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If I'm ballparking it correctly, that should be a total EL of around 12 or 13, so a wealth bonus of +15 or +16, which is a purchase DC of 25 or 26. Which in cash value is $9000-$12000. Whether that's appropriate probably depends on the style of game more than anything else - if that's supposed...

There are lots of powers that bypass Protection, and can either incapacitate someone or reduce their Protection so physical attacks will work. If a group doesn't have any of those, then Hero Points are an option. From reading about the way Steve Kenson (M&M's designer) runs games, one option he...

I think people mostly stick to something similar to modern day Earth because it makes the background and history a whole lot easier to handle. When there are significant differences, they are usually either secret (the typical Illuminati or Buffy style games, for example) or recent (the...

Well, whenever I check out a new superhero system, what I really want to see are some well-built characters that hit the standard comic book archetypes. I want to be able to see those sorts of concepts play out, and I like to have them as a starting point to disassemble when I'm working on my...

There are, but I don't think they sell at all well. The main market is people with text-to-audio software who are unable to read for whatever reason. More common is publishers and authors making some books available for free download. Usually these are for established authors with a lot of...

I don't use the powers-from-a-philosopy schtick in my campaigns, but if I did it seems to me such an individual would actually be gaining powers from the philosophy or ideal of narcissism. Or perhaps solipsism (the theory that the self is the only reality). So whether you could gain clerical...

The actress in question is Lexa Doig. As a fascinating geek fact, she's a gamer who at least used to play D&D. Edit - just checked her site - she had a baby girl.

I tend to doubt it. From Greg Stafford's various comments, it looks like he's pretty happy with HeroQuest (the current version of Hero Wars). He seems to feel that a freeform system is the best choice for gaming in Glorantha, and since it's his world, more power to him. Issaries is essentially...

What I do nowadays is make it clear that the two-letter code on their character sheet is not an all-encompassing personality guide, but rather a measure of which (if any) divine rules they're closest to following. In effect, there's a divide between the subjective nature of mortals and the...

I don't know about "blows", but d20 as defined by the STL pretty much requires a game system in which combat power and survivability are closely linked to experience (and hence level), and skills and abilities are closely linked to class. Many modern and future-type settings - and heck, even a...

The mechanics are pretty ordinary for the time it was published, pretty dated now. But the setting is indeed fantastic - I dunno why somebody like GURPS hasn't licensed it.

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks was module S3 for AD&D (first edition). It was set in Greyhawk - the Barrier Peaks are towards the western edge of the Greyhawk maps - but not really closely connected to any setting. It featured a module from a spaceship that had crashed on a D&D world, and was...

I think it kinda depends on the sort of feel you're going for. If you're going for Malory-style Arthurian legend, then the BBEGs should either be beatable by a single character, or difficult to beat in a straight fight but willing to yield to a suitably noble opponent (such as in Gawain and the...

The archetype characters (Cyclone, Inferna, Minotaur, etc.) aren't awful, they're just a few steps short of optimized. They tend to have 10 ranks in their attack and defense powers, they're short a few easy tricks beyond that. They're not a horrible choice for a first adventure, so long as you...

Well, ignoring d20 games (because the thread specifies non-D&D, and d20 games play an awful lot like D&D), the games on my shelf that I haven't played but really want to are: Chivalry and Sorcery (the Rebirth) HeroQuest Some games that I have played before but which would make good one-shots...

... or at least within a reasonable commute of same. I'm an old fogey of 36, have played various versions of D&D for 25 years, on and off. I've recently moved to the area from southern Ontario, so I'm kinda orphanned right now. I'm at least vaguely familiar with a ton of different game systems...

Neither of those supplements was the sort of thing you could call a published campaign setting. While each included rules from their parent campaigns, and Blackmoor had an adventure from that setting, neither of the books was primarily, nor even tangentially, a campaign setting as we think of...

Two great truths of *D&D: 1) The initial, basic rulebooks of any edition form a reasonably simple and complete game. It's the bloat that's added afterwards that starts to screw things up. 2) The main accomplishment of each succeeding edition is clearing away most of the bloat of the previous...

Yeah, Buzz, I know what you mean - it's an attractive concept. Greg Bear has a novel called "Darwin's Radio" that puts modern humanity right in the middle of a very sudden speciation event, that ultimately results in a new generation of a new human-like species being born. It's a neat read...

Another option: in the Marvel and DC universes, one of the reasons superheroes and supervillains do all the classic comic book bits (like costumes, secret identities, having over the top villains who are associated with a particular hero they try to best, etc.) is because of tradition -...