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Roll Play: Clerics --- good saves, great armour options, decent weapon selection, spellcasting (including in armour), and a big fat d8. Plus the domain abilities are a mix-maxer's wet dream. Role Play: Rogues and Rangers. Lots of options, heaps of skill points, good combat abilities (rangers)...

Black-and-white is much kinder to printers when dealing with pdf's, as well when you have to photocopy any content.

I'm playing a ranger in a pirate campaign, and the character has his scary moments. Not only can he sneak around to gain tactical advantage, his principal favoured enemies are humans. Add in the effects of Improved Favoured Enemy feat and he tends to waltz through a lot of ship captains. Of...

Does that means I can finally trade in these dang dice for that Plinko board that I have in my basement? If so, sign me up for this Eberoon thing. :lol:

Hmm. Sounds like a twisted anime concept. Maybe in Robot Circus versus Supernatural Beast City... Tekumel is a vastly detailed setting (dauntingly so). It was invented by an anthropologist/linguist who was Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota. TSR produced a game...

Warhammer Fantasy Role Play Whispering Vault Traveller / Megatraveller Amber Diceless RPG --- at least I assume it is out of print Dark Sun - AD&D 2nd Ed Kult (first printing) We even dusted off Paranoia and Mechwarrior a while back. Ahhh, nostalgia has the sweet stench of death all over it...

We're playing in a campaign where all the PCs are short folk --- five gnomes and a halfling. The gist of the setting is that the elves are the bad guys, humans enslaved, and dwarves are an army of tech-crazy saboteurs. The gnomes are in a sort of self-imposed exile, having treatied with the...

Try Elric / Stormbringer. A very different take on alignment and magic as seen in D20, and using the Chaosium percentile system (like Call of Cthulhu). Of course, character mortality can be a bit high... sick thing is, I got to like it. A less mortal non-d20 game with some interesting races is...

Hello there, folks. I've been a committed lurker on this site for about three years. I've read enough threads to make myself comfy in the environment and have only recently began to post. Guess I'd better introduce myself. I'm an archaeologist and physical anthropologist from Canada, who is...

Sadly, reptiles can't carry rabies. Maybe the players could contract a bad case of salmonella from handling a dire turtle.

I was thinking the same thing. The Cyclopes have a decidely faction-ish or sect-ish feel to them. That, and the weird octopus lady...

We're part of a Planescape campaign with a new player. We started bouncing around film and TV titles to help him capture the mood, and that got me thinking... what would you recommend viewing to set the mood for Planescape? My three faves so far (because all things come in threes): Gangs of...

Perhaps a Shetland pony. No, strike that; make it a DIRE Shetland pony. ;) In our Known World campaign we had dwarf cavalry riding rams and giant lizards. Surefooted animals such as an Iceland pony or Gotland pony also suit the description of the dwarf --- stout, stubborn, occasionally shaggy...

I can blame Stormbringer for my two worst. ONE --- Another character was killed by a flying mutant lobster. Not a giant flying mutant lobster, no; not even a flaming flying mutant lobster with lasers strapped to its head. Just a flying lobster. Pointy little b***tards have a really strong grip...

Try the Monsternomicon and The Book of Fiends. The former, in particular, has a steampunk feel to it. The latter has lots of misery for your players. In recent months, I've fallen back in love with the Fiend Folio. It might not be exactly what you're after, but it is a) fiendish and b) weird.

We've only played the first instalment, but something like three or four times. The first time was something like 15 years ago. The two most recent times were last year, and within a month of one another. Our DM in a Weird War Two campaign used the Saltmarsh maps for a smuggler's hideout on...

I think I've dampened myself with glee. My longest running campaign features a planar cosmology influenced by Moorcock and M.A.R. Barker (and it seems a heavy dose of Angel). I'm curious to see your take on things.

The elf-ogre hybrid race was called the N'djatwa --- featured in Dragon 158, in an Princess Ark instalment titled "A culture with a different sense of taste." Basically, they were once two races whose fortunes dwindled and got reeeeeal good at killing each another in competition for limited...

Strikes me as another possible use of Use Magic Device.

Add to the list: Rolemaster and its variants --- Spacemaster, and MERP (Middle Earth RP). Warhammer FRP --- where the prestige class was born, or at least gestated. In terms of mechanics, I'm hesitant to place OD&D and d20 in the same taxon except at a general level as "D&D". Even though...