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Amen to that. I think a lot of sites similar to this one have seen spikes in interest to use their platform to pair people up to game in person, and while I see some good ways to leverage that for cons and such, I think just finding other RuneQuest players and comparing notes about campaigns...

Good points, Umbran. Moving the Dragon and Dungeon content online is progressive on one hand, and one that I lauded when it was announced. But from my perspective, in hindsight, it also took it: a) out of the hands of a fan-based publisher that was to many (not all) people's minds doing more...

Thanks for all the context and information that folks have shared. I similarly asked for feedback when starting RuneQuest a while's back, and the experience of my fellow EnWorlders was very valuable. Thanks again!

I think FR is a little too "high magic" to take the best advantage of the WFRP system. WFRP does lend itself nicely to Thieves World, Robin Hobb, Lankhmar, and other "gritty fantasy" settings.

I second the 'preparation is everything' motif from above. Learning as you go will be necessary, but the more thought you can put into your document structure up front, the better. Good Wikipedia articles, for instance, have a table of contents so to speak, that breaks the article out into...

The precursor of "Klaatu, Varata...Nikt(coughcough)," eh? ;)

Unbalanced sandbox? I'm in! ;)

I'm pulling for kender and gully dwarves! ;)

Engage with your players on the platforms they are using. I don't think that's such a ridiculous idea. It's part of what helped launch D&D in the late 70s and 80s (anyone remember the terrible atari console game that probably caused a lot of folks to go get the boxed sets anyways?).

With d20 modern campaigns, I always liked throwing the occasional d20 fantasy scenario at the party to help throw them off guard. I took portions of the revised Ravenloft book from WotC and adapted it into a post-apoc campaign rather successfully, once. For something in the antarctic, I could...

Say, I'm stoked to see that Palladium is now participating in drivethrurpg.com and other one bookshelf sites. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Kevin Siembieda and Palladium's books, which are true labors of love and gamer's games. I haven't played Palladium Fantasy in about 20 years...

I'm fascinated and excited that this is being done via Twitter. Any other good gaming tweets you'd recommend, people? (@sjgames and @drivethrurpg are already in my list) So sayeth Tyler the Hobo - tylerthehobo (tylerthehobo) on Twitter

Castle Caldwell and Beyond [B9] B9 Castle Caldwell and Beyond was actually the first module I got as a kid, along with a copy of the red box, the year it came out. It had this lizardman on the cover, and I think there was a damsel in distress. The cover art was pure Larry Elmore, if I...

True - I hadn't even thought of that - how much feedback cycle would there have been from the playtest? Yeah, I think the OGL in 3rd edition was more progressive. And yes, not saying Google is pure as the driven snow, as much as that their approach I think could really help WotC...

Shameless bump, but I set up a thread yesterday to talk about Jeff Jarvis' "What Would Google Do?" and its implications for Wizards of the Coast, here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-rules-discussion/254372-what-would-google-do-wizards-coast-edition.html For those of you who haven't...

And meanwhile we're still waiting for DDI's online tools (y'know, like the 3rd edition ones on CD-ROM) to be made available... In theory, yes, technology and what we as players are doing with Wizards' platform is evolving, but the folks publishing our hobby aren't necessarily keeping up.

Say, have any of you read Jeff Jarvis' new book, "What Would Google Do?" It posits that Google's approach to information and technology has changed the way a lot of companies do business, and shows some opportunities for companies that haven't to be "googley" and embrace openness and...

8 players is probably about right if you go for the insanity/TPK aspect of the game. ;) Kidding. I've run CoC with friends and at cons for years. Each group is different, but 4-6 usually works well. They key is having as wide a spread on the skills as possible, so if all of a sudden a...

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Myself, I still prefer stick figures with beards like I used to draw on my character sheets in high school...