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I just picked up GURPS WWII (a "Powered by GURPS" product), a nice hardback with a lot of crunch (typical of GURPS) and a lot of cream. It told me a lot of things I didn't know about the War -- including how strung out and nervously exhausted Hitler was. Apparently he slept through the...

Lyakovetsky was flabbergasted. "Does he always do that?" he asked of the man in flannel. "What, walk out without explaining himself? Only when he's feeling his oats. He does that a lot, for an old guy." The man in flannel gave Lyakovetsky a smile, and he and the woman followed the old man...

How do scopes work in D20M? Everybody seems to want to have them grant an attack bonus, which is a complication when all you have to do is take the magnification and divide the range by it. So do scopes make something larger in D20M or do they just provide a bonus to hit? TWK

My first ever character was a wood elf ranger named Olfar. The group promptly dubbed him "OldFart" and proceeded to heckle him gently ("Woody" was a favorite epithet). My first ongoing character was in Palladium FRPG. We were just having fun on Saturday nights, boy am I nostalgic ... anyway...

Well, sure, I guess you don't want to deal with stuff like JHP and ACP and HEAT in any game other than GURPS. I think I'd limit myself to having normal ammo and tracer ammo (provides a +2 vision bonus to attack rolls). TWK

One of my friends ran into this several months ago. He gave the book away. I don't know. There's something about Christian recent-converts and Hell that just doesn't mix.... :D TWK

Let me share an anecdote from my DM: There was this guy in one of his games back in the 1E days, who had a fighter/mage/cleric/thief. This guy was convinced that he was pretty bad. "I'm a one-man party," he'd say, "I don't need any of you!" So eventually, while the others bedded down for the...

I sincerely hope you're joking. If you're not, don't get your hopes up; Scotland doesn't have any oil, so GWB isn't the least bit interested. TWK

Hey, Katowice -- you hear about Bill Mauldin? Sad, isn't it? TWK

So I take it, either the opponents in the game were deaf, or there aren't many opportunities to do the Bond thing, or you just weren't that sort of player. Ohhh.... my 'puter is far, far too small.... :( TWK

Dude -- like, major bummer, y'know? TWK

Just thought I'd share some workups I did of classic WW2 planes. I'm considering a modified version of the Pulp Fiction minigame from Polyhedron 149, with the d20 modern as an engine. So, first off, a veritable workhorse of the Second Big One: Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress v1.1 Class: Prop...

Thanks! It went pretty much like that; but I did take some liberties. No one was actually thrown through the window; but the man in flannel did jump through it on his way to get his axe out of his truck. I thought it worked better, in the heat of the moment, the way I wrote it. TWK

The man in flannel stepped in and gave the unmoving thing a hefty whack with his axe, and then kicked its severed head into a corner. "Ain't gettin' up any time soon, Father," he said. MacDonald was massaging his chin; his guns were nowhere to be seen. "What was that thing, anyway?" The old...

Okay, Henry, how does CoC handle autofire? I know in d20M you target an area, make an attack against Def 15, and then everybody in the area has to make a Reflex save for half damage if you hit.... Clunky, maybe, but definitely better than other systems (coughGURPScough) where you have to roll...

Well, IIRC in the movie Rains takes five or six bites; she is definitely infected, and the antidote does not work for her. Does she actually die somehow, or does she just turn before dying? And I'd definitely suggest giving the zombies a special bite attack on a successful grapple. However, I...

"Evil surfer gods"? I'm in! And posing for Playboy is the perfect cover for trying to find out why Hugh M. Hefner has the sexual appetite of a man one-tenth his age.... :D TWK

Umm... Do you mean totally new mohicles, or recreations of existing or historic vehicles? For the former, just think of a model vehicle, and try to figure out what it would look like in game, and tweak that (what? a motorcycle that looks like a Fatboy but is much faster? OK). For historical...

Hmmm.... The Campaign I had the Most Fun In: Palladium FRPG. We were young(er), dumb, and didn't know how to abuse a bad rules system. Besides, it kept our Saturday nights busy! The Campaign I had the Least Fun in: I still haven't warmed up to the Shadowchasers setting. This is perhaps...

My experience has been limited. Someone in high school who wasn't exactly a friend turned me onto The Crystal Shard about ten years ago. I devoured those books; my family wasn't too happy, but I didn't care. Eventually I discovered that RA Salvatore was not really the shiznat I thought he...