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I had an adventure a few years back where the party’s cleric got himself involved in a personal side quest. For RP reasons, the character decided to go alone. I told the rest of the party that they could take a break/smoke/find food/whatever if they wanted to while the cleric’s player and I...

I’ve found that the existence of PrC’s tend to make character design a little too “artificial” for my tastes- In other words, players will tend to “gear” a character towards becoming a specific PrC in the shortest amount of time, rather than selecting feats that the CHARACTER would have selected...

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Nobody here probably even remembers the Amazing Engine system. It really wasn’t particularly noteworthy, unique, or special in any way. That’s why it was such a shock that our Bughunters campaign still remains on our Top Ten list of the most fun we’ve had in a summer. To this day, I can’t...

Man, I’ve always thought it would be a great idea to slip my players some bad LSD a few hours before a Call of Cthulhu game. If I could time it just right, I could hit them with the eerie music and hellish mindbending descriptions just as the drug began to take hold. They could actually...

Wingsandsword, you have clearly put far, far more thought into “Midichlorians” than Lucas ever did. My advice? Don’t bend yourself over backwards to accommodate such a painfully bad concept. It might be better for everyone to just pretend it never happened. Like we do.

Hi! I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good RPG suitable for running WWII campaigns? I know there are a few out there, so I was hoping that somebody could sell me on one of them. Anything specific you could tell me about your choice would be helpful as well. Thank you.

Rolling for damage would ruin what makes True20 so beautiful- the absence of such unnecessary conventions. You would be better off playing D&D.

If I tried to describe my ideal gaming system, it would just be a description of Mutants & Masterminds, but with more more options to run both fantasy campagins, and grim modern horror campagins. (Essentially, what I think True 20 will become after the official settings are in place.)

Yeah, I’ll probably pick up the game for the setting info, but run the game under a different system (probably a modified version of True 20.) You know, kind of like we do with all those GURPS sourcebooks! ;)

I remember being a little put off initially by the way skills were set up back in Blue Rose- Our adventures are more RP and skill-oriented than combat after all. All I can say is- “It works in play.” My suggestion is to try a game with the rules as written, it may not be as bad as you...

Well, now that True 20 has been released as a separate system… Is anyone else out there working on a total or partial conversion for D&D 3.5? If so, lemme know- I’d love to compare notes.

Yeah, but what he's not telling us is how HUGE the 12th book is going to be! It will probably have more pages in it than all his other books put together! ;)

Also about railroading: Some of the worst adventures I’ve ever been on were so bad because they were TOO open-ended. I’ll never forget how frustrating one session in particular was; We weren’t provided with a lot of direction or clues about what we were “supposed” to be doing to advance the...

Man, I wish they would do a revised edition of the WoT RPG. I know, I know. It'll never happen. But still... There was so much material to work with!

Just got the download- I’ve been waiting for a separate release of True20 since I first got BR. Sure, the system works well in a fantasy setting- but I’ve always believed that the same system would also be perfect for modern and even sci-fi settings. It does seem like there are a few...

True20 is a remarkably beautiful system of game mechanics- My personal favorite next to M&M, after 15+ years of gaming. I really wish they would publish a stand-alone “core” True20 and then sell settings separately, though. My TT group has been working off and on with True20 Star Wars and...

Please forgive my extreme ignorance- I really do live in a deep dark hole where I do graduate work and never see the light of day. I thought that C&C was like a “campaign setting” for 3.5? Is it a separate ruleset? Could someone please tell me what some of the differences are? I have a...

::Nods:: Yeah, I was going to tweak the MESS out of Aldis… On the surface, it appears to be just the utopian society it is described to be. Deep under the surface, however, the “Magic Hart” is the avatar of an imprisoned other-worldly “alien” being. This being’s master plan is to...

Okay- I have a good grasp on the rules, decent knowledge of the setting, all the pages I need printed out, and my players are getting character concepts together. We’ll be running our first Blue Rose game pretty soon. I’ll post back with an update as to how things went. I should probably...