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My votes! Planescape: Torment, my favorite RPG ever anywhere bar none plain and simple. I -adore- this game. Love it love it love it. It's just amazing, start to glorious finish. Final Fantasy: Tactics is one of the most engrossing games I've ever played, just by managing abilities and party...

I go back and forth with what I keep track of. On certain PC missions, I keep track of the time, like when they had five days to guard the governor on the train from one city to the next, and had that much time to foil two assassination attempts and deduce who was responsible, and stop it...

In a game I played in, we once surrendered four times in three sessions to three different groups! The DM had absolutely no idea what to do with us. Cor: "Vel! What's going on out there?" Vel: "I'm talking to their leader!" Cor: "What's he saying?" Vel: "Surrender or die, that's pretty much...

I've had two of these recently -- I've found they're beneficial from many standpoints. One party raided a castle on a mysterious continent to save their traveling party (a bunch of NPCs they cared about). They're level 11, and there's three of them. They had just finished fighting a dragon...

Most used: Warcraft d20, Magic & Mayhem. I don't run a Warcraft game but there are so many fun spells in here I can use elsewhere. Least used: Eberron, Five Nations. No bad reason, just haven't played in Eberron since getting this as a gift. Of books I bought, probably Warcraft: Shadows and...

Villain monologues. I have yet to figure out how to keep my villains out of combat so they can finish their awesome monologues! Stupid PCs keep firing thunderbolts at them... Also, breaks to focus on the villains and their master plan, so the reader KNOWS that Hiro Protagonist is carrying the...

Count another vote for "Braaaaaaaaaaaaaains." In all seriousness, what would stop it? It's already a dead creature walking around sentient, a bane to life and all it stands for. I can't figure out how it wouldn't be allowed to shout curses to the living as it damns them for eternity. Or until...

An initial thought is to have everyone that goes down from damage just be unconscious, if you're worried about too many deaths, but then you have dispatching of unconscious enemies, which gets a little needlessly cruel (stabbing the unmoving orc in the head, all that). Maybe up to half their Con...

Yoink! I know just the place for this! Weapons of Legacy seems very, very neat. Is there anywhere where I could look at a sample couple pages, or previews? Our FLGS isn't very well outfitted (and there's half a foot of snow outside).

I tend to play humans. I have, in my gaming life, played a half-fire elemental sorcerer, dwarven paladin, and elven fighter in nonhuman games. My next character will be a gnome if the mood is right, mostly because I've never played one. I also would like to play a Warcraft-style Orc. Humans...

The Brawl rules in d20 Modern work out this way, where there's no nonlethal damage and instead you're hoping for one good roll on damage to beat someone's Con score. Unfortunately, I think this ends up boiling down to beating on each other indefinitely until someone gets one lucky shot. I do...

I think we can let that description be color, unless there's already a system in place for dirt-chucking. ;)

I like what other people have suggested, being able to follow, but incur an attack of opportunity. Having the five-foot-step incur an AoO is completely not the point of the five-foot-step. It's combat movement. Now, maybe let a five-foot-step have the same effect as Mobility -- it incurs an AoO...

Sigil -- it's the first place that came to mind. And hide in a corner afraid to move and hit an accidental portal, most likely. Sharn would be awesome to visit, though I don't think I could get directions straight there. "Okay, you'll want to go down the street, take a left, go right at Tobias'...

Plot hook for a first-to-epic long-term campaign? I think that's mostly a DM choice thing.

One might even call them "Real Men Of Genius."

The main one I never could get into was Wraith. I mean, at any point does the outlook in that game not SUCK? "Okay, I'm dead, and the world is ugly, and... yep, still dead." Granted, it's probably not good to play the events leading UP to becoming a Wraith. Or a Vampire. Boy, were we dragged...

If the DM does anything enough, it'll drive the players nuts, and they will yammer about how unrealistic, unfair, and un-fun it is. I don't think there's anything wrong with allowing a way to counter the five-foot step, but I think there is something wrong with removing it, as you take away a...

As weird as that sounds, said out in the open like that, yeah. Not because I don't think highly enough of them, but because I think higher of the people I'm with. If my girlfriend went around telling all these attractive men how attractive they are, well, I think part of me would start to feel...

Yeah, I know, but didn't want to turn my entire scenario into a Snow Crash riff, mostly because I haven't read the book in about two years. :)