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I think this would be easy to run with just a slight tweak to the HP system. Steal the bloodied term from 4e. But make the term for 1/4 HP. Below that the monster will be much easier to handle due to penalties (-2 str and dex per hd?). It could be possible to get the monster into a cage once it...

I don't have anything to add about mechanics yet, but this game play seems to work best in a sandbox. Players want to explore a certain dungeon for a rumored super powerful weapon. But they need to delve other places to learn enough to get past the golems guarding the weapon. This allows the GM...

The "take 10" rule?

I think this is both clever and messed up. As long as the players didn't get offended it would be acceptable. Did you ask them before hand if that was okay/were they comfortable with it? Or did you just play it?

I've done it a few times. When I was either gaming at my apartment I used my stereo with an iPod dock to play background music. When you spend weeks playing certain playlists during combat and press one when the party enters a room of complete magical darkness-they panic and get out in any way...

You could just make elementals native to the world. Fire elementals near volcanoes, air elementals near prevailing winds, water elementals in great seas, earth elementals in the field and mountains. They would be ever present spirits of the world, and could still be summoned that way. If you...

You could try E6 it nicely deals with resurrection and there are few summonable monsters from other planes to deal with. Could you just shift Summon Monster to Summon Nature's Ally? That seems an easy change. If it is good enough for a druid, most classes would love to have it. How are you...

The fighter and hunter skills are the combat skills for Mouse Guard. Fighter allows fighting of anything, Hunter is specific to non-anthropomorphic animals (Mice and Weasels). During the war fighter was emphasized, in the more peaceful time hunter is a more appropriate skill.

Well this list has all the basics. That is really all you need to play.

Mouse Guard and Burning Wheel are skill based systems. Skill systems seem to have better skill lists, or more interesting ones. Plus Mouse Guard is all about a small group of mice (the party) overcoming loads of obstacles to help small communities and a few towns. That seemed to be an excellent...

Well, the setting is still getting over a war with ferrets. I really have no idea, it's just in the list.

The Mouse Guard Skill list: -Administrator -Apiarist -Archivist -Armorer -Baker -Boatcrafter -Brewer -Carpenter -Cartographer -Cook -Deceiver -Fighter -Glazier -Haggler -Harvester -Healer -Hunter -Insectrist -Instructor -Laborer -Loremouse -Militarist -Miler -Orator -Pathfinder -Persuader...

You could use any humanoid race to function as Fremen from Dune. Purple Worms could act as their sandworms, but I think borrowing Death Worms from Pathfinder would be better. I'm a fan of Bulettes too, their ability to leap out of the sand and the burrow again could make for a nice running...

Tome of Magic has the Karsite. They are a race that can't use magic, but look like humans. Their man ability is Magic Draining Attacks suppress the magic items of enemies they hit in melee (armor, shield or weapon). If the spell resitance (10+class levels) causes a spell to fail they gain 2 hit...

Outside of things like Tucker's Kobolds and other elaborate plans, the halflings will fare similarly- cannon fodder. If the average soldier is a 1st level warrior, the halflings will struggle in open combat. They would excel as auxiliaries to human or dwarven armies as light cavalry and crossbow...

If you have Burning Wheel or Mouse Guard I would look over those skill lists- especially Mouse Guard. Burning Wheel has a huge list, but it covers race specific skills and non-adventuring skills such as smithing, farming, administration, and lots of more mundane skills. But, this does allow you...

I see your point, but in those stories, average non-adventuring humans gets housed by an ogre. You send multiple men against a single one, whole squads use numerical advantage against an ogre or giant. Siege engines are employed against large enough enemies. I look at three men swarming an ogre...

I'll be more specific. Halfling soldiers cannot effectively go toe-to-toe with other soldiers without magic and heavy support, which average soldiers in an infantry battle probably won't have.

The halflings size dictates everything. They cannot go toe-to-toe with a soldier of another race, and the average halfling is weaker than any other medium sized race they would fight due to the -2 str. To compensate, halflings would need to use guerilla tactics and take advantage of the terrain...

Could you clarify how doing something new or unique is cliched?