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Your honeyed words give me pause, sir. To answer Ulric's question: I don't know if WotC would ever try to put the genie back in the bottle, so to speak, or whether they could if they tried (practically speaking; or even from a legal standpoint, since it's questionable whether you can copyright...

I'm not. What are we supposed to be mad about? "Dragon" and "Dungeon" getting canceled?

Granted, some campaigns and genres will demand a high-resolution skill system, but Star Wars probably isn't one of them. Y'know what bothers me? An infinite number of Craft and Profession skills...Craft (droids) and Craft (lightsabers) and Craft (starship)....I prefer d20 Modern's system of...

I had a player in early 2nd Edition play a cambion fighter who aspired to paladinhood, and eventually achieved it, using a wish. Good times, being fifteen and nerdy....

I assume you have "Dragonmarked"? An awful lot of good stuff for folks with aberrant dragonmarks. Keith Baker wrote a great article for Dragon a few months back dealing with "dragonmarked sorcerers", who either (a) manifest dragonmark-like markings and have a spell list consistent with the...

Certainly, there are a lot of pulp / cinematic genres where that's the norm for the heroes. With James Bond, perhaps it's more a matter of "this guy is the best of the best of the best", while in Star Wars, I see it more as the universe gettting out of the way so the Hero can achieve his...

I'm liking all of these changes. Of course Star Wars heroes have a decent shot at defusing a bomb. One lucky shot by a farmboy blows up the Death Star and you think the bombs are going to be hero-proof? No, sir. Now, to get to that bomb, you will have a lot of people shoot at you and miss...

Y'know what would be a great one-shot? THE A-TEAM. Let's assume 10th - 12th level. Hannibal. Face. Murdock. B.A. [No Frankie, Amy, etc.] And if extra players show up...who else? Magnum? MacGyver? Hulk Hogan?

Another thought --- a character who is solo because he keeps joining parties where everyone else get killed. Once his secret comes out, he ends up compulsively talking about the dozens of terrible deaths he has witnessed --- the time poor Redgar was eaten by a phantom weredragon...when brave...

Yeah, once you properly trick out a dedicated dragon-slayer, they end up being very good at their job, don't they? I doubt that I'll have time to playtest....I will, however, fudge like crazy in the interest of a good fight. One wrinkle here ---- SPOILERS --- is that this critter turns out to...

All I get to do these days is a one-shot now and again...DM is responsible for making pre-gen characters. Here's my notion: 1. Run "Green Bones" from the Forgotten Realms campaign book. 2. 16th level characters are recommended, but I might make these guys a little lower because I may have...

"Name some genres" or "Dinopirates of Ninja Island".

People hoard the plague?

Hit me, Nightfall. Still thinking about psionics, just because I am not overly familiar with those rules myself. I'm leaning toward a dedicated blaster - type sorcerer, just to keep the spell options as simple as possible for the player.

Good question, and I'm not sure of the answer. I guess I'm trying to balance a desire to give the guys something distinctly Eberronian vs. not wanting to confuse the guys who don't know Eberron. One I've been kinda kicking around is a half-giant duskblade (practitioner of the lost...

I'm working up a one-shot using the "Jungle Secrets" adventure (it's the Secrets of Xendrik web enhancement). I'm looking at 6 PCs, all 10 level or the equivalent. Still thinking about the specific mission statement for the party, but at this point, I'm leaning towards "professional...

Martial Arts Mayhem is balanced just fine. Haven't read the others, but I suspect they are fine, too, since they were designed by some of the original d20 Modern crew.

I don't know what you mean. Yeah...the PCs are straight-arrow All-American 1930s G-Men, and every case pits them against a new mad scientist, alien invader, or Thing Man Was Not Meant to Know. "The Pulp Files".

I'm not sure how much of that old Boot Hill and Gangbusters stuff would even be salvageable. Expectations have changed quite a bit. Also...I dunno if anyone really wants to play "The Untouchables RPG" these days (i.e., straight up fedoras and tommy guns, no rocket men or Oriental masterminds...

That's a fine point --- the Quori are engaged in constant subliminal indoctrination of their masses of followers, and occasionally step in with some psionic brainwashing. But there's also a religious / philosophical aspect to their dominance. And some of it is simple education --- if you are...