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Just to make sure, you seem to be asking for a system that: a) Doesn't require a lot of numbers to keep track of in play b) Doesn't have a lot of complexity in character creation that will make characters complicated to use in play I just want to make sure, because "low bookeeping" usually...

I find Guy Gavriel Kay's books very powerful. I haven't read the two mentioned in this thread, but Tigana and the Sarantine books both had me in tears. Some of Charles de Lint's short stories also have that effect, as have a couple of Neil Gaiman's short stories, especially Troll Bridge. I...

I'd love to play Mutants and Masterminds. If only the 2nd edition were out by now; I'd love to give it a try. I've only played 7th Sea the once, and it was the swashbuckling setting more than anything that appealed to me. Plus, the scenario was essentially Romeo and Juliet, and getting to...

I was surprised at how sparse the RPG section of the schedule is. There seem to be a lot fewer independent RPG games scheduled than last year, though I expect there'll be lots of pick up games. I had lots of fun playing 7th Sea and the Extraordnary Adventures of Baron Munchausen game last...

All your Gandalf are belong to us! Are there any other clone memes that we haven't covered yet?

one of us... one of us... one of us...

:D And this is different from your usual GMing how? (Runs and hides from the gninjae)

That's just wrong mister!

And I, apparently, just did the opposite. All is in balance in the world. :p

I'm still enjoying D&D3e, but I've become a bit disillusioned with the vancian magic system, the way high level play works, and the everpresence of stat-buffing magic items. If you combined Arcana Evolved's magic system with a simplified Iron Lore and the D&D class archetypes, it would be my...

I agree. We can't have that sort of thing going on here. :D

I'm currently reading Elantris, and it's just as good as all the reviews say. Best of all, it's an epic story in a single volume, which is almost unheard of in fantasy these days. I have limited reading time, and I've gotten to the point where if I see a new book and it says "part 1 of the...

The Dance of Killing Prisoners In 2e, the frantic running around to cut the throats of enemies before the Sleep spell's duration ran out. More generally, performing coups de gras on unconscious enemies. The Ranger Takes the Paladin for a Walk One character distracting another character who...

That's a very cool idea, and I like that it's dragons who are prisoners in the matrix. It's a bit similar to the Fireborn RPG, where the characters are humans reincarnated from dragons who slowly regain their draconic powers. I'm not sure I like having the humanoids be the jailers though...

I'd be interested in joining your game too, if you have the space and it's at a time I can make. My class schedule is insane. :cool:

The M&M forums are back online.

I really wish the M&M boards were back. I was enjoying the detailed conversations about the new previews, plus the general feeling of community excitement. I wonder why Green Ronin doesn't create a temporary M&M2e board on their regular forums, to make do until the M&M-dedicated forums are...

When I first heard about the book, the idea sounded exciting and interesting, but the previews have taken away almost all interest I had in it. Another way for characters to become a christmas tree of magic items, yay. I'll read a couple reviews and flip through it in the store before I make a...

That's one of the biggest problems I have with high level D&D. I quite like the solution that Iron Heroes. Rather than dying automatically at -10 HP, characters must make a Fortitude save with a DC equal to the amount they're in the negative. If they fail the save, they die. If they make...

I haven't used that variant in D20 games, but I've played the Buffy RPG, in which the players roll all the dice. I liked it a lot, and would love to try it out, especially with spellcasters. Part of the fun of RPGs is rolling the die to see if you succeed and fail. Rolling a 20 is more...