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The Palladium system was born with the Mechanoids RPG in 1982. The games of that time included Arduin, T&T, Stormbringer, RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu and other "random roll" RPGs where characters could be rather out of power balance with each other. A few years later we see Hero System via...

I am a Palladium fan, I have written for the Rifter0 PDFs and I consider Kevin Siembieda a personal acquaintance since I have hung with him a few times and we talk a couple times a year by email. I like him both as a person and as an author, and that probably colors my opinions. But I have no...

Our RPG Meetup group hosted a RPGA Battle Interactive this past weekend for 30 players and it was awesome. If you don't know what a Battle Interactive is, check out my last thread on our event...

I love playing OD&D...and 4e. But regardless of new editions, I will probably always return to my OD&D houserules. That said, I am very happy to buy a new edition of D&D every decade. Just no half editions. I want significant change from prior editions.

I like the idea of returning more exploration into D&D. Poking and prodding can be a lot of fun....with a good DM. I don't envy Monte Cook. 5e fails regardless of its design if its just another pen and paper tabletop RPG. The market is too segmented and the only way forward is a heavily...

A very cool coincidence! Game Empire had their big move and our club thought that hosting a big event on our first game day since the move would be a great "welcome back event" to the community. We meet the first Saturday of every month for 3 sessions (10am / 2:30 / 7 pm) so its a full day...

The move is complete! Game Empire is its new location and we have 10 GMs signed up and ready to rumble!!!! Out of the 50 player slots, we have 16 people who have pre-reg'd for spots and we usually get 50-70 people per meetup so sign up NOW!!!

I don't see the need to start every campaign at 1st level. Starting a 4e campaign at 11th or even 21st would be cool. I find that players often don't like arbitrary leveling, but it goes fine if the DM sets the parameters of how they will assign levels in a pre-campaign discussion. I had a...

I like using spam! Did you ever notice some the crazy names that show up in your inbox from spammers? Every few months I go through my spam folder and pick out a dozen cool names or name combos. 7th Sanctum is a particularly good site for names! I have the first edition of that book on my...

I judge leveling for a particular campaign by my expectation for how long are we actually going to be playing. Most of my campaigns have been a short arc because I know that meeting once or twice a month for 6-8 hours means that over a year, I realistically have 20 game sessions. Often, I know...

In OD&D, I use Law / Neutral / Chaos because fits Sword & Sorcery and its Moorcockian and lots of fun because unlike Good vs. Evil, you can have a party with all 3 alignments and its not an auto-PvP. The only time I've cared about the AD&D 9-side alignment was with Planescape where alignment...

GAME EMPIRE 1795 East Colorado Blvd Pasadena, CA 91106 October 1, 2011 10am to 8pm The Pasadena Dungeons & Dragons Meetup (Pasadena, CA) - Meetup Game Empire is moving to a 6000 square foot location, double its previous size and to celebrate, the Pasadena D&D Meetup is hosting a HUGE (50+...

There will be blood... I run psycho gory horror games and my players have a blast. My players know my style and at conventions, I put warnings in the blurbs. Of course, they are not really warnings, but adverts to players who love psycho gory horror games and I never worry about finding...

I am cool about dropping surprises that affect a single session or maybe two sessions, but you are talking about a Resistance Campaign and for something like that, I would definitely talk to the players up front. This way, they can build PCs who would work best for that setting.

What kinds? I like genre mashups. I enjoy blending fantasy & scifi a great deal and like taking new directions than other settings have. Why? It must be a form of insanity. Make the game offer something new Give players lots of options, but not too many to confuse them Make chargen fast and...

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If 4e isn't working for you, find another group playing what you do enjoy. I've been a DM since 1979 and I love 4e almost as much as 0e. If 5e regresses into a Crapfinder clone, I will be happy to keep playing 4e and 0e. As for the healing issue, it is a major concern in 0e-2e. In 3e, you...

I read RPG.net reviews, occasionally ENworld reviews, sometimes Amazon. Then I play convention demos. I rarely buy anything without a demo or reading through a friend's copy or PDF.

You introduce NPCs through their own chain of command. AKA, the cleric visits his temple and a high priest introduces an NPC as a fellow worshiper and friend of the temple. If the cleric distrusts the NPC, it will insult his high priest. Also, whoever sends the PCs on a mission, aka The King...

Never fought one, but played in a GM's campaign of a world post-Tarrasque that had been ravaged and now in ruins. It was very fun and there was a constant concern that the Tarrasque would return because we knew during the campaign it was still stomping about on the other side of the world...