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d20 Modern has an abstract wealth system, with a Wealth rating; rather than using actual amounts of money and saying you character has (say) 10,000 dollars in savings and a new rocket launcher costs 2,000 dollars.

d20 Modern took quite a lot of ideas from Alternity, whose Dark Matter setting was in the modern day. Other ones that come to mind are: Call of Cthulhu - Cthulhu Now Beyond the Supernatural Vampire, Werewolf, Mage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles James Bond RPG Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes...

You could use a Rakshasa or a Lamia Matriarch, or for something a bit more obscure, a Nogitsune (an oni possessing a kitsune). For a slightly different approach, you could use an Accomplice Devil. An evil Empusa might also work. Or, for equal-opportunities corruption, an Incubus. Or you could...

The official description of Sacred Blood is not very helpful. Basically it is a compilation of 3 previous products in Raging Swan's "Dungeon Backdrops" Series - a vault, a chapel and a manor. As I understand it, these are fully detailed dungeons except you have to put in your own monsters (and...

I probably wasn't clear in my post, but that is the Jersey I live 25 miles away from and thought the Jersey Devil was from.

Well, in Pathfinder they called it the Sandpoint Devil. I was a bit surprised I'd never heard of the Jersey Devil, despite living close enough to see Jersey on a clear day. Turns out it is in fact the New Jersey Devil ("old" Jersey apparently having been removed from history).

I don't really care how the PCs solve the mystery. In Pathfinder, the mystery is only part of the adventure - if it's a murder mystery, they still have to find and confront the murderer, and maybe he has accomplices / employers who are still unknown. If I wanted to run a long, drawn-out mystery...

I get a great feeling after running a successful session. Not all sessions are successful, however. I initially read your post as meaning you got a rush after finishing a campaign, but on re-reading it I don't think that's what you meant. Anyway, I mostly run Pathfinder, so when I finish a...

A friend of mine was due to go on holiday to Switzerland a few years ago. He was looking for things to do in the Geneva region, and told me he'd found out there was D&D convention called GaryCon taking place there and he was thinking of going to it. He's been playing D&D for 40 years, so I...

Thanks for that - it was an interesting read, and not something I'd ever been aware of before. It shows how creativity can arise from the strangest situations. On the issue of royalties, I made up my mind when I got to the bit in the Game Wizards where Dave Arneson successfully sued for...

BECMI: 1984? - 1987? or thereabouts 1e: 1987 - 1990 2e: 1991 - 1994 Nothing: 1995 - 2001 3e: 2001 - 2009 (we switched to Pathfinder when it came out) 4e: Never played 5e: 2021 - 2021 Played one campaign, that has now ended, but I'm open to playing another one So it looks like 3rd edition...

To home in just on this bit, it's perfectly normal practice in a private company. If you have a property that has potential as an RPG, and are also running an RPG company, it makes sense to combine the two. Obviously, the interest has to be declared to the rest of the board. The way it was...

Me too, except I usually phrase it as "How high do you need them to be?" If the answer is at least semi-plausible then the ceilings are the required height. If the player has an awesome plan that requires 12 foot high ceilings, I'm not going to insist they are only 11 feet high. I enjoy it when...

I doubt there is such a thing as "usually" when it comes to British pronunciation, but where I come from we pronounce it "d-ew-n". I am reluctant to subject my wife to this film, but on the other hand I dragged her to see the Hobbit and she loved it (much more than I did, even though - or...

I've never played 4th edition, but I think this highlights a problem with converting adventures between systems. I assume that a group of trolls, or a dragon, can provide an interesting and varied encounter in 4th edition, but not in Pathfinder. (Or at least not so easily in Pathfinder - the...

PF2 used Bryn for Hill? Everybody knows that Welsh is more akin to Draconic than it is to Dwarvish.

I'll give it a try, watch it if I like it and stop watching it if I don't. Nothing to lose. I only watched the original episodes last year, so "having my childhood ruined" in a Star Wars style overreaction to something I don't like isn't a risk for me. (EDIT - which is not meant to imply it is...

Yes, Modiphius have recently published their Dune RPG. We are in something of a golden age for science fiction RPGs. Mongoose are producing a lot of high quality support for Traveller, there's a Flash Gordon RPG for Savage Worlds, EN Publishing has Judge Dredd, there's Scum and Villainy using...

That needn't be adversarial. Another way of looking at it is that one player's character was being threatened* and another player wanted his character to be able to do something to help them. (And friends turning up unexpectedly, in the nick of time, is a common trope in stories.) *although 13...

That artwork is indeed stunning. I suppose "Tracy & Laura Hickman's first adventure world since Dragonlance" is technically correct (the best kind of correct!) since they came up with the original concept, but the actual setting that resulted was a TSR group project.