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A few other indie rule systems to look at and "collect" if only on your hard drive: - Nicotine Girls from Halfmeme Press (Paul Czege, same guy who did the fantastic My Life with Master) - The Shab al-Hiri Roach (Jason Morningstar of Fiasco et al) - Risus - Diaspora (hard sci-fi with FATE) -...

I'm very excited to announce that The Dragon Scroll, an adventure for Spellbound Kingdoms, is out now! Here's the blurb: Characters can encounter zeppelins battling above glaciers, undead mobs rampaging in the halls of St. Vartan's school, necromancers, alchemists, cockatrices, mini-head...

1980, Petoskey, Michigan. In my 4th grade classroom of our isolated little town, I got a Dynamite magazine that had an article on Dungeons and Dragons. I don't know how, but reading the short feature, looking at the pictures, I just knew that game was for me. It was love at first sight. That...

I'm with everyone else too. Don't spend hours upon hours writing plot for your campaigns. You can spend a lot of time writing characters, writing motivations for those characters, writing locations, writing new spells and items and fighting styles and classes. But don't write plot; you'll...

Good thread idea. I wouldn't call these dealbreakers for me. With the right group I'm happy to play just about any RPG. But some pet peeves: 1) Anything encouraging individual xp for "roleplay." 2) Anything that has inconsistent world physics, for example, games where diagonal grid movement is...

Hm, sounds like you have more than enough plot points, so I'll toss out a few flavor ideas: * One of the enchantments given to the young mage allows her to desquamate to take on a new disguise. Her former skin doesn't disappear, though, and in fact she can't lose the disguise until she slinks...

Hm, do you mean that the thief fires his bow, and then wherever the arrow lands, the thief teleports there? Yes, I could look it up, but it seems ever so much easier for you to tell me. :) Anyway, if that's it, I put an item in the 3.5e Magic Item Compendium like that (with limited uses per...

Running my own game (Spellbound Kingdoms). Played some Traveller (classic) recently. Enjoy 3.x and PF, can enjoy 4e with the right group, but there's only so much time in the day/week/life.

Welcome to EN World! In answer to your original question - "Why Can't I Find a System I Really Enjoy?" - I'd say it's because you are too focused on the system and not focused enough on the game. Of course, I don't know you, so feel free to tell me to go take a flying leap. :) But try giving...

It's the only way I've GMed for a long time. I usually prep with a list of challenges that can come up for each character - 2 to 4 things that can pop out of the woodwork and be interesting to that character. Then, based on what the group has been doing and has said they were interested in...

Find ways to involve sharia law in your campaign. Maybe set it in Dubai, maybe one of the PCs still has military ties and some of the missions/adventures take place in Afghanistan. The way that women are treated under sharia law is definitely worthy of a superhero fighting it. Take a look at the...

Ok! Done and done. :) Go check Spellbound Kingdoms. Buy it here. The combat system is what I wanted to do in Book of Nine Swords, but Rich Baker had already sketched out that book's system when he turned it over to us poor freelancers. I started work on SK when I realized that that there was...

So, so sorry to hear this. I... am going to go hug my daughter too. I can't imagine their grief.

I voted 'hate it.' There's a similar topic over in General, and I replied similarly. The delve format is mind-bogglingly bad. On the list of the 1,031 bone-headed, misguided, facepalm decisions that WOTC has made since 2007, the delve format is tied for #2.

The delve format is mind-bogglingly bad. On the list of the 1,031 bone-headed, misguided, facepalm decisions that WOTC has made since 2007, the delve format is tied for #2.

The revision for Spellbound Kingdoms is done! The game is available here at DTRPG, and the official site is Spellbound Kingdoms. Spellbound Kingdoms is a fantasy RPG featuring zeppelins, courtesans, feral children, alchemy, sorcery, engineering, politics, dragons, and slavering undead. The...

I agree that in 4e minions and skill challenges are the ways the game attempts to deal with this issue. Whether or not those ways work for your group is another matter; it sounds like maybe they don't. Not using minis for the quick battles is a possibility, but you have to be willing to deform...

I agree that a modern appendix N should include the classics, Lieber to Howard to Burroughs to Tolkien to Lovecraft et al. I hold Lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora in high regard but he pulled a Matrix with the second book. Martin is a must, WoT also (grudgingly), Gaiman and Mieville for flavor if...

What interests me about Gamma World is its format. It seems to me that the hybrid box-in-a-game format is where WOTC wants to go. However, I don't particularly care for the silly tone of the game, especially when one of the things that annoyed me about 4e was that 4e didn't take its game world...

I'll be there. My sister's family and, in the summer, my parents live in Indianapolis. It's a no-brainer.