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For this, I'd just make concessions to how certain skills work in your game. For example, tell everybody, "Yeah, that Jump table? Uh, multiply everything on that table by 20." Then say, "Oh, and it's a Balance check of 10 to wall-run, DC 15 to move on Tree Branches, DC 20 to move on water, and...

Easiest way to do it, although this may not give you the crunch-level you want, would be to take a page from True20 and just go with 3 classes: Unarmed Guy: Fighter BAB and 4 skill points or Cleric BAB and 6 skill points; gets to choose abilities relating to unarmed coolness, like stunning...

I had a buddy who tracked initiative, and another buddy who, in very large combats, was the "squib tracker" -- the guy who had a database of hit points for the fifty-odd minor monsters that were one maximized cone of cold away from death in the big fights. It really helped things a lot. As the...

NWN1, co-op, with my wife. NWN2, solo. NWN2 is... interesting. Some very nice bits, and some bits that just make my teeth hurt. I'm only a bit into the game, but it already looks like Obsidian did something that they did in KOTOR2 as well: they tried to introduce moral ambiguity into a world...

You gain spellcasting levels as talents, just like any other talent in d20 Modern. You roll a caster-level check to cast a spell, and regardless of whether you succeed or fail, you take ability-point damage. That damage is Strength if you're trained and Constitution if you're not. Having a high...

I'm all up in the agreementactity with Umbran as far as it being both group concensus and actual rules... but I loathe that particular rule. Other people have mentioned the not-real nature of the rule, given that it was more or less invented when everyone decided to make English a romance...

I also try to make adventures that, you know, LET people use their cool stuff. In d20 Modern, for example, I might make sure that every adventure had: - Fire damage, because the party has a Tough Hero with Fire Resistance - Traps, because the Smart Hero has Search and Disable Device - Some...

And of course, this all depends upon the game. If your DM is running a module by the book, yeah, your wizard, sorcerer, cleric, and druid party might have some trouble. If your DM is running a campaign set in a magical university, then the party of wizards and clerics is gonna do just fine. In...

A kind of internal compromise I use is to only partially design an NPC. Sure, I know that he's a 10th level fighter with Power Attack, Great Cleave, and Sunder, but I leave two or three feats unchecked. Yes, he's technically designed for the encounter, but "Guy good at hitting" is not so...

Reaper, I've got a two-year-old son. Kidfriendlly !necessarily= Bad. Bad == Bad.

Well, no. I'm glad you don't listen to critics. Some of us don't have the time or disposable income to see everything that comes out in theaters. We choose to listen to critics who have demonstrated tastes similar to ours in past situations. If a movie is bad Bad BAD, it's nice to have some...

Hey, if you were working 9AM-8PM most days and 10-4 on Saturday, you'd feel a bit tacky yourself. However, the Damsel and I also played a little NWN OC this week, as well as Bookworm Adventures. So there's that. :)

Mass Effect. Until it crashes. Then I play Bug Tracker. Then I play More Mass Effect. Then I play Yell at Collision-Volume Settings. Then I play Yet More Mass Effect. Ah, crunch.

Not sure if this will help, but try changing the channel your router uses. As I understand it, cordless phones use random channels, and will occasionally pick one (and stay on one) that messes up wireless connections. No idea why it would mess up yours and not the other computer's, but I...

See, on the flip-side, there's the player who wants to make a cool acrobaticic guy who scales mountains... and then is unhappy when his character can't make an ordinary leap that the fighter can make, because the DM who made that PC (or who made the rules) didn't make that PC a very good jumper...

Er, no. This is the equivalent of a bunch of road contractors saying, "You know? We make pretty awesome roads. And you know what goes on roads? CARS. So I figure we get into the car market and hire a few guys!" For 2008. This will not be good, and it will not be out in 2008.

I get this in Mutants & Masterminds, too. I say, "Okay, guys, think Silver Age, and with heroes who don't have powers that react specifically to the powers of other heroes -- that's more meta than I want. Give me super-hero ideas." And what I get is: - One guy who wants to play a Flash...

"How would your cleric know that I stole things?" Scratch 100 xp off your character sheet and tell your DM that you're casting Commune. 1. Did the rogue get his new ring in this dungeon? 2. Has the rogue gotten additional treasure without telling us about it? 3 and on. Hey, ask about the plot...

Yep. Spot checks, and Sense Motive when the party rogue insists that he bought the stuff back in the last town -- AND when he insists that he didn't find anything. The rogue will have a big bonus, but statistically, he's gonna blow it at least once. And when he does, you (as cleric) will be...

I've heard my players use it. I'd be hard-pressed to say whether they were in-character or out-of-character, though -- sort of that tongue-in-cheek middle ground, along with such gems as: "No worries, guys. I've got Boots of Speed." (back in 3.0) "You have Boots of Speed?" "You don't?" "How...