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I share the love felt here. If anything true20 is my favorite system. I love its flexibility. In fact it has replaced, for quite some time, 3.5e. I run a fantasy campaign with it and it works well. I am keeping track of Pathfinder from Paizo and am currently DMing the Beta a bit. I like the...

Though as I posted earlier I am a fan of VP/WP dynamics because they are IMO much more believable than HP and allow for increased rapidity of healing and more dangerous combats. One cannot play D&D and expect hard simulationist realism...true. I don't want that either but like you wrote, I want...

Well I ultimately agree with you in that fiction is full of drones that go down by the truckload under the flashing swords and crackling spells of heroes. No problem there. Its the idea that giants, demons, and such powerful creatures can be mooks I have a deep problem with. I can see the...

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This is why I use WP/VP or with True20 a damage track which prevents this kind of metagaming silliness immediately or I like Runequest with its gritty combat system. Hey man, I am not arguing. I am making my points dispassionately on a message board thread dedicated to this subject. Anyway, I...

Ding! Ding! Ding! Couldn't have said it better myself. There is no way of stopping PCs from slap killing ogres for Christ's sake. If such a thing ever reared its head in 3.5e everyone would be saying how broken slap-fights are in the rules. "OMG, Oh noooeesss111!!!! how can such a rule...

I get it, I just think that it is fundamentally ridiculous that the game world has no actual numerical reality until the PCs encounter it. IMC the 20th level lich is a reality (numerically and narratively) whether the PCs are 1st level or 23rd level. The whole relative reality is exactly what...

This. It is massively inconsistant that a creature's relative strength is determined by strength of the opposition. Throughout the history of D&D (and its offshoots in the 3.5e era) a 10HD monster with 45hp is consistantly a 10HD monster with 45hp. No matter who was fighting this beast, its...

LOL This is the problem I have with minions. Essentially, minions presume a fundamental disconnect between the PCs and the reality and the game world. Or more accurately, that the world, even the nature of reality in the game world, revolves around the PCs. In every version of D&D until now...

Don't like them. I don't like the Buffy the Vampire feel of them. I liked buffy but that was goofy, not heroic, fantasy IMO. I can't wrap my brain around the idea of a 15th level minion who dies with the thrust of a walking stick thrust at it by a 15th level scholar type while that same...

My games: True20 Conan D20 Pathfinder All my bases are covered. Honestly there is enough 3.5e/OGL material already available for me to DM games for the system for the rest of my natural life and if indeed I opt for lichdom I can probably extend that time to another full human lifetime...

Sorry but I am far, far more likely to take adventure building, rule arbitration, and NPC personality development advice from a DM of 20+yrs than someone who just cracked open the DMs guide. I am far more inclined to take character development advice from someone who has been playing for years...

I own this book and thoroughly enjoy it and see it as an excellent example of how familiar concepts can be reimagined into vital new forms. IMO reimagining the old is often a more effective dynamic than the creation of entirely new races that, due to lack of familiarity, don't have the same...

I roll in the open. It wasn't until I was playing for quite a number if years before I knew that some DMs hid their roles. I will, if things go bad because of my own bad planning, occasionally alter the stats of enemies but will never do this to the detriment of the party. I won't allow my bad...

Maybe, but if she knows all her sister's moves and even tosses in some new tricks to sauce things up a bit I don't need her to know how I like my eggs....that's what houserules are for. ;) Wyrmshadows

Don't abandon the old girl D&D is truly a painted harlot that reeks of cheap perfume and the stench of one too many lovers. She has plied her trade for many years and shows the signs of a life ill spent. Now, crisscrossed with the lines of age, bone sore from the ministrations of one too many...

I am a dedicated Homebrewer though I do enjoy high quality published settings. I am pretty picky in regards to what I would consider good but I think that most of us know terrible when we see it. I'd like you to write down some of the worst/most ridiculous homebrew campaign ideas you've ever...

Note that my campaign is neither nor do I wish it to have the feel of either setting. They have their place, but I have no desire to have my campaign share their feel. Cosmopolitan, is fine and fits in my campaign....Mos Eisley Spaceport is too much for my taste or my setting...

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Very similar actually. I have a listr of available races and its a damn open-minded list including half-orcs, orcs, gnolls, goblins, hobgoblins, vitharr (a setting specific race), a couple races of elves (no aquatic elves....bleecch), humans, halflings, gnomes, deurgar, dwarves, night elves...