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Ah, one of our players has a bad habit of having his character die. His first was a gnome that ended up holding a rope tied to the tail of a flying demon. The flying gnome was quite funny for all until he hit a wall at high speed. Then it was funny for everyone but the player... :) However...

When I settled down to work on my current campaign world I had decided to go far less kitchen sink. I rolled multiple monsters into one, created myths around creatures that drew on other monsters, etc. Plus the fact that in this world monsters are rare and sometimes unique... It is a...

We still tell tales of the epic fun that was had when we did a game where all the PCs grabbed monsters out of the MM to play for a one shot. The guy playing the Gelatinous Cube gave us some epic fun, surviving to the end with only a couple of hit points left (Only a little goo left). After all...

Pro: No worries about acne Con: Tooth decay is more dangerous now Pro: Never worry about a bad hair day Con: Cool sunglasses keep falling off Pro: No more stubborn itchy area you can't quite reach ---------- Smoss

Homebrew systems are all I regularly play anymore. Smoss

Wow, been a while for me. Running Wild (Shadowrun 4E) - Yay Critters fo SR4... :) The Unknown Regions (SW Saga) - Completing my Saga edition collection. I still want to get the Seattle sourcebook for SR4, I'll call that #3... :P Smoss

When I made my system I used a modified group of skills from 3.5e and SW saga. My skill list: Skills - Doulairen Perfect for what I use my system for... Might give some inspiration for ya. Smoss

Neither. I removed them entirely for my RPG system. But if I did include them, I would want them to have a unique group name. Much like dwarves in my system do not call themselves dwarves (or even dwarfs!). I kept the term of elf for elves though, as it isn't an insult... Well, usually...

Thanks for the thoughts and keep them coming. :) The article gave me an idea or two I missed in my preparations (I was hoping it would help sharpen my notes). So all is good. I've worked long and hard to make my life as a DM easier and faster for better gaming. Any help like this is always...

If you use it at the pdf's instructions - Not at all over the top. It mentions there is no need to fill it all in and that it is there as a guide for inspiration and areas to potentially think about. Now if someone really DID fill out every single question about every single character they...

Amazon Women from the Moon, of course. Duh. :) Smoss

It looks like an interesting thought process. A "point of view" to look at the design. Certainly when I worked on my own RPG system there were some "subtractive" moments. I had a certain feel and style I wanted. So I subtracted out what I did not need. I cut out classes. I cut out levels...

It was the HP whittling (And bookeeping of thus) that turned me off of D&D. I loved 3E for a while, but I moved on to my own system. 4E didn't solve my problem (And went the wrong direction *for me* in some things, most of which not relevant to this discussion). As a DM, I wanted less...

I love to freeform GM. Heck, I designed my RPG system to make that easier on me. (When you have ZERO need for NPC stats in 99% of cases, it is SO much easier.) Heh, nothing like knowing what you like and doing your best to make what you like easier to do. :) But yeah, all of my last few...

Agreed - When I designed my RPG world and system - I wanted more Conan to its feel. A better ability to be a barbaric warrior and thief (No classes in my system for example). The raw deadliness and energy (Quick, deadly fights). And a lot of setting feel (Monsters are rare but deadly and...

Love the original un-edited Robert E Howard stuff. Such great energy. And his friendship with Lovecraft and their sharing of a universe and ideas. :) Of course, one DOES have to read it through a filter - knowing it was written for a pulp magazine (Appeal to the teen boy hormones!). And the...

I've sometimes taken an idea or two from a published adventure, but never run one. I always write and run my own stuff. I've tried to run a published adventure a few times and all it taught me is that published adventures don't cater to the kind of RP me and my friends like. That and the...

While I don't run prepackaged modules myself, I have been a player in some. I still have a fondness for my first ever adventure which was a module from the old magazines... :) It was called "Jacob's Well". A beautiful little murder mystery solo adventure. Heck, the intro module I made for...

Things that have helped me are really threefold... 1) A love of creation. If you don't love creating new things, new people, a new world, etc. Well, running a campaign is going to be a lot tougher. 2) World Creation. A living breathing world makes adventures easier. Knowing that group A...

Conan d20 had some influence on my own RPG system, though I had taken active defense from the old optional D&D rule for it. My system also uses active defense (Parry, Dodge, or Mental defenses). I was most worried about any effect on speed - As I worked to design my system for fast, deadly...