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The problem with this type of game is that it's inherently unfair in play. In a how-white-wolf-doesn't-want-you-to-play Storyteller game, my hunter pulled up his railgun, aimed, and rolled one chuckfull of dice, taking out one tough noob. My friend next to me spent five blood points, and made...

Craft of the Mind Minor note. The Craft of the Mind is going professional. After 3.5 I gave it a through rewrite, and Alea Publishing has agreed to sell it as Mindcraft. It's in layout now, and I'll be sure to update my website (www.castlesteelstone.us) and let anyone know who asks me...

In D&D, Sneak Attack is extra damage added to EVERY attack a character makes that meets the requirements. A rogue who flanks an oppenent gets their full sneak attack damage on every attack they make against an opponenet. A hasted 20th level rogue, with short swords and advanced two-weapon...

Not quite. It's entirely possible to have a science-based world with magic. The important part is to either determine that there is something fundamentally different in the play-universe from our own, or to conceptualize some kind of exotic method wherein the magical effects can be...

No. My world is macroscopic, and aside from the world of chemistry and microscopic physics, atoms and subatomic particles simply are beneath the barriers of perception. Of course, science can and does find them all, but that's not my world. ;) Oh, wait--you meant the world my...

G'ha! Greatsword + halforc (20 base str) + two str increases (22 base str) and a +3 weapon only results in a 1d12+15 base raging damage, which I would consider a good ammount of damage in any game. If the same character were to Power Attack, they could get as much as 1d12+31 damage--but...

I do believe that it has. I would venture to guess that, out of the total number of pirated PDFs out there, one-quarter of them aren't buying the book or PDF because they already have it. I won't even hazard a guess as to if the number of sales of anyone's book has actually increased because...

Stop watching Enterprise. The series, as I've said for years, isn't about the first Warp 5 ship. It's about the temporal war, as seen from the view of one battleground in that war. EVERY major plot element--including this Enterprise not blowing up prematurely, and maybe even it being...

AC is one of those things I "Randomly renamed for a reason" to call it Defense. Every class grants a defense bonus, just like in d20-Modern but it stacks with armor. In exchange, hits that "touch" an armored character are treated as attacks against the armor. (I also use a new...

About that: I've heard from my pagan friends that "Harry Potter's spells are really close to some Wiccan traditions." It's not inconcievable that a young mind who reads and enjoys Harry Potter and doesn't get any strong religious instruction will investigate religions similiar to the...

In a way, Jack Chick's tracts are no different from a economic professor's paper depiciting communism as impossible, or popular media sentiment depicting drug addicts as tempermental, desperate people who have lost control of their lives. His chief sin--which is shared in no way by most...

The crystals. For reference: Watch The Clone Wars Read the New Jedi Academy Trilogy Pick up the old d6 Star Wars books. Now, of course, the maker of the lightsaber chooses their crystals, so in a way they can choose the color--but each lightsaber has a set color, and it doesn't...

Can someone point me to where I can get the most-up-to-date version of Mongoose's Open Mass Combat System? I'd prefer a PDF or text-based download, but a book works just as well.

My games rarely have alcohol drunk during play. But it has happened, and I don't have a rule against it--so long as each person drinks little enough to still "effectively play." A houseguest a few weeks back drank a bit too much, and didn't remember the game--but until they went in the...

It shouldn't. The heat is a magical effect, and should be blocked by the antimagic field the same as a burning hands spell cast from oustide of the field. Now, transmuting an inch of the ceiling to lava BEFORE throwing up the antimagic field would have the same effect--not to mention making...

Something different I'm trying a system that doesn't give characters Hit Points, but rather gives them "Hit Resistance", tracks wounds, and forces a saving throw when they have too many wounds.

Knight Core Class I still have (and use in my game) the Knight Core Class we developed for the Whitestone Council (I'll spare y'all the bitter rant.) Give me a chance to get home, format it, and slap it up, and I'll put it in the Open Gaming section of my website, www.castlesteelstone.us...

I've got something different--it's a little bit clunky on the "When do I drop over dead" end, but it doesn keep the balance of the game rather intact--and it requires less math than the UA system. e-mail me (or reply with an e-mail address) if you're interested.

We've discussed this very issue at least three times on ogf-l--the list Ryan administers, where we tore apart each draft of the OGL. Each time, we came to roughly the same conclusion: don't worry about the legal copying. Assume that it will happen, and plan accordingly. The people who would...

If they are OGC'd anytime soon, I'll find a place for them as-written IMC. If not, I'll likely simply redo the same concept. I've had a cabal of powerful wizards in my setting that use golem-type creatures as weapons and servants. Warforged, from what I've heard, could fit right in. If...