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Well, they needed a name, what with using the cartoon characters as the new iconics, although half the time they forgot to replace "Krusk" with "Bobby". Plus, I thought they gave Care Bears *way* too many hit dice. Typos were also pretty bad. I haven't been able to get past the part in the...

Only if the way that you run humanoids is as if they were merely reacting animals with no real ability to make conscious moral decisions. The beholders are a more interesting case, and if they are just mere evil obstacles to be overcome, then your setup is fine. I try and avoid this myself...

Okay, now we have an illustration of the fundamental gulf in the positions. You seem to be saying that the nature of humanoids ids to loot and destroy and kill and maim, etc., and that is so deeply a part of their nature that it is downright biological, such that (to you) the idea of them doing...

I normally disregard "me too" posts (and everyone feel free to disregard this one), but I wanted to say that I'm perfectly alright with this post.

You seem to be identifying as a core assumption that "evil" creatures are inherently evil; that to a kobold/goblin/orc etc., raiding, raping, murdering, etc., are as ingrained and natural as a lion's carniverous biology. That could be done, I suppose, but it would mean that these creatures...

These therads tend to get garbled, and somewhat nasty, from a couple of reasons: 1) People who hate alignment and think those people who use it are stupid, and look for contrived means to set up a situation, or, 2) People don't realize that there fixed, definite, and cut-and-dried definition...

As a caveat, I prefer a more low-magic world, because I'd like the players suspension of disbelief to be as easy as possible, and more importantly the players should be able to reasonably be able to smoothly shift into thinking "in-world". My absolute favorite creation story is Tolkien's...

Interesting, as I've lived near a number of Lutheran churches named for saints.

There has always been a certain amount of thread creep, and the discussion has always contained some discussion of how to address this problem in more general terms. In order to do this, some mention of differing practices of different religions/denominations is reasonable. As long as this can...

To be accurate, like many Protestants. Lutherans, Anglicans (& Episcopals &Methodists) along with other denominations venerate saints. It is certainly not polytheism but use of the saints (obviously not appropriate for the case that started all this) allows for different domains available...

Yeah! Setting aside the Richard Scarry artwork that was truly terrible, I watched the TV show, bought the first trilogy, wanted a good hard sci-fi game and still will occasionally wake up twitching at night ...

Yeah, I gotta go along with this. Heck, if someone else hadn't originally mentioned this I wouldn't admit to ever buying the thing.

I really don't have a lot of money I can allocate for gaming books, maybe two every three months, so there's a lot of competition for my bucks. Having said that, I bought a book that sounded really cool that turned out to be quite, quite bad. (Both book and company will remain nameless.)...

I haven't added my two cents because I'm in principle opposed to posting just to say "me too" to the people whose position I agree with (Dannyalcatraz and Eric Anondson) just to up my post count, but I think that I can contribute here: I'd think that the price that the store can order the...

In response to your first point: Quite so, and let me point out: http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/herodotus/ In response to your second point, Abso-fraggin'-lutely, and let me also recommend Green Ronin's Medieval Player's Manual (now available in PDF form at RPGNow). Who said...

Please allow me to mention a couple of good sources: I have used the heck out of Asimov's Guide to the BIble, which is still a common find in the Barnes & Noble discount shelves, because it explains many of the secular/historical references in the Bible, and gives as much stuff to steal as the...

I just wanted to put up the part of RangerWickett's post that I agreed with, 'cause the points that occured to me are scattered in everybody else's responses. I'm interested in Gothmog's modifications, having removed the travel magic from my campaign as well.

One thing that I loved about the West End Star Wars was that I run it pretty much as I walked in the door with it, and it worked. Sure, the characters advanced a heck of lot faster than they really should have, but I caught on when they were at the rough equivalent of 6th level or so ...

I chose "give me decent fellows I will play any system/style" because "decent fellows" don't play Synnibar :) (or games set up to wallow in something or offend.)

Monster books, especially if the designers could be talked into putting the mosters one to a page. Then it would be possible to simply print the things that you are going to use.