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As of the end of June: PC - Playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Getting tired of it for a while, might boot up Alpha Centauri again instead. Wii - Playing Tiger Woods 07, Madden 07 and Wii Sports. My ARM is tired of the former; the others are still going strong. May pick up again in Zelda...

Voted 'introduced by a friend,' but as with several people here, it was actually 'introduced by family;' both my parents played and they included me in a family game when I was old enough to join them.

1. It's absolutely brilliant, the best d20 book on the subject. IMO, it's one of the top ten RPG supplements ever produced for any system. 2. It's 99.99% D&D compatible. The only changes I had to make when I incorporated it (which I have done in every D&D campaign I've run and most I've...

I covered the SIEGE engine in my post; I suppose the question I'd ask about the rest is... would that stuff really make AD&D preferrable to C&C? Most of it appears to be the sort of fiddly, book-referencing rules details people who play C&C (or earlier versions of D&D) seem to want to get away...

As much as I dislike C&C for what it *is* like, I absolutely disagree with this. I can see making a case for Red Box/BECMI D&D, which is *even simpler* than C&C and therefore serves a somewhat different market, but not either version of AD&D. I have a hard time seeing any way in which C&C is...

So far, I've found Star Wars Saga to be a very nice "d20 edition of Savage Worlds" ;) If you're looking for a fast d20 game that requires little or no conversion, Saga should work just fine with d20 Modern classes. You'd have to change saves to defenses (a 1-for-1 conversion of 1st level save...

While I do have quite a bit in print (I won't make with the shameless self-promotion because most of it isn't relevant to the thread), the actual homebrews I use are in unpublishable form. Call it 35% in my head, 35% cribbed from various closed IPs, 20% disorganized notes, 10%...

None of the above. Was a "D&Der" for some purposes, but the system was largely obsoleted by d20 Modern and Mutants and Masterminds; Star Wars Saga puts the last nail in its coffin and is now my tactical class-based game of choice. C&C doesn't enter into the equation.

I've never seen a GM other than myself use errata without my having pointed it out to them beforehand. Obviously it happens or it wouldn't be printed, but I'd never reccomend a system on the basis of "the system in the book is a mess, but once you incorporate the errata, it works like a charm!"...

Your position snipped, because I want to emphasize this line. Which is to say - yes. Absolutely, positively, indubitably YES. This encapsulates my position perfectly. Everything else - supplements, houserules, GM fiat, (non-systemic) player fiat, whatever a group decides to incorporate...

For my purposes, it's not usable out of the box (because I don't like high/epic fantasy in the D&D mold). IMO, it's not usable out of the box for Dark Sun, Spelljammer or Planescape, either. Ravenloft, probably yes. To be fair, I've never tried using 2e races and classes "straight" with C&C...

Meaning the system ISN'T flexible. It may be easily modded, but it cannot handle a wide range of concepts out of the box. In other words, like AD&D, but with fewer supplements and a smoother core mechanic. That may be fine for you, but I absolutely despise this model. I've never seen a game...

The GM can cut whatever he wants. What he *chooses* to cut tells me a great deal about his game and himself. Since I have to be roped into a D&D 3e game to begin with when there are so many preferrable related systems, it had better tell me he's going to run a game very much conforming to the...

While I strongly dislike C&C (largely because it is more like AD&D), it *would* be much easier to convert to than 3e - as others have said, all you really need to do for, say, NPCs is swap Thac0 and AC and assign some Primes. For me, converting to a system I can stomach (*not* 3e D&D, btw...

Probably not. In my area, there are four different FLGSes with free, open tables, and, if all else failed, we could probably use a library conference room, too (which I've done in the past). Only one (fairly irregular) member of my group has a good place to play, so we do tend to play at the...

1. Supercoolness 2. Brilliant Planning 3. Story 'Supercoolness' for me is more about the other PLAYERS considering something awesome, rather than NPCs. I certainly don't OBJECT to the adoration of NPCs, but if I pull off something so outrageous, so awesome, so OMGWTF!!1!1, the group remembers...

I think that games that say "Yes!" to players being awesome from day one are infinitely preferrable to those that say "maybe someday, if the dice fall the right way, and as long as you want to be awesome in a particular way that the rules don't dislike." The idea that you have to start out as...

Change the skill system to the new Saga system (skills are +1/2 level, +5 trained, +5 skill focus). The one thing I would absolutely keep is the d20 Modern class structure (generic basic to specific advanced to focused prestige). EDIT: I was thinking of the base d20 Modern rules when I wrote...

You're thinking of 'Force Boon,' which wouldn't work, as you say. There are, IIRC, a *very* limited number of circumstances where you might be able to spend three FP this way, so you'd be getting a "free" FP, but those are vanishingly rare - if they exist at all; I might be thinking of the...

You can't, and in this case there's actually a reason (although it's easy to get around): Spending a Force point on the Force Training feat would always be at least as good as spending one to recover an expended Force power, and most often better. If you houserule it to say 'any feat other than...