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With a decent DM and a good group of players I'd consider it, but I'd try to convince the DM and players to use a better system. If everyone was dead set on 2e, I'd likely still play, but I don't know if I'd stick with it, and I'd almost certainly complain about stupid rules that 3e fixed (like...

That sounds about right for me. Besides, he said that his player came back in two days with a character, not that it took two solid days to create it. If you gave the Hero book to someone who'd never played it or any other superhero game before, I wonder how long it would take them to learn...

Has anyone read any of Chris Pierson's books? I was a huge fan of Taladas back in the day, and his Blades of the Tiger : The Taladas Chronicles sounds intriguing. I generally avoid gaming fiction, as it tends to be mediocre at best, but I long for a bit of well done Taladas.

The best introduction to Rifts would be the rifts core book. A new version of the core book came out a few months ago, though I've only flipped through it. Rifts is a great setting with lots of potential, but is saddled with a system that's widely accepted as one of the worst game systems...

King of Prussia would be okay, as long as I don't have to go there in the height of rush-hour.

GregK runs down the major ones on page 2 of this thread. The Blue Rose RPG (and the spinoff True20 fantasy system). The Psychic's Handbook, Shaman's Handbook, and Witch's Handbook, for Green Ronin. He's also written many Dragon articles, and contributed to numerous other books. I haven't...

I have to agree with the M&M 2e horde, though I'd also recommend the old Marvel Superheroes FASERIP game, if you want something quick and simple. M&M has the best balance of character creation detail and ease of use of all the superhero RPGs I know (or other type of RPG, for that matter). It...

This sums up my feelings on it. Mike Mearls has lots of great ideas, and understands what it is about the D&D game that makes it fun. His ideas are sometimes a bit unpolished, and perhaps need some reigning in by conservative designers, but that's why its a design team. Steve Kenson is a...

A weekday evening would be fine for me. I'd prefer a Tuesday or Wednesday, but it really doesn't matter much. I don't know center city all that well, so I can't really reccommend a place.

Mutants and Masterminds 2nd edition could be a good fit. It's an action packed game with rules for tech equipment, fantastic devices, martial arts, magic, inventing new devices and magical artifacts, and ritual magic. Just play at a lower power level than the standard superhero game (say, PL 6...

That's a good idea Dingo. If meeting in person is tough, we could arrange to 'meet' in the chat room at a certain time. I don't think I have enough time to run a full M&M game. I'd be interesting in running episodic sessions every once in a while, but I don't think I have enough time to run a...

Well it's a good thing that the M&M damage save doesn't progressively penalize PCs then. :D Each wound only gives a -1 to future toughness saves, meaning that the character becomes more likely to be stunned or knocked unconscious the more his enemies beat on him. Nothing else is penalized...

Its a shame your players are being such drama queens. Few other games have house rules written into their core rulebooks. Does your friend complain that D&D doesn't have alternate systems in the PH? Besides, is using HP for M&M really that popular? I've heard people complain about not liking...

You wouldn't need to create a new thematic distinction, just use AE as one of the existing ones. "Southern Magic", which is incomprehensible to northerners and a bit of a mix of divine and arcane would be a good fit.

Practically speaking, whether they omitted the Slaad and Kua-Toa from the SRD on purpose or by accident, the effect is the same: They're not OGL. The D&D rulebooks are utterly irrelevant to what is OGL. By the terms of the OGL contract, content is only open if it's in the SRD, or explicitly...

I don't dispute that the free pdf of 4th edition may have boosted sales of 5th edition, but that's a completely different scenario than what we're talking about here. 5th edition isn't a supplement for 4th edition. There's a big difference between releasing a book for free to boost sales of...

Those are very impressive numbers that you just magically pulled out of your *** to prove your point. ;) For an equally valid* counter-example, lets say the core book has dwindled to selling 100 a month. Releasing the SRD cuts that to 10 a month. But, the product you release next sells 3,050...

That's a shame. I'd sympathize, if you didn't totally ignore that many companies are supporting their games, through pdfs. Besides, is it good business for companies to make unprofitable print supplements just so they won't lose you as a customer? I'd say not. WotC can afford to make them...

You're inventing the "did well with it" part. GOO hasn't talked about how it affected their sales. We know nothing about its results. So assuming that GOO did well with it is disingeneous at best. One could just as reasonably assume that they did very poorly with it. The new edition wasn't...

I was thinking the same thing. :D It's a really good jack of all trades. It's not as good as being a cleric as a cleric, and not as good at being a wizard as a wizard, but it's a good seonc choice for both. Adepts are the most common spellcasting class in the game, and they get scorching...