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Love the story so far, Paka (both versions, 'though my favorite is the D20 so far). Thanks for posting it. . . . . . . . -- Eric

Obviously, we're going to get into some definitional wishy-washiness on questions like this. My take is that the strength of good grows with time and numbers of participants. For example, your scenario will allow cooperation, but it only temporarily. As soon as one of the evil...

Lots of people do things a bit differently. Here's how it worked best for me: Each player creates their own magus. Whenever the magus is "on screen", that player controls the magus. Each player also creates a companion, which is designed to be an interesting match up to someone else's magus...

Let's see... druids tend to have nature manipulating magics, summoning, and shape changing magics. Perhaps you could allow a "capture the flag" game? Each contestant has a fixed amount of time to "hide" their flag in a specific geographical region. They can craft protections for it, set...

The outer planes allow the gods to spread their power. When the gods act on the outer planes, they act on a metaphysical level, and thus affect everything at once. When they go to the prime, to act directly, they can only affect instances, rather than concepts: the prime is the plane of...

Another from Houston, here. We've got quite a few gamers here, even above the number you'd expect from having several nearby colleges. Shadowdancer mentioned the Austin game day, but for those who haven't seen the thread, here's a link. . . . . . . . -- Eric PS -- Since people are listing...

Well, shoot, I guess I do need to stop procrastinating and make a decision. Also, you should probably add me to the list of PCs for d20books' game. Let's go with Feng Shui: it will be the easiest to have people jump right into and learn on the fly. The scenario will be called Ground Rounds...

I'm playing in two games at the moment, and don't have a recent copy of Arms Law, but I probably don't qualify as a collector. My GMs, on the other hand, seem to own every RM book ever printed. :) . . . . . . . -- Eric

I believe you're taking things to their "logical conclusion" in the same way Xeno did. Fortunately, since the arrows will never arrive at their target, you need never worry about awarding XP. . . . . . . . -- Eric

Yeah, people don't tend to hold over things that are a hassle (like giving up 2 years of one's life) without a good reason. . . . . . . . -- Eric

One question: if there are no outside foes, why is there mandatory military service? The primary suggestion that springs to mind is that the provinces (or parts of them) are rebellious and a strong central military is needed to keep the kingdom from fracturing. If this is the case, 'though...

I was running Living Spycraft from 10:30 - 6:00 on Saturday. By the end of the day, I was about ready to defenestrate somebody. :) . . . . . . . -- Eric PS -- Don't you have a story hour to write? Your fans await... :D

He didn't mention my pet issue either, which was the constant announcements and their proximity to the gaming. When running games in the RPGA area, it got really annoying trying to shout over all the announcements. ("Self-marshalling" was a bit of a pain too, but not too terrible.) Still...

I selected "do not enjoy", but I'm largely in agreement with Lord Pendragon. My overall opinion is that the risks outweigh the rewards. First, there's the risk to my character concept. invalidate the aspects I wanted to explore, the game is no fun. Similarly, if the change is extreme enough...

Personally, I like the idea of having a Warden missing. Also, when you get to religion, perhaps you will want to evoke a bit of the feel of the Masonic orders and their persecution. This will give you plety of room for secrets (since they are associated with secrets and conspiracies), a bit of...

I haven't seen anything here to say that these ideas had to be D20 specific, so just to ask: Merak, are you interested in hearing about non-D20 settings? You'd lose a lot of the "ease of use" in having to convert for your game, but might find that the feel particularly appealed to you. In...

I'm back. Didn't manage to find many ENWorlders, partly because I was always running games while the exhibition hall was open (I ran about 3x as many games as I had originally planned for, but it was still fun.) Anyone who played a (Living) Spycraft game between Thurs and Sat may have run...

This story hour is full of great quotes, but this one has to be one of my favorites. . . . . . . . -- Eric

I can empathize with having problems with PBEM games. I have yet to have one work out for more than a couple weeks; I've more or less given up on the medium. With one of my early attempts at chat games, I was trying to encourage less "guns blazing" and more thoughtful plotting and stealth...

One of the fun challenges of DMing is trying to keep things fresh and interesting for players who have already seen just about every trick in the book. Sometimes, you tweak things a bit, pull everything together, and the players love every minute of it. This thread isn't about those times...