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Yep. Memory served me right. I present exhibit One: This is from Traveller Book 1:Characters and Combat, 1802 edition (or thereabouts): And exhibit Two, from the WoTC site : I love it when Good Ideas in Role-playing get re-discovered. It works very well for starship combat where the...

Kudos! I think you've covered it all here :)

Range bands. Oh, that idea is so stolen from Traveller, circa 1977! The thieves! Give them back! :) Heh. They do work though. I'll give some thought into how this could work with M20. I've also modified the text a little for cleaving: In the spirit of zen simplicity, let's just say anyone...

Dropping into the Macropedia, with minor wording changes here. I'll playtest this too - it might work very well for Conan-style "against the hordes" style games, in particular. I've changed the wording to make this a melee only option until I've playtested it - I'm not sure of the idea of a...

Interesting thought. I'm sure it could be possible to switch between d20 and Microlite20. I'll think more about that, thanks :) Hmmmmmmm.......... As regards powering up Rogues every five levels, they do get +1 sub (and all other skills) every single level so they should always have the edge...

Great! :) I'll do a short write-up of last night's game later today too.

Rolemaster forever!!!!! I've a soft spot for Ars Magica and Elephants of Magic too. And I'm kinda proud of the system in Microlite20 :) What I like about D&D magic is the spells themselves. I don't like spell slots, vancian spell memorisation and silly material components. Take out those and...

I'll add in a vote for Nezumi, after just having re-read Oriental Adventures. Nezumi rock! Also, the Grippli write-up from Dragon. I played a Grippli Ranger when one of my players GM'd a while back and loved it. Lupins too, especially if you include catfolk as well. Now, that would make a fun...

I was going to add in my two penn'orth, then read the furore higher up this thread, so didn't. I've changed my mind again. Decisive, aren't I? :) I don't think a BBEG is needed for every scenario. Sometimes the best scenarios are the ones where the BBEG is a threat in the background, a distant...

Sweet! Thanks for the kind words about Microlite20. I'm glad you liked it. I love reading other rules-lite systems, mainly because there's always something new in there to pick up. I like the way that you've fleshed out the Rank concept, a lot. It reminds me of FUDGE with a little d20 goodness...

Must admit, I'd love to see Githyanki and Githzerai in a book. Give me them as playable races with PrCs, hooks into the Realms, Eberron and Greyhawk and info on how to run them as a stand-alone campaign too. Flesh out Dragon/Dungeon's excellent Incursion campaign and give it life. Y'know. That...

Meepo, trust me on this. Try the combat using single attacks in a round. If Mr Owlbear gets 2 claw attacks for +9 melee (1d6+5) and bite +4 melee (1d8+2), choose which to use and do just that attack, then move on. Your players are happy because their turn comes round quicker and they aren't...

Ah, but drow are photogenic :) I bet there's going to be lots of page-eating piccies of everyone's (apparently) favourite skinny goth-metal race. Personally, I'm with you on this. Drow bore me silly :)

In that case, I must be no one. And there's lots of other nobodies out there too. I LIKED THE MONSTERS, OK?! There. I said it. I feel better now. And as a gamer with nigh-on 30 years' experience, I'm offended by your attitude that you're somehow a "better" GM than me, Razz, because I happen...

Joe, I think you've summed it up pretty well, yep. Where Monster Manuals should excel is in terrific beasties that inspires the GM and makes them think "I could use this!" every time they turn the page. The Monsternomicon is a work of art in this respect; it's probably the bestest bestiary ever...

I liked everything about MMIV. I liked the new format. I liked the dragonspawn thingies (great for a starting campaign). I like the new monsters. I liked the monsters-with classes. I liked the extra detail. Given a choice between MMIV and MMII where I found only about 20% of the creatures were...

Lots of love about this list. I'll even forgive them Yet Another Complete Book, as they've turned out to be a better resource than I'd originally given them credit for. In fact, I can't find much to fault in the product list at all. I loved MMIV for being the first genuinely GM-friendly...

Snikle, thanks for the kind words. That's currency around here. I'm running Chicken Royale tonight, using the Microlite20 Modern rules for the first time to generate secret agents. The characters are going to be designated code numbers a'la 007 based upon their stat bonuses. So, a STR12, DEX14...

- the level of support. If Rock/Paper/Scissors had two excellent magazines, a fantastic community of players, sourcebooks, hardbacks and adventures from lots of companies, we'd all be playing that instead. - it's fun! D&D is like a well made sweater. It all hangs together and looks just fine...

I just give 'em one hit. Blam. Move on. Next round. Fast, one second stuff. Keeps the adrenalin going and the players on their feet. Or swinging on the ropes. Wherever. Simple :)