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First, thank you both for the replies! Regarding The Rise of DV, I read quite a few reviews at Amazon.com that the book was utter crap. Are you suggesting that 1) the book was OK, or b) that I should mine it for ideas despite it being utter crap? Personally, I'd love to explore the idea of...

Alright, I'll concede: I need help. I'm looking for plot kernels, seeds, scraps, hints or snippets--whatever you'll give me--for a Star Wars: Rise of the Empire era game. Just some ideas to spark my imagination, or full-fledged adventures if you wanna post them. I have no idea what classes...

Guess I'm not sure why you couldn't have the Force be the magic system in a fantasy world....?! *shrugs*

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This is where I'd have my group play, if we did. Weirdly, I find it VERY difficult to come up with plots for SW, even harder than standard "fantasy D&D". I hope like hell they (WotC or anyone else) intend to write adventures for the game since I have such a hard time doing so.

Heh. That makes me giggle--like calling a car a Chevy Lamprey.

I haven't reached the point where I have DMed C&C, but I bought it, and offered to pay for the books for my players if they'd try it. I've been DMing D&D 3.5 for merely a year & a half (after occasional forays into DMing AD&D 2), and I'm already sick to death of all the minutia. Too much...

Mmm, yeah. You assume I'm writing them. Not. Using quite a few Dungeon Crawl Classics, Dungeon Mag adventures, etc. Sometimes the adventure "flavor" is just too good to pass up, though, so I'll adjust for my party level. (ESCAPE FROM MEENLOCK PRISON in Dungeon 146 is an example--the premise...

An example: I was trying to retrofit one of the...opponents (I'll leave it vague for spoiler's sake)...from Goodman Games' Into the Wilds. I was trying to stat out the creature as written, which I was able to do--eTools didn't choke on that. It listed it's CR as 3. Then I began to increase...

The thing that burns me out is unfamiliarity with spells or combat maneuvers while statting NPCs. I review the spells, casting times, duration, etc and re-familiarize myself with Cleave or Bull Rush or somesuch and it ends up taking a few hours of my life that, game-wise, eats up 30 seconds...

^ I'm with him on that, so--yes, I'd buy a dead tree copy. ^

Yep. That has remained one of my favorite adventures, including villains and locations (that I haven't been able to run yet) in any copy of Dungeon.

Yeah, one normally doesn't need to worry overmuch about Pagan editing--typically it's spot-on. This is a sad surprise to read about one of my favorite books.

Really, that's your own loss. I have the book and bought a cheap Jenga knock-off, and it's great. You should consider opening your mind to the idea--you might be pleasantly surprised.

That was put UP, not OUT. ;)

So......you're saying we're a collective Hunter S Thompson? Cool.

Amen.

Yeah, really. I began reading the press release and my eyes glazed over, my lids started drooping, and I nearly fell asleep about 16 times. Gleemax = Meh. I'll be buying another year of member ship on E N World, thanks very much.

Wow. I mean...just... WOW! What a great post! I have to admit that even after I posted some ho-hum comments earlier, I also went back and decided that I'd likely include this adventure in my campaign. Reading your impressions and opinions has really helped change my attitude about this...

Ironically, I've now started using eTools more to create villains since reading this thread.... D'OOOOH!