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Mekton Zeta, hands down.

I'd like an armor system that makes armoring up extremely important and useful at low levels, but decreasing in importance as characters grow in skill and power. Either that, or have the heavily-armored, low-DEX character and the unarmored, high-DEX character to have an equal defense value...

Trade a game that I will never play again for a game that I may one day play? Sure!

IMC, the giants created the warforged to fight against the quori (warforged don't sleep, and are therefore immune to attacks from Dal'Quor). What if the crown gave the wearer control of all warforged within a large area, like a 5-mile radius? The wearer could be aware of all warforged within...

The Romans used dogs extensively in battle, and often put chain barding on them. There are later period examples of canine barding as well as modern creations using medieval technology. Of course, in a game where you're casting spells and transforming into animals, it seems a bit silly to get...

I cannot recommend Mekton Zeta highly enough. The mecha construction rules are so universal, you can build anything from a handgun to a Death Star and everything in between. The combat system is derived from Battletech, with it's hit-points-per-hit-location and special effects table, but there...

If you like a good dose of gothic horror to go with your steampunk, check out Unhallowed Metropolis by Eos Games. I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but I read it from cover to cover when I was sick earlier this year, and it is a richly-detailled world. Even if you don't like the system...

Hmm...it's sounding like the rules themselves have an awful lot to do with whether or not people attempt grappling. I wonder how often people grapple in games with different rules for it? Most of the (non-d20) rules I've seen for grappling usually only involve restricting someone's movement...

Seeing the various threads over the years about 3E's grappling rules, and then today seeing the ad for EN World's rules for grappling, got me to thinking. Just how often does grappling happen in games? It seems like it must happen a lot for the rules to receive so much attention. It very...

I think I would be a Neutral halfling (the pre-3rd edtion halflings who love food and drink and creature comforts). As for class, I'd probably be either a commoner or an expert. I might have a martial weapon proficiency on account of the time I've spent doing mock combat in LARPs and the SCA...

That strip reminded me of the bribes SOE was offering ex-SWG players to re-activate their accounts. I had all kinds of neat stuff: a speederbike, a house full of objects d'art, even a space yacht! The game still didn't have any content, though, so I didn't stay long. :\

Once. But it was a Birthright game, and while it was different from most Birthright games in that it ran a lot more like a regular D&D game (minus the dungeon crawls, which were never a big part of my D&D experience anyways), the point of the campaign was to get my character to be the ruler of...

Minimum level requirements for equipment is something that belongs in video games, not D&D. If my low-level players are smart/lucky enough to score a <i>+5 Holy Avenger</i> at 2nd level, then more power to 'em!

I think the Hot New Thing is going to be the game system itself. From everything I've seen so far, this (4th) edition seems like it's going to be the biggest departure from its predecessor in D&D history (although I can't speak for OD&D-to-1st edition AD&D since I've never read the former).

I always loved the idea of marching into a dragon's lair, spanking it so soundly that it says "uncle," and then parading it into town to sell into slavery. I remember reading in one of my old 1E manuals (the DMG or maybe the MM) that "every large town has a market for buying dragons." How...

If I asked my players that, I would get shrugs and blank stares and the ever-helpful, "run what you feel like running." Of course, when I do pick something that I feel like running, 9 times out of 10 they turn around and say that it doesn't interest them. :mad: So huzzah to you for having...

QFT. This is the best news about 4E I've heard since the gnome thing. :)

I didn't like the look of the character animation when I first saw the production stills, but seeing it all in motion...wow. Gave me chills, it did. Here's hoping that it's better written than the prequels which spawned it. :)

IDEA #1: a fantasy world using the races and creatures of the Star Wars universe, and replacing magic with the Force. The backstory was that a colony ship crash-landed on a planet milennia ago because of a strange magnetic field surrounding it. This same field prevented any communication...

"Barbarian" is a classification of culture that is primitive when compared the more advanced civilization that gave it that label. The barbarian class in 3rd edition would be better off called something like Savage Berserker. By European standards, the Native American tribes were barbarian...