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I haven't looked at Hackmaster's version, but the original has a basement level. IIRC, there's a revolt brewing among the orc slaves down there, and a vaguely Cthulhoid temple tucked away.

IIRC, that's the Greyhawk calendar. Oerth has two moons - one governs the months, the other governs the festivals.

There are basically three consistent ways to measure large-scale time: - the time required for the Earth to rotate once - the time required for the Moon to orbit the Earth - the time required for the Earth to orbit the Sun The first one became the basis for our "day", the second was the...

Other good sources are the "Real Life Roleplaying" products by Holistic Design (www.holistic-design.com). I own Columbia d20 and Somalia d20, and both are aimed at different aspects of the military - Columbia focuses on guerilla warfare, Somalia on special forces. Also available are Afghanistan...

Glorantha has a cosmological structure that supports (at least) three different types of worship: polytheistic worship of distinct gods arranged into pantheons, animistic worship of spirits, and worship of an abstract monotheistic god (including reverence of saints). The interesting thing is...

Atlas Games has a page for the game that includes some design notes and brief overview of what's different. I haven't played Ars Magica since 1st or 2nd edition (whichever one had the relatively slim softcover rulebook), but I've always liked the different take on group dynamics and what PCs...

I've used the armour-as-DR system in Ken Hood's grim-n-gritty HP rules (or maybe a variant thereof, been a while). Worked decently enough, but there were some burps concerning types of damage reduced, or whether called shots to avoid armour (to deliver poison with a blowgun, for example) were...

I believe you're misremembering at least the specifics of this claim - Mercenary and High Guard are independent, the only overlap between the two is some of the new skills and those are reprinted in each book. Same I believe is true for the other extended generation books (Scouts and Merchant...

Only if your fellow troubleshooters are traitors. So, uh, yes. It's actually not that uncommon for groups of new players to spend so much time bumping each other off, they never actually make it to the mission. Then as the players get used to the setting, they realize there are a lot of...

If you happen to stumble across Acute Paranoia, the Code 7 mini-adventures in there are nice, short adventures. I understand producing a similar product for XP is a relatively high priority. Looking at Mongoose's website, there's an adventure book slated for release this month, called Crash...

Eh, I dunno about that. A chaotic god can, by definition, do whatever they want, and if that means a CG deity would occasionally find an LG warrior-servant useful, then so be it. It'd be an interesting relationship, but they wouldn't have to clash. Now, the Paladin and the priesthood, OTOH...

By the rules, it's the Paladin's alignment that matters, not the deity's, so in theory they could. In practice, in default D&D as written it seems reasonable to subject Paladins to the same deity-alignment restrictions as Clerics, which would mean that only LN, LG, and NG gods would have...

It's entirely campaign dependent, rather than a rules matter. The rules and traditions of marriage and its relationship to religion vary widely among modern and ancient cultures, and so an individual campaign could have just about any approach to this question. I agree that celibate/chaste...

You can support a whole campaign in Classic, too, just takes a slightly different focus (i.e. it's not about characters gaining power/influence/whatever, it's about players creating a full story arc and having a lot of laughs along the way). I really like Paranoia XP - the only other Paranoia...

I tend to disagree. D&D technology is described simply because us modern 21st century types only have a vague idea how they did things, and thus we're not really aware of how much we skip over when we move things along for the sake of the story. In a modern setting, most people know just enough...

When I was in high school (early-mid 80s), we played the heck out of Supremacy, which was kinda like a more complicated version of Risk in a Cold War-style setting. In addition to pushing armies and fleets around, you had to tend to a simple economy, and you could manipulate world commodity...

The best gaming-style sourcebooks on culture/government/etc. I've seen would probably be all the Harn stuff. It's set on a fantasy world, but the designers tend to aim for an authentic AD1000ish atmosphere. If you can find it, the Ivinia regional sourcebook is a pretty nice implementation of a...

As I said, I'm sure there are people who have fun with poker without any stakes involved. You'd have to pick the right set of rules, I expect, since much of poker strategy involves trying to control who stays in until the showdown, and I'd imagine the audience wouldn't overlap much with those...

That would be it. Poker in all incarnations is about the people more than the cards. Some poker games emphasize this more than others, but all put a premium on your play against a particular opponent. There are very few situations where a particular hand will always be played the same way. I...

It's a point that's been made elsewhere in the thread, and without lampooning any real-world beliefs. A typical D&D biosphere is going to be a lot different from ours, and in some ways more complicated; that doesn't mean that nobody will make the effort to systematically study it, just that the...