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I generally prefer jump-type methods, including variations like a Star Wars or Babylon 5 style hyperspace. Main reason is that physics geeks (there's usually at least one in the group) have an easier time suspending their disbelief, since such travel is merely highly implausible given present...

I have two Star Wars campaign ideas I'd like to run someday. The first is a post-ROTJ campaign, ignoring most of the extended universe stuff. The setup is that the restored Republic refits a captured Star Destroyer as the RSS Obi-Wan Kenobi, which is both a training center for Jedi and a jumping...

Nope, it's a separate game. The basic mechanic is dice pools - you roll a bunch of dice, and every one that's over a given target number gives you a success. The number of successes you get determines whether you succeed or fail, and by what margin. TROS' combat system is really interesting...

I can't offhand think of any GURPS supplement that isn't at least decent. The approach I'd recommend is to figure out what sort of genres you're interested in, and check if your store has the books for 'em (the odds are fairly high that GURPS has at least one supplement for any genre you're...

I read through it, but never ran it, largely because what el-remmen says is true. Some of the encounters and plot elements were worth stealing, but as a whole it just didn't work for me. I'd never seen the RPGA covers before, good stuff - but now I've got this strange urge to play Paranoia.

No, it just has close to 0 effect on the sort of things that make D&D a non-grim ruleset. Two points: first, in order to have that approach make a high level character sweat if a bandit's covering him with a shortbow, the threshold would have to be set so low (and the DC so high) that hit...

Not in and of itself - there are lots of grim n gritty rules systems that use hit points, and non-grim rulesets that don't. It's more a desire that hit points and other mechanics don't ultimately have the effect of making ordinarily lethal events trivial.

Hmm. Well, what I think it stands for is finding the least hated feat as voted by the EN World population. That appears to be what you think it stands for, too, so maybe we're both out of step. Is there some reason - other than padding your post count - that you've spent three messages trying to...

Hence the reason I noted initially that my group was out of step with opinions here. If you thought I said anything other than that, either you or I have failed to understand something in a pretty significant way.

And my comment stands, we still wouldn't have put Improved Init in the top 10 least hated.

It proved how out of touch my group is with the EN population, at least - we wouldn't have put Improved Init in the top ten.

I suppose it depends what you mean by "super-heroic". Your later examples appear to cite anybody who's even mildly above average as proof of your point, when in fact there's a fairly wide range between somebody who's sufficiently competent to be considered a bad ass and some kind of super-heroic...

Yup. Even better, you can save the source for the web page and edit it to put in whatever story you like. The guy who put it together (one of the posters over on RPGnet IIRC) did a really nice job.

OpenOffice (available at http://www.openoffice.org) is an open source product that includes a powerpoint-style app. I haven't used the presentation app myself, but generally the functionality is similar to Microsoft's products.

I can only speak for myself, but for me 3.5 is about a zillion times easier to DM, primarily because the rules are better organized and operate in a more consistent manner. This means that it's a lot easier to make a judgement call, generally more likely that judgement call will be consistent...

Hey, Fever got that gig. Venus' grand marketing moment was the shampoo endorsement where Herb sent the wrong photograph. Er, and Warhammer is a cool world and a decent game. Yeah.

IIRC, the same style was also used in at least one Top Secret adventure, the one that came with the boxed set (Sprechenaltestelle or something like that). Was Rapidstrike done in that format? I can't remember.

In the forward to Q1, Gygax said that initially it was delayed due to workload, and then when he went back to work on it he found he'd used a lot of his original ideas in the Temple of Elemental Evil (which presumably was in a more developed state at that point, though I don't think it saw print...

Absent the internet stuff, the same thing happened in 1E, only generally much worse since rules were so badly scattered. Same applies in any other version, too. Any DM who quashed silly rules arguments by fiat in 1E - and I was one of them - is quite capable of doing the same in 3E.

Don't know the game, but the second entry when I googled for "Battlelords" looks like a more current publisher: http://www.ssdc.com/Games/Battlelords.html Looks like there's messageboards and a webring that might help you.