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Likewise. I think playing RIFTS for so many years is what gave me my compulsion to "fix" game systems.

The character that I am playing has no compunction against eating people, but eats only those that he respects, as a way to honor them and ensure their safe passage into the afterlife. Resurrection is an abomination and and affront to the natural order, undertaken only by the depraved and evil...

There are several of possible solutions to this... One that I like is from a quote by Raymond Chandler, "When in doubt have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand."

I am usually a little bit lenient in my execution of teleport traps, as the relative locations of the characters affected will change (mixing up the marching order). Although I don't always have all the characters affected go to the same destination. So the characters will realize right away...

This is great news.

It has been some time ago, but the last time I ran a megadungeon game (the dungeon was the afterlife that foolhardy adventurers went to when they died), I did have them do mapping.

Based on the discussion that this one is spawned from, I'd think the idea is more that, if there is a combat, the player characters die. So there is definitely a threat of death, it would just come in some other form than traditional D&D combat (which has, as a core presumption, that you might...

It appears to me that the situation, as you describe it, is unresolvable. You want to run a game that is fundamentally not D&D (you would prefer to run a game that is actually not D&D, but have been unable to do so). The players in your area (social circle? network reach?) want to play D&D...

I much prefer 3d8-3 (or 3d8 and add +3 to all DCs), if moving to a 'bell curve'. If you do criticals only on a 3 or a 24, it results in only one critical (success or failure) out of every ~250 rolls. Even if you do crititicals on 3 and 4 and 23 and 24, it is still only a critical (success or...

I'm going to have to disagree. Adding more stuff is always better (where better is defined as having more stuff).

That doesn't match my experience. In the groups that I played in, there were lots of instances of skills being taken up to exactly 5 or 8 ranks, skills that got no more than one rank, and skills that got enough ranks to reliably reach a DC 20 or 25 check, and no higher.

I suspect that there is much less opportunity to play high level characters, because no one is running games for them.

Bench warmer.

Based on the experiences of the last campaign that I ran, at least seven.

Often in self defense training, this is one of the first things that you learn... If you get into a self defense situation, you ARE going to get hurt. You simply have to accept that, so that when it happens, you don't panic. This seems like it is equally true for people who are going into...

I don't care about canon and noncanon except where it gives me and the other players ideas about cool things to do in the game, and in games that I run I am as happy to pull elements of other fiction into the game as elements of Star Wars fiction. Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon and Ellen Ripley...

I am a big fan of the WEG d6 Star Wars game. As a youth, I had a lot of hours of fun gaming with that system. It comes in a pretty close third, behind Star Wars Saga Edition, which I liked so much that I changed everything about it to make Space Saga, my own space fantasy heartbreaker.

This is why I much prefer feats and abilities that improve upon things that can already be done. Like an Actor feat that said something along the lines of, "When you use Charisma (Deception) to mimic someone's speech, those observing you have disadvantage to their Wisdom (Insight) check to tell...

Much like all the other, "where is your line" topics that have come up, it depends entirely on the table. I personally don't have a line. I am perfectly happy to discuss how the sausage is made, so to speak.

The group that I'm currently running a GURPS game for consists of An artist, a fast-food worker, two department of corrections employees and a kindergarten teacher. The group before that was a financial advisor, a social worker, a factory worker, a retail store manager and a dockworker. They...