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In the real world bronze is almost twice as heavy for the same strength and more prone to bending. Bronze also does not hold an edge at all. The poisoning effect you heard about is not from getting hit by the weapon but rather from smelting the bronze using arsenic. Bronze poisoning from a...

I use npc designer as well for most npc's and pcgen for major personalities that are going to have recurring roles in the game.

Do you want an attack boat or a missile sub? In either case, good luck. Your best bet might be to get the external dimensions from a Janes guide and go from there. Not likely to be able to find anything relating to post WWII sub deck plans.

How about Elements of Magic. It works pretty well as a direct replacement for standard magic, it's very flexible and not too overwhelming.

How about asking one of them to take up DM duties in addition to you?

I always have allowed players to pick the classes that they want to play from any source, but they have to work the description to fit into the flavor of the campaign. For example, I had a player run a kensai in a medieval france type setting, but he had to totally rework the description to fit...

there has to be a real fear of loss. Loss of the character, loss of something valuable, loss of some sort or other. Shock scares, like in the movies where something jumps out at you unexpectedly, rarely work. Stay away from cliches. Use the unexpected, change monsters or situations so they...

Unfortunately, in California the range of numbers is 1-56. Obviously makes it difficult to do with a single polyhedral die, and multiple die rolls will skew the number selections away from a flat random curve. On a side note, I wonder if anyone has ever done a mathematical analysis of the...

LA +1 sounds about right to me too, however I would use more monsters rather than higher CR monsters to raise the ECL. Larger numbers of monsters seem to be less overwhelming than more powerful monsters when adjusting for raised stats rather than more powers, feats, DR, etc. BTW the best way...

Another vote for Midnight. Also check out Grim Tales - Slave Lords of Cydonia.

Here is a sheet that I used for my cyberpunk game. Its in Openoffice format once you unzip it.

Play with who shows up. Start on time and if someone shows up late, fit them in when you can. Don't punish the players who make the effort to be there on time. The best way to do it is to be prepared with a couple of mini-scenarios that are adaptable for the players who show up. Don't forget...

If someone can't afford the books - check out the hypertext searchable srd at: http://www.d20srd.org/ . Stick to the core srd on the left hand side and ignore the rest of the sections. Here is the cheat sheet that I put on the inside of my dmscreen during every game: Conflict moves the story...

100 kobold spellcasters, all of whom have magic missile or some other no save damaging spell memorized. that is number 31 I believe

Roleplaying is a cooperative venture, yes. However it is also about making positive choices, just like improv theater, in order to get the game going you never contradict a fact that the DM has laid out and always make choices that open up the game world rather than shut down options for further...

I toss out poker chips with fractional CR values for good roleplay. This has two benefits - immediate feedback and I don't have to remember at the end of the night who did what and whether it was in character or not... I think that I use white as 1/8CR, blue as 1/4CR and red as 1/2CR for XP...

IMO you are starting too big. Just do the work that you will need to start the game. Sketch in the large details and go from there. Your best bet is to just start with the game area and a quick historical timeline. If you want to do a large scale framework to ensure consistency make an...

I use Campaign Cartographer and it works really well for me. Lots of times I'll do a sketch on paper or in a paint program (GIMP is my fave) and then transfer it over to CC2pro. Looking forward to the release of CC3 which has lots of really cool map enhancing features. The bad thing about...

This one is to scale but it doesn't say what the scale is... could probably approximate based on the size of the basketball court. http://www.bridge-rayn.org/building3/FP/FloorPlan.htm here is another with some good plans in it, again, to scale, but doesn't say what the scale is...

Good luck and god speed, Spoony!