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I've run games with about a 3 level range, and it's doable so long as you have a variety of threats. In general, a mixed level party is going to do better against groups of weaker opponents rather than a single strong individual. That gives everybody something to do. It helps if the lower level...

I was actually looking over the original T1 the other day, for a conversion to Arcana Unearthed. I didn't notice magic items as being outrageously common, but the money... oh my. I guess it confirms that none of my players read the module on the sly way back when, otherwise they would've skipped...

Here's an example (with no names, since it's a fairly widespread practice): I've seen a fair number of products that declare the proper names of creatures as product identity, while making the stats open content. That makes it difficult for anybody but the PI owner to use those critters in...

I'm reasonably certain the Monk class was originally introduced by Dave Arneson, or possibly one of the Blumes, rather than Gygax. And the class was originally based on the "Destroyer" series of books, featuring Remo Williams and Chiun, master of Sinanju, as assassins working for a special...

I would (and in fact do, on occasion) play a game where things like weapon speed and casting time affect when you act. But I don't think D&D is a good choice for that game. It works better in a game that's focused more on one-on-one fights between basically human combatants, in D&D rules...

I agree! When I was younger, I knew EVERYTHING. As I grew older, I started to realize that I didn't know nearly as much as I thought. Clearly, this is because my Int was going down, so I wasn't as good at that Knowledge: Everything skill check.

Bingo! I became a lot happier with the Monk after I played Arcana Unearthed, which has Oathsworn. Abilities very similar to the Monk, similar role, but the name makes it work for me. Change the name, handwave a different explanation for the special abilities, and it's all good. Since the...

Up front: I haven't seen the movie. But the Firefly TV show bore a pretty strong resemblance to the classic old RPG Traveller. So I'd guess that d20 Traveller would do a pretty good job.

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Implanted into his arm, IIRC. Lost the winning smile, though.

Our guy like that - interestingly enough, also named Neil - rolled Heightened Charisma and a paralysis device as his two powers. So he ran around fighting Mammoth and Dr. Apocalypse and so on with a winning smile and a dart gun. He became our first ever radiation accident, before I'd ever heard...

As mentioned, some very advanced agricultural techniques. They also had reasonably advanced textiles - the Spaniards were pretty impressed with Aztec cotton armour, for example. They knew how to work the metals they had available (gold, for example), they just didn't have access to many metals...

Well, for the past winners "the job" consisted of doing a lot of PR appearances, gladhandling with investors and executives, and getting the heck out of the way when the time came to actually make decisions or close sales so Trump's real employees could do their thing. Maybe it'll be different...

"Crucible of Freya" felt a little like "The Village of Hommlet" to me. A starting location with dungeon nearby, and some plothooks that a DM could either follow into a megadungeon or flesh out with custom stuff. I'm going to guess this was not coincidental.

For a standard D&D-like game, I'd grab Arcana Unearthed, and use that magic system. I don't know which of your options that's closest to. I would be coming at this from the angle of having read various magic systems, and finding that AU's system is the best system I know that's close to standard...

V&V was the first superhero RPG I ever GMed, and I think also the first I ever played. It was a lot of fun, though I remember I had to intervene quite a bit in character generation to make sure nobody was too far above or below the general power level. The adventures and the art were the real...

I've used them and they worked fine, but I've only run relatively low level games. I'd probably institute the MDT houserule if I ran a campaign to high levels. I don't mind if it's tough to knock somebody out without a bunch of training, because in the real world relatively few "nonlethal"...

Yeah, and in that you've just twigged on one of the quietly useful aspects of the Forge - when somethings going wrong with a campaign, it's not a bad thing to read some of their discussions about what can go wrong and see how other people have fixed it. Regardless of whether you buy into the...

I primarily use the Monster Manual (3.5 version), along with bits and pieces from the Tome of Horrors, Legions of Hell, the Book of Vile Darkness, and occasional conversions of my own from older sources (mostly 1E books and adventures). I use some templates from various sources to spice things...

I'm probably still missing the point, but it seems to me that if the third-party publishers wanted to do this and still retain the advantages of working under the SRD, what they'd do is publish rules for stat generation, XP tables, XP awards, and level advancement, with the SRD added on. Whether...