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Up until the Odin and Zeus comment, this is basically what I do. I gave up on homebrewing gods because my players never learned them. I created a small pantheon with generic names like: The warrior The lady The shepherd The dark lord These work well enough for players, if someone is playing a...

What about something herding the party towards an encounter. Imagine a black dragon taking days to make certain passages impossible to the party. If they have horses, it can strike at night or when the party is least expecting it and steal a horse. Everyone is figuring how to ford a waterway...

I played a soulfire slinging demonologist and occult bookstore owner, Saturday in a campaign that has been running since January. The character is becoming more badass, but is still a coward- he is just accepting that God is going to get him killed fighting demons or something else that someone...

I've generally regarding "drifting" as taking a mechanic from a game system and applying it to another. I have drifted the BITs from Burning Wheel- Beliefs, Instincts, and Traits (well mostly the BIs) to a 3.5 game. Roleplaying to a characters BIts earned action points which could then be spent...

I don't even care about classes, I really like this for explaining classless systems. You can fight and use magic. Which one do you lean towards? I have seen many people explain classless builds in terms of D&D classes (which I find pretty funny) but using this as a guideline for how to...

These are amazing! Have you looked into Gaming Paper? The easel is a good option, but Gaming Paper may work better for your guys. If not, rock on. But I really hope you guys keep those maps around.

It does in my experience. Any game that mechanically rewards building a character and using that character's traits to accomplish goals tends to encourage more roleplaying- at least from what I have seen. FATE does this with the aspects. Your high concept, trouble, and other aspects details...

I chose Pathfinder core only. I really prefer to use the APG, but I am lukewarm about the Ultimate [Thing] books. Then again, I really enjoy E6 games, so these choices are restricted further by cutting out most of the high level stuff.

This seems cool, but many would see it as a slight spin on Warhammer 40k. Savage Worlds or FATE Core could work very well for this system's "magic" Savage Worlds has generic powers (combat focused, non-combat spells can be added and role played) adding trappings allows the Bolt power (generic...

Not a RomCom or procedural drama, but there is the MAID RPG. Linkify! Dogs in the Vineyard? I've never played it, but this could perhaps be something to look into.

Group dynamics matter a lot too. I'm currently playing in a Dresden Files game, and while my cowardly demonologist and occult bookstore owner is lacking in great social skills, he is very willing to try to talk his way out of stuff because fighting scares him. The one truly social character was...

Burning Wheel and Mouse Guard are both RPGs that don't focus on combat. They have combat rules, but talking your way out of something is very much preferred. Especially in Burning Wheel where a single good hit can end the fight.

If you don't consider Noir part of the action/adventure genre, I ran a Burning Wheel game that was the best game I have run. The three PCs were looking for the Silver Dove because whichever noble family had possession could make a claim to rule the city-state. Most of the "adventure" involved...

I once had my PCs find a doorknob. If you held it up at door-knob height (technical term) and turned it, an oak door materialized allowing access into a mansion in a pocket dimension. You could also take the knob off the door, bring it inside and close the door- disappearing from the plane. The...

Which books did you find better? I have seen some other reviews for Vornheim that were very positive.

I think this is even better than my idea! (And I like my ideas)

Human is always a good one (or the dominant race for the region). Magical beast or aberration are handy too since they are plentiful in the monster books. But Crothian gave the best advice- talk to the GM.

Is the fire giant straight out of the book? If he know magic, he could brand the PCs temporarily. They need to find his hound, if they do not return within a certain time frame the brand will kill them. This works on addressing the trust issues. Or the hound is held somewhere else, not a part...

The group I have been a part of for about a year meets weekly for one campaign. We meet every Saturday around 4:30, game runs from 5:30 to 10:30. Most campaigns run about 8 months to around 1.5 years. Then the group votes on the pitched games. When someone's campaign us up, they have to wait...

I thought Erebos was the best, so I voted for it. Then I read the posts. It does still feel like the best name to me, but I think you may want to go with something else. Primeval and Primordial often make people think of primitive cultures or huge thriving wilds, not the best here. Tartarus...