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I actually quite like the AoO. I made a playing surface with 1" square grids. (and a few days later I learned about GeoHex Battlemats :rolleyes: ) When we have a combat situation, we make it into little miniature skirmishes. It really helps. The visual support helps you understand AoO and other...

King Darius of Persia told the Scythians that it was folly to resist the might of Persia and to bring simple gifts of earth and water as symbols of submission. Instead of the tokens of submission Darius received an unusual collection of symbolic gifts: a mouse, a frog, a...

I second that, Skywalker. I cna understand why your player wouldn't be interested in a game with a high body count. I think it ruins the story. But in a horror game, there has to be a threat. If you know you can crawl through that cavern filled with deep ones, kill the sorcerer and have a fair...

Horacio, laws in the US are not what they are over here. The closest I have ever come to a gun, was on the shooting stand on a fair. I believe this would be the same for most Europeans. Every culture has it's vitues and vices. Minors in Europe can't have guns, they just smoke and drink. But...

d20 conversions of existing games. CoC was great. D20 vampire comes to mind. I would love to see a d20 Shadowrun (love the setting, but I can't get a feel for the system). D20 dying earth. ad infinitum Historical settings would be nice, but the stuff I've seen sofar (I have no experience with...

I feel it's difficult to get a good idea about an adventure. I rarely buy them because you can never be sure about the quality of o product before it has stood the test of time. The only adventure I am just starting to think of buying,is Green Ronin's Freeport series. People continue to say...

Wow, this is turning out to be a nice discussion! Actually, SHARK, your treatment of the Hanseatic League illustrates an interesting point. The power they had came from the fact that they were a federation, so in all respects a nation (however vague) existing of several economically powerfull...

The format. The guy does deserve credit for recycling the mythos into this. "Collect call", this could have been Monty Python. It's just a shame he couldn't take the irony further.

Although I agree there are certain similarities, I think we should be wary about comparing medieval cities to the true city-states in the ancient mediteranean. Medieval cities had their own dynamic, which lead to greater economical power. This power enabled them to force their feudal lords to...

All of a sudden I have a greater respect for TV makers. How, by the many forms of Nyarlathotep, can they read this mind numbing stuff. I think reading the necronomicon on a dark and stormy winter night in the middle of a cemtary would be more beneficial for my sanity than reading something like...

You're missing the central point in my opinion: citizenship, which is verry different from population. These were the verry core, the soul if you wil, of the city state. In most city states they were the, hereditary, economic and political drivers af the state and constituted the army (Greece...

You have got to love this game. This really cracs met up: their friends from the writers club!!!:D The pen truely must be mightier than the sword!;)

Here's another interesting link. You'll have to scroll down a bit first http://www.fanaticus.org/DBA/guides/index.html For the less talented painters among us, have a look at the article on using stains. It's about a technique calle the Miracle Dip. Really worth you while...

I collect miniatures, and most of my character concepts stem fom these. My next character will definately be a cleric with a warhammer since I'm painting this geat Reaper mini of a cleric with a warhammer who seems to be turning some undead by waving a scroll at them. Deus le volt! A previous...

With all those "real" world d20 products hitting the shelves and others just around the corner, I thought some of you might like this site: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html You can see what the moon looked like on any give day from 1800 to 2199! I found it a great tool for playing Call...

Think "Lost World", think "Godzilla", think "King Kong" There you go: adventuring arcaeologists, mad scientist, Tommy Guns,... The Indiana Jones movies would be excellent examples of the genre. "Al Capone vs. the Deep Ones", "The untouchables and the Alderbarran murders" A cool hybrid would be...

Aren't the original Runequest rules older? I'm probably confusing something. From a consumers point of view, I think it would be interesting to see third party publishers do something with CoC. It's too bad at least some of the stuff isn't OGL. The Lovecraftian era is great for horror...

I don't mind Chaosium being the only one to have the rights to support d20CoC, but it would be nice if they would take the system serious. I have no problem with the pulp genre (Blood Brothers was great!), but I can't understand why this woudl be the only support they give to this product. Why...

I've always been a big Chaosium fan: products, company policies, ... But with this d20 busines I get the feeling that they just want to cash in. First with Dragon Lords of Melniboné and now this. Why don't they just dual-stat the, mostly excellent, stuff they have? Well okay, production costs...

I think it's important that a DM never gives the impression that a situation is hopeless, on a meta level that is. You should always try and encourage your player to seek creative solutions. Same here. PC did something stupid in game, now she suffers the consequences. Every NPC she consults...