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If you like your Sci-fi 'crunchy', ICE Games are still selling Space Master (SM:2 & SM:P) as PDF's. If you can cope with lots of charts and tables and don't mind adding up d100% rolls, it's actually a really good game system.

Maybe I should just dig out my copy of Rolemaster Arms Law & Claw Law? :lol: ... or maybe not. :) I'm beginning to see why WotC never messed with the HP system.

I believe that it was a pretty common ranged combat spell used by nearly all Combat Mages. However, allow me to rephrase my question. Is magic still the be all and end all of Shadowrun play in 5th Edition or have they done anything to try to balance Magic / Technology so that Technology isn't...

Yeah, I was thinking this sort of thing, not sure about the half HP threshold though. I was wondering whether having an escalating wound severity or a random wound severity is the way to go. Minor - Light - Moderate - Severe - Critical, or just randomly determine severity on each occurrence...

Yeah, I see what I did there. :) My character is a Doctor, the cuts and bruises type, but he has pretty high skills in Psychoanalysis and Psychology (starting character with 45%+ in both of those two skills). Although in the 1920's I'm not sure 'psychiatry' was much of a skill, at least not...

More than ten. I may have a dice problem. :uhoh:

Food for thought, thanks. :) My main goal is to try to keep it compatible with the current mechanics. I don't want players to have to learn completely alternate damage rules, just have some possible extra effects when they take a certain percentage of their current HP's from one single source...

Can Combat Mages still take out military vector thrust tanks with one single spell in SR 5th Ed.? This was something that turned me off SR 3rd Ed. as I tend to like the Rigger classes in SR. As a rigger, you spend all your money and resources (and time and effort) outfitting some cutting edge...

Nice! :)

It's Boston in the 1920's and your long term friend (a Private Eye, and a former Military buddy) has asked you to join him on a job out of town. He has been hired by a wealthy solicitor to locate a missing client, a millionaire who has disappeared under somewhat mysterious circumstances. It's...

I'm after something that gives wounding results while characters AND monsters are losing Hit Points. The whole, 'you're fine until you hit 0 HP', is just killing me. Excuse the pun. So far, I'm looking at a 1/3 (total) HP Wound Threshold system, where taking 1/3 of your (total) HP's in one...

The Maritime Games Club is an open venue games club situated within the Medway University campus. You don't have to be a student to attend. In fact, well over half of our current membership aren't students, and ages range from 16 to 66. We have large class rooms with plenty of re-arrangeable...

Thanks for the ideas, I've taken notes and I shall see what transpires tomorrow. :)

I've got a one off D&D 3.5 game to play in tomorrow. So I have created an Elven Ranger of Mielikke (FR setting) and have all of the main character stuff worked out, the only thing left to do is spend 9000 GP's on some magical stuff. :erm: I've never really been a min/maxer, so I just went with...

While waiting for our regular Thursday Earthdawn game to start at the local club, I got to watch the opening scenes from the Star Wars: Edge of the Empire box set being played by another group of players. It looks like a relatively fun role-playing game, but the thing that really stood out was...

In my experience, those in the hobby don't refer to D&D as a generic term for 'role-playing', we all know that it's a specific game. It's only those outside of the hobby who refer to us all as "D&D'ers".

It's the name that everyone knows, so it's important to RPG hobbyists, as it's D&D that attracts new people into the hobby. It just has so much of the spotlight. If Paizo keep up their remarkable rise, they may well be in a position to take up some of the duties of attracting new hobbyists that...

Part of me gets why FFG are 'withholding' Jedi, the idea of all the PC's running around with light sabers just isn't Star Wars to me (someone besotted with the original three movies and the original WEG d6 RPG rules). On the other hand, Star Wars is so much more than the original three movies...

So, this is where old gamers go to ... erm ... chat about games. :lol:

As a DM, I have a pretty easy going attitude to 'back seat DM's' ... as long as they are only helping with game mechanics. I would never claim to be an encyclopaedic knowledge of every rule for every game I've ever run, so it can be useful when someone helps the flow of the game by removing...