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Since Shatner came from the theatre, isn't his acting very likely in fact Shakespearian? But maybe theatre acting isn't what you expect on TV (anymore)... ;)

Ah, so there is where to look it up? Reminds me of my problem when I did my own D&D 4 based Star Wars system (which I actually used at the virtual game table with my group) or my 4E based Arcana Unearthed game (which I not sure I'll ever use, despite all the work spend on it): Since I based it...

Yeah, I remember two things that bothered me about 13th Age: 1) The Icons were an interesting mechanic, but where very setting dependent and it's not exactly the setting I want to play in, and adapting it to a different setting seemed non-trivial. 2) A lot of abilities are only usuable if you...

I enjoyed it. It wasn't perfect, I am not sure I dig Echo that much. But I dig the atmosphere, the native story, and the whole deafness thing was very interesting. ALlo, what I also liked - the show suggested that the glowy light is a kind of healing magic, and I liked the idea of beating the...

Thanks everyone, more than I expected, though of course some of the games I've never heard of (which is to be expected). Anyone has some favorite rule in there? Something that really gels with everything else (which can be quite system-specific, I admit)?

Currently tinkering with a homebrew system that involves rolling lots of d6 (kinda like various Shadowrun editions, which is also something I would use it for, if it ever becomes more than just some fun exercise). One minor aspect I thought about when starting to make some vehicle rules: Has...

Recently stumbled upon a new Star Wars fan film. This one might be particularly neat for people that are all about the old X-Wing and TIE Fighter games, or maybe the new Squadrons game. It's on the longer side of fan movies, short over 50 minutes.

That's an odd definition of "compromises", to me. We didn't say the player said: "I want a +3 bonus to natural armor and +2 Strength" or whatever Tortle stats might be in whatever system they are using. They said he wanted to be a Tortle. Which might imply a lot of other things, like looking...

Personally, an unhappy player impedes on my enjoyment of the game as DM. Because if the players aren't having fun, what's the point? But I think usually my problem isn't that a player wants to play a Dragonborn in a no-Dragon campaign or whatever. More that the campaign direction isn't what...

It seemed the the point here was that the conflict seems different when it's between "The group agreed to use this setting with these restrictions for the campaign, one player has an idea that goes against it" and "The DM decided the setting and restrictions for the campaign, and one player in...

Sounds interesting. My only input so far is a minor thing: If Hard DC +5 is a fixed DC for all skill challenges, might be best to codify it as a 4th difficulty type - "Very Hard" or something like that.

You're an odd reptiloid no one has seen before, but happens to look exactly like that cool Dragonborn on that long-forgotten roleplaying game cover you found on the flea market. You're a cybernetics/magic/genetic/zeno experiment gone wrong/right. You fell through a portal from a world where your...

I remember an idea I saw in Star Trek Online: Weapons had firing modes that either "exposed" or "exploited": If a target was exposed, you could exploit and bad things happened to the target. This idea stuck in my head and I always wanted to use it for a system. It is similar to combat advantage...

It seems DM and player got something they want out of it by the DM actually working with the player to find a compromise. Not: "I am the DM, my word is final, your ideas suck, and I am really tired of all these entitled players these days ..." (also, I think my previous reply included a broken...

Huh? Isn't exactly one of the compromises I stated the one you would apparently go for as DM if the player says he wants to play an evil character? You wrote: I wrote: Sounds like the same thing? Als, props to the spirits of the ancestor Barbarian idea, that might indeed work, depending on...

My guess, you talk about it. Why does the GM not want evil PCs? What does evil mean in his campaign? Why does the player want an evil PC? How does he think will it affect the campaign? Say, the GM says he doesn't want evil PCs because they want the characters to be motivated into action simply...

But isn't that the kind of thing EzekielRaiden is talking about? You don't say: "Dwarves are extinct, end of discussion!" You say: "Dwarves are extinct. What interests you in a dwarf, maybe we can do something about it without changing the world too much?" What that ends up with might be up to...

You could see it as something that sets a feel for the power of characters in 3E. 8 ranks is more than just modest training... If a Level 5 Bard can disguise himself so that they can convince a husband the bard is his wife, than that tells you how powerful Level 5 really is compared to the real...

I DMed a lot, and there is always the risk that you end up creating something that isn't as much fun to the players as it is to you. It might have been a lot of effort and I put a lot of thought in it - but if it doesn't work for the players, that doesn't do any good. The goal as DM isn't just...

The interesting was also how it interacted with the CR. WotC didn't say Level = Challenge Rating, possibly because they realized that despite their standardization of PC and NPC mechanics, it just didn't work. But you see hints of what in 4E became Elite and Solo monsters. Dragon was a type with...