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It Was Asked On The General RPG Discussion Board Of The Forum, And The OP Did Specify 'RPGing', Not 'Playing D&D'. I Think We Are Seeing A Selection Effect: ENWorld Members Are A Biased Sample Of RP Gamers, With A Higher Proportion Of Players Who Play Only D&D Than Is Found In The General...

Well, Taking RPGs As a Whole, Yes. Fantasy Isn't Everything. There Are Lots Of Settings And Genres In Which Humans Are The Only Choice: In Noir Detective Campaigns, In Pulp Adventure Campaigns, In Contemporary Spy & PI Campaigns, In Historical Swashbucklers--What Else Would You Play?

And you would be right! [Advanced] Melee, [Advanced] Wizard, and In the Labyrinth made up a GURPS-forerunner that was published by Metagaming.

<deleted> Holy thread necromancy, Batman!

In the last year I have played in or GMed games set in: * The Forgotten Realms (D&D) * A fantasticated version of mediaeval Japan (Bushido) * A fantasticated version of modern England (Ghosts of Albion) * Russia in the 1990s, seen through a Le Carré lens (James Bond 007) * England, the...

I suggest that you read teh early 'Saint' books by Leslie Charteris. They are set in and around London in the 1920s. The Saint meets the Tiger Enter the Saint The Saint Closes the Case The Avenging Saint Featuring the Saint Alias the Saint The Saint Meets His Match The Saint v. Scotland Yard...

Certainly. I Was Gone Until 3e Brought Me Back.

Same here. A bit of effort goes into description and dialogue, but we make no attempt to speak in archaic English. And not just because our characters are almost never early modern English speakers.

'"Do it"? Dan, I'm not a Republic Serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.' * * * * * 'We will meet in a place where there is no darkness.'

But would you be killed? Or would you get cashiered/a BCD?

It isn't a market. Before industrial farming and contraception, the labour supply was equilibrated by starvation, not by infertility.

More likely it is births per year per 1,000 women by age. Seeing that a pregnancy lasts 3/4 of a year, you ought to multiply the fertility rate by 3/4 to get the proportion of women who are pregnant at a typical moment.

In the days of high birthrate and high infant mortality it was typical for a lower-class woman (ie. without access to contraceptives, and not in a position to tell her husband to go see his mistress, and not drinking wine sweetened with lead acetate) to have 12 to 20 pregnancies between the ages...

Hey! Good suggestion! That readily allows new characters to join the party at need, and it also gets the GM out of the railroading trap that can result when the antagonist is active and the protagonists passive. Further to my comments above about handing over to the players all responsibility...

And it allows nicely for the organisation to appoint new party members, eg. to replace casualties. But you have to be careful about the challenge level and communications with headquarters, because if you try to set the PCs up for an heroic victory agains overwhelming odds they may simply be...

There are a couple of problems. First, the rational thing for any particular member of this group to do is to bolt and hide, and hope he can get far enough away while the BBEG is busy with the ones who stay in a clump. Second, this party premise makes it difficult to introduce a new PC (eg. to...

Hear! Hear! Make party cohesion the responsibility of the character-players, and if they muck it up, let them pick up the pieces. It is actually much easier for them to handle it from the inside than for the GM to attempt it from the outside. So as long as the division of responsibility is...

Oh yeah, one more: The players were asked to generate hopeful young courtiers, clinging to the fringes of the Imperial Court at Thekla, who all come from the same little city (Pangborn), in the further reaches of the second-most-remote province (Mela) of the Empire. I provided a six-page...

Well, I often ask players not to generate individual characters separately, but to get together and design a team. Or else I specify that they are to generate characters who all happen to be such-and-such. In my SF games, I often ask that the players generate a team of investigtors in the...

Did you know that Hitler had a plan to restore the Duke of Windsor as king of England? There is even reason to believe that the Duke was not entirely averse to the idea. In 1940, as the French were collapsing, he refused to leave Paris. Churchill sent an 'aide de camp' and a 'bodyguard' and...