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Not realistic enough? Seriously, dude! Do you even need most of that info? My traveller games go something like this; Sun: Blue Planets - 3 Distances from each other - quite. Different orbits. 3 days each way. Planet 1 - Uninhabited. May contain ancient heat-gathering tech. 2 moons. Planet 2...

People here seem to be misconstruing Cthulhu as someone who has deliberate schemes against humanity. This isn't true. His cult has schemes against humanity. Cthulhu is both asleep and dead. He doesn't do much; occasionally his mind touches things, and generally that leads to artistic...

I'd normally give it a +2 ECL without too many hassles but due to the fact they would be required to play Jean-Claude Van-Damme I'd give them extra experience for the horror.

Think of a plot that sounds interesting and a BBEG thats a ton of fun, but not world shaking. For instance, a powerful conspiracy of mages is attempting to shape a magocracy, and are doing anything in their (considerable) powers to do it; nothing noisy, though. A dominated king, mages as...

I played a single session. Unfortunately the problem was that the majority of players just didn't get the combat system and ended up just hitting things. The combat also took a bucketload of time to fully get through. Unfortunately, more character oriented people just got bored. I do like the...

I played the adventure in the back of the book and the prophecies of the dragon campaign. Overall, the game was a rousing success, but thats because players actually went out to read the books after the first few games and really got into their characters, character histories, and so on. It...

On the inside of a half destroyed tower being re-built. Walls, platforms, scaffolding, ropes, long, long distances to be pushed off. Nothing better than the duel with the bad dude on the flat, open tower roof. Over the crenelations or somewhat. Especially if he has, for instance, a dragon...

Generally handwaved for standard fantasy. When isolation and exposure are an issue, I track things like armor and weapon degradation, PC's check food and neccessities, and trade for what they need with whatever they happen to have. In Midnight, that isn't a lot. Generally, their ranger can...

One of the problems with D+D and healing is that you can get to 20th level (and beyond) very, very quickly. So there isn't much point to making an older character; you really don't get much of a bonus or anything. He's level one just like everyone else. There's no mechanical reason to do it...

Ars Magica. I was experimenting on the Aegis of the Hearth - screwed up with multiple, multiple botches. DM checks the rules. "A major disturbance that threatens the covenant itself." Who did I summon up but a rather annoyed dragon. :D Lucky I goaded it into a challenge before it ate us all.

hey, I think a blood feud is a great thing to have. Having more than one at any time is a bad thing, admittedly. But.. kill one member of a family. Consequence; young, hot headed males try to kill you, young, hot chicks try to poison you, and old, political types trap you and then kill you...

Spycraft.. X-COM.. DELTA GREEN.. DARK MATTER... why.. why did I not think of this before!?

Victoria Bitter! Whether your slaying a dragon - Or looting it's corpse - Theres nothing better - For a hard earned thirst!

I have it. I can't really compare it to the original, however. It seems worthwhile. The classes are somewhat more restricting than I had hoped, but due to the ability to make almost anything with the Agent or Scientist class its not too much of a problem. The combat resolution is nice and...

Never played through, but I do love the IK setting and love running other things. The problem is that as this has already "happened", the PC's are basically unlikely to change the course of events which is problematic for fun sake. The problem is not that the PC's are railroaded, but they can...

One of the reasons why I like Iron Kingdoms is that arcane magic is relatively new, being only a few hundred years old and they are making new, better, bigger things all the time. Magic with its own industrial age, basically. Magic being a dying force is of course heavily through...

Is it possible? Yes. D20 has a nice ability for inexperienced people to tack on new rules easily within the framework, optional or not. There's an expansion called Spellslinger that somewhat follows your ideals here. Is it optimal? No. Personally I think other rules settings may be better...

The only favor my fiancee gets is a cuddle if I hideously slaughter her character. Those Age of Worms adventures are deadly. I try to avoid favor by looking at characters and having 10 minutes or so where each character shines brightly. It makes everyone have something to congratulate...

I think this was not a case of bad DMing, though thats a table thing. What a lovely scene - the PC's friend dead on on the cross being held in the air on a standard as the orcs chant insults to the PC's. Thats what they get for not rescuing the other PC. I don't let PC's get away with...

All I'm thinking of is poor grandma.