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Don't they already dominate the Internet? Haven't people wasted time they're supposed to be working to watch cat videos?

I think one thing we may be missing is that not all settings are intended as "kitchen sink" settings. Planescape, Ravenloft, Spelljammer; those are all enabled to be "kitchen sink" settings. There is some argument to be made that Forgotten Realms is as well. That aside, there are two other...

HARP is the initialism for High Adventure Role Playing, by Iron Crown Enterprises. It's a d100, roll high, death-spiral, very flexible system.

The PCs will be 1st level as HARP doesn’t have the concept of 0th level. In Media Res can be a great way to start an adventure.

I don't really have much of a plot thought up yet, but next time I run HARP I want all the PCs to be off the "peasant" professions. Something just happened to your village. Not yesterday. Not even last night. At most 20 minutes ago. What are you going to do about it?

Switching what kind of evil critters we're talking about for a while, I wanted to address the hope of this time that succubus really is a good person. A long time ago, I had a very similar situation running one of the Planescape adventures (I forget which one) where the party had two paladins...

I had a set (not metal), I gave them to a friend after he kept losing his darkly colored dice on the dark carpet of a coffee shop we frequent.

I don't like the villains in Redwall because they're evil because they're evil. OK, usually, they're "vermin", but so are many of the "hero" species. It doesn't have to be a complex motivation, but I need villains to have A motivation. Why is a Drow becoming a Drider considered a punishment? To...

Sometimes I'm down for "don't think about it games", and more often I'm interested in games that make me think about how the fictional world works. That may be influenced by being strongly introverted and sometimes only being able to get my brain to shut up for a second by going for a walk in...

I'm not a Mod, but Maxperson was already warned. Personally, I could throw out all the facts that happen at the martial arts school where I teach and train, and no matter what I said people would hold the same opinion. Have you heard the phrase "A man whose mind is changed against his will is of...

More: the core mechanic stays the core mechanic. Less: Pop-culture based games with their own individual systems.

Well, the Face Hugger was acting as an organic artificial lung, which the Xenomorph had put on our captain after he'd been exposed to vacuum. Fought the clones of one of the characters (it was my "inconvenient secret" on an index card that made him a clone), and we befriended the Xenomorph who...

@Celebrim, funny you should mention Facehuggers and Chestbursters. I was involved in a very interesting game of GURPS on Saturday. I don't think anyone would have expected the whole party to act the way we did. I don't have a problem with beings that are literally "made of alignment" in that...

I think it boils down to the problem of having alignments being an objective building blocks of the narrative reality of D&D and other alignment possessing RPGs. Granted, this pops up in mythology too. Hey, it's cool and all if a species is generally used as foes. As I mentioned earlier, what I...

Under most circumstances, I wouldn't even bother responding to people misrepresenting what I wrote. I will make an exception. Until NOW I didn't say "realism", I said "believably" or if you prefer "versimilitiude", or "internally consistent logic". Even an impossible world has rules, and while...

As Changeling has been mentioned: Either Fey never made a contract with Iron, or they broke they one they made.

Tangently, Elf/Dwarf animosity has never made much sense. Dwarves need to come to the surface to get food, and elves need to get ore from underground. Also the "loves" of dwarves make no sense, you live underground, but you find pretty rocks valuable? Anyway, both directions I'm going could be...

I was a D&D-snob even having played other systems. Thankfully, I've recovered and in doing so have seen the flaws in earlier editions of D&D for the gigantic warts they are. Yes, I had fun, but I will never run or play AD&D2E again. I agree that trying new systems is much easier as a player...

I like how in HARP the Endurance skill is actually endurance. You aren't wounded unless a critical result specifically mentions it. "Hits" just means your endurance went down X amount. While HARP is a death spiral system, like most such systems, it has mitigating factors.

Hit points kind of depend. Are they actually "aliveness" points? If so, cool. Do they pretend to be abstract luck/endurance points but are really meat points when you get down to it? Those can go away. If the positive energy plane can heal you to death then HP are meat points.