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English. Hands down. And will continue to do so for the forseeable future. In fact, the emergence of India and China will only further strengthen this fact. In several hundred years the "Earth Common" will still be "English", but were you or I transported to that distant time, we would not...

I've used cards for items, spells and NPC's. I've also used cards for "secret plots / organizations" in more political campaigns. I've been wanting to use cards for locations /encounters for a while now. I vaguely remember a discussion about that idea years ago... either here or as an article...

I was laughing at the humour of this thread title and then realised that I was inadventently nude at the computer! :D Of course, this made the joke twice as funny!! ;)

Thanks Morris! This site is the only forum I regularly return to again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and.... :D

Yeah, I saw that. It's still a thing that's likely to get referenced in a chart if left as is. Expecting the average player to take the att & def rolls, subtract them, determine that the spread is, say, 17 and then divide that by 5 to determine that this means it's the fourth multiple of five...

I did bring up the example of "The Dark Crystal", (Which I love and can't wait for the sequel in 2008!), to which my friend countered that there were human-equivalents in that settings. The Gelflings and Podlings in his view were really just humans with different names. Their viewpoints and...

Hmmm... I don't know if you realise this or not, but you're asking more than one question here. 1) Why do you create your own settings? 2) Why do you use your own homebrew settings rather than using a published one? 3) Am I still homebrewing if I'm borrowing elements from other settings? 4)...

This post is prompted by a comment a friend once made that I've never fully believed. He said that a setting (whether for rpgs, a movie or a novel) MUST have humans present. It can have all kinds of other races and oddities, but without the presence of at least one human or human-equivalent...

Your alternate reach system is interesting, ("Melee reach"?), I'm not sure how it would affect combat - it would require playtesting. Here are a few other ideas I've thought of for you to consider: 1) give weapons varying bonuses to initiative. As you said, a knife is faster than a...

Ah! All is forgiven then! ;) I've moved many times and know what it's like.... Perhaps... Although, I'm not sure how positively your average player would react to their high level characters having a greater chance of being struck down by a small number of lucky blows. :) One way I can...

Bump. Hey, Eltern! Did you notice? I've tested the bejeebus outa your combat system!

Me too! Hey, Jack! Please say you live in Newfoundland! :lol: At the risk of threadjacking, I would love to see Mr. Morgan's campaign notes written up and posted on enworld!

Comparative Test Results Hi all, Sorry I'm a day late, I underestimated just how strenuously I would end up celebrating my birthday on Saturday past and thus everything took longer than expected. :D Anyway... Here are the results of my testing on Friday afternoon and this evening. I did four...

Oh, "flaming Pick"!! Man, you had me doing a double-take with that thread title!! :lol: :lol: I had a Gnome Fighter who used the Gnomish Pick as his weapon, but you kinda expect that combo... His backstory was that he was a gem miner turned adventurer, boy could he ever appraise! :) As for...

I use both hexes and squares without problem. I find that squares are convenient for indoor encounters, unless it's a tunnel system or ancient ruins, then I prefer to use hexes. I usually use hexes for outdoor encounters unless it is an urban encounter as it's convenient to draw the roads...

If you feel that characters are advancing in levels and powers too quickly and are rapidly leaving your definition of the "sweet spot", then there's a real simple solution to this: Lower the XP rewards & slow down the handing out of new spells, magic items, magical weapons, etc. Don't "punish"...

Good points all around! The primary intent of my testing is to do a comparative study between standard D&D combat rules and yours, specifically comparing the time it takes to do battles and the complexity of usage of the systems to resolve attacks and defences. Issues of whether the total...

I agree. Allowing this is really an "all or nothing" ruling. Once you let one or two people do it, then you're pretty much forced into demanding that all players do it. I think that the main reason that DMs do this is because a) they want to be nice to players, and b) they don't have the time...

Ah... now it makes sense. I would be quite interested to know when your finished version is available. An email dropped to a certain gmail account with the same name as my username would be greatly appreciated! ;) Until then, I think that I will "appropriate" this current incarnation of the...

Thanks for the compliment. My "payment" is that you do a like kindness to the next person you see who could use some help. :D I'm almost ready to do my testing now, just have to finish cleaning up the reference sheet for your combat system. In case anyone wants to follow along, here are my...