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Well, I gave my nephews (oldest is just under 5) my old computer, so they can play their Reader Rabbit and Tonka games without pestering any of the adults in the house. Now, I haven't turned that old computer on since I moved to Vancouver almost three years ago, and never got around to...

So far as mass combat systems go, I use the one in Cry Havoc, from Malhavoc. For small forces with no PC interaction, it's reasonably quick. However, in the examples you present, it seems to me the result of the battle is going to set up the PCs' next adventure, so I'd be inclined to just...

I adopted it wholesale into my campaign at the time, and within a few weeks realized it was pretty uneven so we started to pull stuff back. As I recall, by the time the dust settled on our playtesting, we kept: - the new races and level limits - the thief-acrobat - some of the spells and magic...

Well, if you go back to the primary inspiration material, Midnight is very similar to Middle Earth after the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, where Morgoth defeated the elven hosts along with their human and dwarf allies. He then set about destroying the three (IIRC) elven nations that remained...

The applications for timing magic or religious rituals are obvious. It could also be used by critters that don't see the sky very often - Dwarves, Drow, Svirfneblin, perhaps even Dragons. You could also combine it with some other ancient inventions and then let your imagination run wild to...

Average has been 3-4 throughout my RPG career (1979 to present). Occasionally more, but the main difference way back when was that I'd have a rotating crew of 6-8 players, where 2-3 would show up every session and 1-2 more would make it from the rest of the group, as opposed to nowadays when I...

Well, the original adventure path - WOTC's 3.0 modules, Sunless Citadel through Bastion of Broken Souls - is a bunch of relatively loosely connected adventures. There's some dungeon crawls among them, but they at least have the benefit of variety. And the advantage over the more tightly...

This sounds like kind of a lot of work. Most d20 Modern campaigns seem to use the real world as a base, and make whatever changes are needed rather than try and come up with a coherent world all at once. You might want to consider that route. As noted, you can get game stats pretty much for...

Well, not necessarily. D&D alignments are based on actions, not temptations. I don't think it's particularly fair to penalize the cleric PC for something they haven't done yet, and the in-game explanation for this would be along the lines of "Pelor expects everyone to choose the light, but he...

It'd depend on the deity, but I think they'd probably be looking for two things: to burn the convert's bridges so they can't just go back the first time they feel bad, and to hit at Pelor in some way. So probably there'll be at least two elements - a religious ceremony during which the convert...

Hard sf really does call for a group that's interested in science. They don't have to all be PhD astrophysicists, but players who think Newton's laws of motion are too difficult probably won't be much interested in a hard sf game. The game doesn't have to revolve around science - most of the...

And since this particular subthread began with somebody quoting a line that said Lamplighter joined a Stormwatch team that was a "parallel of the Justice League", it seems that description of the history is accurate. Whether the team got any spotlight time isn't really relevant to the question...

Just make up your own, it's quicker and just as accurate. AFAICT, there are only two scenarios likely to occur: 1) WOTC begins marketing 4E about a year before it's due to come out. This means we'll have plenty of lead time, giving us a chance to evaluate whether it's worth upgrading to 4E. 2)...

I'm not real familiar with Stormwatch, but Wikipedia's article on the team says that Ellis introduced a "secret" Stormwatch team with direct parallels to the JLA: Apollo - Superman Midnighter - Batman Impetus - Flash Amaze - Wonder Woman Lamplight - Green Lantern Stalker - Martian Manhunter...

Some words from Games Workshop's dwarvish lexicon that might be useful: Bok - Banging your head on the roof of a low tunnel; characteristic scar on forehead caused by same (Dwarven miners are often called "Boki") Chuf - Piece of very old cheese a Dwarf miner keeps under his hat for emergencies...

Assuming you're talking about using the character in a game: he (or whatever) can be called whatever you like. They exist in whatever dimension is appropriate for your game. And you can use the character in whichever game system you like, so long as the GM of your particular group is OK with the...

No, I ran it in 1E. Folks always grabbed Blackrazor because it's a clone of Stormbringer, and who wouldn't want that just for the cool factor? This was back when Elric was popular and Drizzt was not yet even a glimmer in the eyes of the TSR marketing department, things may be different nowadays...

Well, I personally am more likely to tell somebody I don't know that I play D&D than I am to tell them that I play poker*. But in general, I think the fact that poker is (a) competitive and (b) had a long history of being a "real man's" pastime in movies/TV/etc. makes it pretty acceptable. Never...

Well, the module assumes they'll leave and go back to town to rest, but not travel all the way back to Greyhawk (or wherever) until they've got all three. As a result, it assumes that they'll carry any previously captured weapons back in with them. If they don't do this - maybe they're...

It seems to me that chips, tables, and other knick-knacks are more likely to sell to hardcore players, the casual player is the one who goes to the local casino/cardroom/etc. every now and then. By all accounts the latter group is booming, the former could well be saturated as there's only so...