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I hate to say it, but Hero (Champions) is too darned complicated and math intensive for most people. And, in my experience, hideously easy to abuse for a clever player. I've played Mayfair's DC Heroes, TSR's old Marvel, Champions, Villains and Vigilantes, Brave New World, GURPS Supers, and...

Sigh. I'm running Forge of Fury right now. My players snuck down the chimney. We ended the last session on a cliffhanger, fighting the bear, half the party down, fearing a TPK. This is much more than a coincidence. Wish I'd seen this thread before i ran the module...I don't normally run modules.:)

As a student of the sword who has experienced both boffer fighting and SCA rules fighting, sport fencing and kenjutsu: Sport fencing, boffer fighting, ScA rules, bokken work, and shinai practice all have one thing in common. They are not real swords, thus they are not indicative of how one...

In a serious roleplaying campaign I ran, between first level and 14th, I think I had seven or eight PC deaths. None of my players were upset, but as i wasn't using raise dead or resurrection much it really messed up the feeling of continuity. Basically, we looked at the PC's one day and realized...

And did I mention I'd like to *play* Star Wars, instaed of running it?

I have the following worlds and campaigns simmering, just waiting for time and opportunity to be played: Bastion, the last outpost of the goodly races, ruled by a foreign samurai warrior elite and a celestial emperor, beset on all sides by demons and devils, and their minions. The world has...

Also, keep in mind that Orcus doesn't actually *like* undead. He just has power over them. So you don't have to use huge amounts of undead if you don't want to. But, for a major villain to use lots of orcs and some undead as his forces is sort of classic...(LoTR). I'd leave the orc chief an...

Fusangite...I must say, your idea of how complete worlds background should be somehwat mirrors mine. Although my physics change froms eeting to setting, as i build a *lot* of worlds...and some of them work however the gods feel like they should at the time. i have some worlds where the gods are...

Actually, I had a party of four fighter manage enemies of 4 CR higher than them quite handily, with neither mages nor clerics available. They had one rogue. They killed a dragon of CR 4 higher than party level in two rounds. With no magic items. The only thing I took away from the Dragon was...

The Sea Witch The Raptor The Sea Devil The Merrow The Marrow (bone) Demogorgon (aquatic demon lord) Pyaray (aquatic Chaos Lord from Moorcock) Many pirate ships used to be official naval vessels for some nation or other, so: The Dauntless The Indomitable Adamant Defiant Inscrutable or pirate...

from my first 3.0 PC, Asnhak (PC name and line both cribbed from Mary gentle's Grunts) "Hand me another elf. This one's split." "You go down the stinking hole, dwarf. I'm going through the door." (BLAM, no more door.)

Um. A monkey is a primate. A human is a primate. Do you know people who object to being called human? I do, but they're wierd. Of course, so am I.

I like the new JLU Aquaman..who seems to be behind Supes and WW in Str, but ahead of everyone else. Plus, he's much cooler.

Hate: midichlorians, Jar Jar, little Annie, Hayden Christensen's wooden acting, Natalie Portman's wooden acting, all the secondary character's wooden acting (I blame the director, i don't think he allowed enough rehearsals and takes to get the right feel). I especially hate that they manage to...

Ok...the Paladin archetype as written is the straight up LG fellow. Galahad was a Paladin. Lancelot was a Paladin until he fell. You can have flaws...but not as many as you describe. However, I agree that alignment requirements have nothing to do with balancing his powers. Paladins are not...

I don't see a satisfactory answer. So, in D&D, Evil gets killed. At least in my games. We're on the same page. edit: I don't see killing evil things as a punishment for evil. I see it more like eliminating threats to life, libert, pursuit of happiness, et al. Proactively, in the case of evil...

Wow. Still going...John, I'm firmly in your camp, at this point. I thin k you've put a lot of thought into it, and I, for one, believe that thinking about how alignment works is very useful for gaming. On the other hand...read the trilogy, John.:) Then read the Silmarillion, followed by...

Quick, merciful death. No torture or prolonged agony. Kill them. Put them out of their misery, and that of the world.

That line rocks. And, in fact, the rest of your argument has weight. I still say Raven didn't ask about D&D>:)

John...I just didn't have the moral or intestinal fortitude to say it straight out. i was giving credit in areas where women are strong to avoid an appearance of prejudice. I didn't have the guts to take up the sexual dimorphism and extremely different mass and fat to muscle ratios. An...