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    Reality in fantasy... how much is too much?

    Even fantasy should have rules. Science, as practiced by scientists, is not a collection of rules. It's a collection of techniques used to figure out what the rules of reality might be. These techniques are called scientific method. You can still keep your fantasy founded in science even if...
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    A game with good and evil but no neutrals?

    Original 0th edition D&D IIRC the original white boxed set with three beige books had 3 alignments: law (which was lawful good), chaos (which was chaotic evil), and neutral which was true neutral.
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    [Monday] Request for real world magic traditions.

    GURPS Voodoo, the Shadow War by C.J. Carella ISBN 1-55634-300-0 is an excellent source for a wide variety of modern Voodoo beliefs (and also discusses some of the Western Hermetic traditions). Some things that I'd add about the greater loa: Damballa the snake loa is intrinsicly linked to...
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    What level of house rules are you comfortable with?

    I can't resist tinkering with rules I really enjoy playing in games where I get to try out new rules variants. However, I like to be very cautious about actually introducing new house rules into games I'm running. Most of the house rules I've introduced into my current game take the form of...
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    Good game for mixed experienced/newbies?

    WFRP is a fun setting to GM or play in It's just slightly higher tech than standard d20 settings, but unlike other slightly higher tech settings has lots of powerful magic. Also, since its a different rules system than d20, that puts the experienced and inexperienced players on an even footing...
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    Mike Mearls is a Genius

    Eberron: nice concept, bad details I've been running an Eberron campaign for about 1/2 a year now. I really like the flavor of the setting, but find many of the details extremely frustrating. Take, for example, the "core story". I started running the game with the standard fantasy d20 core...
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