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Sure, in the real world. In a D&D setting, I generally tend to take the equality suggested by the gender-neutral ability score system and run with it. Besides, plucky-female-character-making-her-way-against-the-rules-of-a-patriarchal-society stories are tired as all hell, and stories where...

God, I want to run something with Spirit of the Century, but I don't think I've got the experience to try that game in public, yet. I've got to try it out with my crew, first. Yeah, I heard about the bad news at Fermilab. And now the lack of another Dread game at Gameday is just one more...

I'm probably going to be stolen away from 3.5 and most its variants by 4e, but I'm always really interested in this kind of thing. I'll have to at least check it out and see if there's anything worth cannibalizing, regardless of what I'm actually running at the time.

Honestly, that sounds boring to me. When I run or play D&D, I want action and complicated problems. When I just want action, I play video games. Why should any kind of creature be pure anything? Ambiguity and depth are fun. I ran a game a while ago where some cannibalistic humanoids...

Dang, this setting sounds kind of interesting. Largely because of the lack of standard D&Disms.

Such terrible spelling and punctuation, but such great ideas! I really dig the hell out of all these concepts.

I started typing a up a big, highly digressive reply to this, going into the way I think the GSN model's terminology should be used, but then I realized the whole tangent was of no use to anyone, and GSN has already been discussed and debated into the dirt. So instead I'll just say that I don't...

There's one more option that's a hell of a lot easier: Take an existing monster and change everything but the stats. Same crunch, new fluff, effectively a whole new monster. I think the hydra's stats would work pretty well on a horrific, protoplasmic mass that sprouts multiple semi-humanoid...

It's a bit of a fallacy to conflate "gamism" with "fun". Hell, everything you do at the table ought to be "fun". I think that passage was more about why the game doesn't need rules for bladder fullness or authentic medieval skin parasites. Realism ain't really "fun", certainly, but...

How is "flavorless" a bad thing in a base class?

Damn, that is pretty bad. Her mouth is hanging open retardedly, and she looks like she plucks her eyebrows. Hell, I think the fact that she even has eyebrows is off-model. Yeah, but while the old one was clearly also supposed to be sexy, they actually did a decent job of it. The 4e one just...

Yeah, I did notice that weird and surprisingly dumb line. I don't think it's worth making a big deal about, but it really does sound kind of ass-backwards.

Ha! I was just about to point out how much fun it can be to listen to people play, and mention you guys. That Godlike video is news to me, though. I'll have to check that out, sometime.

I'm thinking about something like the fantasy equivalent of a flare or light stick.

If you want an interesting setting, try reversing that. The world plunged into darkness has some possibilities--especially if you work out all of the larger effects of the change beyond just providing cover--but it doesn't sound like you've got anything much going on with the monsters...

Well, now I want to kill myself and everyone else on Earth. Thanks.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, harm is arguably a much nicer spell than direct damage ones: It cannot kill people. The fact that it's from the necromancy school doesn't seems like a logical reason to call it evil.

What.

I'm a lot less concerned about creatures or other elements in a game session fitting fantasy genre conventions than I am about them fitting into the specific setting. Who cares about what qualifies as "fantasy", as long as the contents of the campaign fit together as a working whole and follow...

I'd actually say that's a little bit different from what I'd call an alignment system. I mean, it's not a descriptive trait that's set at character creation and considered unlikely to change; it's a gauge that starts at a default base and reacts to in-game choices. Now Palladium games (such as...