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Adventure Concepts If you take it beyond the technology of the movie and beyond the simple data heist, there are some interesting possibilities. While I never owned or read the actual book, I remember an RPG during the 80's I think where you were effectively dream police. Your characters went...

There's no RPG, but Lego does have a new MMO coming out in the near future. They've started releasing the NDA on the beta recently. While it's not as cool as having the Legos in front of you on the table, it is still a world built out of Legos to play in. It is however perhaps aimed at a...

Are you referring to the basic maps they had there? As I remember, most of them were listed as generators, but really only had 100 or so actual maps. Digging through my old stored stuff, I found that I actually have a bunch of their maps stored. I have 101 Caverns, Cities, Dungeons, Islands...

Someone I've gamed with has participated in several games using Legos as the primary minatures. He's got some photos of stuff they've created on his blog, if anyone is interested. Transitive Property of Gaming: legos He went to a convention a few years back where one of the GMs had the entire...

I voted "No" for two reasons: The first is that I do not believe any single game can satisfy every player and all genres. Part of the reason we have so many different games is because some games do one thing better than others. By having a number of choices available, it allows us to find the...

I know I've seen that coat somewhere before. I'm more sure of that than the pose itself. I was thinking Shadowrun, but while I could flip through a few books, most of them are in storage right now so I just don't know.

That new cover image has been driving me nuts because I KNOW I've seen it somewhere before, like in a gaming book. (But with better quality.) I just can't find it. Considering that some of his other work is derivative, I'm not sure I should be surprised I recognize that dwarf image. I just...

The description of that product was painful to read. The author actually used "lol" in a sentence. This company's products have got me thinking about why we're all so interested in them, in a painful way. I think it's a combination of two factors: The biggest is that most or all of us...

Thank you all for the information. I do appreciate it. It gives me a better idea of how much playtime will be covered by the current five converted modules in the series.

If we're lucky, at least one aspiring self-publisher will take this thread to heart and have someone who hasn't read any piece of the work read it before it's published so that they can provide an honest opinion. (Just make sure you get someone to proofread who will give an actual opinion...

A quick web search turns up his Facebook, MySpace, and Art Wanted info. The author is listed as 43 and also sells custom artwork. He's doing a whole line of images. Some of his work is better. The drawing labeled as "Yulia" is actually decent. Not good enough for the cover on a $15 product...

When I do exploration type games, I generally use what I consider a "Star Trek" or "Stargate" model -- which is really just the model of any TV show where the main characters are traveling around. Even "Sliders" uses this model. Basically, wherever the characters go, it's where it's going to...

As my player base may require me to start running 4E, I've decided that breaking into such a different system should be done with a published set of adventures. I liked the 3E versions of War of the Burning Sky, so that seems like a good place to start. Can anyone give me an estimate of how...

While I know that there has been an attempt to move toward it, I don't think a player has to have something useful to do every single round as long as combat is moving along decently fast. I expect characters to loose a certain number of actions to things like moving into position, reloading...

Oh, most definitely. You would also see money spread around because it was not uncommon to pay special fees or make special donations to a church/priest in order to intercede on your behalf. (Loved one sick? Pay the priest to pray extra and burn special incense so the god will make them...

I enforce tithing in pretty much all my games. (About the only ones I haven't were ones years ago where I knew the player couldn't handle the idea of a religious tax without going ballistic.) In almost every game, characters who are part of a holy order would be expected to tithe in some...

46) All loot is now completely random and simply may not be usable by any member of the party. 47) You can get the same exact magic item from multiple monsters. 48) Monsters can carry treasure that has nothing to do with what they are, couldn't possibly fit in the monster's pockets, and which...

This is why taxes that were based on accumulated wealth or flat taxes based on ownership/use were popular at times in history before extensive paperwork was really possible. (Hard to do tax forms when the percentage of the population who can read is very low.) There is a tax system that...

Wow, I've never had one of my posts spin off into it's own thread before. This is kind of fun. First let me say that I think many of the arguments against the taxing of PCs I've seen in other threads and in other places are about the reasoning behind it or the in-game logic or any of that...

I find that players seem to take money more seriously and also enjoy the money aspect of the game more when there are quantifiable numbers. I've known only a few players over the years who really liked the abstract monetary systems. (I know when I played in a game with it, I always felt like...