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I do fine a certain willful self-deception about most dice-rolling.... Yay I won! when someone rolls well, then cheat until you 'win' if the rolls go poorly. A lot of folks seems quite happy to imagine OTHER players holding the bag of bad results, but aren't terribly keen on being the ones in...

Not exactly what you're talking about, but there's spell storing weapon enchants ( http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/magicWeapons.htm#spellStoring )

I don't like D20 Modern. And yeah, I know that realistically guns are better than bows. But I want to preserve game balance and I also want to play space opera, where realism isn't important -- if someone wants to use a bow, there you go. From a balance perspective, yeah, a strength bow is on...

Did you encounter any problems due to firearms being more damaging than bows? I'm worried that with heavy pistols, a guy with 2 weapon fighting is going to rip balance a new one. One idea I had for energy weapons: So a 'produce flame 50 charges activate-by-use' item is 1000 gp. Effectively, a...

Well, at a first pass, I'm going a bit 'transhuman with a pastel gloss.' Um. So, all demihumans derive from humanity: elves are the beneficiaries of anagathic and health-promoting genengineering, dwarves are humans who altered themselves to suit asteroid and, later, planetary excavation...

I posted this on RPG.net... didn't really get a lot of heat, so thought I'd see how it went here. Fear Kobold Commandos, explore strange alien ruins of bygone civilizations, scheme to liberate the core worlds from the Aelfar Imperium... So been thinking of running D&D as a space opera. No, I...

Except the third and 60% that you can use you get to KEEP using. This might not be good in your book, but it's good in mine; if nothing else, I can get a handle on how they work, and then develop things like a dozen variations of giant spider (this one can fly, this one is invisible, this one...

Yeah. I used to be really into the idea of point buy systems (BESM, M&M, etc). And while I still kinda like them, I'm finding the benefits of a class system are huge -- particularly if you aren't a hard-ass and let people tweak them.

Sony's EverQuest is rife with such amusement. Consider the main human city, Qeynos...

I once played myself, Will Timmins, in a Torg game and, when it became necessary to disguise my identity, we decided I should be called Tim Willems.

Is that Corsairs work of ANY use to space, assuming rather liberal relabeling?

For 3.5e, because it's flexible (with all the 3rd party support), flavorful (lots of options filled with fiddly details), evocative, and coherent (in terms of game design). I didn't like previous editions due to the lack of design coherence. I often like 'builder' systems, like Mutants and...

I'm at about 7th level in a friend's Shackled City adventure, so we're unlikely to move on to another campaign until 4e comes out. Still, I've been contemplating an E6 game. My answer is in the 'I plan on using it for next campaign,' but along with the above issue is the fact that my players...

Anything but catgirls. Dear god. No catgirls.

BoVD? Doh, I have that book... Not to be too divergent, but is the one in BoVD 3.5 compatible? (If need be I can spawn a separate thread)

Could you name a few? I've been curious about a general 'undead' template that doesn't have all the extra crud of ghost, lich, vampire, or mummy.

Well, for the monk, I'd say go play a gestalt game. :) As for flaming swords, I kind of like the idea that it requires the equivalent of an incantation. IE: 'To capture the spirit of flame in a sword, it must be bathed in the flames of a prince of fire elementals, the blood of a red dragon...

'Bob.'

Another issue is that this is yet another element in D&D that tilts the game one way or another depending on how you play. That is, what if this campaign is set up so that in a given game-day, you're only likely to have one encounter? Or, conversely, it's set up so there are many encounters...

What I would do, for specific spells that are nifty, is the following: You can create a scroll or one-shot item of N by doing an appropriate series of quests (research, etc.). Part of the treasure reward for the quest is the book cost of said item. So Atonement as a one-shot use item like a...