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One of my pet peves about the D20 system is the prevelance of the feats, talents (for D20 modern), and class features which restrict their use to once per day or other arbitrary time span. It''s the fact that the character now must know about a game mechanic which interferes with my roleplaying...

Spycraft 1.0 has the same rules, which is what prompted this poll/discussion. I was intrigued by the missing rule set, and wondered how much it would affect the usual group if the rules suddenly went missing. In D&D, because of the focus on melee combat, AoOs are much more useful, but the D20...

In my experience, and by my reading of the rules, you can't adjudicate AoO's without having a detailed map and miniatures on the table to follow the combat. Since miniatures based combat is not what my group has learned to play, running combats with miniatures is a complete pain. The gaming area...

I agree that AoO rules are a huge confusing mess. I think one of the best things to do is alter the order in which combat moves are executed. D&D rules assume and encouage taking actions on your initiative count. Instead of starting at the top of the initiative order and asking for actions, I...

Well, since everyone else is doing this, I ought to put forth my favorite settings. Traveller: I'm a huge fan of the Traveller universe and have been since the Classic Traveller days. Suggesting a Setting book for Traveller is difficult since the authors don't do setting books the same way as...

For many settings I let "Magic" be another language, spend one skill point in read/write/speak language and you can read it. No spell needed, feat, or class feature needed. With the D20 skill system other, non-casting classes can learn the language as a cross-class skill. GURPS has an...

All the best settings seem to be dark, gritty horror settings. Anyone want to recommend a 3rd edition setting that isn't dark and depressing.

I'm interested in finding out how frequently people use the Attack of Opprotunity rules in D20 Modern and it's addtions (D20 Future, etc). I've run two modern style games (one in Traveller, the other in Dragonstar) and in the 50 or so sessions had a player call an AoO only once. So I'm thinking...

I've seen Rifts mentioned almost everytime the setting-fluff discussion comes up. Unfortuantly Rifts now encompasses 50+ books at $15 each and no PDF versions. So all you people who like Rifts, please recommend one to three of the books (beyond the core book) which are the best of the setting...

This seems to be a usual response. I want a good setting, something that will reach out of the book, put dice in my hand and say "Go Play! Now!". Odd or obsucre does not bother me. Were I to express a general trend, I'd ask for settings that allow more than new ways to kill things. For my...

In another forua I was having a discussion about settings books. One of the other people noted they hate, despise, loath and revile the D20 system (my hat of teh D02 system know no limit), but has a great interest in setting material. So what settings books would you most recommend to this...

http://www.shadownessence.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=7489 Download the month of changeling PDF in the first message. This contains a bunch of interesting riddles, along with a few other gaming related items for another game system.

I would put Spears and Lances together with Polearms. I would put Axes, Maces and Clubs, and Picks and Hammers together. Combine Close Combat and Martial Arts weapons. Consider a "Improvised Weapon" group. It may help is getting rid of the close combat and martial arts weapons groups. You...

I'll expand upon what DanMcS said. EMP is a strong burst of radio waves, like putting something in a microwave oven. Electrical devices and electronics are particularly vunerable to this because they have metal in them which acts like an antenna, converting the burst of radio waves into...

I'm a big fan of not doing any work that someone else has already done, unless, of course, no one has done it correctly. I've got a couple of more fan-based class construction/point buy systems in PDF which I can no longer find on the web. If you've looked through the links above and want more...

Oooohhh. Another point based system for building classes. Have you seen Buy the numbers? or it's companion Point Buy Numbers. I've got a Class construction guide which discusses many of the same issues as you have covered. Also look through this board for Dr. Spunj's Classless system...

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I know of a few references to things, and depending upon how far from the D20 modern you wanted to go, I could probably generate something. But it would be pretty rough. The Building Vehicle Statistics has a table to convert mass into hit points. In the Traveller D20 book, under combat, is a...

There are the stupid plot tricks which eveyone seems to use in books and movies which are the inspriation to most gaming material. And then there's S. John Ross's big list of rpg plots. The best list of the limited list of plots is 36 plots. I still use this list when my muse has decided to...