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The 3rd edition rules in Stormwrack served my group quite well. It relies on Profession: Sailor checks for a lot of it, but you could just replace that with a Wisdom check if you don't want to add in a new "Sailing" skill. Very narrative, many different ships and plenty of crunchy bits with...

Thanks! The sprites are from FF6. I thought about using FF4 sprites for the more top-down view, but they're all wearing flashy armor and such. FF6, with its grittier, darker aesthetic, feels closer to Warhammer for me. Done! You got a 41 on initiative, so it's your turn, before Solveig...

I'm going to start posting OOC stuff over in the recruitment thread, converting that into a permanent OOC thread.

Yeah, a 15+ is nice, but nearly impossible to get. I prefer stats rolled 3d6 straight down the line, no re-assignment. Most characters will have average stats, and there's very little variance in power at that range. Sure, really high stats are good in 1e, but you'd have to be really dang...

I think that's mainly an artifact of 3rd Edition. If you look at 1st Edition AD&D, attributes are both much lower and much less important. A Magic-User with a 12 Int isn't doing all that badly, for instance. He's certainly better equipped than his 3e and 4e counterparts, proportionally. As...

Those are exactly the kinds of effects I was looking for. I am going out to buy that book immediately!

No it doesn't. It deals only with DCs and expressions of damage--there is not one example of a condition on the whole page. The closest it gets to talking about conditions is pushing an ogre 1 square, or perhaps granting a +2 or -2 modifier. If you can find a way to stretch that page to give...

You're looking for Wushu! The basic system is Open, and you can get a full workup for high-flying wire-fu or lower-powered pulp for $5 on RPGnow.

Yeah, but a roll that bad would be really, profoundly unlikely. A 5% chance after a 5% chance after rolling doubles, itself not terribly likely. I'm accustomed to magic being a lot more dangerous than that. I mean, one of the Major manifestations is "gain 1 IP and get the opportunity to learn...

I'm new to running WFRP, but the group's been loving it. I feel like the Tzeench's Curse table is a bit too kind to arcane casters, though. Most of them have only a cosmetic effect--hair standing on end, milk curdling, etc. I'm coming from Mage: The Awakening, where Paradox is a really...

Albrecht: Intimidate 1d100=75 (fail) Norgrim: Intimidate 1d100=35 (fail) Initiative Thug Boss 1d10+39=47 Gustav 1d10+35=41 Solveig 1d10+35=40 Thugs 1d10+30=37 Albrecht 1d10+32=35 Norgrim 1d10+23=28 "Keel dem!" shouts the large man in furs. He grabs the girl by the arm, roughly, and turns to...

The spirit stares long and hard at the picture, and begins to shake and grit its teeth. Its skin turns bright red, and it lets out a hideous roar of raging hatred, its lower law stretching out nearly two feet, showing a fearsome maw filled with hundreds of razor-sharp teeth. A rush of wind...

The doors to the tavern flew open. Thunder crashed, conversations immediately ceased, and the minstrels stopped short on a sour note. All eyes turned to look at a tall, stocky man in a fur coat with a saber scar across his right cheek. He looked from left to right with rage and disdain, then...

Your description made me think immediately of Snow White from the comic book Fables. Why not use a picture? This one would make for a good, dramatic entrance, and who's to say she didn't start the fire?

I've had a fairly even split among my players between those that care about such things as lighting and those that really don't. Here's what you do: start using the rules, or at least the ones you think are fun and interesting. If your players sit forward in their seats and look interested and...

"Ah, yes, I had the gentleman of Cathay append the address of a house in Howard's Rock, Massachussetts to the sheet music. Blister steel, produced by the cementation process, was first made in Italy in the early 16th century and soon after introduced to England. Cement plaster is a mixture of...

Sure! Shallya, goddess of mercy, is so kind to you that she allows you to replace any one roll in your primary attributes of 10 or less with an 11. Gustav is human, so all of his rolls were 20+2d10, which means you can replace any one attribute of 30 or less with a 31. Gustav rolled pretty...

"Oh, that's very important indeed, and I do hope you'll see that it joins its brothers in the Tome of Ages. The structural definition of the word skyscraper was refined later by architectural historians, based on engineering developments of the 1880s that had enabled construction of tall...

"Er, no sir, not so far's I know, nohow!" giggled the serving girl. "Da' says it's been the name o' th' place e'er since our dear old great-great-grandda' named 'er. 'E were a soldier, 'e were! Fancy a drink, sir? Or a noice bi' o' goulash?"

Always. Sometimes I might give you bonus experience if you catch me in something truly, deeply erroneous! Right you are--I gave it too brief a treatment, and erred in the summary. I had a paragraph written on parrying and dodging, but deleted it, deciding that I was posting too much...