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Ill Met in Lankhmar combined with Theives House, would be a great opener. Concepts from Cloud of Hate and Claws of the Night would fit well here. A good followup film would be material from Lean Times as an opener to Swords of Lankhmar with modifications to the rats and Ghouls. The Rats get a...

I guess my point was that the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser movie has already been made and that it was called "Conan the Barbarian." The story does not do a very good job of depicting Conan, but it does do a great job of depicting Leiber's characters. Looking at the characters and plot I would...

Also the premise is not that original. I can't remember the titles off the top of my head, but there were a lot of these "the game is real" stories written in the early-mid 80's. Granted, I am not writing a novel, you are. As for the christian and the resurrection spell, thats easily done...

Probably will be Highlander all over again. A really successful series inspired by a great movie that was followed by a few horrible sequals.

I thought Napoleons gift was . He is amazingly good at it. In fact I find that to be the point of his character and all the other characters, they don't know where their talents lie. I think the movie essentially says "are you willing to let go of your fantasy?" We see that Napoleon denies...

I think evil is the lack of good. Thus you can have good in you, but in one case it is enough, but in another it is completely lacking.

How do you introduce Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser to the public properly? Easy, make a movie about a huge barbarian and his little buddy sidekick. Fafhrd is hard to say so borrow from another sword and sorcery franchise and call him "Conan." But haing Conan and the grey Mouser would piss off...

Its only ASHeron when its spelled that way... I don't think that Asheron in Asheron's call has anything to do with ACKeron the region/river of hell. Its like Aragon in spain and Aragorn in LotR. Sound the same in some respects but completely different words.

Someone forgot- Cthulhu is an alien that seems demonic, not a demon that seems alien. There is a connection with the supernatural avoiding water. There are stories that vampires avoid flowing water, witches are tested with water. Then there is the old film tradition that holy water burns the...

So how did the memory moss get into the system?

I was looking at Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil and noticed that part 1 was 32 pages, the same length as Sunless Citadel and Forge of Fury. I thought about it and realised that you could have a really good time with just that part. But the map of Hommlet in 3e really blows. So...

Both actually. The mechanics never sat right with me, and the flavor never seemed to fly. Even in wild sword and sorcery where you have lazers and spells. Its too Kung Fu Movie.

I just don't like em. They just don't seem to fit. I am going to take them out of my games. If you want to play a guy that fights with martial arts, you can take a fighter, ranger or barbarian and take the "combat martial arts" feats from d20 Modern. In my games the monk is getting replaced...

Thanks for clearing that up! I think you completely misunderstood me! But I have some bad news for you. You still don't. :) Ok, I am going to call up your other example because in it you get really close to what I am talking about: So you would say that if you needed one success you had...

Reposted from Mythusmage's forums There is not much difference here, and the OED definition is much more robust and retargetable. The only problem I have with it is that it uses the word imaginary in front of characters so might not account for historical roleplaying. However it could be...

Wil, Your last post seems completely nonsequiter with what you quoted. I am talking about the way burning wheel works vs the way d20 works. What are you talking about? In burning wheel your target is say a four. you roll 6 dice 3 of which come up as successful. the GM set the number of...

About DDO, From what I understand WotC when they did the setting search was looking for a world that would make a good MMO setting. They went with Eberron because the culture of eberron is largely modern american culture. Eberron is very much geared to have leet speak running around and not...

I thought "Mark" in the other thread said he would send you one. I could have misread. Maybe that wasn't you. /runs and checks/ weird. Nothing there. I thought there was a bit about the publisher wanting to send you a copy. Hrm, that's disturbing.

ok, how bout the OED defintion: role-playing, n. 4. role-playing game, a game in which players take on the roles of imaginary characters who engage in adventures, typically in a particular fantasy setting overseen by a referee; (also, in later use) a computer game of this kind.

All my information came from the burning wheel web site. The character build determines the number the dice have to roll to be counted as a success, and the number of dice rolled, yet the GM determines how many successes are needed to acomplish a task. Might as well have skill ranks and a DC...