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I had a group send me the PDF. My response was "that game does not exist".

To address the Tarrasque in the room, one reason people avoid learning new games was WotC deliberately alienating the idea while pushing the d20 system and then again with D&D 4e. Having "other games are automatically harder" shoved in the faces of newbies is going to sour them before exposure...

Because it's F.A.T.A.L. Other than that, I can't think of systems I actively hate. There are some that I've experienced that I will never play again. Others that I will play again, but only if there's nothing better on offer and I really need a gaming fix. Some things have changed over the...

People are abbreviating the Forge GNS theory's three "models" of play. G - Gamism - focusing on the game as a game N - Narrative - focusing on the "story", thus "Nar" S - Simulation - focusing on the simulated reality. So far I think I've only seen Narrative abbreviated.

It's a bit embarrassing that we're only on page three and people are already repeating parts of other posts. on this very page. While it's likely not a fair accusation, seems a bit like "drive by" responding to me.

It seems like people are repeating each other at this point. Sounds like a good place to wrap up this topic.

Depends a bit on what the controlling undead rules are for the system. As for intelligent undead, does the spell create an undead soul or pull the person's original soul back to their now undead form?

Given various rules for certain undead arising--usually ghosts and zombies--three days from time of death or soul departure is a common one. It is telling that in HARP for instance, someone who died from zombie infection cannot become a zombie until 72 hours after their soul has left. Generally...

Having too many good ideas at the same time is a bad thing.

There may also be some difference between "naturally arising" undead and those that are purposely animated. For example, in the Viking Sourcebook from 2E, there were some undead who were fully themselves in their animation and may visit their family to announce their own deaths, or visit their...

Thanks to videos by Lindybeige and Shad: make "dungeons" and buildings that 1.) have ceilings built to support their location and 2.) make sense for the purpose of the beings that live/work there.

When I joined a GURPS group in the late 2000s, I had seen the GM's flyer on the door of a brewery I frequented. At first I skipped it, then a week or so later, after coming back from doing something else I remembered to check if the flyer was still there. It was, I tore off a slip, and I called...

I’ve been gaming for around 30 years.

Yes, but "consistent with the laws of physics in a setting that includes magic" takes too long to say. Not to get too cosomolgy-y here, but with the Great Wheel Cosmology--which I do have some issues with, but I digress--I basically see the energy planes as the two poles of a battery: without...

We're Conaning the zombies?

Let's switch gears for a second. What about real world cultures, where rightly or wrongly it was believed to be a great honor to be sacrificed to the gods. Could being raised as undead be an extension of that pseudo-Aztex/Mayan belief?

Who says this character is the first? Maybe they think they are but they're wrong. Why did those who proceeded this character fail?

Despite ENWorld being D&D-centric, I wasn't thinking specifically of D&D. You do still have the level limiter in say, HARP, as Create Undead requires 15 PP to even cast, which means the caster would have to be at least 4th level due to how HARP max skill ranks work. In HARP, both Animate Dead...

I knew this would go dark. What about slaves they already executed for disobedience? This person might be fun for a one shot, but I don't think they'd survive a campaign.

I had no illusions of this character having an easy time of it. Fully expect some of the first reactions that aren't outright violence to be calls of "weirdo" or worse.