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The first thing I think of when I hear the term druid is Getafix from Asterix. I've never really thought of Druids as Shapechangers, it's not a power that springs to mind when I think of them. I do think of them as Animal Companions a little bit, that's probably because I quite liked the 4E...

Bladelings. That most easily forgotten, and probably least played race from 4E. Although with that new Extra Spiky Tiefling feat fom the Races Feats UA, you could probably do a reasonable mock up of one. I did see they're listed in QuietBrowsers list - that's an awesome reference. Very well...

I always thought the lizard thing on the RQ2 cover looked a bit too large, and a bit too humanoid to be a Rock Lizard. Of course after rooting around in my Runequest box and reading their stats, I see they've got 4d6 for size. Mystery solved! Cheers! I don't think I ever used Rock Lizards in...

WOO HOO! That's absolutely great news! It's going to be the RQ Renaissance all over again. Except, a lot more product, and a better release schedule. :)

So looking forward to this. Been a Gloranthaphile since the eighties, although I'm still puzzled over what the Lizard thing the woman is fighting on the cover of the rulebook is. Very happy indeed with the release schedule, but I do hope it's just not reprints of older stuff updated. (I've got...

Ninja'd! I should finish reading the thread before responding to it. :)

I remember those days. I also seem to remember an awful lot of fighters with 18/00 Str. Not that anyone would cheat rolling their Attributes in those days. The main reason I prefer Point Buy to rolling is it avoids having player luck completely mess up Character balance. After several groups...

Is there a way of giving that title xp? Because that was brilliant. :) Also it involved RQ and Paranoia, 2 of my all time favorite RPGs.

Pretty much my point really although I didn't word it very well. It's been maybe 3 editions since this was the case. Nowadays 8 is the lowest, rather than 3. Even NPCs don't seem to adhere to the old days of 10/11 being the average stat. Who else remembers having to roll 3d6 and in order to...

As a Player I'm not against Min/Maxing, and do it myself, although I do dislike having an 8 for an attribute - I just dislike having a penalty on any stat, even at the cost of bumping something else up. As a GM, I'm ambivalent about it. I can't really complain about someone doing it as I do it...

My games got a hyper intelligent strain of Syphilis. Once someone is infected, it subtly influences behaviour to increase it's rate of infection. A Dwarven hold fell to it, after one of them dug too deep. (Into what exactly, it's best not to think about.) The idea of an intelligent disease...

Pretty much. They're comparable in scale to the WotC D&D prepainted miniatures. I even use a bunch of the Gamorians as orcs. Some of the HeroClix range can be used, if they're re-based, but they can be a little large compared to some miniatures. Mongoose did a range of Semi-Modern prepainted...

This, and especially a 5th ed version of said 4e's Dark Sun Campaign Guide. With a nice big appendix at the end with Psionic rules for every setting.

I've been fairly guilty for using awesome names both as a player and a GM. Whether it's a bard named Silas Fapnoodle (who was a confidence trickster, and that wasn't really his name - it's an old Con Man trick to use a slightly ridiculous name as it's a distraction), a Minotaur named Mu, or a...

ZARJAZ! Another game on the list for this year. This will be be fantastic! I'll have to check out NEW now, to see how the system works. Like the sound of the Nikolai Dante game - that setting just cries out for an RPG adaption, however no word on my 2 favourite 2000ad settings - Strontium...

Great thread so far, (other than the usual squabbling discussions, which at least are fun to read. :) ). I'll be definitely using some of those Ogres in the near future. The one Ogre from 4E i found particularly memorable was the Juggernaut - it's knock down, then kick along the ground attack...

Given RAW, you don't get an autocrit, but you would get Advantage. It could be a way to make sure someone isn't faking being dead. "He's unconscious, but, hold on I didn't get an autocrit. The $#@% is just faking. Why are you frowning at me MR GM? Is it my blatant Metagaming, or my attacking...

I've run 2 campaigns where the PCs have started on Lvl 2 HP at level 1, and then not get any HP increase at level 2. Seems to work, and makes it just that little easier to survive. I did try double HP at First level, but that seemed a bit too much. I really don't understand the point of the...

I like both of these - the idea of a big, slavering monster taking someone down to zero HP, then licking it's lips and salivating because next turn it's going to eat them should give any player the willies. Should encourage much panicked healing. Intelligent, nasty and possibly dishonourable...

Oddly enough, I'd noticed that effect of Rampage - it's very nasty, and fits Gnolls well. I suspect the reason they can move as part of Rampage is so there's a way that they don't target a downed PC. I also found that as an ability it didn't really come up very much - it was rare for gnolls to...