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I've done some solo-play as well, and it indeed can be a lot of fun. Watch out for crowding out your one and only player with NPCs though. I'd advise controlling one NPC (that can help out in the adventure) at most. If you must have more people, you could consider giving your player 2...

The doubling on the first three levels is an interesting idea. Reanjr, thanks for linking me to the older thread, there were some interesting ideas there. Several advocated the doubling idea, so I'll address my concerns with that first. Firstly, it weakens level 1 even more than my proposal...

Er, I don't think the movies meant to imply that the high ground was as good as all that. I think that Anakin and Obi-Won were just supposed to be so rediculously evenly matched, that the high ground tipped that scales. And with light sabers, that means its gonna be harder to count to ten when...

Here's what bothers me with the core rules: A multi-class wizard/rogue who is level 1 in both classes is way better if she were a rogue first than if she were a wizard. This is because of the starting ranks being 4 X the class amount. I suppose this is supposed to represent a childhood of...

I think an Athletics skill is something I could get behind more easily, because the component skills (Swim, Jump, Climb) aren't used as heavily as the other 4 we've been discussing. On the same note, I could see combining Open Lock and Disable Device into one... maybe a Device Tinker skill. As...

Fair enough. I'll just make one more point about massive hit points not being the same thing as cinematic. Han didn't get shot a single time when he charged down the hall at the storm troopers. Nor did anyone ever take a hit that had little or no effect. If anyone ever got hit, they felt it...

I have a friend who role plays without any numbers or dice. That's right, none. Quite a few people do it. Each person is responsible for not only deciding their actions, but also collaborating with other players on the likely and desireable outcome that is consistent with their characters...

cure light... broken rules That reminds me. If HP represent how well I can take a punch and move with the damage, etc, then why IN THE WORLD does a cure spell not cure my level 10 butt as well as it does a level 1 gimp? Just cause I can roll with the punches it takes ten times the magical...

cinematic does not equal immortal Don't listen to anyone that tells you systems need characters that can withstand lots of damage in order to emmulate characters in movies. In case you didn't notice, characters in the movies spend a lot of time ducking, running away, and escaping certain death...

To prevent one book from winning in multiple categories, the evaluation criteria of each category should be specific enough to make it unlikely for that book to win. For example: Campaign / Campaign Supplements: Content should be organized by categories such as maps, inhabitants, dangers...

I've read a few people mentioning how Spycraft and other rules suggest doing away with Hide and Move Silently and replacing them with Stealth. I believe there might be a similar thing with Spot and Listen into something like Sense. Everyone that's mentioned it has thought its the most obvious...

OK, that makes sense, thanks. Both the action speeds and movement speeds that you're suggesting are double what I thought. I COULD run a comparison between the old system, where it takes 6 seconds to get things done, to this suggestions, where things are done closer to 3 seconds, but there's...

Indeed you're correct about HP and their original intention. You also hit upon something key when you say that WOTC are confusing the abstract of HP. It is in fact the case that almost since the beginning of role playing, the game has outgrown the need for a simplified abstract. HP were...

OK, just so I understand... when you play D&D, you're trying to emulate a movie, which is trying to emulate a video game, which is trying to emulate D&D? No offense, but that's not an experience that most people relate too. We'd rather emulate life... or at least the vast majority of movies...

Heya Magic. I'll give an example how I calculated my chart and we can compare notes. As I understand it, you propose a character's actions to take 7 ticks until the BAB is +6. If a tick is half a second, each action takes 3.5 seconds. The number of actions taking 3.5 seconds in a minute...

Hehe, good idea. If they could come up with a way to make using the dark side "quicker, easier, more seductive" but not necessarily stronger, that'd be awesome. Maybe one of the drawbacks of having some dark-side influence is that you have to stand around and be torn by angst instead of acting...

I was wondering about the Dark Side myself. All of Anikin's key Dark Side moment were purely character and role-playing related: 1. Killing sand people, including whole families, with his lightsaber 2. Betraying his Jedi master and cutting off his hands to save his admittedly evil friend...

One of the items in the trademark FAQ (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/srdfaq/20040123b) seems to indicate that 5% of a covered product must be designated as Open Game Content. What I don't understand about this is: Does that mean that original material must volunteer at least 5% to...

Dude, that sounds sweet. I always thought the SWRPG's weakest aspect was the force system. I'm especially excited to find out how this "force sensitive" thing works. Hopefully there'll be something of an innate midichlorian level. As much as it offends the American sense of "all men created...

That's strange. They don't look anything like David Hasselhoff...