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I'm kind of in the middle there. I like PC's with a backstory, but I like that backstory to have been developed with knowledge of the other PC's, the setting and what sort of game the GM is aiming for. I think if characters are developed in total isolation, then you run a risk of super-cool...

What sort of debuffs do the PC's throw around? They're the things that can really turn a boss fight into an anticlimax. I'd also strong suggest having some minions. Even if they're just speedbumps, they soak up attacks and break up the focus fire.

The weird thing is, "settings where some of the standard options don't exist or are different" already exist entirely outside of homebrew settings. Theros limits the races that are native to that world, it didn't feel the need to give dwarves or tieflings a stated place in there just because...

You also didn't read the post date stamps! ;)

Hmm, a lot of the time, Voyager didn't feel particularly new to me. New species of the week, Klingon knock-offs, cosmic space wedgies, holodeck malfuctions, and a lot of other plots that felt like recycled TNG scripts. The ones that stood out for me (much like DS9) were the ones when Voyager...

Bloodborne is probably the best Lovecraftian horror story that Lovecraft never wrote, with themes of horrific transformation, obsessive questing for forbidden knowledge regardless of the cost to anyone else, and alien horrors lurking just beyond the threshold of normal perception. If playing...

Hit point threads....hit point threads never change.

And it had a range limit, and it didn't work on targets with concealment. The inability to hit undead in a vital spot makes sense, though--it's not as though vampires or zombies are particularly known in pop culture for having weak points, right? Oh, he was being merciful. Anyone remember the...

Do you mean Complete Warrior? An Ultimate Warrior class would be something completely different, though I'd play it!

What the heckery does this have to do with Dark Sun--a setting which quite explicitly doesn't have any gods in it?

This is why you talk to the players before the start of the game, and establish what sort of setting and premise you're going with, so they're guided to make fitting characters for the game.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Predator yet. :)

Do what 4e did, and keep the timeline just after Kalak's death. No icky metaplot where cool NPC's are running around killing all the sorcerer kings, please and thank you. More detailed survival rules, as well as certain spells like Create Water, Tiny Hut or Goodberry being bumped up a few...

Careful there, you might injure your knee from jumping to conclusions so quickly!

Just a note that's not what the DMG says, though it's often what it gets simplified down to on the internet.

You know, I remembered a game I always wanted to run set in Cryx, where the PC's were agents of an iron lich who....got his skull cracked a bit badly, and was a bit eccentric as a result. Very much a Blackadder-esque dark comedy where the PC's were trying not to attract the wrath of their...

I think the only reason the higher values break down is the open-ended damage dice in Savage Worlds. The "chain of 6's on a damage roll, someone randomly explodes" problem is there at the default power level, but it's less noticeable because of the lower numbers. Once Toughness + Armour gets...

That was how I learned it. :) In the end, anything that could really challenge the dragon would have made short work of the other two PC's and while there are workarounds for that level of power imbalance, it would probably be easier to at least avoid a skew that severe. It's not quite that...

I appreciate having a starting point, and there's nothing in the books that really forces the PC's to be a part of the group. First up, if you look at the art and fiction in the oRifts books, it's often depicted as being much more dangerous than what the game system actually produced. Off the...

Rifts always had "big good" factions (New Navy, Psyscape, Lazlo, most Cyber-Knights even after the split, etc), so that's not terribly new. Overall, I think it's far, far better than the original in capturing the gonzo action-movie feel of the setting. I was able to open my campaign with the...