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Here is something GURPS is great at: Plausible setting design, especially when it comes to mixing and matching different elements. Let's say you want to create a setting with a base technology similar to that of the WWI era. No problem - GURPS High-Tech has lots of support material for that...

Urbis - A World of Cities The basic idea of the setting could be summed up as: "Take a fairly ordinary D&D fantasy world, and then assume that instead of stopping at a pseudo-medieval paradigm, magic continues to advance until the world enters a magical industrial revolution." Lots of...

For Urbis: - A magical industrial economy explaining all those magic items lying around. - Some really big cities. - Lots of classical fantasy tropes - both played straight and subverted.

And according to our new counter, we've just reached 1,500 pages! Quite an achievement...

I don't really see why a campaign centered on rulership needs to focus on the most boring aspects. I mean, does a police drama series focus on the paperwork? Or does a WWII movie center on the all-encompassing boredom that afflicted most soldiers who weren't actively at the front line? Or in a...

Thanks. At the moment, I don't have the time to expand the cryptozoology section of the wiki (my current goals is to expand the timeline by a couple of hundreds of additional news items which I have floating around on my hard disk), but I've added it to the "Sources" section of the cryptozoology...

Oh, no matter what the campaign there will likely always be NPCs who will tell the PCs what to do. In my experience, the fun part begins when the PCs realize that they don't have to take those orders or suggestions. After all, these NPCs are likely neither all-knowing nor all-wise. And some of...

We've recently started on a Random Animal Hybrid Generator - the idea is that you can come up with ideas for composite monsters (such as griffins, chimeras, owlbears and so on) by choosing the number of animal parts you want, and then the wiki will pick a random number of animals which will...

Well, you did claim that politics and administrative duties cannot be "heroic", and that they are "merely stressful" - which directly contradicts my own GMing experience, and so I couldn't let that stand. If I misunderstood you, I apologize. I can understand why such games are not everyone's...

Who says that they can't be? They will likely have seen more of the world than most people, and they are less likely to get killed in a court intrigue just because they are tough and have a finely honed sense for danger. And in the Middle Ages, the ones who ruled were the ones who could project...

From many comments I have seen on this board - most recently in the Forgotten Realms thread - it seems that many players are violently adverse about their characters getting ordered around by more powerful NPCs. Yet elsewhere I have seen the sentiment that actually being the commanders - the...

I understand. It's always awkward if you run a setting where your players know more about the "canon" than you - the same situation exists when you run a historical game for a bunch of history buffs. And in our gaming group, we have four physicists - which makes for some interesting discussions...

I don't think there is anything really "special" about the Forgotten Realms, but the setting does "generic" very well. And I am a detail junkie, so I loved the 3E campaign setting (for the record, the 4E setting was okay and I didn't mind the changes, although I found the continent of Returned...

Someone has also started to write up a similar section for the Arcana Wiki, with added game ideas.

Swiped for the Arcana Wiki!

Well, the Discworld also have different cultures that hate each other - see the Ankh-Morpork versus Klatch war in "Jingo".

How about the Savage Worlds Explorers' Edition? It's a very small and relatively slim book, and yet a very complete and flexible RPG. Though you'd still need a number of different dice (from d4 to d12).

I want to publish mine professionally. And frankly, no other setting explores the same themes in the way I find most interesting (though there is some overlap with Eberron and Iron Kingdoms).

Jerk behavior in villains is a lot more acceptable than in player characters. If a villain has a really obnoxious personality, you will feel good once you finally beat him in the cinematic showdown, especially if your hatred of him has been built over many months of gaming. On the other hand...

I've long pondered writing an effective setting blurb for Urbis - a short text that makes other people interested in the setting (and possibly buy it...). Here is what I came up with so far: Once upon a time the orcs rampaged across the plains, the elves lived in their forests, the peasants...