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Never played a female character and while I would never think to ban such from my game, I'm not a fan of the practice. I simply prefer when men play men, women play women and little blue furry things from Antares IV play little blue furry things from Antares IV. In truth, I've rarely...

Where to start... I've been playing Traveller for years and must've run at least a dozen campaigns of it more or less. They've ranged between fairly hard science war stories to more swashbuckling space opera adventures. I almost always set my campaigns in the Third Imperium at different periods...

As if it wasn't obvious, for me it goes... SciFi/Space Opera (Star Trek, Traveller, StarBlazer Adventures, etc.) Superheroes (Mutants & Masterminds, Champions) Science Fantasy or Steampunk (Star Wars, Shadowrun, Space: 1889) Modern Twist (Top Secret, Men in Black, Ghostbusters, Modern w/...

A wee bit ranty...lol Before ready, place tongue firmly in cheek. Begin... After reading the last few entries, it seems another thing D&D and Fantasy games have going for them is something I'll call 'Accepted Ridiculousness'. In these games, which apparently start off from the get go...

Star Trek as well, which is odd since a single hit can make a character disappear.:-S Yeah, there's a big difference between, "you ten 10 hits points" and "you get a glowing green outline and now you ain't there no more." And yet, very few characters seem to die of anything short of their ship...

While this is somewhat true, its also very comic book like. Knock down drag out fights with two super strong invulnerable guys are going to be similar to their comic counterparts - lots of smashing through walls and tossing cars but no one really getting hurt. That is until someone figures out...

IMO, fantasy was first and its easy because the majority of the work is done for you. World-building in Fantasy is a single world into which you can insert one of the thousands of monsters already designed and assembled into a hundred handy manuals. The terrain is our terrain, Earth's terrain...

Hmmm... I disagree with several of these points. Such as... Why? You have characters, they have skills and they use weapons and equipment to fight enemies and achieve a goal. Sounds like gaming 101 to me. That's because Serenity/Firefly was based on Traveller. Joss Whedon has stated a...

For all those reasons and more... In addition to a great set of mechanics (D20 without all the annoying elements of most D20 games), incredible ease and flexibility (I never thought I'd find a game that can do what Champions does but doesn't require I spend weeks as a DM each time I want to...

I think I can 'one-up' you... ;) My 'friends from high school' have scattered to the four winds and while those of my 'Second Golden Age', basically my early thirties, also live very far from each other now, we do get together periodically (about 2-3 times a year as with the OP). However...

Although the last 5 months have changed this slightly, the game I play the most isn't listed, Last Unicorn Games' ICON System version of Star Trek. I love running Star Trek and this is, IMHO, the best version of a Star Trek RPG ever done. Very likely this will never change unless someone puts...

And BITS (British Isles Traveller Support) and Raimei, Inc. Raimei is the Japanese publisher of Traveller and known to produce slightly different books (like combing two American books and adding new art) and new magazine material for Classic Traveller. AD

As usual, I don't see a choice for me... I must be the weirdest gamer on the face of the Earth as everytime a poll is made I find myself unable to reply. There is almost never a choice fitting me and my group. :confused: Played 4E, not converting, not playing any edition of D&D anymore...

I too have Dwarves made from stone...though the origins and effects are quite different. Without getting too deeply into my cosmology, a single diety imagined and designed the world and then made dragons to construct it. When the dragons were done they went to sleep (which is why they sleep...

IN my homebew Galaxy Quest campaign, one of my players has a character named He-Who-Glistens-In-The-Autumn-Twilight-Beneath-The-Third-and-Seventh-Moons. We tried to come up with various nicknames for the insectoid alien Science Officer but the only one that stuck was Moonbug. My best name...

Exactly as intended Mercule (and yeah, they were combination code name/call-signs). Capricorns real name was long and elaborate (the son of a nobleman), Counterfeits was really basic, human-normal, Battle Royale was, as stated, Roy Allen and the dog was Max. There were two other characters but I...

Absolutely! Its all about the GM. I played Champions for about a year without even knowing what the rules were. I just told him what I was gonna do, he told me how many D6 were involved and I rolled. All I knew was my character was cool, the bad guy was evil and I was having a blast. I do...

I was thinking the same thing - especially in a Superhero game. See it all depends on the game you're running. Somehow names that would be silly in a grim and gritty story can be natural in another genre. Case in point...I ran a SciFi/Action game that became almost a superhero or at least...

I should make a point that I'm addressing character names in 'serious' games. I run a lot of comedic games where funny names are not so out of the place. At the same time, most of the names in our Ghostbusters, Galaxy Quest and even Teenagers from Outer Space games were largely normal or...

I find this subject fascinating... I've been gaming for 30+ years and only first encountered this problem about 5 or 6 years ago and never with my regular group. Its always when I sit down to run with groups I'm not as familiar with. The new/current group I'm going to be gaming with seems to...