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Sweeeeeeeeet. It always brightens my day when I hear a gamer making an explicit decision like this. All the folks I personally know? They don't care about errata. They simply make it up and go from there. And I personally am that way mostly. If there is errata for a game, I may or may not...

Interesting. Would you care to expand on this a little? Here's why I ask... As I said, an awful lot of the problems people have with point-buy stuff is a combination of balance, along with their own personal biases in terms of gameplay. For example, BESMd20 refigures how much is calculated...

Yeah, ganging up on something is deadly.

I don't really know. I came across it after I'd already come across these other bits. It's probably serviceable enough, but it's likely going o be judged less harshly since it's a fan creation, instead of an attempt at a full product. The only ones I've used are Buy the Numbers and BESMd20. I...

Doh. Scooped. Oh well. So this right here is the real crux of the problem... If you're relying strictly on rules to adjudicate how things are going to play out in a classless system, yes you're going to have problems. D&D wasn't actually built in a consistent fashion, and further it's got the...

You can also download the Red Leaf bits this way: http://web.archive.org/web/20051217170930/www.netflash.net/llanade/redleafgames/downloads.php Besides Dr Spunj's system, and the Buy the Numbers (Point Buy Numbers for d20 Modern was a crappy re-hash of Buy the Numbers) there's not a whole lot...

In case someone is interested and missed it, here's a link to how Witch Hunter is going for me: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?p=4344749 I'll be running my third game this Sunday and updating the thread appropriately. 2nd game didn't get an update here because so little got done...

Good for you. I tend to be rather selective about which parts of a forum I go to, and even more selective about which threads I bother to read. And after that? Half the time I'll make a reply, and then I simply delete it unposted. Heck, I've spent more than a half hour on some of these posts...

I'm not sure it's quite appropriate in this thread to ask, but since it's related I'm going to... I'm curious to know how it is that this ban is "stifling free flowing discussion". Here's what the sticky says: It seems to me that any "discussion" that someone wants to engage in is actually...

Groovy, thanks. Not like you did it just for me, but I still appreciate it. :)

You know... I've never bothered with the front page. It was only because of this thread that I actually looked at it. I'm sure I must have seen the old front page at some point, but I really can't remember. The new one seems fine if that's the sort of thing you're into. Me, I have a shortcut...

Yeah, I've certainly got no problems with someone doing that. I mean, that's part of the whole joy of posting to the forums in the first place, right? I understand. I do think that Nifft has a point in providing some examples of what "is" and "is not" considered to be edition war fodder, with...

I've got to say, I've really enjoyed the ban on the edition wars. I feel like I can actually read threads in safety and enjoy poking around. Especially in the General section. It's a bit of a forlorn hope, but I figured I'd formally ask anyways: Could the edition wars ban be extended? I've got...

I think over there, part of the thing is that d20 stuff is all in it's own forum. d20 and other games based off the OGL. So where you wind up asking (and the direction the conversation goes) is going to tend to influence the type of responses. RPG.net is full of system folks, so really you'll...

I really desperately wish I could buy this, but I won't be able to until next year. *sigh* Rocketship Empires: http://www.rocketshipempires.com/ It's a system neutral setting, which basically has WW2 happening out in space. They use a sort of internal "system" to rate things, and leave it up...

Plenty of folks'll tell you True20 will do what you want. It seems to currently be the standard answer to anyone that wants to do something but not use D&D rules. I liked Blue Rose, but True20 left me flat. Maybe it plays better than it reads, but reading it didn't excite me so I didn't bother...

A minor tangent: For those folks that are interested in playing around with a bit of the probabilities for hitting this or that number, as well as what some of these tweaking options look like, I like to use the following program: Small Roller http://www.fnordistan.com/smallroller.html

Thanks for that bit. Are Stalker0's rules actually hijackable for a 3.x based game? I can't get 4E books until next year, so it's not going to do me much good if it relies too heavily on 4E :D I didn't take your comment as an elitist comment either. I play plenty of games other than d20 based...

People keep going on about it "not being new". And at the same time, there's other folks going, "That's so cool! How would I do that in D&D 3.x?" Yeah, for some folks it's not new. Especially if you tend to play games other than D&D. If you play small press rpgs, then you're even further ahead...

A couple of years ago, a fellow by the name of John Kirk tried something interesting; he took a look at game design through the lens of software development. While it garnered criticism for various reasons, it's one of the few examples I know of where someone has very deliberately sat down and...