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GM definitely. For at least 95% of the 30+ years I've been gaming I've been the GM and I wouldn't have it any other way. I actually don't like to play very much. And I say GM not DM because I don't often play D&D. Oddly, it is the game I've had the most experience in as a Player. I find many...

Isn't that 4E? :erm: Oooh. Sorry. Too soon. AD "I remember that sound. That's a bad sound."

D&D may be my first love chronologically but its not my first love in gaming by a long shot. That my friends, would probably be Traveller. My second love touches upon my first in none-gaming fandom, the Star Trek RPG by FASA. It was the first game I purchased with only my own money, the first...

This hardly ever happens in my groups and hasn't happened at all in years. Disagreements and arguements maybe but coming to blows? Not even close. Actually I remember running Paranoia for my main group once and about halfway through no one had even died once. The PCs were helping each other...

Everything and Nothing It all depends on the atmosphere, campaign premise, etc that you're trying to develop and portray. In a campaign themed on a 'realistic' depiction of medieval Europe, almost 90% of D&D is too silly or at the very least inappropriate. Its filled with Rust Monsters, Ropers...

Redsand Thickstone My Dwarven Fighter/Cleric in 1st Edition, Redsand Thickstone, made it to maximum level in both classes and then, due to an amazingly well worded wish and a flexible DM, went beyond to reach something like 15/20 I believe. Originally I developed the character as the partner of...

What could take out a guy like that?! MegaTraveller (Original - Early 90s Campaign - I think) So my friend was on a roll, creating a character with incredible stats who roll after roll got commendations, special duty, re-enlisted, etc. Tour after tour the guy was making lucky rolls each and...

For me it was the smell of the Star Wars D6/West End Books. I think one of my original copies still have the scent is ever so faintly. Smell is a big deal with me and I can even tell you if a book was printed in Japan, Canada or the US by its smell. AD "Listen...do you smell something?"

Almost gave up hope...still might With all the talk recently about SciFi/Space gaming I really thought there would be a bigger turn out for this thread. :( While almost anything from DannyAlcatraz is bound to catch my attention and I love 2300 AD, I was really expecting more people to chime...

Personally I think this is genius. The races could be retro-presented and overhauled at the same time. Just keep flying primate-like species, amorphous blob shapeshifter species, insect-like species and weird worm-thing enemy. Oh man I would download and play this in a heartbeat! If anyone is...

Star Frontiers gets my vote - Not D20 Modern, Not 4E New Wave Crap Star Frontiers. An honest to goodness new version/update of the classic. With real art. Really. AD "Hey guys, I just wanted you to know that, the reactors won't take it; the ship is breaking apart and all that... Just FYI."

Oh man, I must be one of the worst GMs ever...:p I do this all the time. Its all in how you handle it. In 'Trek' you'll have the landing party on the surface while some of the crew stays up on the ship. It happens all the time. I find it fun to switch back and forth for dramatic effect...

Now this I can understand and get behind as a valid reason to let a player do it. I just speak from experience when I say I've seen far to many sad or meaningless cross-gender portrayals. Also, I find its more common to have cross-gender portrayals in groups where the majority of the members are...

OK a confession... This bugs the hell outta me. I can't stand when males play females or vice versa. Now anyone who knows me, really knows me, might be shocked. I let my players play wildly bizarre aliens, cyborgs, unusual fantasy races, the very young, the very old and everything in...

QFT I like systems that fit the game. Universal systems don't often give you any sort of feel for one particular genre. That said, Champions/HERO does one of the finest jobs I've seen, though I'd still rather use it for Superheroes then for anything and everything. For example, though I really...

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Have you ever played Champions? Are you asking what the difference is between my 500 pt. Superman/Green Lantern hybrid and my buddy's 150 pt. Nick Fury spy? Um...a lot. Now, what is the difference between a 3rd level Barbarian and a 3rd level Ranger...

It'll go up on my shelf right next to my Futurama RPG - A homebrew based on Star Frontiers with numerous additions and adjustments to fit the Futurama universe. AD "If you've done things just right, no one will be sure you did anything at all."

I couldn't disagree more. Many, many systems through out the years have been Leveless IMO. Levels are an abstract and often arbitrary way of rating a character's maximum potential at a given time. While its true that most characters in a game will all start out roughly the same "power level"...

Nothing will ever be perfect. One gamer's perfect system is another's I-wouldn't-run-that-if-you-ran-it-for-me-and-I-got-paid. :eek: For me I want... Leveless, Classless, No Limits on Who Can Be What! However, I do like the idea of Templates and Overlays as described in the Last Unicorn...

I noticed this too and it was certainly part of my criteria when trying to decide my 5. If I grabbed Traveller for example, what would I really be grabbing? Either the original box with its 3 books, the Mongoose version or the excellent Far Future Enterprises compiled 'LLB' softcover. My...