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Re: Re: Re: Re: The problem isn't the monster, it's the CR system The problem is that some of us don't have as good a judgement as others. For instance, all prestige classes depend on design judgements. There are certainly a number of prestige classes in WoTC's "splatbooks" that demonstrate...

d20 Gatchaman in Spycraft? Woah! I don't even have Spycraft. Do a little selling here and show me how easy it is. :) (A sample character would do) I was thinking of statting all the characters, and then letting players bid on the characters they wish to play using a fixed pool of hero points...

I didn't think I was going to bother with d20 Modern, but recently, I've been thinking about doing a Gatchaman campaign. (For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, visit http://www.vacuform.com/Gatchaman/GatchMain.htm, and http://www.gatchaman.com/) Gatchman, with its combination...

Weeknights 7pm-11pm. Sometimes running a bit over if a big fight is going on. Weekends are for outdoor pursuits: sailing, hiking, backpacking, cycling. You know, the kind of stuff that you want sunlight to do.

Call of Cthulhu d20 is in every way equal if not superior to the original. Having run both, the palpable sense of fear dripping from the players is even more fun to watch in d20, simply because the same players wouldn't even be scared of a measley werewolf.

Here's somebody who doesn't understand the difference between CR (Challenge Rating) and EL (encounter level). CR is an indicator of how hard a monster is. EL is an indicator of how tough an encounter is. When you design encounters, you aim for a specific EL that centers around your particular...

CRs have been pretty much spot on All the way from 1st level to 9th (so far), they've proven to be spot on. Enough to be a challenge for players (even the occasional death), but not enough to lead to TPKs, though they've been times when I've thought otherwise.

Positive Energy Healing Here's the feat I introduced to the game when they only had a Paladin for about a month: Positive Energy Healing (Pre-requsites: Extra Turning). You may use a turning attempt to heal. Roll on the turning table, and heal one individual one point per level, modified by...

Sounds like a shoddy d20 conversion job was done Can you imagine if the designers of d20 Call of Cthulhu took the same shoddy approach? You'd have Anthropology as a skill, not Knowledge (Anthropology). I'm sorry, it sounds like SAS d20 is going to go the way of Deadlands d20 (into the trashcan...

D&D left the dungeon when TSR's adventures (among other materials) did away with site based adventures (such as White Plume Mountain, Against the Giants, and the Village of Hommlet) and towards plot based adventures. Read the Dragonlance series of modules to see what I mean. I left before this...

When my brothers and I first came to this country in 1988, we said to each other, wow, everyone here is fat, even the cats are fat! (Cats in Asia are skinny and actually have to work for a living) And the first time we saw a 300 pound American get out of a car, we finally understood why...

Re: Re: Back to the Dungeon (again!) Well, let's see: 1. You stated that 3E wasn't about Back to the Dungeon. I found several quotes and articles on the net that clearly stated otherwise. 2. You stated that "Back to the Dungeon" wouldn't improve sales or attract players to D&D. There's plenty...

Back to the Dungeon (again!) From: http://www.wizards.com/dungeon/submit-to-dungeon.pdf Ah, Joshua, if only the facts weren't so inconvenient to your arguments. :)

it's a d20 game with a very big non-D&D feel So much so that if your players are big on D&D, they will detest CoC as having insufficient action. (And of course, CoC characters die with alarming regularity --- alarming for D&D players) Once those expectations are set right, it's a great game.

More food for thought from Ryan Dancey From: http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=36 Think about it. Old players don't buy products. New players do. Old players (like Joshua) might not like dungeon crawls. New players do. Guess who wins? The...

Then you'll have GURPS. Buying attributes/abilities/skills with experience points is a big feature of GURPS, HERO, and other such point-based system. But why should D&D try to be one of those games? D&D will NEVER be a better GURPS or HERO than GURPS or HERO. If you wanted to play those games...

Back to the Dungeon! Oh, if you're getting your view of RPG from rpg.net, then you're not in touch with most RPGers. I don't know if you've noticed, but most people who post to RPG.net don't play RPGs of any kind at all! In fact, I remember thread where someone suggested that a review of a RPG...

On the contrary. 3E was definitely touted as "Back to the Dungeon." Didn't seem to hurt it's sales prospects any, and it certainly brought back lots of old gamers who abandoned the story-telling approach to gaming espoused by 2nd-ed types like Dragonlance. Considering that Necromancer Game's...

Ever considered pre-canned modules? There are a number of them out now. There's WoTC's adventure path, there's Monte Cook's Demon God's Fane. A subscription to Dungeon would bring you lots of high level adventures as well. What I am finding is that there's a dearth of adventures between 16-20...

I ordered it on 7/19, received an e-mail on 7/22 that it shipped on 7/19, and got the actual book on 7/26. My order status did change to "shipped".