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No Kickstarter; It's already written and available. Forward by C.J. Carella to the Core Rules Foreword *A long time ago, in a little burg by the name of New Haven, Connecticut, I joined a gaming group led by one William Reich, who ran a game using a system of his own creation – Glory Road...

I see all the answers here and I wonder if I should have used Kickstarter. I didn't figure I needed to raise funds because I didn't need money to create a PDF of the latest version of the rules we have been playing since 1985 or so. I'm retired, I have the time and I did it. I guess Kickstarter...

The out of print Dark Border books by Paul Edwin Zimmer make a great setting. My first thought when considering things like this is "edit your favorite system, if it fits at all, and just make your own campaign." And that's what I did for a campaign I ran in the early years of the century. It...

I am founding a fantasy Women's Rugby Sevens league and picking Portia Woodman. Checkmate.

This reminds me of the ESPN announcer who was making fun of cosplayers awhile ago. What did he thinks all those people in the stands wearing football jerseys are doing? Most of my RPG group is at least mildly interested in sports and some of us played sports before we got old. ---------...

The scouting game can be very important in ones tactics. The obstacle to using scouting and stealth effectively is that stealth is not multiplied and having the whole group move with the scout makes the whole thing rather pointless. Having the one or two characters best suited to the environment...

My experience has been that the best tactics are an adaptable mix of the two extremes that you mention. Even if the rules or the level of experience that the party has means that the spell-casters can't be decisive, there is usually some effort to protect them. If missile weapons are not...

I have played for years with mixes of people with varying attitudes toward the amount of roleplaying they want in a game. While it is futile to play in a group where you are a total misfit, some compromise must usually be made. In the games I run, we go for weeks doing mostly things that would...

Two excellent selections so far. Have him do the Baudelaire in the original French (or in Klingon) for added kick. Here's another: Metallica "No Remorse" off "Kill em All" change "what we are doing" to "what I am doing. "No mercy for what we are doing No thought to even what we have done We...

I have followed your threads on three different fora. I think almost all of the disagreements have been about definitions. Your point about religion not being mentioned in the very earliest writing seems telling but burial rituals precede that writing by a lot. I think that what was written down...

Age of death averages have always been driven by infant mortality. People often made forty and those who did had a good shot at fifty. And I think formulas are the way to go also.

I think anatomically modern humans could count. Hell, crows can count. Evidence for some ritual, which seems likely to have been religious predates anatomically modern humans. Don't sell their intelligence short. They did not have most of the huge knowledge base that we have accumulated. Their...

I am definitely going to follow this thread. Keep is the only module that I ever ran, although I bought plenty and read them for pleasure and for ideas. It fit into an area of my gameworld and it was lots of fun.

In old Gaelic tradition, the folks of Faery were unable to handle "cold iron," which certainly included heated iron and definitely included steel. It's a folklore thing that works if it fits your ideas about the setting but it isn't necessary if you don't want to use it. -- Bill Reich...

One of the important reasons, other than the ones that have been given already in the thread, for classes is that so player-characters would have to team up into a party. It was felt that a character with a wide variety of skills might not need the aid of others. It also gives you a shorthand...

From the Diary of Darum Wirehilt of the Black Mountain Wirehilts "The person who purported to offer me employment seems to have been deceased for ten years, almost half of a Human lifetime." "So now, I sit in a low-class bar, drinking thin over-priced beer that even Humans in the lowlands near...

Is this One-Eye Odin or an Odin-clone? One of my favorite moments as a GM was when Bgordj Half-Beard, a fighter player-character, stood over a slain Hobgoblin, puffed out his chest and shouted "Odin, send me _enemies_" and, of course, the All-Father generously complied. Half-Beard's life has...

I'd just walk. I've quit jobs with less reason. -------------------- https://sites.google.com/site/grreference/home/05-the-black-mountain/at-the-high-point-inn

Making a Fighter More Interesting Did you just develop this desire or did you already have it when you named your character? I have some people in my campaigns who give their character awful names but "Human" stands out. Or are you called Human because everyone else around you was a non-human...

This thread has been terrific and kept me up for a few extra minutes because I had to read it all. Here is a song-spell from my game rules. I haven't put lyrics to all of the song-spells but this one was just so obvious. It's an old song by the Zombies called "She's not There" but the song-spell...