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Personally, I prefer a kind of scientific "Evolved human" type psionics. Unlike magic, but mysterious mental abilities that humans are not quite ready to use. I prefer a form of psionics that is limited in it's combat application but more useful for psychometry, mind-readings and some mental...

Hi guys. I've been playing a little Jade Empire and I'm interested in a bit of asian-styled fantasy. Could anyone recommend me to anything in particular? D20 or otherwise? I'd really like a system that emulates different martial styles well. You know.. My Storm Dragon will defeat your Rising...

I'd like two sorts of adventures. 1. An x-files style arabian adventure filled with dark conspiracies of tainted Djinn blood or something. 2. A post apocalyptic underground complex riddled with fallout, ludicrously big. The government of this dying world are hatching a dark plan; as the oxygen...

I and my group love midnight. The difficulty as has been mentioned is maintaining the feeling of grim, gritty, hopelessness when heroes are effectively fighting stuff way too tough for them; as in, being very tough and cool. The thing is, you have to really show the desperation of the...

I would firstly agree that the larger swords were actually as sharp as the wielder wanted it to be. While the gauntet would stop a nasty slicing injury there's often a blunt(er) section on certain later period greatswords specifically used in halfsword. The idea that you would use your flat to...

Characters swimming through blade infested water; one dies to a giant octopus. When they eventually get the body back they loot it and hack it to pieces for the octopus so they can swim through the water themselves. Not what I was expecting. But Age of Worms does things to PC's. It makes...

I have issues with the Guardians of Order mecha system. I mean.. it's cool. But there's just something that bothers me; any armour at all - I mean any - makes your mecha either 1. ridiculously slow or 2. expensive. So it makes tanks well (ish..) and it makes F-16 jets well. And shooting a...

Written in Pirate Speak? That's a problem? My players had the most fun in the world when I did Freeport with a few Pyyyyyrrrrraaatteeesss! YYYAAAARRRRGGGHHHH! Seriously; for more fun, read the notes aloud as if the NPC was saying them. Like how in movies you have people reading letters. Then...

Just organise in your mind whether you want both parties in the same universe, or whether the other doesn't exist. There will be differences just because of the playing style. Personally I'd be more wary of being bored by running the same adventure twice in short succession. It could help the...

Pictsies eat babies for breakfast. Fairies leave changeling sociopathic murderers. Hobgoblins lame horses and spoil food. (For fun.) Most fairies aren't opposed to the taste of chicken. Or human flesh. "Come out to play, lady. Come out to play." "Won't you play with us, lady? We'll all...

Dwarven Scroll? Thinking.. epic poetry. Thinking... gods. Thinking.. stealing fire from the gods. Thinking... some very contrite PC's. (Bardic Knowledge DC 30. The poem of the Kingsbane, Hrulfgar, is the poem of the oathbreaker Hrulfgar who slaughtered his father and raped his sister...

Depends on how serious or themed my game is. Age of worms: Players play anything they like that doesn't for instance have four feet. I limit them to PC's that would have some interest in the plot and would do something about it. If my game is serious then I'll quite easily and with no twinge...

I just had a nasty idea. A shuddering nasty idea. What do goblins do? Steal children. What do they do with them? There's one way for a more mature game to really make players hate goblins.

I loved those games. Kind of interesting; not sure how you'd do the rune things. Prestige class? I just saw a Suikoden Tactics in the store but I know nothing about it. Anyone have an opinion?

Idea! (Bing!) I think someone mentioned this already. What if Jedi and other force users are prestige classes? Instead of going strait into a Jedi, PC's have to work through other levels but take a whole heap of force skills and such. Hence, we'll say Luke is a (now not awful) Scout class...

This may sound strange, but the first time I really got my players to care about and interact with the setting was in a Wheel of Time game. Apart from me and one other guy, no-one had experience with the books. One fellow really wants to play the Algai'd'Siswai and so I say fair enough. I just...

I bought BR for the wife. She doesn't want to DM it mainly because the standard players in my group tend to go for the hardcore combat filled with people being nasty to one another. *Thinks he should go and pick up Game of Thrones RPG* I remember reading about the "Pirates" of Aldis don't...

If I remember correctly, Sins of the Fathers by Destan was also another great dwarf-starring storyhour along with good old Wulf Ratbane. I can see why elves on covers sell D+D fantasy. Same reason why covers sell fantasy. Dwarves aren't pretty, Dwarves aren't nice, and hence, dwarves don't...

www.fantasyflightgames.com You guys know Midnight, right? Sort of Lord of the Rings gone Morgoth won? I just looked on the site above and found that theres an independant movie set in the midnight setting. Being on dialup I didn't bother downloading the previews, but I was rather suprised to...

I did have that once. My digestive tract was warning me. I assumed it was too many chips. In my first campaign GMing I had three tried and true players, all friends. Through the various sessions I'm being told of this mysterious guy named Scott. He is according to the two players who know him a...