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I'm not using a 'Frankenstein' right now but I have many, many times. I used to mix Classic Traveller with Space Opera, D&D with V&V, D&D with Champions (for Advantages, Disadvantages and combat options) and made a concentrated effort to create an Interlock System (R. Talsorian Games) that...

What happened to Stouts and Tallfellows? My first character ever in a RPG was a Halfling (Basic Set 1977) and was neither Hobbit nor Fat Thief? If I recall I thought of them as proportional, fit...er...hobbits. :o I would say I thought of them more like Merry and Pippin then Bilbo or Sam. AD...

Not gonna make another WotC Zombie! My nephew and his friends aren't old enough yet but I plan on starting them on Star Trek (LUG), Star Wars (D6 - 1st Edition maybe) or some kind of simplied Mutants and Masterminds. If all else fails we'll go Labyrinth Lord. Don't have kids of my own but...

D&D Giants, regardless of edition, are very big. As such, thats what my group called them after our first encounter with creatures standing between 1 and 2 stories high. In many cases this is only slightly taller then a Human, Male, Fighter standing up in the back of a wagon. They were Very...

I tend to come up with slightly non-typical names, avoiding Order of and The Guild of, usually saving that for the PCs. How about: The Righteous Arm (or Claw, Hand or Heart) The Living Word The Hallowed Fist Bane of the Forsaken The Burning Truth Just some ideas that don't follow the...

Still not sure what bearing this has on M&M... Some form of advancement is necessary though the rate of advancement matters less for me and most of my friends/fellow gamers. That is to say, we like to know that the more we do things the better we get at doing it but we don't really worry about...

You mean not everyone plays RPGs with just the ideas in their head, a piece of scrap paper, a pen/pencil/crayon, and asking players to pick a number from one to ten? ;) Seriously though, in high school I ran an entire scifi/cyberpunk campaign with no book, dice, character sheets or pretty much...

I can think of a lot of games that don't receive their necessary due, though I don't think they fit into my idea of what is meant by a sleeper. I'm a huge fan of anything and everything that came out of R. Talsorian Games in its heyday - specifically Mekton, Teenagers from Outer Space...

I basically follow two extremes... Either my campaigns have primarily Humans with a few rare characters being faerie touched or tainted, having the blood of giants or being talking animals or... Medieval Star Wars! The most commonly encountered species remain classic - Humans, Elves...

I started reading Dragon off and on in the early 80's but it was the Ares stuff in the mid to late 80's that kept me there and made it one of my favorite magazines. I was always more of a SF gamer (still am) and most of the D&D stuff was already feeling like rehashes of earlier issues or...

There was no killing in our last session. Or the one before that. Or the one before that. We're superheroes, we don't kill. That's what the bad guys do. 'Course, we're not playing D&D...:p AD

I won't disagree with you in principle but what I was referring to wasn't scarcity per se but immersion into a world setting. In a world setting where things are primarily a reflection of actual conditions and events in medieval Europe, the sudden appearance of something as simple as what I...

Fantastic is relative. In a campaign where peasants are dirt poor and men ride horses to war with bow and blade, a talking cat is fantastic. In a campaign with flying castles, dozens of goblin races and flaming swords being given out like candy, a talking cat is not fantastic. Actually its...

I suppose so but a resource is a resource I always say. :p I tend to use talking animals but then again I don't tend to run D&D. In Ars Magica or a similarly folklore inspired game and/or setting it makes perfect 'sense'. The legends, fairy tales and folklore of practically every culture on...

I could have sworn I remembered this recently... And I did! http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/27802-talking-animals.html Well, it wasn't made that recently but at least my memory is intact. Check it out, AD

Far too limited and predictable. I ended up with Wizard. Meh. I despise the 4E Wizard. I'm wondering if this limited array of questions is akin to the limited choices in 4E. I really want to see what PHB2 has to offer. I'm not a fan of 4E but if they can start opening up play options it might...

In the folklore tradition of many countries, Hell was a place that you could simply travel to, not so much another dimension or plane. As a matter of fact, I never really loved the term plane as I'm unsure medieval Europeans would've used that word to describe places like Arcadia/Faerie, Asgard...

Agreed. Now there's an adventure hook. :D AD

I'm a trap/riddle fan as both a play and a GM and I've still got to agree with the majority. I would step back and let the more mathematically capable of the group at the thing. If he or she couldn't solve it or at least make progress within a few minutes I would get bored and try to figure out...

I suppose I agree in principal but I don't know that I would phrase it quite that way. Why would the PCs get "lots of stuff that favors a particular type of character"? If you're randomly inserting treasure its possible but if you're designing the rewards its not. Perhaps a better way to put it...