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Do they get hurt? You're certainly not doing anything wrong, though you may soon feel the need to ask yourself, "Am I saving them from death or are they saving themselves?" I am one of those GMs who really kills PCs or sees them killed. This is not necessarily because my games aren't deadly...

It should - Pretty much every other fantasy Anime and Manga series I know has armor wearing wizards/spellcasters. With the exception of Record of the Lodoss War and The Legend of Crystania (both based on Sword World which was itself based on D&D), every other one I can think of include a Full...

I guess what I'm saying is that, to me, roles and classes are very difficult to seperate. It seems the role of the cleric is to heal, the role of the fighter is to take punishment and to some extent dish it out in close combat, etc. The role of the wizard used to be pretty catch-all but now...

I do not attack but merely state my opinion. I don't like role and classes in any edition of any game with one or two exceptions. Star Trek for example, where each player plays a department head such as Chief Engineer, Chief Science Officer or Chief Helmsman certainly has distinct roles. At...

That's because you're using a game with classes. I don't need to learn a new class when my players make characters, I just need to know what kind of character they want and what they want to be able to do. Each character has the same or similar mechanics but can do different things. To me...

It's funny... I started with OD&D back in 1977, Red Box if I'm not mistaken, and didn't try Traveller until 1979. I hated it. The GM and the description he gave of the setting and the adventure were far to bland for a 10 year old who had grown up on Star Trek and had already seen Star Wars 5...

Sigh - Sadly I forget which book it was. It may have been their version of the Dungeonmaster Screen or something. I know it was one of the first 5 products released by it wasn't the first/main three, since those were identical to ours artwork wise. Even worse, I remember saving the jpegs of...

Not as often as I'd like... That is to say, I think there is great potential in some systems to portray genres or worlds other then their own which I haven't gotten to explore yet. I have long believed that Traveller would make an amazing Medieval Fantasy game. Aside from allowing multiple...

Translate these... I'm a big fan and collector of Japanese RPGs and they have some seriously a** kickin' ones. I want someone to translate these already! Sword World (Especially the new 2.0) Record of the Lodoss War anyone? Metal Head D20 - D20 Modern/Future Adaption of a universe right on...

Never Had One, Never Will I can't imagine designing an encounter in which my entire group of players is so unprepared, so careless and so overpowered that there is absolutely no chance at least 1 will make it. This doesn't mean they can't die. Far from it. It means if they play their cards...

Ah Gamma World! My most memorable character (i.e. the one that actually lived through all 9 sessions of our campaign) was a Spine-Covered, Seven Foot Ram with Super Strength and the ability to fire his Quills at his opponents. Oh yeah, that's the stuff. AD "I know! You construct a weapon. Look...

I'm curious as well. I've always liked SciFi more then Fantasy which, due to the lack of a continously strong front runner in the field of SF RPGs, has sometimes been frustrating. I am interested in what it is about 4E that makes you long for Space Adventure our Fantasy Adventure. AD "Whoever...

Agreed - the closet I came to this was a very strange campaign I ran in college... We used Traveller: 2300 but it wasn't set in the game's default universe. Instead, the players were drafted into the service of a future United Nations space agency from various other services (including one PC...

AH yes, Ars Magica. Now that's a game I would swim the deepest ocean and cross a burning desert for. <3 AD "I see you've managed to get your shirt off."

Getting better and better... Let's jazz this bad boy up with some crazy cosmic capers and stellar stuff... Traveller - It Was War... (Classic Traveller/MegaTraveller Hybrid) Set barely 2 years after the Fifth Frontier War (but long before Babylon 5 somehow swiped the idea :uhoh:), an...

Love Conquers All! Or at least trumps silly things like game mechanics. ;) In one of my campaigns, a female PC (Female Player) was running along side her lover, a male NPC. He was running down a dried up river while she was running some distance away and above on the elevated (to the NPC)...

So let me get this straight... The vast majority of players and GMs rarely use Dragons and one of the first 4E hardcovers to come out is the Draconomicon. We're barely using the classics and we need new ones and options before we need, say, more spells, classes and races, etc.? This seems...

JUst a few ideas... Star Trek...New movie, new MMORPG coming, time for a new RPG! Jhereg...Would be super cool. As stated, even just a sourcebook would rock. Halo...Yes, I would be very interested in this. Almost as much as... Mass Effect...Why don't they OGL the original Traveller rules for...

I've done this a number of times but rarely with D&D. I tend to imagine this format working with a larger cast of characters who are rarely caught up in one place too long. Superheroes and SciFi/Modern settings can accomodate this easily. In one instance I had 5 or 6 players with 2 or 3...