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Sure. I mean, 3rd party material gave us the Thief, the Ranger, and the Bard, which stuck. The Illusionist and Anti-Paladin which didn't but sometimes show up.

Yeah. To me, basically it's "What if a hollywood figure had enough pull to turn his Star Trek fan-fiction (compete with turning himself into the captain) into a TV show". And yet the result has been surprisingly good

Length of the barrel also plays a big factor. There are a number of rifles that are chambered for larger pistol ammo (.357 and .45 LC) and they have a good deal more velocity when shot from one of those.

I think Terry Brooks would be a reboot of Tolkien

Gandalf - Peter Cushing Saruman - Andrew Robinson (mostly a character actor, but really good at being sinister) Aragorn - Kevin Costner Boromir - Bill Paxton Legolas - Kyle MacLachlan Galadriel - Kim Basinger Frodo - Fred Savage Sam - Stephen Dorrf Corey Feldman and Corey Haim as Merry & Pippin

I think it's just "Wu", which means like shaman or witch or wizard, or possibly "Wu Shen", shen apparently being something like a (nature) spirit.

1) Limits? No. But I do use the UA class restrictions 2) The Barbarian is allowed, but no one uses it 3) 20th+ characters get semi-retired, only used on special occasions 4) No weapon class adjustments 5) Yes, and they have personalities. While they do get killed, they generally get raised (at...

While fun, the thing with critical hits/fumbles is that player characters are going to be on the receiving end of more of them in the long run (since they are the ones in every combat) and with the unforgiving nature of the RM crits, they end up dying from them eventually. I think 3rd level was...

The OGL was originally a way for WOTC to deal with two things they saw as potential issues with their new third edition. Firstly, they viewed things like adventures as products that didn't sell all that well to be viable for a large company, but something that some people wanted and probably...

"Monty/Montie Haul" was apparently Jim Ward's tongue in cheek nickname for Gary Gygax as DM. Mr. Ward had a column in early issues of Dragon detailing some of the early adventures, some of which are recognizable as published modules, and are fairly treasure laden. (I'm not sure how accurate the...

LotFP is very nihilistic. There are literally scenarios where the universe ends if the DM rolls something on an encounter table. And many screw the players for making the obvious or heroic choice. The rules also reflect this. (I would also disagree that its are "adult", usually its scenarios...

Woops, missed this months ago. But since this thread is bumped, it is Dean Spencer. He is really one of the best stock art artists, but his license is one use only http://www.deanspencerart.com/license To be fair, he does link to the license on his product pages. However, it would be nice (and...

Do you really need them? I mean, doesn't seem to hinder hockey players.

There was an episode of Babylon 5 that had Garibaldi come across a hidden floor. It was full of debris and strange dolls, one of which talked to him and shot him with a dart and it turns out it was populated by a cult.

I'm somewhat skeptical that Chaosium can support it properly. Maybe they've gotten better in the last few years, but so much support for Call of Cthulhu was either handed off to fans (via the monograph program) or other companies, either officially via a license, or unofficially. And so many...

While it's largely forgotten today, in the 1960s and 1970s there was a series of extremely popular young adult books called the Chronicles of Prydain. It featured what I think is the ironic bard, Fflewddur Fflam. He was a fairly good fighter and could charm people with his magical harp.

1e used coins as well. But really, back in the 1970s, there really wasn't a lot of data about weapons. Remember, this sort of thing was extremely niche. You couldn't order swords over the internet, or watch videos on youtube. The SCA had just been founded a few years earlier, so it wasn't easy...

I am skeptical that prisons would exist in a fantasy world. More likely you'd have some sort of physical punishment - losing an ear, limb, eye, etc, depending on the crime, or just executed. Especially since religion in fantasy worlds is not simply a matter of faith, but built into the...

What I find fascinating about the current love for The Expanse IP, is that it's literally something out of the 1950s Sci-Fi mags. The more serious stories. Belters vs Mars vs Earth. You even sort of saw this in the first Buck Rogers RPG from TSR.

I had something like this in my game, only the whole tower blew up, not just the top floor. Only thing surviving was his dungeon, which sort of reflected his descent into madness The first floor of the dungeon was devoted to hobbies - art, music, theater. But he wanted to create more than art...