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When I do D&D now, I'm still using a heavily houseruled (and significantly higher-powered) version of 3.5. I adopted the 4e approach and gave every LA +0 race two static +2 modifiers and eliminated the majority of racial penalties. (I'm considering reducing Humans to one floating +2, but...

Does that make me an inhuman fool? I got my HARP PDFs, legally and for free, and purchased the books at retail price when I could have purchased them at wholesale. Even paid the extra $5 per book for the PDF copies. I have so little chance of being caught that my piracy may as well be legal...

I switched games from 3.5 to HARP before the new edition came out. I'm a fan of 3.5 because it's very good at handling the kinds of games I like to run with fairly minimal modifications, and I only switched because HARP was better at handling those kinds of games and was even easier to modify...

Lawful Evil means never having to say "I'm only going to warn you one more time..."

Probably a toss-up between HARP and Street Fighter, for the moment. I'm running an epic Street Fighter campaign right now, and when that finishes up HARP will easily take the lead.

If you don't mind buying a core rulebook plus a player's guide, Shadowrun Fourth Edition has rules for Artificial Intelligence characters that can be downloaded into a variety of robot bodies. Obviously you wouldn't be using a lot of the material... but it's a good game on its own merits, with a...

Yeah, the regular magic system includes spells for animating the dead, raising the dead, and controlling and/or banishing the undead. They're normally Cleric spells, but a Mage can gain access to all Cleric spells by buying a 30 DP Talent. (You typically gain between 40 and 50 DPs per level.)...

Well, there are still more charts than a D&D player would be used to. You're also using higher numbers than in d20, so the math can be more difficult to run on the fly. It's still far from needing a calculator to play, but it can slow the game down sometimes, especially for players who aren't...

It's still in production. The science-fiction version of the game is launching soon-- I have a pre-release copy-- and there are still more sourcebooks planned. Scheduling is a little tight, because it's a small company... but they're still in the game. I'm a third-party publisher (as well as a...

I've run Shroompunk (think Mario Bros as written by George R.R. Martin) in both HARP and Shadowrun 4e, and I've got most of the conversions written to run it in Street Fighter. (Based on my own Street Fighter House Rules.) Shadowrun actually provides the more heroic feel to it, partially...

Rolemaster and Spacemaster are both still in print with new books being developed, and ICE is still selling books from older editions. Not to mention, of course, that HARP is still in-print and HARP Sci-Fi is due for release any day now. My company's got a third party campaign setting for the...

This is fairly close to my opinion. I would greatly prefer a multiclassing system that is closer to 3.5 and the way intiator classes interacted in Book of Nine Swords than the 4th Edition system. Using the power swap feats as a means of taking powers from a different class without...

Kinda outside the parameters of the OP's question... but you're better off with Bard here. For the most part, you're going to be relying on your Warlock invocations for combat magic, and Bards get a lot more useful utility magic. If you space your Bard and Warlock levels properly, you can also...

It loses BAB, Reflex save, HD, and skill points. More importantly, it loses higher-level Bardic music effects. Biggest trade-off isn't so much the loss of class abilities, though... it's the pain-in-the-ass prerequisites that keep "normal" Bards from being able to get anywhere near the class...

HARP. I had already switched by the time 4e came out, and I'm already seeing it in the same terms as I did 3.5/d20 Modern/Spycraft-- it's the game system I can use, with a minimum of modifications, to run the kind of campaign I just had the notion of running. The only thing the loss of the OGL...

Exactly. That's one of the reasons I play so many "alien" characters... because my portrayals of human beings-- male or female alike-- usually end up landing square in the trough of the Uncanny Valley. My lizardfolk and illithids are vibrant and compelling.

Can I vote for d20 Modern?

Power Gamer/Tactician. He has several unflattering and Grandma-unfriendly terms for both of these traits-- though he appreciates my tendency to turn Instigator at the drop of a hat. Might not always be in a good direction, but I do tend to keep things moving.

I've been playing HARP almost exclusively for a couple months now. Between working with it professionally as a 3pp and my growing admiration for the system, I doubt that this will change by the end of the year or at any point in the next. I've already got a backlog of campaigns I want to run in...

I don't care what the others say. You're a peach. That's 100% pure awesome, despite the fact that I'm going to have nightmares about it now. I keep getting these recurring images of exploring a seemingly abandoned rabbit den and stumbling across dozens of bloody rabbit pelts, while hearing...