS is a kind of rpg system that reads much better than it actually plays (the opposite of 4ed I think). Virtually none of the rules work as they are supposed to. Buyers beware. That said, the sourcebooks are great. Just download GURPS Lite for free and you can use them. When disscusing...

They are not rendered very well in Monster Manuals.

You don't need any of that when you can turn into huge elemental....you don't even need shoes if you have woodland stride and trackless step.

This analysis is correct, but it reflects that experience cost is too low, not that experience cost as a concept is bad idea. Now, there are many people who do not track individual experience (there was a thread about this not too long ago) and for them this is an obvious problem, but when you...

I like fluff like everybody else, but publishing systemless is not so good idea. Just give me stats in a well known system (such as D20); this makes conversion to any system much easier.

I was talking about general perception that chain was longer then the haft. On the examples I have seen that were digged from the ground (or reconstructed from such finds), there was a marked difference from what is today sold at various sites as "realistic medieval weapons" and so on; the haft...

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions floating around about flails. First, these weapons usually do not have short handles (about sword length actually) and the chain is rather short, so the danger of hitting yourself isn't all that great. Besides longer chain is hard to control and...

QFT I played GURPS 3e for some time and when I made an assesment of my experience with the system I had to come to conclusion that the system never exactly works as expected. In fact now, the only rules that I think are good is the character creation which, incidentally, is mostly stolen from...