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Wheel of Time Buffy The Vampire Slayer BTVS actually looks like it has some neat mechanics in it- I was just never able to get a group together.

Yeah, that could be it too… Although it seems like almost anyone could at least make a cheap Superman knock-off, if nothing else?

Good point! The thing is, all of our M&M games have Tick-like elements of parody to some extent… But he takes his ideas well beyond “parody” and into… Something else entirely. Even when we run adventures that are supposed to be “goofy” he can’t fully participate in the enjoyment, because his...

We have a player who is notorious for coming up with REALLY BAD Mutants & Masterminds characters. Usually here’s how this works: Him: Ok, I want to play as <insert insane/goofy/stupid character concept here>. Us: Ummm… That’s a really bad idea. I mean, not only would that character not be...

After discovering True20, I just can’t seem to go back to 3.X. I’m not about to get rid of my 3.5 books, however. It’s not that I think 3.x is a “bad” system, it’s just that I’ve found something I believe is a “better” system, if that makes sense.

Sounds like what you’re looking for is a rules-lite game with the option to port other materials and game mechanics in order to suit your needs and style. You might look into True20.

Players complain about “railroading” all the time, but my WDME (Worst DM Ever) nomination goes to this girl I knew in college. She was a great person, and a great player… Just a lousy DM. Why? Because all of her adventures were way too painfully “open-ended.” They weren’t even adventures...

We have too many to post here. Two of my favorites are: Evil Bastard In every single “goofy” adventure we have run for over a decade, the primary antagonist is named “Evil Bastard.” He’s always behind everything, and nobody has ever seen him yet. “Can I attack it 13 times?” In a player’s...

Thanks. For the record, my gaming group has been using the term “zompocalypse” for some time. It was an effort to clarify the style of apocalyptic game we were running, since we had so many different types of them going on at once with different groups.

I so need a “My hat of D02 know no limit” tattoo.

Wait! It would be better if one hired the PCs to kill the other… Who then offers them a better price to turn on their employer, so forth, and so on. You know, despite the players being low level no-namers who pose absolutely no threat to either.

Hey yeah! I had a player like that once back in 2nd Ed. Days. He was physically the toughest, strongest character of the group… Yet he spent the vast majority of his time thinking of “clever” things to do with fire- most of which was not directly helpful or even damaging to the enemies. Just...

BR has the second-best system of game mechanics I’ve ever seen in 15 years of gaming. It is a masterpiece of rules-light systems. However, the default setting itself only appeals to a small window of gamers. For this reason, I recommend looking into True 20 as well; it clears up a lot of...

Well yeah… But that’s like saying “the NPC has two arms and two legs.” The players would just automatically assume that these elements are there, along with the “Thug Life” tattoos and insurance agency business cards.

…To ENSURE the lack of quality of the product!

Man, I want this module. Only if it has the artwork to fit, though.

Encounter 9: The six sided die As the party escapes from the toothless hag, they enter this frigid area. Read the following text: The doorknob is in the secret compartment beneath the stack of Sears catalogs, and would not think of stealing from or cheating a character. If the...

Man, these do-it-yourself Carl Smithian encounters made me laugh so hard that apple juice shot out of my nose… Which is disturbing, since I haven’t had apple juice in years.

Whoa! You can buy this adventure as a PDF from Rpgnow.com for $4.95! I may just skip out on beer tonight and pick it up for the sheerheckofit. Of course, once I do, I'll probably wish I had the beer just to read through it.

I wonder how hard it would be to secure the rights to this module… To adapt it into a screenplay, of course.