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I'll chime in too. I'm still mulling over the system, but Elements of Magic Revised breaks down magic into very, very small pieces. Wizards start with knowing just a few "pieces" such as Evoke Fire or Water, or Charm Person or Mammal, or Summon Force or Air, etc. There's dozens of combinations...

I like the rules in Grim Tales too, concerning damage being converted to subdual. As someone else mentioned, it also has a great Massive Damage system that is flexible. I've played SW d20 and i really like it. My only concern is that it seemed really easy to die really quickly. One good roll...

I like using leadership as a feat, but also having the PC give it his best shot based roleplaying-wise. If he does good, a bonus; he says lame stuff, a penalty. Sort of merge the two approaches, straight Leadership feat or straight rp.

Here's some ideas: Halo 1 featured the Overshield Powerup, that doubled your shields. I haven't seen it in Halo 2 yet. You could also get an invisibility cube, but i haven't seen that for Master Chief in Halo 2 either. One thing that neither sequel did that i would liked to have seen is a pack...

Yeah, great ideas there. I will definitely mete out the spells slowly, and be sure to make them as non-DnD as possible, with grisly components and ghastly side-effects. Gotta love Cthulhu...

I'm running Masks of Nyarlathotep for my group and they just reached 2nd level and made it to the London scenario. On the way over, the bookseller character studied Africa's Dark Sects and learned Create Corpsewalker, and then made a series of checks to read a Latin version of Vermiis Mysteris...

I convinced my long-term girlfriend to play a couple of times, but she never really got into it. She said it was too confusing, although she played her barbarian fairly well and had a great YEE! YEE! YEE! YEE! battle cry. My brother roped in his girlfriend who had the tendency to mock him and...

Limit the combat. Don't throw as many baddies against them as in a default DnD scenario. If you do, make sure their attack/defense stats are comparable to the party's power level, or substantially weaker. Give them lots of advice ahead of time that resurrection is not an option.

1) Action point awarded to PC's when the DM activates a critical hit against them. The crit cannot be activated if the attack roll wouldn't be high enough to hit the PC anyway. Action point awarded when the DM activates a "1" skill or saving throw failure. If the roll would have beat the DC...

That sounds great Ryan. My problem with the system was that it wasn't immediately adaptable. I had to spend considerable brain power to understand the concept, although i did appreciate the amazing flexibility. A supplement that does some of that groundwork would be immensely useful. How long...

I like diaglos NPC concepts too, they're pretty simple and clean. Personally, i don't usually see the need for fully fledged NPC's unless they're entering combat. Even then, it's easy to wing low level characters, you have a minimum of choices (but much more than older editions). Mid-high level...

wow, i was about to say the exact same thing, deltadave. I used MS in my Cthulhu campaign this weekend, just let the mp3 tracks play to their little heart's content. It was great ambivalent background music as there was nothing especially jolting going on (until the end when the guns came out)...

Cool. Thanks guys. Does say a 5th level "Mage" from Elements basically equal a character from the core rules? From what it looked like they were supposed to be interchangeable, but not level-stackable.

I bought this the other day and i THINK i like it, but it's a little complicated, maybe because i'm just not used to it and haven't playtested it yet. Does anyone else have pros or cons with the system? I'd been wanting to adapt Ars Magica anyway to d20, and this system is pretty durn close...

Roman, it sounds like your DM was trying to destroy your party! Damn, you took it pretty well. I admit, i've had to stack the odds against my PC's just because they were so powerful and innovative, but it sounds like he had every avenue of escape covered.

CONAN! COOONAAAAN! Yeah, it's great, but we've been using it for, oh, ten years or so. I have a collection of mp3's and wav's that my brother helped organize into Battle Music, Suspense, Travelling, Scary, etc. But what takes the cake lots of time are the sound effects, but these are massively...

Midnight is one of the best campaign settings (for dark and gritty DnD) and Fantasy Flight supports it heartily with book supplements and tons of free online stuff (check out againstheshadow). M&M i agree is a fantastic book that is really just suited to super hero or modern gameplay. Converting...

Return to the Tomb of Horrors had a badass monster i think was called the dreamweaver (i think). It's been reprinted somewhere, but i forget. Sorry, i'm not being too useful here. :) Anyway, it's this spider-thing that is at the center of a tower, and there are shadow-webs all along the way...

And what everyone says about ability scores is correct, but in d20, every ability score is important at some time or another. There's not really a "dump" stat that you can put your lowest score in and hope there will never be a consequence for your 4 Charisma. But yes, certain ability scores...

i agree. roleplaying games are an old concept for me. I've forgotten how it can be for a newbie churning into the rulebooks. if you think skills are tricky, wait until you try your first AoO! The thing about Dnd is that there are SO many different ways to play. Different groups whittle the rules...