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I'm doing something similar in my campaign setting with a rework of "mastercraft", the Dragon article on leveled items, and the variants in Unearthed Arcana. Enhancement bonuses on weapons and armor are no longer magical in nature. They are increasingly more difficult and expensive levels of...

buh-bye, elves.

Familiarity: I know everything there is to know about a setting, so I don't have to worry about leaving something out that happened in an obscure novel, or having players complain about continuity issues. I can nudge and rework things to fit backgrounds of characters my players want to play. I...

Thanks for the speedy reply! I was hoping to get the book online (less expensive). Let's hope the FLGS has a copy. I'm catching the movie today, for the first time, and then possibly drawing up characters tonight. Somewhere in there I'll find time to get a copy of the revised rules.

I'm thinking of running a Star Wars game. Yeah, even after I said I wouldn't until they start releasing books again. Anyway, I have the original rulebook but not the revised. I can get the revised book by the time I start playing, but my players want to draw up characters now. Has anything...

I voted Yes, "but for specific reasons" and I'd like to clarify my reasoning lest I become labeled a chauvinist. (Maybe I will anyway.) It's only an issue if they are in a relationship with someone at the table. I don't generally allow a significant other to join, unless the couple in question...

Unless there is a spectacular upset, I think it's pretty clear who is going this time. S'ok elves. We'll get you in round 4. :mad:

hah! The only reason it wasn't in my list of viewing history was because I had forgotten the show existed. I've seen a couple of episodes, and even liked some of the character concepts, but didn't get deep enough into it to attempt to get to a TV to see it with any regularity. I watched the...

I'm less excited about that, but I'll still check it out. :)

There was talk (a few months ago I think) of a prime time, live action, television show to start airing in a year or two. I haven't heard anything more about that to date (other than the rumour that Kevin Smith was going to be involved with it somehow). If he would do it, I could see Mark Hamill...

Elves The dwarves of 2nd Edition! The elf stereotype is wearing so thin. They are so overused, and the line-up of subtypes for every conceivable environment is a constant frustration. Take them all, including the multitude of "turned good" drow elf concepts I have to sift through every time I...

But, to the best of my knowledge, it doesn't show you how to reward experience (at least the original did not) for different CRs. So you would still need the DMG. :P

I watched the original show and next generation. I fell off of DS9 about halfway through, and couldn't bear to watch Enterprise after the first few episodes. I doubt I'd invest any of my time into watching a 'reboot'. I would like to see a new Star Trek, especially since the franchise has been...

He had it right. They instituted the SRD and OGL so that other companies could provide the ever-important, but typically less profitable, fluff. The expectation was that these 3rd parties would create great settings and adventures using the rules provided, allowing WotC to focus on the expansion...

Depends on the campaign setting. I've used local pantheons with different reasonings for why they were localized, a world spanning pantheon (both with the deities having different names in different areas and with them being one and the same everywhere), and other setups. For the most part my...

I like the way the current system works. Intelligence makes sense (to me) as the base ability for skills. And with a little thought you could explain the role intelligence plays in every last skill. You get points from your class, a character who is particularly good in a skill will likely have...

Not every campaign is identical. A system wouldn't be necessary for a standard campaign, but if you were running a campaign where trade were the focal point (i.e. The players are smugglers or run a caravan), it certainly makes sense to have a basic system in place to keep that aspect of that...

Neat! I've been thinking of using wikis to design my campaign worlds and then to track campaigns I run in them. This may open up greater possabilities than I thought were available to me.

Good answers here. I concur that a good game for teens would be somewhere between power rangers and star wars (more towards the SW side at that age). Stories in which killing is rarely the answer but ocasionally necessary in a non-gory way, the bad guys are bad, the good guys are good, and the...

Aristotle, the character I've named myself after online, was my decker character in Shadowrun. A smart-mouthed teenager with a knack for all things electronic. A year later he figured prominently as an NPC mage (Virtual Adepts) in my WoD game. A pivotal character. The scenes revolving around the...