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Hah, awesome... I recall the first incarnation of F.A.T.A.L. had some odd rules on cloaks. That popped up in a forum debate on vampires in the system. Cloaks were deemed a disadvantage to vampires at the end of the debate along with the waste of time debating the merits of F.A.T.A.L. :erm:

Yes and No Yes, GMs should read his work to get at least a passing understanding to many of the "cult" icons you see appearing in the works. Not so much with players, they can get away with just riding a good narrative. The GM can introduce most of the elements from his story into the...

I am mostly a 1e fan. So, I would be happy to ignore the skill system for the most part. That being said, I listed what I dislike about the game - and made no personal attacks unlike yourself. I dislike the game because it has few support mechanics. You can insult me over it if you like, but the...

You mean the combat actions listed under skills as a description, right? ;) Describing skills actions with combat terms sounds an awful lot like an encounter in 4e to me. Jump is described as part of a move action as I recall as one example. That is why I would never play a 4e version of the...

Not what I said... :) Edition wars forum bits aside, 4e provides for almost nothing outside of combat. 1e provides for almost everything ranging from basic building rules to conversion systems from two living systems from its own day. Basically even with the revisions to the GSL, 4e can not...

Mmm, 1e under TSR has lots of out of combat mechanics for players to build magic, buildings, and fun character aspects around. Boot Hill and Gamma World conversion brings in tons of out of game mechanics for the sci-fi/low magic GM. 4e places many of the mechanical ends for such rules into...

Dislike it - my group has always been half roleplay and half rollplay. The lack of out of combat mechanics has killed any real form of out of combat roleplay in terms of giving players a framework to do clever things like create a wagon theft alarm system for instance. To make a long story...

Aroo? My campaign uses the lifemate/lovemate style storyhook as a general rule for my werewolf clans. I try to avoid applying mechanical stats to that aspect of the game - love and game stats tends to be one of the odd things to manage if you are GM. And, I reallllly do not plan on RPing that...

Offhand? Wood shop joke anyone? I would use these... http://www.premierwood.com/ImagesCache/3-12-Wood-Dowel-I22357.jpg Use a flat surface from a straight piece of wood like a high quality 2x6 and lodge the dowel into place on the plank using screws at each end to hold the dowel in place. The...

This is a politically active time. Google uses region to help place the ads under AdSense. So, you will see ads that go against your point of view if you active in politics at all. - link of ad - company/group - screenshot It's not easy to go through the ad manager on Google and hit every...

The other day, I almost stepped on a jelly fish while on the beach. Odd, it is the wrong time of year for them here. :) I think of the ochre jelly in the older games. Then, I remind people of the Green Slime - the 1968 movie version. How about the vintage 1958 Blob movie? Anywho, the point...

Agreed - I'll just go ahead and send the traditional bit as an update and post the OGC to my own site as a bonus. I'd love to see it on the Wiki, but that's a fight I'm not really willing to start.

Message: The book gives pretty detailed usage at the start of the books and full details at the start of each section containing OGC. I manually entered the section on ships stats and combat. That's the only section in question for myself. Man-thing, yeah - that's why I like to inform the...

Yup yup, careful is the the key word of the day. Both the publisher and email sender should know the nature of the OGC, but... Yeah, it's possible they think they can take it back. The book itself is actually made to be extremely OGL friendly with clear usage and OGC labeling. I can post the...

So, I'm set to release an actual print product locally. The product being a short adventure theme set around a classic haunted house story. The market is basically local gamers at the local gamer tournies. It's really a "fun" thing for my area gamers. Anywho, I have the first adventure done. I...

Core Books was Product Identity in the STL - more than a shorthand term. One might muse on the nature of Forums, but the actual term in question is strictly license in nature if you are talking to the legit angle.

Yup yup, "Core" was a prefix for a license term more than anything else in the end. So, 4e perception of the word will be subjective for everyone. And, everyone has a take on it. However.... Just a quick food for thought type thing... WOTC terminated the STL. “Core Rulebooks” defines the new...

No kidding, I'll have to give that a try at the local shop here. I use a few small print shops for legal/local-made PDFs that I help make for locals, but it would be nice to have another option.

Le sigh - time outs on forum posts suck. Okay, take two! Sorry about the delay, I am drowning in work. But, I read the early Bolo books in high school during my senior year. I was a die hard fan of sci-fi by that time. I enjoyed them. So, yeah - I can enjoy the angle you are taking with the...

Mekton Z looks like a decent Mech system, first off. I just checked out the website. :hmm: I'll have to look around the local stores to see if there is a copy floating around.