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S.T. Cooley publishing (http://www.stcooleypublishing.com/) The system is great... it's like d20-compatible GURPS.

bolen, thanks for your help, although it's late here too so I'm not quite able to follow. Er.. well... I understand what you're saying but I don't know how to do it, since I am an excell dummy (and its too late for me to be capable of figuring it out right now). Perhaps tomorrow you could...

Yes, (0,0) is a point. Basically, I'm trying to make a table of costs for mana points in an XP-based point-buy system. The cost to buy a mana point increases depending on the number of mana points that you have, so when you only have a few mana, you don't spend as much XP to buy the next mana...

For my game I'm combining EN World's Elements of Magic: Revised with S.T. Cooley Publishing's Buy the Numbers system. I've got almost all the kinks worked out but I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out an equation to convert the magic point system from EoM to the point buy system of BtN. The...

Hi, I've read through the FAQs and the SRD and the OGL, but I still have a few questions before I start working on anything that could be published. I've done some research on e-publishing, but still I've got no experience and would be vulnerable to making some mistakes. Anyway, to get to the...

Sahuagin! Nothing has terrified my players more than these guys. They appear so easy... like taking down an orc or a hobgoblin, but when played right these critters pack the most power for their level. Not to mention anyone with remote fear of the water will be putty in the DM's hands if you...

I took a semester off, and now I can't wait to start back up again.

Haha I don't know if I'd say Godawful. But it is pretty difficult at times. The first books is, like Capellan said, irrelevant sidequests. I thought they were fun irrelevant sidequests though. More fun than the actual dungeon. When you get to the dungeon... Christ it's hard. Even for 15th...

I have this problem, but only with d6's. I cannot roll d6's for the life of me. Seriously. Any other die I get average (or even above-average) rolls. But with d6's I nearly always roll a 1 or a 2. It's uncanny! One interesting side effect of this is that my players no longer fear Fireball...

My thoughts exactly. You'll be better heroes for doing that... the whole "stop the guy who wants to destroy the world" bent. Besides, that'll probably be easier than fighting the tarrasque. This is clearly not a guy you want to have in charge of a large number of people.

(Sorry for the almost-thread-hijack.) There definitely is way too much stuff to buy... but that's where I'm really glad the pdf's come in. Even if you do buy as many books as you did for 2nd edition (yea... so did I :p) at least if you buy them in pdf form you may save yourself quite a bit of...

Hehe, sounds just like someone in my game... responsible for a TPK or two... always seems to do the EXACT wrong thing. The way I tried to solve this problem was by telling the other players out-of-game to make sure they don't let him do any of the planning, and try to show him in-game why his...

This makes me wonder -- since the SRD is open content and therefore can be made into a website, or a pdf, or searchable help file, or whatever you want... has anyone begun to collect open material from other sources besides WotC and done the same? Sort of like a massive open content SRD? Or...

Deep Temple A colony of terminator-like robots from another planet built a giant temple underneat the largest mountain range in my homebrew. The players stumbled upon it and ended up spending about 5 months real-time sneaking and fleeing their way through a dungeon where nearly every trap was a...

Well I think rangers get that ability because they know so much about the enemy. It's their *favored* enemy... so they probably know everything there is to know about it. You should be able to trust the ranger to spot the creature out of a lineup of similar-looking creatures just because he...

Wow lots of Philly people here... I'm from South Jersey near Cherry Hill. Next time a terrorist blows something up, I want to hear a news report linking it to D&D. "The terrorist seems to have been trying to emulate a 'fireball' spell." That's about as good logic as is used to assiciate D&D...

I wont remind my players to loot, but if it's something painfully obvious that the characters would definitely notice, like a treasure chest or the dead assassin's glowing black sword, I'd probaby remind them. If it's just standard looting, or something that they characters actually could...

I pause the game so I can burn the dead character's sheet right there in front of the player's eyes, so they know what happens to them if they are next to die! >:-D Er no wait... I keep them in a stack in the closet and sometimes we go looking through them to reminisce. :-p

I prefer doing it at my house. More comfortable. Especially until you get to know the rules really well, it may be intimidating to do it in a public place. ;-)

Don't bother with a campaign setting yet. Do your own thing. When you're new to the game you really want to start small, and it will help you to be able to make up your world as you go, rather than turning to page 236 to see what is in the city that the players go to. ;-) Remember the KISS rule...