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For me, the game as written degenerates as 5th level spells become commonplace. Around 11th level I would say. With enough controls in place, the game doesn't degenerate until the 9th level spells hit, but most 9th level spells are so outrageous (Mord's Disjunction, Gate, etc.) that the game...

How long is the campaign?

I don't often bother explaining role-playing to others. Generally it is just a simple explanation like "a game I play every week with some friends". That is about all most people want to know.

The system I currenly favor is standard array 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8. After placing the scores, you roll 6d6 and get a +1 to Strength for each 1, +1 to Con for each 2, etc. If you roll more than three of the same number, you can reroll all the dice if you want. No stat can be over 18 (extra...

I send out reminders, and when I don't I get emails saying "are we playing this week?" We try to play every other week, but sometimes every week and sometimes week go three weeks between, so the reminders are necessary. But reminders were necessary even when we played every other week like...

Maybe my campaign is strange, but usually Resist Energy is used when there is some kind of background damage: Fighting in a flaming room that does 2d6 per round, swiming in light acid, etc. Or the PCs are fighting low damage, high incidence creatures: pyrohydra being the perfect example of why...

I think that altbomination being a clunky word fits perfectly. Coremonger is short and too the point like those that play core only. Both work very well for what they are. IMO, of course.

I loved this one. One the best strips because it rewards you for reading the whole strip and remembering what the heck Elan is talking about. I saw the belt and thought, "Oh no" and then I'm sure the whole Roy and cleavage this will appear again. Bravo!

Not my experience at all. Low level D&D rounds zip by, high-level D&D rounds can drag, but GURPS rounds are excruciating. I remember playing an eight-second combat that took all night, and many I ran from place to place while others took actions. Could have been my group with a combination of...

Pretty much what I did: First I called half-orcs simply orcs. +2 STR, -2 INT, free endurance feat, -2 on diplomacy and gather info (against all races), +2 on intimidate. Basically, orcs are not the gather info/diplomacy types, they are the intimidate to get what they want types. I call orcs...

I've noticed this problem too: in 3.5 the second level spell (Resist) is better in all most all cases than the third level spell (Protection). In 3.0, Resist was a flat amount and lasted only 1min/level, while Protection had no cap, just 12hp/level. People rarely took Resist. With 3.5 they...

YMMV, but I find GURPS very, very tedious. I've never run a game using it, but played in way too many, so it could be the GM. I remember in a GURPS fantasy game having to run combat second by second: one second you would ready your mace, the next second you could actually attack with it. With...

Really, I've had exactly the opposite problem. Some players don't want to leave a game for fear that they will never play again.

Altbomination (n.) - A character built using as many different alternate rules sources as possible, usually done to create obscenely powerful characters by cherry-picking the broken parts. Splat and Happy (adj.) - The state of using the proper amount of alternate rules (splatbooks). The proper...

I occasionally look at wealth-per-level only because my players often refer to it. Usually in the context of "my character isn't powerful enough because he is lacking the appropriate equipment for his level." I use the weath-per-level difference to adjust the average CR downwards if...

So I ran this encounter last night. And it lasted a few rounds. I think the players were a bit concerned that something bigger might be coming (party my doing with the stage setting, and party because they didn't think they'd be facing simple orcs). I used two waves of orcs, which helped a...

Yeah, now I could use a few "random" encounters with shadow walk.

I would too. I forgot how slow my players can be, especially if we haven't played for a few weeks. We started late, and had to deal with the fallout of last session: Many treasure and leveling. So the sorcerer goes up a level and takes shadow walk, and the party shadow walks instead of wind...

Thanks. Those were quite useful. I'm going to combine a few into my own mixture.

I haven't had time to plan my game for tonight. And I'm also dry on plots. The PCs are traveling from point A to point B. They are 15th-17th level, but no one has any spells above 7th level. And they haven't been to point B before, so they can't teleport. So they'll windwalk most likely. I...