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I've had a couple of these recently. HERO 5e 1) The GM decided to "take the game evil" (by going into an alternate universe where the previously good characters were evil), allegedly because "the players wanted it" - when, in fact, all of one player wanted it, and the others all wanted to play...

Agreed. My preference is for a system that allows for plenty of mechanical character growth within the upper part of the pulp range (I'd say roughly D&D's levels 9-12 for fighters and multiclassed characters, and levels 3-7 for pure spellcasters). This fits both Sword and Sorcery and JRPG...

Considering that the average age of electronic gamers is 30, I somehow doubt Final Fantasy 12 was targeted to 4-year-olds by Square-Enix's marketing department. Or even 12-year-olds. ;) And I agree about the plots, as long as you're referring to JRPGs. Certainly I've never played a tabletop...

In my case, it's not an 'off chance,' it's a fairly significant proportion of my current income. So, yeah. I'm not going to pour over three new (and for me, expensive; consider the budget implied by the first line) core books and take the time to master the rules if I'm not going to be able to...

As much as I like every one of the characters you're talking about, RC, to me none of them work now, or have ever worked, as high-level D&D characters. If I'm playing a game with a shallower power curve (say, one that starts Pulp and ends Pulp, like Spirit of the Century or Pulp HERO), then...

The only problem I have with this is that the Spartans in "300," awesome and over-the-top as they seem to our mundane eyes, are really on MID-level fighters. In 4e terms, I think they'll be excellent examples of what fighters can be the 'paragon' levels - levels 10-20. Most cinematic fantasy...

OK, that's cool, then. As long as there's only one type of token being tracked like this, it goes from being "OMG AWFUL" to "ooh, that's pretty cool." :) Either way, it would be an awesome unified mechanic for an electronic game, though. :cool:

1. I'm only going to bother investing a lot of time and effort in a rulesset I can write content for. So far, the e-Dragon and e-Dungeon have been no more prompt or reliable in dealing with my submissions than Paizo was in the last few years, so I have no reason to believe there will be a major...

Disagree. Without cheating (in a system in which it is understood that the GM can be validly accused of cheating if he goes against the rules), the GM cannot kill your PC in Dogs in the Vineyard without your choosing to make the stakes that high, or in Burning Empires without his defeating you...

In a purely electronic game, that poison mechanic would work really well. Heroes of Might and Magic 3's In the Wake of Gods fan expansion introduces something very similar with its ballistae. In a tabletop game, though? Ouch, that's ugly. I can't even imagine the headache of dealing with...

If 4e underwent a major reversal and wasn't OGL, it probably wouldn't be worth my time to learn it. If 4e is not superior to SWSE + existing d20 supplements, it probably wouldn't be worth my time to run it. I imagine I'll play 4e now and then regardless of how it turns out, especially at...

No. All GAMEPLAY death (for PCs or major NPCs), yes. I would like to see what is currently 'death' in D&D become 'removed from the encounter' (unless appropriately treated, allowing the character to return to participation), and ideally a 'last stand' mechanic that encouraged players to turn...

The players certainly do. Whether the dice do (or SHOULD) is what's under discussion here. Certainly there are RPGs where NEITHER the GM nor the dice have the power to outright kill a PC without the player's consent. Dogs In The Vineyard is an iconic example - if the players don't escalate...

If you change 'reroll' to 'automatic success,' then I don't have a problem with this. Star Wars Saga Edition basically does this - you can spend a Force Point to convert 'dead' to 'knocked out.' What it does is put the situation I described earlier (characters will or can die when it's a...

I've done this from time to time. In my first Ivalice game, the PCs were about to fight their first (albeit depowered and only partly manifested) lucavi (a powerful Ivalician devil). Due to the circumstances of the summoning, the first thing the lucavi did was soak a hit from an NPC grand...

Explain a mistake that's so big, you can no longer be a protagonist after making it. To qualify, it of course has to be a bigger mistake than every mistake ever made by a protagonist in a fantasy book, film or electronic game - I'll limit it to fantasy to narrow the field a bit - who remains a...

Elves were popular in Tolkien. Elves were popular in AD&D - witness the Complete Book of Elves, for instance. Elves are popular in anime, but I would argue they were moreso in the past; most fantasy anime seems to have outgrown copying Tolkien by way of D&D. Elves have been popular in many...

Could we PLEASE let this issue die? It's not going to change. Anyway, 'warrior' doesn't differentiate itself from 'fighter.' The only way it's differentiated from 'soldier' makes it actually LESS appropriate for the concept: warrior to me has the connotation of a combatant trained primarily...

Osyluths were specifically called out as being the exception to that, IIRC. Something about them being indigenous inhabitants of the plane that became the Hells?

In another thread, I said I wouldn't care if WotC dropped 'iconic' or at least traditional monsters from MM1 (the frost giant was cited, although I preferred to lose the fire giant). But let me go on record saying that the purple worm MUST appear. :D It's the only D&D mini I ever bought as a...