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Sponting, if it works, is cool. It almost never works. Not sure of the casting total, but it gets cut by 80% (casting total/5) when sponting. To generate a level 60 effect from 1/5 of your base, you need a LOT of exploding 1's. Not going to see that often. However, sponting isn't really my...

Diameter is about 2 minutes. Which is pretty useless for reducing the weight of armor. It's Terram, which you would think is easier than Mentem. It is. Sometimes. However, if the spell effects metal the modifier is an additional +2. So, in order to create a spell to reduce the weight of 1...

Is it just me or is Ars better named "Well you could, but..."? So, my gaming group loves Ars Magica. I do not. They swear it's one of the most flexible games ever. Uh, kind of... maybe? The "off the rack" spell 'Confusion of the Numbed Will' is Rego Mentem level 15. Affects one person at a...

I've only played Shadowrun twice and enjoyed it quite a lot, but the setting never came through that strongly. somehow, thinking about it now puts me in mind of Torg, which I LOVED but only got to play once. I'm not entirely sure Torg is classically a science fiction setting, but the game and...

I find myself faced with a gladiator Pathfinder game - the 4 Winds Fantasy gladiator class has been disallowed. Spellcasters, mounts and conjured critters are all OK though (guess the gladiator would be too simple, huh?). Anyway, I'd like to hear your suggestions for how to approach this...

Then CthulhuTech is the game for you. Eldritch Skies is another option However, I think a closer read of the Eclipse Phase setting will reveal hints of tentacled goodness. The Pandora Gates the nanite swarms and TITANs disappeared through have Event Horizon and Colour Out of Space overtones.

Death World offers a great M. Night Shyamalan moment, but if anyone knows what the twist is would there be any fun left? If no-one knows, or you rewrite the twist (maybe throw it out all together) I think it would make for a great sf mystery campaign. Might not be the longest lasting game, but I...

Dickson's Dorsai and Drake's Hammer's Slammers settings are both human-centric and rich with intrigue (historical references as well). I love the Slammer novels and bought the Traveller source book, but dislike playing in the Slammer-verse. I think Childe Cycle universe might be more fun as an...

What about Alan Dean Foster's Commonwealth universe? I just turned my kids on to Pip and Flinx. That universe seems like it might adapt nicely to rpgs as well.

All right, what about Twilight Sector? You can't just tell us the name and walk away, you gotta give us something.

When gender is part of a solid idea for a character, I go where the idea indicates. But unless there's a reason to do otherwise, I tend to make my characters men. I a guy, unless there's an active reason to think about a character as NOT a guy, it's kind of the default. Besides, my roleplaying...

On on that subject. How do we qualify Misspent Youth and A|State?

I bought Alpha-Omega early on but couldn't get any traction with it. Have that problem with a lot of indie games though. .45 Retropocalypse, Outriders, Apocalypse World, CthulhuTech, Cthonian Stars, 3:16 - all come to mind as SF settings I wanted to check out but haven't gotten the chance...

Been a while since I read the novels, but weren't there Bandersnatch on the Ringworld that confused Nessus and Louis? And didn't that (or something else) hint that there were other non-hominid species - and didn't they have some questions about the Grass Giants?

What Nytmare said.

When I think about Ringworld specifically and the Known Space universe more broadly, I'm always struck by what a rich roleplaying experience that offers. I've never been ambitious enough to undertake it, but if I were a third party developer, I might look there for a licensing opportunity. Hint...

Setting only, in order: 7: 40K: Kill! Kill! Kill! While we all wait for it to be just the 'Crons chasing the 'Nids... 6: BattleTech/Mech Warrior. 40K without badly explained elves and orcs and disappearing dwarves. 5: CthulhuTech. Lovecraft with hints of 40K and Eclipse Phase. And Mechs -...

I may have to look into it. FFG's game is mechanics intensive but lacks the granularity of PCCS/Living Steel.

Well, that's not REALLY Hero, is it? D&D without a 20 sider isn't D&D... A 10d6 RKA sounds fearsome, even if you have no idea what an RKA is. Seriously, what I'm getting from this is M&M is a point buy system, Savage World-ish? Ars? With a "to hit number" based on a single die and some kind of...

Never played M&M. Hero/Champions guy from the very earliest days of Champions so super hero games are hard to get into my hands. I do know a few Marvel Super Heroes (Not the soon to be discontinued MWP version) folk, again going back many moons. What's the story with M&M?