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Y'know what would be a great one-shot? THE A-TEAM. Let's assume 10th - 12th level. Hannibal. Face. Murdock. B.A. [No Frankie, Amy, etc.] And if extra players show up...who else? Magnum? MacGyver? Hulk Hogan?

Another thought --- a character who is solo because he keeps joining parties where everyone else get killed. Once his secret comes out, he ends up compulsively talking about the dozens of terrible deaths he has witnessed --- the time poor Redgar was eaten by a phantom weredragon...when brave...

Yeah, once you properly trick out a dedicated dragon-slayer, they end up being very good at their job, don't they? I doubt that I'll have time to playtest....I will, however, fudge like crazy in the interest of a good fight. One wrinkle here ---- SPOILERS --- is that this critter turns out to...

All I get to do these days is a one-shot now and again...DM is responsible for making pre-gen characters. Here's my notion: 1. Run "Green Bones" from the Forgotten Realms campaign book. 2. 16th level characters are recommended, but I might make these guys a little lower because I may have...

"Name some genres" or "Dinopirates of Ninja Island".

People hoard the plague?

Hit me, Nightfall. Still thinking about psionics, just because I am not overly familiar with those rules myself. I'm leaning toward a dedicated blaster - type sorcerer, just to keep the spell options as simple as possible for the player.

Good question, and I'm not sure of the answer. I guess I'm trying to balance a desire to give the guys something distinctly Eberronian vs. not wanting to confuse the guys who don't know Eberron. One I've been kinda kicking around is a half-giant duskblade (practitioner of the lost...

I'm working up a one-shot using the "Jungle Secrets" adventure (it's the Secrets of Xendrik web enhancement). I'm looking at 6 PCs, all 10 level or the equivalent. Still thinking about the specific mission statement for the party, but at this point, I'm leaning towards "professional...

Martial Arts Mayhem is balanced just fine. Haven't read the others, but I suspect they are fine, too, since they were designed by some of the original d20 Modern crew.

I don't know what you mean. Yeah...the PCs are straight-arrow All-American 1930s G-Men, and every case pits them against a new mad scientist, alien invader, or Thing Man Was Not Meant to Know. "The Pulp Files".

I'm not sure how much of that old Boot Hill and Gangbusters stuff would even be salvageable. Expectations have changed quite a bit. Also...I dunno if anyone really wants to play "The Untouchables RPG" these days (i.e., straight up fedoras and tommy guns, no rocket men or Oriental masterminds...

That's a fine point --- the Quori are engaged in constant subliminal indoctrination of their masses of followers, and occasionally step in with some psionic brainwashing. But there's also a religious / philosophical aspect to their dominance. And some of it is simple education --- if you are...

The book specifically addresses the issue of playing either a loyal (and ignorant) agent of the Inspired, or a rebel within that society. The commoners simply don't realize that their leaders are the bad guys, and even elite operatives may be Lawful Good. And if Detect Evil registers their...

RPGs are all about plagiarism and emulation, aren't they? I go back to 1st Edition AD&D, so it's interesting to me to see how D&D drew upon the fantasy of the 1930s through the 1970s --- Moorcock and Tolkein and Leiber and Howard --- then gradually solidified into something that was uniquely...

Just sorta skimmed through it so far. Early impression is that this would be an outstanding setting for a campaign featuring psionics. I'm getting even more of a Stargate SG1 vibe from our evil empire of the Inspired --- we have alien entities possessing human forms and controlling vast...

Good point re: Pokemount. But are the changes to the weretouched master affecting the flavor or just the power level?

I'm not sure that I would call my salary being reduced by 75% "the same feeling" as having my D&D character scaled back to the same power levels as the other PCs. Setting aside the whole "reality" issue...while larger salary is just plain better than a smaller one, a more powerful character is...

Perhaps so, but if he wants to keep playing this character, it comes down to either a change with an in-game explanation (i.e., Mystra dies), or a change without an in-game explanation (i.e., FR 2.0 ---> 3.0). Interestingly, I've never heard anyone complain about continuity when errata or new...

You could always put the PC through some torture via an overzealous Silver Flame inquisitor...once he's been pricked with a thousand alchemical silver needles, he could reasonably suffer a permanent weakening of his quasi-lycanthropic abilities.