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Re: whacky LOL! I have a very similar idea, though my focus was to make it a "kiddie" DnD game.

So far the Damage Save is just as good at hit points and while PC drop faster than in Hit Points, it's not as fast as one would think, especaly with Hero Points (remember if the original roll and the re-roll are both under 10 then the roll is automaticaly a 10) IMHO, It really depends on your...

Since you don't have the book yet, you might not be aware of MnM Sorcery power. The power provides a sidebar that offers between 4 to 10 powers for 7 different catagories (Control, Defensive, Divination, Illusion, Offensive, Transformation, Transporation). The player choses a super power from...

Well, then if you are looking to streamline HP out of the game, then you will like the Damage Save system, it is more elegent, though it does involve two dice rolls. (Again, MnM offers optional rules for simpling the roll, making the DCs easier or even randomizing the DC if you like.) Truth be...

look into D20 Deadlands, very steampunky. The biggest change will be to ignore the fluff that the Steampunk is all based off "ghost rock," a material made of tortured souls. If you thought DnD's Alchemy/Craft skills were lacking, the core d20 Deadlands book will rock you with it's Mad Science...

D & D fantasy is probably the hardest to emulate since a lot of people are very specific in what they want to see. On the flip side, MnM rules book strength is its sidebars which over up optional rules to bring the game back to regular d20 or push it further out there. Don't like the Damage...

d20? Mutants and Mastermind, a little tweaking and it is a farily multi genre system. Errata and FAQ pdf just game out too. Non d20? Feng Shui!!!!

You don't have to use your memory, just read Gary Gygax's opinions about "story based" games and his memories of the first years of D&D. He pretty much said that in that in the day, dugeon delving was the most popular aspect of the game and that he catered to his customers. The reasons there is...

Reading this thread fresh has given me a new perspective. You can read that some of these comments imply that elves get to be high level just by virtue of long life ... and just going about your business, which sort of contradicts the basic premise of XP in all editions of DnD. You don't get...

Re: Re: Level advancement rate in 3rd- vs. real life Play Pendragon, your session covers the whole summer. Next week, it's next year.

Then get out of your 21th century city! :) Until the 1900s, almost everyone was on the country road, so to speak. There seemes to be a concept in the 20th century that people have to "make it" in the big city to be the "real deal." I suppose part of that deal is thanks to the romantic...

Yeah, I agree. That was one of the first things that got my interest in 3e. I was like "Ohh, doing multiclassing the way I envisoned it. That's a start." Besides I had a GM who did have the elves rule the world. It boiled down to a lot of sex between pretty people. At least according to my GM...

Yep, I saw something worse than that when 2e came out. I had one DM hate the "new" edition come out because he couldn't find the charts in the book anymore. The charts, people, the charts. I had one guy like that, he refused to read the books, and the had the nerve to tell me that I was wrong...

Not only do I vouch for Adventure related stuff, I also suggest Farscape Adventure Hooks even though the stuff is based on a SF game. Trust me, most of these hooks need only to be cut and paste to replace Farscape stuff with "Nazi" or other historical stuff and the plot suggestions will fit in...

In the order I bought them d20 Deadlands (and some supplements) Star Wars PsiHB Spycraft (and the Series Archer setting) Farscape M&M I got original got the first four in my quest to find alternate magic and psionic rules. Then I got Farscape and had the most fun running a 1st level game ever...

You must have been lucky. All of my 2e DMs never put any "mystery and awe" in their magic items, they were always hamming up the personalities of intellgent swords. And it always bugged me that NPCs could build floating cities and I couldn't. Of course a GM could also Rule 0 me on building them...

I agree to agree AND disagree. I left AD&D because I felt the game constrained my imagination, too much house ruling to get a unique world up an going as well as a lot of "fluff" for the game rules didn't hold water with me. I played a lot of different games, mostly Storyteller because almost...

The whole level thing is relative, I played in a AD&D game where the whole party was 14th or 16th level within on or two years of real time and about the same amount of game time. My phanton PC cleric (remember those flying monkies?) was being worshipped as a demigod and we had defeated a...

:O Thank God for the Internet!

Flame me if you like, but I was disappointed when it turned out that the Paladin was going to be a core class in 3e. Personaly, I thought it should have been a PrC.