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I'd put 'em at 1-6, 7-13ish, and low teens+. 4th level spells are kind of a turning point, with things like Scrying and Solid Fog that fighters just can't do anything about (flying foe? arrows. Fireballs? reflex saves and hit points. Solid fog? Screwed.), as well as Lesser Globe of...

The first thing that comes to mind for me is Dark Heresy, which had a pretty serious taint / corruption system. I don't remember the details, though... I believe as taint / corruption increased, at certain milestones in the score, you had to roll to avoid gaining mutations. I'll take a look...

Yeah, I was pondering increasing XP rewards for them as well. Curious on official thoughts on this.

We had a crazy puzzle about a month ago that was based on Conway's Game of Life; we thought it was awesome, since most of our group are programmers. More detail here.

Not that I have an answer, but I'm kinda hoping Wulf & Glassjaw's long silence / lack of response here might be indicative of having their noses to the grindstone on the monster book... Personally, I'd just let the caster apply subtypes as they wish during the casting / construction of the...

This. Once upon a time in Traveller, I rolled battle dress on the retirement benefits table, and then used some of my starting cash to buy a small laser cannon. Anything that could threaten me could slay the rest of the party effortlessly, and anything that they could kill, I could kill in one...

Not to echo previous sentiments, but moving diagonally at no extra cost feels to me like some of the exploits in older video games where you could increase your speed by a factor of sqrt(2) by turning 45 degrees away from where you want to go, then holding down both "strafe" and "move forward" -...

Take 10 and Take 20: the rogue's best friends when it comes to finding and disarming traps.

A game system with good mechanics and a poor built-in setting is usually easier to salvage than a game with good built-in setting and poor mechanics. Further, I find that players tend to gloss over setting detail, and while I might enjoy reading it, it does very little for the game as it's...

Used to do my discrete math homework by reading the problems right before bed, sleeping, dreaming of them, and then waking up and scribbling furiously before I forgot. Saved me many hours of frustration. Doesn't work so well on exams, though :P .

Got another PC-kill finishing up the Traveller campaign; a lightly-armored scientist character took a greatsword to the chest, which put him in critical condition. He managed to drop the stimpacked berserker who had done it, but then decided to prop himself up and try suppressive fire against a...

Currently playing only Trailblazer; put down 3.5.

My group at home uses most of TB (everything but action points, rest mechanic, and the Pile o' HP at first level) + various splatbook feats, spells, and whatnot, while my campus group has been using the same subset of TB + SRD-only spells, items, monsters, and PrCs (only one so far, Assassin -...

Forgive me if this question has been asked already, but on page 111, the line "If your character fails three stabilization checks before he returns to 0 hit points (or higher), or if he takes massive damage (see above), he’s dead (regardless of the state he is in when he the stabilization...

The Homeworld soundtrack is excellent for space combat; we looped it for about six hours yesterday during our Starmada games. We've also taken to the Castle Crashers soundtrack and Battle Without Honor and Humanity for D&D combat, as well as Final Fantasy remixes from ocremix.org . I'm also a...

Went with Eberron; while I have no great love for the setting, it seems like a place where a modern would have the best chance of survival among those listed. Also considered Dragonlance (read enough of those that it'd be a bit of a world-knowledge advantage) and Wilderlands of High Fantasy for...

Impressive! I've been building tokens for use in VTTs - hadn't thought to make stand-up paper ones for meatspace play. Only have a black-and-white printer, though, so it might not go so well.

Just finished running a MongTrav campaign two weeks ago, I think, for a bunch of players used to D&D. It was a good time; I'd played Traveller d20 before, but Mongoose was much better done. And no, we didn't play with Iron Man chargen... but we did have players rolling up 'backup' characters...

This campaign, say it with treasure: ars ludi Treasure Tells A Story

It would be pretty easy to take 3.5 XPH psionics, put them on the unified BMB system, and convert spell slots into power points while keeping readying the same as for all other casters. Wizard / Psion multiclassing looks pretty attractive... On a related note, any thoughts on how to convert...