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Right now it looks like they are trying to get the best of all possible worlds here: a game that plays exactly how you want it to, for everyone at the table. I don't really think that is gonna work out. That said, I'm very supportive of how they are approaching this. They aren't limiting...

This is what I"m afraid of, they seem to have a good approach to the new edition, but it really sounds like they will get caught up in all the trappings of old rules. I read one of those seminar transcripts and one of the guys said, "the electrum piece" and I about choked. I know it was just...

I ran a short one on one campaign based on Demon Knight. After a couple sessions everyone wanted in on it, but there could only be one keyholder, and he kinda had more power than the other players, so it didn't last.

I don't know about my favorite but I can tell you my players favorite. In 3.5 I ran a campaign that involved a lot of sea travel, so we had a fight in the middle of a storm out on the open see against a sea troll. Needless to say the waves and rain made burning the troll virtually impossible...

It's late so i didn't read the whole thread, so forgive me if this has been mentioned, but maybe try Mutants & Masterminds. It is based off 3.5 but has several significant differences, and it has sourcebooks to play in any type of setting, but without being rules exhaustive like GURPS, which...

I didn't have a chance to read the whole thread but I wonder if they would consider an action system like Savage Worlds. I haven't played it much, but when I did a while back I like the action system. You could do as much as you wanted per round, but the more you did the more penalties you...

I had a player in a Rifts based vampire campaign ask it the broken down cars they were hiding behind had radiators still in them so he could bless the water and use it against the vampires. I had a player who's 1st level (2nd ed d&d) thief had lost all his equipment ask if he could take a...

Seriously, no Philip K. Dick, H.P. Lovecraft or Robert E. Howard? Two cyberpunk novels and Tolkien but not "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" at least? No one has even heard of the visual information book, meanwhile these guys have inspired or created entire genres. Not sure if I can agree...

I like this kind of idea for a low magic campaign where your character isn't constantly risking his life just to save money to buy a bigger magic sword so he can kill bigger monsters. A system like this provides a reason for them to keep working, since the upkeep on their gear will cost them...

Sounds like you need to playtest. I'm sure that as people play regularly they will get the AC's figured out and if there are any problems there they should stand out. I think you really need to get a feel for combat and how it flows at the table. When I first started testing my system I had a...

Have you playtested this much? I can see two thing that might come up during gameplay, so if you have tested this I would wonder: 1. During gameplay how hard is it to get players to remember the wound penalties? 2. How hard is it to track the wounds for all the enemies? I think that some...

I can't tell you how many times I've seen this thread, and for some reason I always assumed it was about finding the right "power level" Gary Gygax had intended the game to be played at. I have no idea why. Finally today I actually came on here and checked it out, and I'm glad I did. Sorry I...

Ran across and old thread from another site the other day where a guy was gearing up to make a system based around the d12 as the only dice. He was in love with that particular dice and several people in the thread seemed to be as well, so much so that there was a lot of interest in the game...

I will be self publishing an Indie RPG in a year or two called: Blood, Wits & Steel. I have been testing for over a year, and ran several tests at Gencon this year that went well. I also played a game that another indie designer was testing called: Death of the Vele. it was similar to...

Fiasco by bullypulpit games it's not the kinda game you are asking about, but if you try it I bet you would have way more fun than any other thing you're going to play for one night.

This dude has access to a gaming store, so he can meet other people to game with, I wouldn't worry about it. My small town has no gaming store, and the nearest one is about 40 minutes away, so I might feel different in your situation. But this guy as plenty of resources at his disposal to meet...

I have never played Dread, it was on the top of my list of games to try at Gencon this year but I never found the time. So I'm just guessing here, but might it work having a second tower for our tremor prone friend, only it's just a third of the normal height, and therefore way more stable. He...

You're timing is good in the sense that the newer versions of Word (2007 and above) are way better at laying things out than previous versions. I do a lot of this at my job for internal documents, and with old versions there was a lot of trial and error. Open Office isn't bad either. From...

Actually this year was only my second gencon. I work crazy hours during the summer and taking time off is tough. I will certainly be trying lots of games from here on out. I would like to go to origins next year if i can get the time off. A friend of mine said the next time he starts a...

So I spent a large part of Gencon last weekend at Games on Demand trying new indie games. My favorite one was Fiasco, which I actually got to play with the game designer himself, Jason Morningstar. He is a very cool guy and, as the prose in the rule book suggests, very witty and humerous...