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I missed the last game day because I was sick. I'd be up to come and hang out and play something. I heard that it's being combined with an RPGNet gameday, so I'd be up to try something new.

Absolutely wonderful, guys! Many thanks! So when can we expect this gem?

Well, most of my gaming crew started with AD&D of one kind or another. We sort of grew out of them and picked up other games and only really returned to D&D when 3rd came out. We still play other systems. It depends on what a particular game calls for. Personally, the only d20 system game I play...

In terms of inflicting large amounts of pain, a fast, high-dexterity character will pretty much never match one who relies on strength. But that isn't the point. This is one reason I have a huge problem with the Duelist. He does too much damage with that Precise Strike ability. In the...

Personally, I think the standard bard is a FANTASTIC archer character. Even though you don't have many feats, all you need are Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, and Rapid Shot. Greater Magic Weapon, Haste, Improved Invisibility, and Bardic Music make for a great combination. You make a great...

Hiya, this project sounds really interesting, but what, exactly, is "d20" fiction? Is it a short story where all the characters have d20 stats?

Morrow Project is a great setting, but the rules are a disaster. You're best off using the books for the source material and scrapping the system entirely. As much as I think d20 Modern is incredibly mediocre, it's still better than what Morrow Project had.

I agree with a lot of what has been said. Mutants & Masterminds is a great system with a lot of potential for multigenre play. So my question to the Green Ronin guys is: well, what about it? Will we see a supplement that would help us figure out how to adapt M&M to lower-power games with...

Well, let's see. Cyberpunk 2020 and Shadowrun have separate stats to determine a character's "threshold." I forget what CP2020 called it, but SR calls it "Essence," which, incidentally, is the stat that determines a character's spellcasting ability as well, so you don't have super-cyber-mages...

In an old 2E Planescape game, I played two non-PHB characters. My first character was a Spelljammer lizardman fighter (swashbuckler) who was a privateer captain. After that character retired, I played a Rakasta (cat-people from Mystara) monk (using the Scarlet Brotherhood Monk class from some...

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Would a sword go through chainmail? It depends on how you hit it. Chainmail is designed to spread out the force from a cut. If you stab it with something like, say, a rapier, or other narrow sword, the blade will go right through it like it's paper. Incidentally, this is why chainmail in GURPS...

Even heroes in John Woo action movies stagger when they get shot in the leg or drop things when they get hit in the arm. Even Jet Li's wire-fu heroes flailed around when they got hit in the eyes and even Arnold Schwarzzeneger crumpled when Sharon Stone kicked him in the groin in Total Recall...

Here are a few relatively common scenarios to help clarify: 1. You need to drop someone without killing him, so you shoot him in the leg. 2. You're a master archer hunting a vampire, and you want to stake him through the heart with a wooden-shafted arrow. 3. You're a dirty fighter, so instead...

I didn't say it was a bad system. That wasn't the question I answered. What I did say was that I don't think d20-Modern is worth the price of the book.

This is not an issue so long as you don't stick the "d20" logo on your game. You can use the OGL to publish a complete RPG. Take a look at Traveller, Everquest, and Mutants & Masterminds. All of them make changes to advancement, creation, etc, and none of them have the d20 license on them.

HP/VP (or something remarkably similar to it) would be perfectly permissible under the OGL. And the concept of "Defense" is nothing more than a bonus to AC dependent on class level. So if you wanted to release a OGL game that used the Spycraft mechanics, there is nothing stopping you. You might...

As long as you don't slap the "d20" logo on it, the OGL allows you to do practically anything, as long as you let other people do it too. You want to make a d20-based version of GURPS (which has all of what you were mentioning) that combines the flexibility of GURPS with the relative simplicity...

Having one class that is customizable to fit any character type is the same as having no character classes at all, which is the approach Mutants & Masterminds takes to character creation and advancement. Of course, and this is me being cynical, when you design a system like that, it's a lot...

In other words, d20 Modern is a huge book that essentially reprints all the rules changes we've been downloading, implementing, and reading about for years, plus a couple neat innovations from CoC, SW, and a couple other things. I don't need to pay as much as WotC charges for the book just to...