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You might want to check out the Arcana Unearthed system. It is a little more along your lines (although not quite so general). I personally think that item creation (except potions and scrolls) should be more difficult. I think finding a +2 sword is far more cool than making one. I think you are...

I have always had trouble pacing dungeon crawl style adventures, that is adventures with a large number of encounters (more than a typical party can handle without rest). On one hand, it is always fun to see the party low on resources, healing, etc.. struggle to fight against the omnipresent...

I have had mixed experience. Some DMs, myself included, want your game to be more like there's and make side comments to that effect (I try to restrain myself as best I can). Here are a couple of good things and bad things I've noticed. Good. 1. DMs are well prepared, they know what their...

I actually played Arduin with none other than David Hargrave himself. I was an official peon in Chaos Inc, the gaming club at Hargrave's Multiversal Trading Company in Concord CA. I was about 13 or 14 and he would con us kids into cleaning his store for the privilege of hanging out there. It was...

balanced randomness I like this system. I do have one question. It has to do with the very lucky and very unlucky rollers. I ran a game where some people rolled a couple 17+s (nothing below 10) and one sad person rolled one 15 and a bunch of lower than 10 scores. Now, back in the day, we...

I have been itching to play this since I bought the game last month. Is anyone running, or interested in running a game using Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed? I am a 36 yr old, philosophy professor, and long time gamer.

Or come up with some other alternative. Like no leveling until certain tasks are accomplished. SO if you don't want them to be 9th level when they face Monster X in Adventure #2, just stipulate that they can't make 9th level until they reach that point (if you can specify it without giving away...

Try a hobby store that specialises in model trains or airplanes. They tend to have all sort of great and cheap foliage (also good for sheep and cows) -steve

Thanks for all the advice. I think the difficulty will be making the spell-casting classes interesting enough to play, but still only give them very limited magic access. Maybe if there is little magic, a little magic will be worth while. S

I am interested in running a D&D game that take place in medieval Europe. Does anyone have any experience doing so? Any recommendations for modules or 3rd party products? How do you handle magic? I was thinking of making it low magic but I am not sure how. How do you handle races? I was...

It wouldn't be the first time that a D&D rule referenced something that isn't written anywhere else. Maybe they intended the Reflex save to require movement, but were the case one would expect the write up for Reflex Save to make such a claim. Or for any of the conditions, like helpless, or...

I asked this question of Sage Advice, but the pressing concerns of Oozemasters and Epic Black Guards seem to occupy mssr Williams more than such mundane questions. I am ambivalent. On one hand it seems odd that Reflex would be the only save the could be voided (Fort and Will always apply), I...

Sorry for not getting back to you, until now. I've been in bed sick. Ugh. I don't have a specific number of points on the antler or the material. I figure the polished horn would resemble wood but maybe be a little more pale. I am definitely thinking more elk or moose style than deer, so the...

I think the point system is interesting but could be misleading. A person might have a variety of minor vices and come out dark grey or black. The sadistic demon might have some virtues (careful, brave, pragmatic, temperate, etc) and come out light grey. If the aura was a tool for deciding who...

Tetsubo... these weapons are awsome. What does one need to do to get a request in? I am playing an Elvish Ranger with a special bow. It is a long composite bow made from antlers of a great stag or elk. Think you can do that? -Steve

One more Mac-User in the mix. I first used Macs for RPGing when I would use MacPaint on my Mac Plus to draw creatures rolled up on the Random Creature from the Lower Planes tables in the back of the DMG 1st Ed. (1986) I used a Thunder Scanner (a scanner plugged into the clunky but damn durable...

I actually play a MT in a mid level game (just turned 7th) game, so I've never actually played as an MT yet. As I am the only real spell-caster (we have a couple people with the odd level here and there) I can't really compare myself to the other players in terms of power. Here is my impression...

Silence Spell Listed in short entries under Bard (182) and Cleric (184) as 15ft radius. Listed in full description (279) as 20ft radius.

Good luck downloading this beta. http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/16/nwn/ Steve

I had an idea but never really got to implement it. I basically designed a sword with several powers so it had a total bonus of +10. But to activate each power certain tasks needed to be accomplished. The idea was that the character's 'share of future' treasures would include the advances in...