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I had a friend lend me his AD&D 2E players handbook. I read it, made a character (with his help), and joined in his group. Looking back on it now, with all the systems I've played and owned, I wish my first experience would have been with something *not* D&D. It's towards the bottom of my...

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Let's keep it civil people. Debating is fine, insulting another poster is not. Stalker0

I was already on the path to abandoning the game while we were playing 2E because I was tired of all the D&D tropes, still am to this day. I prefer something more original, than yet another world with elves - except these elves are green!... That plus I had already seen the constant dialing up...

I'm with you on that one... It's why I never buy adventure modules, because you just know there's a dungeon or two in there somewhere.

It was the endless stream of crappy 3rd party support material for d20 (not to mention the crappy material supplied by WotC) that made me abandon D&D forever, well - it was the last nail in the coffin anyway, I was already headed down that road, quite a ways down in fact. I lost some good...

Great. I'll keep an eye out for it.

You can basically use GURPS Lite but allow all the skills, advantages and disadvantages from the core that make sense in the genre you're playing. That's about the lightest you can get with GURPS and still have all the goodies (advantages/disadvantages/skills) that a real game needs. GURPS...

Looks interesting, certainly more interesting to me than anything WotC (or it's parasite companies) has ever put out. Clarification - the system seems interesting, the setting seems more or less standard D&D dribble. I'd rather see you publish this as a stand-alone fantasy RPG without the...

Serpent King Games - the makers of Dragon Warriors RPG or as I like to call it "What OD&D should have been back in the 70's" Steve Jackson Games - Even if you don't like or play GURPS, so many of their Genre books, at the very least, are worth having in every gamer's library. Hero Games - Same...

Thank you for that - it was insanely hilarious the first time I saw it, now it's been so long I must watch this again... :lol: The Big List of RPG Plots, by S. John Ross

Yeah, the general idea that players should be able to have some influence over the setting they will be playing in seems like a no-brainer to me. I know I wouldn't play with a GM that didn't take my opinions and ideas into consideration, even if he/she rejects them in the end. I've been...

I had to vote for all of them, because quite frankly, while I dislike D&D/d20 as a system in general, I'm willing to play any RPG with people I like and want to roleplay with.

Bare in mind that you have to submit to One Book Shelf, they submit to Lightning Source, then they come back to One Book Shelf, which then finally comes back to you (digitally, of course - physical product just goes from Lightning Source to you). IMHO, this is a great thing for the industry...

Awesome... I was actually just about to start designing something very similar. You beat me to it, so you just saved me a whole lot of wasted time.

Even when I ran D&D, I never did follow the "must get to highest level" philosophy. The campaign ended when the story ended - and that was that. I never set a level to end a campaign at, I just let the story naturally end itself and then we'd move on to another campaign. That "must get to...

I know absolutely nothing of Dragonlance, so could you (or someone else) please elaborate? What would I need (product-wise) to "run Dragonlance"?

1. How long have you been playing RPGs? 17 years. 2. What systems, editions, and different campaigns did you play in? I was almost always the GM for my group, with that noted, I started with AD&D 2E and played that for about 6 years straight. Then I grew tired of the system and switched to...

GURPS has lots of "ancient" sourcebooks from Egypt, Greek, Celts, etc. Literally tons of them, all for GURPS 3E though, I don't think any are available for 4E yet. Still, they're perfectly usable as 4E supplements IMHO, because GURPS doesn't change much between editions and you're not using the...

I read through the Savage Worlds Explorer Edition and thought to my self, "This is GURPS with retarded statistical anomalies in the mechanics such as having a higher chance to get a critical success with a d4 than with a d6, which is supposed to be the better skill." ...time to get rid of...