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I heart the warlord. He's the Hunter class from Mearls' Iron Heroes even more awesome-a-fied in his role. Can't wait to play one.

I wasn't planning on picking up 4th Edition, at least not for another year or so, but having previewed the materials, I am sold and have put in my order to Amazon. I buy ten times the stuff I used to buy since bittorrent, and I suspect a lot of others are in the same boat. The designers of...

Hi, Fishbone. :) Well, we're all in our late 30s and have been in about eight million combats in various RPGs over the years. Most of us started playing in the late 70s. That has something to do with it, I'm sure. In media res is an awesome device, but the "action" doesn't have to be...

I like to start off a campaign asking my players, "What horrible thing just happened?" or "Why were you just attacked by these guys (show picture), and who are they?" And then, "Roll initiative!" But I'm happy to say my group would completely rebel if we had combat every session. We have...

I voted Other. Fair or Unfair is sort of besides the point. That sounded utterly BORING. Dungeons with traps like that frackin' suck... :(

I own all three products and have run True20 and Savage Worlds, but not yet run Castles and Crusades. I am impressed by all three and prefer them, (along with Iron Heroes, A Game of Thrones, and Mutants and Masterminds) to D&D 3.5 for all my d20 gaming. Actually, given all the third party...

I also wish The Fantasy Trip was more popular, but it's so good, there's still a fair number of people who play it. It was my first RPG twenty-six years ago, and I've been playing it off and on either tabletop or pbp all this time. I squeeze in at least a one-shot every year. There are so...

I'm starting up a Pulp True20 game myself in a few weeks and just discovered these Feats and Backgrounds. Very helpful! I'll be keeping an eye on your pbp as well. :)

As far as healing goes, I like using the Reserve system from Unearthed Arcana for any campaign that doesn't have clerics or healing spells. Plus there's a preview available from Wizards here: https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20031214a&page=4 I like to supplement this with allowing...

I don't enjoy D&D after about 8th level - I think it's broken and not much fun. I do appreciate the value of a long running campaign though (ran a Cyberpunk campaign for 3 1/2 years) - my ideal would be a campaign starting at 2nd level and running to around 20th using some kind of heavily...

I didn't even have time to read this thread, but I did want to drop a quick note to say to you, Mr. Hood, that I downloaded GnG, playtested it, and plan to use a slightly tweaked variant of it in a d20 fantasy campaign sometime in the future. Thanks for providing it - I think it's great.

I was thinking 6th level. I want it to be cinematic, but for my first game, I don't want them to be *too* high a level. The PCs won't really be the Losers, but the first several comics will be required reading and each of the players will be asked to make a character based on the skills and...

I'm thinking of running a short d20 Modern game based on the great Vertigo title, 'The Losers' by Andy Diggle and Jock. Anyone out there tried this? It would be my first d20 Modern game - I've been looking at the ruleset for a long time but wasn't inspired to run anything for it until I got my...

Speaking of minotaurs... can anyone tell me what the 'reach zone' of a large figure with a reach weapon looks like? It isn't a square is it? They can't reach an opponent 4 squares diagonal from them I assume. How many squares can they reach? Thanks.

"Wounding - A wounding weapon deals 1 point of Constitution damage from blood loss when it hits a creature." - DMG p226. Is a Trip Attack, (say with a Dire Flail or some other tripping weapon), considered to be a "hit" in this context? Thanks in advance.

I can offer my take on Midnight. Midnight is just bandwidth on an infinite spectrum of magic power, magic rarity, grimness, and grit, and it's wide enough to allow it to be played quite a ways up and down the spectrum. To shoehorn it into a "grim and gritty low magic" shoe would be simplistic...

I think a lot of the hostility (which tends to generate multiple pages in a thread) has to do with how difficult it is to even define these terms. The definitions aren't settled on so participants argue right past one another. To kill a common assumption, in the "low-magic" campaigns I have...

I just wanted to comment that I agree with this. I didn't vote either, but if I could, I'd say YES, YES, YES to 'low-magic', NO PREFERENCE to 'grim', and NO to 'gritty' where: Low-magic = something significantly less than what I see as the super-high, irreconcilable to any recognizable fantasy...

And why no spiked chain?

No. You misunderstood me. I probably did not state it very clearly. I'm not clear on your "d216" or your d10 rolling "11s", but I think I know what you are trying to say, and you are arguing against a point I wasn't trying to make. I wasn't describing a die roll mechanic in my d20 ranger...