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Can't stand it Can't stand sitting here and not really saying anything. It is killing me. I sent something off as a submission to Natural 20 press. I hope to death they like it. Here's the deal... My gaming group for years has done miniatures battles based on our D&D campaigns. What we...

I see 2 things I see two things... First, mass combat that is easily translated from D&D and makes "sense" in D&D terms. In other words, relative strengths and weaknesses should be the same, but generalized. Second, a real skirmish game that is not as arbitrary. What's the point in playing...

A few years ago I was chatting with a friend about what kind of miniatures game a smart game company should start. I thought Chainmail might have been it. It wasn't. Mage knight seems close, but it isn't really either. That said, here's kind of what I was thinking about. First and...

Well.... With one large deficit stat, I'd go one way or the other with it and I'm a fan of playing to your strengths and avoided your weaknesses, but if I have a choice I put my lowest values in my physical, not mental stats. Here's what I would do...note that I haven't played either of these...

Rolemaster? The guys that worked on that were CRAZY!!!!! :D Ok well here's the deal. When I was younger I tried to fix every game. Every one had some set of glaring flaws (to me at least). Alot of us still have this tendency...how many of us went out and bought the PHB, took it home, read...

I've done a few campaigns that were competitive with mixed success. Of course, any game with a high death rate or guaranteed conflict (Stormbringer, Paranoia) makes for a good choice. The largest honest RPG was a Vampire: the Masquerade campaign that peaked around 30 players, although only...

My problem w/ PrC Fall into a few categories. The first of which is that after the DMG, the prestige classes went downhill (IMO) in terms of balance and usefulness. This is in no way I hate them all. Some I really like. First, most of them should be CLEARY written to apply to only a...

I can usually get what I want on niche places like this. What I find mystifying is like what happened the other day. I'm playing CounterStrike and.. guy I'm playing with says "hey main, you on AIM?" I say "yep" he says "so am I. if you play on this server again, you can send me a message at...

My favs These are mine... Paladin (2 -3) Sorcerer (remainder), casting only non-somatic spells - there are quite alot of these and they tend to be fairly useful. Fighter (4), Rogue (remainder) - with focus / specialization / proficiency / finese in unarmed Fighter (4), Bard (remainder) -...

Robotech and Skip My favorite last words always seem to come from a Robotech RPG I ran in college years and years ago. Both involve the same unlucky / whatever (you decide) player. If you don't know the game, it is set in the japanimation series of the same name, and basically you pilot big...

First, I'm a big fan of sending a prime material plane into the middle of the blood war. Maybe opening up gateways that connect it directly with the astral or outer planes. Once that happens, I dare say Faerun would hit a speed bump. Second, the matter of how. Personally, there's alot of...

In general... I find I'm not a fan of "conglomerate" systems. Now, I'm not a D20 hater - quite the contrary. However, each of the specific settings or flavors has enough different as to make it a different game. This is goodness. If, on the other hand, D20 Modern comes out and...

1. Core Ethos Sentence (I like the restriction here) 2. How is this not just a regurgitation of an existing world? What is new and different? 3. Is it something about which we could write alot of fiction, and if so, how? What major storylines do you envision? 4. Is it something for which...

Chasium reprint Don't forget, all the pages will fall out of the bindings if Chaosium does the reprint. Yay.