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Or just outright James Bondage, set in the '50s, '60s, '70s, or present, with no more fantasy elements than are in the movies. You can use any GP RPG (eg. Hero System, GURPS, or d20 Modern), or the old James Bond 007 rules from Victory Games (if you can get them, and no, I'm not offering either...

Okay, this makes it much easier. D&D's class system is to a significant extent designed to spread out spotlight time between a group of four or five players. The separation of abilities to separate classes and restriction of synergies between the 'four basic food groups' are tuned to provide...

Cross-posting?

Hear! Hear! Get confident with GMing the core material before you introduce any extra complexities. Start out with the core classes, core feats, and a restricted subset of the core monsters and magical items. Don't try to learn to use the fancy extras before the basics are second nature. It...

Try. Go on. What can possibly go wrong? Even if you do run a dud adventure, it's just one dud. No-one gets hurt. It's not like you lose your job or anything. On the other hand, if it works out you will open up a very rewarding panorama of creative hobbying for yourself. "Faint heart never won a...

G'day In the setting I am working on, there are four sub-races of elves. I was thinking of making the differences between them essentially cultural (and sticking with PHB eleves). But I thoght that perhaps you might suggest otherwise. I'd like to read what you think. High elves The high...

Indeed. But they didn't take away the public assets. Essentially the Empire was weakened as the elves slipped off into the demi-plane of Faerie. There was an increasing shortage of elvish staff, and local recruits had to be drawn ever higher up the hierarchy for want of high-elvish colonial...

Well, I am a bit inclined to think that +1 AB and +1 to all damage rolls is better value than a mere +1 to AC. And I'm not certain, but I think that items such as bracers fo armour, rings of protection, monks' belts, amulets of natural armour, and stones of good luck (which add to AC without...

G'day Just suppose that there is a lawful good but stiflingly nannyish High Elvish World Empire that controls 85% of the Known World. On the north-west border of the World Empire is a human land called the Gwlad Cenenryth, the Land of the Free People. The Free People are numerous and stroppy...

Suppose that a bunch of idealistic but over-managing elves had set up a benevolent but strictly hierarchical empire, with parallel pyramids of religious, economics, military, and judicial authority. Being long-lived and inclined to magic, they would have arranged the provision of essential...

G'day Suppose that you are a lawful good (but rather high-handed) race of High Elves. And that you decide to establish a world empire under which everyone will be able to live in peace and frugal comfort, eliminating war, disease, and hunger from the face of the world. After 300 years of...

I agree with the Jester. Back when I used to do retcons they were like the Pet Sematery. The campaign they brought back was not a campaign that anyone really wanted to play. Do-overs are Animate Corpse, not Raise Dead.

Speaking for myself and not Beldar, I'd feel that I had not done well enough. It happens every now and again. I experiement a lot with different games, settings, periods, themes, tones, and campaign premises. Some of the things I try just don't work, or at least don't catch the...

That depends on whether I accepted that my campaign was going to end, whether I was still trying to resuscitate it, or whether I had no idea that anyone was dissatisfied. If the first thing I heard about anyone's dissatisfaction was that everyone had snuck around without telling me and set up...

Good point. The German herzogen were the successors of national leaders whose peoples had been conquered by the Carolingian Franks. They retained practical rulership of their 'tribal' duchies. They often aspired to be elected king of Germany (and crowned Holy Roman Emperor). In that way, they...

I see. It's an anti-Plot Device. Something to show that the world is consistent rather than having its continuity egregiously overturned to serve the needs of challenge and plot. A bit of window-dressing for all it affects the charcters' progess through the challenges of the game, or for all it...

Crossing a moat?

Really? I thought freiherr was German for baron.

PC party crossing a bridge are ambushed by orcs armed with bows, shooting from arrow-slits or crenels.

It's a good plan. A pity that the PCs don't solve the problem with the Inquisition themselves. That will be a little unsatisfying to some players, even if they can't quite put their fingers on the problem. But as a recovery after dropping the ball it's very good. Far better than having the golem...