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Not ore. Wheat. In capsules with parachutes, fired on trajectories chosen to make them slow down in the atmosphere and soft-land.

Yeah. It is also totally implausible. How are teh damned things supposed to work? Why shouldn't I suppose that magical technology might producce a hand-steamcannon that is even more versatile?

Transfer of momentum is always going to knock the bloke with the gun back at least as much as it does the bloke who gets shot. I can believe that heavy weapons fired of tripods or carriages might knock their targets back, but in the case of anything sort of smallarms either the effect will be...

Yep. Consider the lensing effect of the air absorbing even a tiny proportion of your beam energy. Any beam with a power density high enough to burn through reflective heat-conducting armour (say, aluminium foil) is going to spread out to uselessness because of thermal bloom. And that is even...

The pistol sounds okay. I'd rather have a shotgun, though. I can't think of any reason to use the crossbow. Ammunition capacity, reload time, bad handling characteristics, and the inaccuracy of its drag-stabilised projectile in vaccuum make it seem worse in every way than a low-velocity...

There were rifles and grenades in Protector IIRC.

Big issue: indirect fire. The ability to lob grenades, mortar bombs, and howitzer shells out of trenches, over trees, and over hills is invaluable, so we are always going to want the equivalent capability for indirect fire of grenade launchers with each fireteam, mortars with each platoon, field...

I have done. One campaign started out with the PCs in a prisoner-of-war camp, their mercenary outfit having been on the losing side of a civil war. The winners were sore winners, and the PCs had to escape the camp before they met the fate reserved for unsuccessful revolutionaries. Then they...

The problem with paladins is that they are the only core class of which the rules encourage the DM to meddle with the character-player's prerogatives. If DM would recognise that teh stuff about paladin codes and paladin alignment restrictions are the game designers talking directly to the...

G'day I am trying to set up a community for RP Gamers on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales. If you are looking for a game, players, a GM, or just fellow gamers to hang with, and if you live between (say) Taree and Coffs Harbour, visit http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/midcoastRPG/ and...

Customers, are they? Well, I charge $55 per hour, including prep time. And a licence for my proprietary background material is a steal at $20 per person. But I'll monitor ENworld for no extra cost.

The book on which it is based (A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar) is much better, being more nearly accurate.

I thought of putting such an option in (as Steve Jackson saved me from playing D&D by publishing The Fantasy Trip). Then I thought better of it.

I've just started up a new 'Gehennum' campaign with players who haven't been there before. One of them (accurately enough) said "It's as though someone hypnotised the inhabitants of the East Indes and told them to act like ancient Greeks". Do you count the ancient Greeks are European or Middle...

Then please tick "No. That never happened to me."

I can do that.

With all the stories I read on this board about the strange opinions of RPGs that that madwoman in BADD stirred up in the Eighties and how they still persist among some less open bodies of opinion, I wondered what proportion of the posters to this board have ever had friends, relatives, or...

I'm amazed that no-one mentioned Jack Vance's Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga

Why? Multiple answers are allowed. You can just go and vote for all of teh above individually (or in any combination you choose).

Hear! Hear! Religions. Religious institutions. These things shape society, many characters, and lots of adventures. Stats for gods not so much.