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I first started role playing in 1980. Back then, the gaming groups I knew about let every player have several PCs. Often, each player would get a full compliment of classes - I had a fighter, a thief, a mage and a cleric in my first game. I'm not sure whether more classes even existed at the...

Re: Challenging patents. There is a very inexpensive way to challenge patents in most countries, including, very recently here in the US - and that is to challenge them before they are even issued. In most countries, patents are published about six months or so after they are applied for, for...

Rodney Matthews. My all time favorite fantasy artist, but never did any work related to role playing games as far as I know. Did posters, record album, and book covers, some Moorcock related work. Was most popular in the '70s right around the time that D&D got going. Became Born Again at...

Another thought - you might want to check out the 'Age of Worms' modules that have been appearing in Dungeon magazine for the past few issues (and will be running for quite a bit more). It's more of an epic "investigate and defeat the evil cultists threatening to destroy the world" type of...

When I've done this sort of thing it's usually been on a larger full campaign scale, which takes some time of course. My modus operandi is to take some situation from history or literature, change the names to protect the guilty, and use it as a background for the game. For example, I once ran...

Thanks all. Actually what I am trying to do is an online game that (obviously) requires a set of rules. It might best be described as an online living game, though that is just an analogy. I will be looking for playtesters in the future, then I can provide details.

I'm looking for recommendations for good "Open source," "Open license" or license free role playing systems that could be used in a commercial venture without paying licensing fees. Does anyone here have experience with one that they like and is still available? I went to a dite devoted to...

This is my first post here, to test and make sure I'm *really* registered. Anyway, here's a poll that might actually provide some useful information for a new game store, run by a friend of mine, that wants to schedule a weekly role playing event at his store (a sort of local "living" game)...