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D20 Eternal Rome I've been a big fan of Green Ronin's "Mythic Vistas" line, which includes "Hamunaptra," "Trojan War," and "Testament." Compared with Steve Jackson Games' GURPS "Imperial Rome" or "Roma Arcana" settings, the D20 "Eternal Rome" book suffers somewhat in comparison. I found the...

D20 random encounter tables I also recommend checking Necromancer's "Mother of All Encounter Tables" and WotC's new "Dungeon Master's Guide II."

Holdover 1e/AD&D2 rules in D&D3.5/D20 games I still use some of the "Dragon" magazine critical hit tables, training rules, and the Comliness score from earlier editions of "Dungeons and Dragons." I try not to confuse combat or spell-related rules (fortunately, some of the guys in my current...

D20 Thieves' World I'm definitely looking forward to the D20 "Thieves World" books, since I own all the anthologies and novels and have been a fan since I began playing D&D years ago. Although I've been favorably impressed with the "True 20" rules system, I actually prefer D20, since such...

Mon Mothma and Grand Moff Tarkin If you look at the D.K. reference books and the action figures now in toy stores, an actress was cast as a younger Senator Mon Mothma, but her scenes were probably cut. Wayne Pygram ("Scorpius" in "Farscape") was appropriately cast as Grand Moff Tarkin...

D20 space operas No problem. Good luck, and let me know when and if you develop/try those D20 sci-fi campaigns! I also recommend D20 "Traveller" ("T20") and D20 "Blood and Space"...

D20 space opera licenses I've seen some fan conversions of "Battlestar Galactica," but I haven't heard anything about any official licensing. Other threads (see links below) have discussed the merits of various rules systems, helpful D20 science fiction sourcebooks, and the 1970s version of the...

Campaign length The average "campaign," meaning a series of linked adventures including many of the same Player Characters and a defined face-to-face group of role-players, typically lasts about three years for me. Beyond that, people move around, graduate/get married/have children, or drop...

Experienced Game Master (since 1982) looking for mature, creative role-players (not "hack-and-slash roll-players" or rules lawyers) for a face-to-face pen-and-paper group to meet in the suburbs west of Boston. No experience is necessary! Campaign genres include fantasy, steampunk, comic book...

Non-D20 games In order of preference: -GURPS Fourth Edition: I've both run and played in steampunk/fantasy, comic book superhero, alternate history, and time/dimension travel campaigns, and this is still my favorite generic system, although The Basic System, Fudge, and Risus come close...

Yes. As a fan of both the original novels and the various incarnations of the "Dragonlance" game setting, from AD&D1 through D&D3.5, I agree that pregenerated Heroes of the Lance should be included in Sovereign Press' new books. It would be great to see the classic characters statted out using...

Dice storage In addition to a "traveling pouch" of a standard polyhedral dice set, I keep most of my dice in a plastic tacklebox, sorted by type. I also have several funky dice (30- and 100-sided, skull pips, weather effects, treasure types, superhero icons, etc.) that I keep in one of those...

In my campaign (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/DnD3VanishedLands/), Orcs look like what one role-player once jokingly called "green gorilla lizards." Descended from Ru'ulok, the same root stock of Ogres and Bugbears, the Orcs of Zuromm are about 6 feet tall, muscular, with simian build and...