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Definitely neutral. I was positive and excited for 4e (Due to my joy at what they had done with Saga and thought of it as a 4e preview) and was disappointed when it went in a direction that did not fit my style. 5e could be good for me, great for me, bad for me, etc - Only time will tell if it...

Playing: Testing out new rules in a friend's homebrew (weekly) 4e LFR (1/month or so) GM-ing: On hiatus - But want to start running my system for some people again ------------ Yeah, my current financial status has kept me from being able to do much on the gaming side and I really miss running...

Gotta love that rush of goodness that comes from a firestorm of creating. I do indeed love it when that happens. I've had it happen a lot - finishing the perfect map... Finishing the perfect RPG system... Finishing my novel (And the days when the inspiration was there and I was blazing out...

I like balance in a system - A system where the effort put in by a character and their experience determines their ability in an "encounter". A lot of my system design was based on a built in balance between options. Certainly you can take it too far. Balance without flavor is boring. It is...

Both of my returns were star wars by odd coincidence. One was the Saga core rules, there was a glue error that caused several important pages to be fused together. The other was the old d20 starships book. A bad misprint where the 2nd half of the book was actually the 1st half of the book...

I loosely track weather - And pay a good deal of attention to the date - tracking travel time and such to keep seasons going in the right times. Nothing too involved, though I probably SHOULD work up a calendar for my world... Smoss

I picked "other" because it depends. For my pre-written adventures, weather is important for dramatic reasons. But in "normal" play, I use weather as appropriate for the season and with a chance of happening similar to the good old real world. :) Smoss

For my world I based it on distance more than anything (Most of the civilized lands are fairly open). Usually a 1-2 day walk between towns. farms and other small dwelling areas may exist between. (At least in the more heavily settled areas). It tends to give a feel of civilization without a...

For my RPG system, I went with a modified version of a couple systems (Inspirations from Savage Words, D&D, etc) A person can have 1 to 4 hp based on the experience points they have spent on their skills/abilities/etc (99% have only 1). Roll damage. This is compared to a threshold (A static...

The "Apocalypse Stick". Seemingly a small twig held by a frail, blind, crazy seeming old man... "Get back or I'll hit you with my apocalypse stick" Of course, it really WAS just a twig. The crazy man was just a powerful (now insane) psionic. Amusing to have PCs try to figure out how to use...

I used a similar concept when I wrote my own RPG system loosely based on the SRD. It is a "point buy" style system - each feat costs 1 "point" (Called experience points - hmm...) There are other bits too, such as buying techniques for 2 xp a pop (They are buffer than feats). Buying abilities...

Mishihari Lord, My approach began conceptually - No classes, no levels - how do you balance combat in magic/warrior/etc. It basically came down to making it equally easy to kill someone with any method - improving your character makes it more efficient/faster/easier. You might get some ideas...

A party member with transformational abilities turned herself into a dolphin to go fetch something at the bottom of the sea. She returned to the surface empty handed to tell us "Dolphins don't have pockets". For a while it always seemed like our party would get information from a dying dwarf...

The first game I was actually playing in was a one shot of Paranoia. That was great fun. While it wasn't my first EXPOSURE to gaming, it was the first time I got to participate. (I had seen a D&D book at one point and made a character beforehand, but never played or understood the rules or...

Death's Midwives (Delivering death!) Crimson Kittens (Stolen from my friend Sarah) X's Angels (X being whatever.) Totally not stolen from Charlie's Angels... :P Smoss

I took a similar approach to thinking when I created the damage system for my RPG system. I wanted something the "felt" real, had simple math and bookkeeping, and was easy to play/GM. It makes being "one shotted" possible (If not always likely). My basic solution was that all people have one...

My personal favorite is the first adventure I really truly played - "Jacob's Well" - from Dungeon #43. A beautiful short solo adventure that can end in tons of ways depending on your actions. I used it as a basis for writing the intro adventure for my word and RPG system as the design elements...

For my gaming system and the world it describes, I went with the "Less is More" approach. I consolidated monsters (myths and legends of various creatures actually all being ONE type of critter). Some of it was cultural naming as well. I discussed some of this in my world design blogs. Some...

When doing PBeM and PBIM games I named campaign arcs. I also name my homebrew modules. I have few of those remaining around, just my new modules for my latest setting and RPG setting. The intro adventure "The Horror in Horatius Hall" - based on the format of the classic adventure "Jacob's...

Game night is not shirtless night. My eyes thank you very much. Smoss