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I've played in an Unknown Armies game in which the PCs broke out of prison together. Being handcuffed together does (temporarily) enforce party unity. I've also been in All Flesh Must Be Eaten game in which the PCs happened to be in the same resteraunt and another in which they were the only...

Didn't you contribute to the recent Tri-stat Cyberpunk book?

Insofar as it is the substance of fantasy worlds and games, isn't it inherantly ephemeral and effortlessly changeable? Words do effect discourse, but the history behind the word and the connotations from its daily use outweigh the linguistic roots. For a more mainstream example, the notions...

There are a number of people here saying that system does not significantly inform setting or playstyle. I don't quite understand that. A system with a less flat probability curve (like SR) will, regardless of the median results of tests, be more predictable than a flat curve system like d20...

Bill Gates plays contract bridge with Warren Buffet as his partner. No kidding.

I'm pretty sure the first post explicitly solicits opinions and implicitly solicits advice, insofar as it asks if the act was mean. That said, yeah. If you killed a character because how it was played annoyed you, it was mean unless you have a universally understood agreement that the GM can...

What you need is the eternal gratitude of a clan full of dwarves. This is a single, reasonable, large thing that you want and presumably will benefit the rest of your party. It begs for an adventure or two to aquire it, and the first will likely be the aquisition of labor via doing a huge...

You're mean. And very, very funny.

According to that model, I'm split. I think of Nobilis as one of the two best gaming books I've read, and it made sense to me immediately. I was referring to the problems other people have had with it. I have difficulty, though, ajudicating the magic in Mage. I'm not the best GM in the...

Have you sat down with your players and talked with them about what you want from the game? I've never gone wrong by speaking explicitly with my group about the playstyle and genre conventions I'd like, and I've frequently wished I had. Your players may not know you want a more gung-ho style...

Mage may suffer from a malady I shall now name Borgstromitis, in which a gaming book succeeds well in conveying the themes and overall ideas of a setting but somehow frequently fails as an instruction manual for play.

I go to rpg.net, ENWorld, and The Forge, also in order. Againsttheshadow.com is good for Midnight. I'm not sure where The Forge's reputation for hostility comes from, myself. I've just never seen it.

While I will gleefully rip on WW for their political views, writing style, editing, indecis, binding, etc., Mage is a great game. The question remains if it's the right game for you and your group. If whomever is chosen to GM is unable to arbitrate well, Mage is not for you. The rules, while...

Care to give a quick rundown on that for those of us stranded away from our books?

I'm at work, so I can't consult my books for this. Aquiring undead shouldn't be a problem, only controlling them. Since your basic skeletal and zombified hordes will shamble over and try to kill the living of their own accord, a necromancer general (or, more realistically, captain or major)...

The size of the town depends on the economics, technology, and magic of the setting. If the city's set up to resist seiges, there is going to be extra space for farmers and stored food. For encounters, what's the timeframe and ultimate goal? If I were your players (who are presumably...

You could stop hiding things for them to find. That might stop them from searching every square. You could make the dungeon pretty much level and slowly flood it. A decanter of endless water would do, or you could have the players somehow break the wall of a large cistern or dam, and have...

This is where a large scale collaborative project or a professional third party would come in handy. There's no reason why you couldn't have an entire city mapped out, perhaps with multiple outlying surroundings. Just by ripping off Paris and London in the 17-19th centuries, one can get great...

You can use placeholder minis for quite a bit, and you'd be suprised how many first and third party models there are for NWN. The DM doesn't need physical minis to do anything - he can just spawn however many models he needs. If there aren't modron models already, they're at least going to be...