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Another Fine Mess: 10 Nevid stared. The woman from his dreams. Laughing in the midst of unthinkable destruction. Corpses as far as the horizon in all directions. Flames, blackened shells of buildings. Rivers boiled in their beds. A city aflame. Laughter, sweet and beautiful. Madame Yuek Man...

Oh yeah, you don't want to just yank them out. You need to mainly review your feats list. Many d20 feats derive their value from AoOs, so if you pull those out you need to reconsider how helpful those feats are and if they need to be removed or adjusted. I would look over True20's feat list as...

My site is currently down. It's unfortunate, but it's temporary. I'll post in this thread when it's back up. Apologies!

Oh, good grief. Come on, man, PUSH yourself. Run a game you are afraid to run. Run a horror game and challenge yourself to actually SCARE your players. Have a game dictated by a passionate love affair. Run a game where each player is a ruler of a country and they have to deal with political...

Nor should there be, because what you just described is an anti-swashbuckling ruling. MUCH better is saying, "If you swing on the rope, you get the bonus for charging." If choosing the swashbuckly option is less good than the tedious, boring and unimaginative option, then you as a DM are...

May I humbly suggest Hot Pursuit: The Definitive d20 Guide to Chases? Well, I just did.

Swashbuckling tales are my favourite mode of RPGs. I have been working with the d20 ruleset, tweaking things here and there to encourage swashbuckling play, and I have developed a couple of principles, that can be embodied through a number of mechanics. There are two key mechanical principles...

Isaac was very rarely killed by cranky Lohanese chicks. It has to be said though that had there been less cranky women around, Isaac's life would have been a LOT more peaceful.

Yeah, sorry about that. My provider decided this weekend would be a good one to turn off my site for me. I'll see about getting the file mirrored...

Of the options, I chose "Creating The Campaign" -- since it includes creating the setting (a campaign must have a setting to run in), creating the adventures (without adventures there's no campaign) and creating the NPCs (again, necessary for a campaign to exist). I mean, a "campaign" is...

I'm pleased to say that a bunch of hard work by some True20 fans is now available for everyone. You can download True20 Ship Combat at my website right now. These rules were mostly put together by True20Chick over on the True20 forums, and they've been extensively playtested, and they're free...

SLAVE QUEEN OF THE RUINED CITY comes with its own set of lava rules, actually. I've been thinking of publishing them as a separate PDF, though. Any thoughts? Would people welcome a True20-based set of comprehensive lava rules? It would probably be pretty easy to provide them in both True20- and...

Another Fine Mess: 9 "No doubt you've got some clever plan up your sleeve to get us out of this?" Isaac scowled at Nevid. The two men walked side-by-side across a vast dusty plain. Gentle dunes rose up a few hundred paces away, seeming to get no nearer as they walked. The sun was steadily...

Ages past Atlas Games published Burning Shaolin, a cross-over module for both d20 and Feng Shui. It features all sorts of very solid ideas on how to adapt d20 rules for wuxia-style play. I used a lot of those ideas in my Barsoom game. True20 makes for an easier transition, frankly. You really...

I converted a couple of my favourite Dungeon adventures into the storyline of my Kung Fu Angels game: Racing The Snake (PCs must distract an assassin for three days) And Madness Followed (somebody performs "The King In Yellow". And madness, er, followed) I also used "Tammeraut's Fate" as the...

I thought it totally added to the fun. As long as you don't get too hung up on "what REALLY happened" -- it just leads to all sorts of interesting dynamics. I don't think the bantering between Corky and Frances would have been half as much fun if we'd both had the same opinion of what had...

If the hound was female, Corky probably did the dumping. He doesn't exactly lean that way, if you know what I mean... Yeah. Chums. That's what they called it at public school. ;)

:D Honestly, it wasn't meant as deliberate sabotage. I just wanted one of those scenes where the useless git wanders into a room, accidentally breaks something, and then stumbles about trying to pretend it wasn't him. Bertie Wooster is my hero.

One of the best role-playing books ever published, if you ask me. The adventure design section alone is worth the cover price. Hell, the cover is worth the cover price.

Nope. Haven't seen SR since 1st Edition so I don't know how much they changed it, but it doesn't strike me as a system that particularly favours the buckling of the swash.