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I agree with Samothdm's 20% - making an inconsistency work within the overall structure of the campaign is extremely rewarding. Inconsitencies can be seen as one of two things: a glitch in my planning, or a shortfall in the character's understanding of the world. I always go with the second. It...

Big Changes vs. Little Changes I'm not so sure that it's about big changes vs. little changes. Certainly, changing the fundamental mechanics of the system can be scary, but many of those fundamentals are modular or follow simple patterns. As an example: I removed the magic system of D&D for...

$50 more via Paypal. You should have asked a year ago, I'd have paid for FASTER server in a heartbeat. Keep it going guys. There are thousands of us, we can have this done in day. NOTE: Dual servers are common with DB-based web applications. Typically you will have a single (or cluster) of...

Damage Penalties The grim-n-gritty variant hit point rules (original) use a similar mechanism. Basically: 75% and below: -2 50% and below: -4 25% and below: -6 The penalty affects attacks, skills and saves. The math is simple and rarely slows down play. The idea behind it is that wounded...

A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe has just that. There are base DCs for all sorts of equipment and goods, and modifiers based on city size, location, etc. I've used the DC-based prices in my campaign for some time, and it works extremely well.

Well, there are people that think that hunting deer with assault rifles is 'sport', and those who wouldn't stoop to anything more high-tech than a bow and arrow. My guess is that the first Predator was a redneck who just liked blowing stuff up - like a guy I knew who would 'fish' by throwing...

Ah yes. And Whedon's pushing for Dark Horse to publish a Serenity comic book. Have to admit, the guy is really in love with his creation. Almost as much as I am, I'm willing to wager.

I saw the pilot episode of B5, and really loved it. Or rather, loved the Asian actress that played a major role, and liked the ambition of the show. But somehow I remember coming back for the next episode and a bunch of the characters were being played by different actors. Is that right or is...

My wife and I finished the Firefly season last week, and after desperately watching every extra, commentary and episode twice... we had to admit it's finally over. We'll buy the box set (didn't know about the commentaries until disc 3) but now we're finding ourselves searching out other...

Netflix? We're going that route now, too, but we're using Netflix to supply us with our DVD needs. Not sure if you've looked into it (or are in an area that has it) but getting a dozen DVDs a month for $20 is a pretty good deal. We still buy box sets occassionally - we're actually going to...

I'm 100% with TW. My wife and I just started watching the series a few weeks ago (via Netflix) and have been completely blown away. I had no expectations going in, even though I'm a big Angel/Buffy fan, primarily because the genre is usually cheesy. Aside from X-Files, I've never liked an SF...

A few ideas Just off of the top of my head, a few things would give the PCs an edge on monsters or creature encounters. 1.) Armor as damage resistance. I think it's in UA, but basically your AC adjustment on armor acts as soak. Thus, plate soaks 8 points of damage for every hit. Very, very...

Players can map, it's true In the last year my players have been keeping their own maps, and they've been remarkably precise. The only information I give them is verbal. I've only had to redefine an area for them once in the last year. I think it's just a matter of keeping time/distance/name...

Lovely This book looks terrific, and is exactly what I've been looking for for some time. However, I have one question: is the entire book available on PDF? I have a home made name generator (it's part of my personal world builder that contains lists culled from the internet) that I would...

Typically, in GnG you don't have to be concerned about boosting monster hit points. Larger monsters already have a TON of hit points in the original GnG, and the revised version doesn't even have hit points. Either way, HPs take care of them selves. As for nerfing giants... nah, that's kind...

Alanbit, I'll be using these rules in my next session (or rather, a stripped down version). I'll let you know how things go, but the work you put into this is very good.

That's some excellent stuff, thanks! I'm assuming it's possible to use spell casting as a passive weapon, due to the 10' CON drain? I'll have to read your story hour when I get a free day... looks like a lot of fun possibilities. No swashbuckling for me, thanks. The word 'swashbuckle'...

What's this Barsoom you speak of?

If you're looking for a quick way to fill in a vast amount of detail, there are some great NPC generators online. Just Google 'NPC generator' and you'll find a whole lot of great work out there. Obviously you don't have to go to this extra step, but it's a lot of fun to be able to quickly...

Group balance I think rushlight has finally hit the nail on the head. I've seen in this thread a lot of dancing around the core issue of power-gaming vs. role-gaming; ultimately, it's about game balance. There are countless threads on this board about balanced feats, skills, PrCs and variant...