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Not at all. It says something about using a modern convenience in a game, because very few players are going to bother to actually roleplay illiteracy.

Convo at the table: "So this Broadcast super power only lets you transmit to TV and radio? Do people still use those? Can I transmit to cell phones or wifi spots?"

This reminds me of Ursula K LeGuin's essay Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?

99.99999% of the time, though, the history of a deity will matter not one whit to the PC. Really, the 'swap the names' system above works just as well, and results in minimal work on your part.

There might well be some 3rd party thing or a unique thing from an Adventure Path that looks like that. Nothing I'm aware of in Pathfinder. Closest thing I can think of is the pipefox.

I guess I would do what worked before, in your case :) For a home-brewed world, though, I have to ask why you didn't design your own deities? Then nothing would have to change unless you might count some fundamental game rule change like the domain changes from 3.5 to 5.0 or something.

The Undead Hordes of Kan-Gul and Slavers of the Savage Catacombs by (Jon F. Merz) sound like 1E adventure modules, but they are books with a very old-school feel to them - pure adventure in a supernatural Eastern setting. These are the first two books for the Shadow Warrior chronicles, which...

If I was the type to worship anything, I'd consider: Lhankor Mhy, the Lightbringer god of knowledge and truth. The other might be Prometheus, the Titan who brought the gifts of fire, iron, and other icons of civilization to Mankind, and defied the very gods he sided with to do so.

I haven't done even moderate level 5E yet, but with 3/3.5/Pathfinder, I use w wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey sliding scale of hit points depending on how important the guy is, and how engaged the players are in defeating him. After about 6th level, the big story-important bad guys have enough hit...

I'll reiterate: read the works of Manly Wade Wellman. This is his big forte; mountain magic and folklore. His Silver John stories and novels are the definitive guide to doing tales set in that region. http://www.whitetreeaz.com/cd/slvrjohn.mp3

That would be a good thesis topic. I think a lot of factors contribute to it, but I would guess their closeness to Dogs (Our Best Friend), the associations with the American West, and the idea that they are so much like us - they are a social animal, and a social hunter, but don't have a...

Typically (especially in fiction), people in this line of work are (or are trained into being) high-functioning sociopaths. Killing a person is simply another mission objective.

Why the term 'biohacker' has not entered my lexicon until now is a total mystery to me.

I liked some aspects of BW but the XP system is simply too weird for me to deal with. Trying to play a mage was a total massive act of frustration - spell costs have little to no relation to how powerful or useful they are, for instance. Also, I despise any system that tells me how old my...

I have the original BR. I would not say that the 'rules support the genre' specifically; the original rules with only a few small changes went on to be able to support pretty much any genre. Perhaps they mean that the rules do a better job of supporting the genre than many others, since they are...

We just started a four-color level game with Savage Worlds, using the revised Super Hero Companion and already we can see at least one major, fatal crack in it - the archtype of the super-strong dude is vastly underpowered compared with the ranged users. It's mainly the way the strength table...

I'm sure Pratt will do fine as Indy. We need more Pulp-era stuff. Meh on the Ghostbusters news. The first one was a one-time perfect storm of casting and script, which they could never duplicate. It might be good, but I doubt it.

In these kinds of things, I've usually taken to staying away from the obvious top 1, 2 or 3 movies because everyone will simply mention them and nobody learns about anything new :) So I don't mention the Jackson films, for instance. I'd certainly put Willow in there. To me, the requirement...