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I have noticed two unusual trends among roleplayers. Some feel absolute loyalty to the edition of system X that was current at the time they started palying system X regardless of its flaws. Others display the same devotion to the current edition of system X regardless of its flaws. I have...

History Lesson About thirty years ago the area now known as Freeland was part of the Human Empire. A large number of serfs in this area were discontent with their lot in life and decided to stage a revolt. For reasons I have not yet determined, this revolt was a lot more succesful than previous...

My current method I don't know if this method would work in anybody else's campaign, but here's what I did to turn a one on one campaign into one that occasionally involves group adventures: Everyone's a freelance adventurer looking for work. One of the PCs becomes sheriff of a small border...

Map Right now my map is on a sheet of graph paper. All of the countries in my world are rectangular to make mapping on graph paper easier. Can anybody recomend a free, map program for the Mac (classic OS 9.0 or so) and possibly supply a link?

Oops, posted twice on same subject. See next post down.

Gods of my homebrew world Here's either a link to or the URL of the thread on WotC's homebrew board about the gods of my campaign setting. http://boards.wizards.com/community/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=217;t=000453 If you have any comments or feedback post it either here or there. I check...

Explosions are fun I understand that the source of the explosion has probably already been decided, but I wanted to share one of my favorite hamlet destroying methods with you. A Hammer Ship (from the Spelljammer setting) with a hold filled with smoke powder and greek fire. Other than the ship...

Children of the Star of the Morning A group of heretics and anarchists who believe that freedom and equality really are very good things. Some of them merely write incendiary poems, songs, plays, and essays that expose the abuses and/or silliness of current authority figures. Other members...

I'm not sure if I've been using the same world since I was in middle school with some major changes or if I've been using different worlds that are very similar and always have some of the same things. The biggest change I've made is this time there's a new country called Freeland. At some point...

Does anyone here like the 3e versions of the ruless for light and darkness spells better tahn the 2e version, particularly the lack of a continual version of darkness and not being able to use light spells to blind an oponent? I happen to like the 2e version better, but want to hear others...

I enjoyed that article on crossbreeds of the various standard races in Asgard #1, but found some cheap min-maxed combos pretty easy. Combo 1) Sun-light orcs: Orcish brawn (+4 strength) 5 points Orcish Impulsiveness (-2 wisdom) -1 point or Orcish Untrustworthiness (-2 charisma) -1point result: a...