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These are good questions - ones that I hadn't thought about. Although there are many ways to go, I think it might be "coolest" to allow for some "lawlessness" in the campaign. Right now I'm leaning toward "old west" style rule of law. People have a basic idea of "what's right" and "what's...

There need to be some mechanism that prohibits abuse of magic item manufacture. XP cost seems to be as good as any. Time for magic item construction is really not a factor. The party mage/wizard/whatever just says "I take a month to make a magic X", while everyone else say "Oh great, I visit...

At least we resurrected him when we got back to town.

I believe that the Dragonborn came out of the Eberon (3.x) setting and that the Tiefling originally appeared in the Planscape (2e) campaign setting. I have no idea where Eladrin came from - those might have been just made up. (I'm still bummed that some of the other "core" races got pushed off...

You could try Space: 1889. There is a Fallout Pencil and Paper game already. It was released in PDF form only. I *think* it was hidden away on one of the disks for either Fallout 2, or maybe Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. See here: No Mutants Allowed :: View topic - Fallout Pen and Paper...

That's really good advice. There needs to be something coherent holding your world together - "elves with guns", "Civil War", "kobolds rule", "wild west with fireballs", anything.... After that, the world needs to be filled with opportunities for the players. It's all very well that Prince...

There is some gaming fiction that has elevated itself above the pack. Raymond Feist's (Home | The Official Raymond E. Feist Website) RiftWar/Midkemia books started out as a homebrew game world, and eventually grew into its own game system. Also, Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarion (The...

It really sounds like you wanted a "real" book and not a PDF copy. Printing out the PDF will not save you money once you factor in paper and ink, especially if you put it on special paper to "give it a bookish feel". You're probably going to spend more money than if you just bought the book in...

The party is trapped in the pocket dimension with Shelatraox and an absurdly powerful demon. Shelatrox has gone completely insane because he has been trapped in the pocket dimension for several times what his normal lifespan should have been. The catch is that no one can leave the dimension...

It's just a deathtrap. There's no way to get through to the end. It's only about seeing how long the party lasts. I played it once or twice and died very quickly. Now I just use it as a reference as some of the nastiest traps ever.

I don't think 3.x was given a long enough life span. Sure, a 4th edition had to come eventually, but I think it came too soon. I could have gotten several more years out of the system before getting tired of it.

Well, even if *he* doesn't know, the DM should probably have some idea of his own.

I'm not convinced that airships makes naval combat obsolete. So long as there are naval vessels that need protecting, there will be a need for naval combat vessels. Even in today's modern world we still use nautical transport for all kinds of cargo that either can't be reasonable transported...

I'm not sure what edition the game will be. At the moment I don't have a group for RPGs. Right now I'd just like some general ideas that I can stat out later once I get a game rolling. What I've found is that there are usually lots of people who want to play, but nobody wants to DM, so I'm...

Don't forget to read the news - it's like history, but more modern. :-) There's always plenty of ideas that the real world provides that no fictional world can compare to. Imagine a PC (or NPC) suddenly seeing his deity's image on a burnt piece of toast. What about a nation torn to pieces...

About the only time I forbid a PC is when the player is trying really hard to build something overpowered. It's usually along the lines of "look, I made a new prestige class..." or "hey, I found this race in a supplement..." I think what this discussion is clustering around but never actually...

* pissed off a superior by beating him in gambling or a sport. * was assigned to care for the King's horse or hunting dogs, which just happened to be injured or got sick. * was defeated in combat by a commoner ... who cheated, but no one knows that. * hey ... there's only about 10,000 ways...

I'm thinking about putting together a new game world for a fantasy setting (probably some form of D&D). I just started brainstorming on "New World" and I thought ... hey, why not take it literally. Imagine a world that is only a few hundred years old. In fact, it's still being built (or rebuilt)...