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Greetings! By way of gaming resume, I'm an old Traveller hand that started playing back in Classic. I also picked up Mongoose Traveller (MongT for short, please, as MT implies MegaTraveller! Great game, but a different game!) and ran a very successful campaign under it. Here's a summary I...

Well, there's a 50/50 chance I'll be running my "Swashbucklers against Chaos" game Sun PM instead, depending on: 1) Whether my daughter decides she wants to play PKB's Icons game, and 2) If Queenie tells me she's still interested in playing my game this time, and which slot works for her. I'm...

I was thinking about that one too. I have yet to play DRYH, though I have yet to see Inception.

Character Concepts The following are the major crew and hangers-on of the Emerald Crown. I recommend that players only consider core characters until the group has at least one character to cover each competency of combat, social, infiltration (as noted by a C/S/I notation after the...

The crew of the Emerald Crown has plied the inter-planar waters of the River of Worlds for years now, under the steely command of the mysterious Captain Milaena. Now they escort their charge to the bustling trade-port of Dragonwatch Harbor. Tying up to the pier cannot come a moment too soon, as...

With Nazi forces on the run, the Interplanetary War is drawing to a close. The brave members of the Rocket Corps patrols the newly established Jovian Control Zone, where US Army Rocket Corps fleets scour the moons for the last remnants of Axis forces. At Science Station Ganymede, War Department...

I go in cycles. Some things I'll play for a few months, only to get tired of it, but come back to it next year.

I like dungeons. But I feel as if the average published dungeon crawl is "overcooked". I've seen some published adventure take some cool flavorful ideas and ruin them by sheer repetition by stuffing more instances of related encounters in the game. I have been having a lot of success by the...

I'm starting as a player in a Legacy of Fire campaign next week, and I was just thinking of that exact same angle for the idea of a summoner in a pseudo-arabian setting.

Interesting thought. Sort of like a poor cousin to Fantasy Craft's Persoanal Lieutenant. :cool:

There are two ends to this problem: supply and demand. One the supply end, one of the biggest things I did in 3.5 was to nix the idea you could buy any item (under the GP limit) in any city. I randomized the items that vendors had on hand and/or makers could craft. My players were sufficiently...

Honestly, it's a very good book, but I think it has less to offer an experienced GM with a collection of DMG editions and lots of experience under his belt than it does a new GM.

Yep. Though I'm especially hopeful that the archetypes will stanch a tiresome deluge of "almost the same as a core class" base classes.

In addition to hybridizing classes, I feel as if a class concept is built entirely around a narrow ability or shtick, it should be a PRC. To this end, I think the summoner would have been better off as a PRC. You can already play a conjuration specialist; the only thing that distinguishes the...

I used to. My old 1e DMG has lots of underlined and highlighted stuff. I could see doing that to my currently played game if there was some frequently missed passage. But overall, I'm happy to mark things with post-it notes and flags. In this day and age, if I want to make up mods to a book, I...

Flexible system with an emphasis on GM (and player) customization. Largely based on the Spycraft 2.0 system (which was based on Spycraft 1st, which in turn was a 3.0 ogl product), it's a bit further from the core d20 tree than many other offerings you see here. A few features: Characters...

No, I didn't notice. But then I have a cube and a GM pack for myself, and one of my players also has a GM pack. :cool: That being said, there's a pretty nifty method that uses 4d6 (2 each of 2 colors) that produces almost an identical probability curve: Choose one color as positive and one as...

Overall - My homebrew, Trinalia (and my Mearls inspired expansion of it, River of Worlds.) Published, official - Planescape Published, third party - Scarred Lands, Second World, and Freeport

Games like D&D and many others revolve around conflict. Other games may have fairly detailed rules for conflict, but combat is deadly enough that you don't want to seek it out. Two rather well heeled games in this vein are Traveller and Call of Cthulhu. (I say the last one wincing, as in the...

Hmmm. I may dwell on this some more, but more or less, yeah. I think every SoD creature should be signposted in some sense. Elsewise, what I see as the cheif advantage that is my reason for keeping SoD around for is lost. Note here by saying "signposted", I'm including "rumored" and...