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FF can perhaps best be emulated with either True20 or M&M. Although Tr20 is my personal favorite of the two, M&M does handle the “Whack Factor” better; that is, the ability to create your own unconventional characters, abilities, and gear. This will be the key to running an over the top...

Heck, I don’t even play "D&D" with D&D anymore, thanks to C&C and True20.

I voted yes. When I was younger, our games were mostly of a hack & slash nature. The thrill of the game was in killing things and taking their stuff, and exploring exotic lands. I didn’t even have names for some of my earliest characters. As an adult, the thrill of D&D is all about the...

True20 is probably my favorite overall rules-lite game, as it is can be used to run just about any setting, and it is easy to import other D20 material into it. Some may not consider it a “rules-lite” game... But it sure seems to run like one. Savage Worlds and C&C are both excellent systems...

Just be sure to pick up the CEP expansion mod for NWN- Lots of extra cool stuff.

The only reason I was looking forward to a 4th edition was in the hope that it would be a more streamlined rules-lite game, with the tactical/wargame/minis aspect not as integrated into the core rules (so that they would be easier to remove entirely.) Since that time, I’ve gotten ahold of...

Hypothetically, just how damaging would it be to let this guy hang-on as a prop? Does he contribute anything at all to the game? If so, you might actually consider giving the guy what he wants- A few hours of not-that-involved play. (Of course, he would also suffer the consequences of this as...

It’s hard to tell what you mean exactly with the information given, but I don’t think that making one option appear “more beneficial” over another option is the same as “railroading.” Sometimes, there is simply a “better” choice between two choices, and it is the responsibility of the DM to...

Can you do that with a Hulking Hurler build?

Meh. Video games died when they were terminally infected with graphics. ZORK FOREVER!!!

Asdlkhf;asdkjhf’[ieowyf,mdnc. Man, I hear what you’re saying. I’m a room full of infinite typing monkeys, and we all find it very inconsiderate when pollsters just assume that everyone here is using the most up-to-date version of the cerebral cortex. That makes us so angry that we jump up and...

I'll tell you who the worst R/L villains of D&D are- "Those gamers" who give the hobby a bad name. You know the ones I'm talking about.

Well, it's not really "my" quote, so you don't really need my permission?

I know you were probably looking for rules that concern the players, but I think this concept can apply to the GM side of things too- I remember that there have been times as a GM that I did not play a particular monster to the fullest capacity that I could have, for no other reason than it was...

Man, back in 2E we used to be rabid-psycho-meticulous about encumbrance. Every coin was accounted for. Heck, we stopped a game once to weigh a small stone garden statue to settle an argument over how much a small stone idol in-game would weigh. Even after encumbrance was calculated, the GM...

I must say that I am honestly surprised by these numbers... The way I hear the kids at the hobby store talk, I thought that Evil alignments would be more popular by far.

Oh, how I had hoped and hoped and hoped that RIFTS would see some kind of resurrection or reanimation, in the form of a complete system overhaul, or a conversion into a system that works. But, I guess all I have to look forward to is several more years of fan abuse. :(

Well said. I think that's a pretty honest assessment. Which was one of the reasons we’ve switched to True20… But I’m not sure what’s funny about that?

Palladium will be around forever, as evil never dies.

We simply role-played the characters differently. And that seemed to work just fine.