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In my games (and I think we do this alot in the game I play in but am not running, now, even), in a large enough city I would assign a Luck check to any particular request, along with a time frame. I.E. "It will take you three days to check your contacts and sellers, and ..." then a roll to...

Still being rather hampered by not having the Saga book: Don't the defense scores in Saga raise somewhat beyond the applicable D&D cognates would normally be, rather rapidly? (And Damage Threshold is set to Fortitude Defense + applicable bonuses.) The way I've been looking at it, Saga has...

This is why, when I run SWRPG, I just go ahead and play a Jedi game. Which gets some nervous looks from players. People are so used to folks saying: "You can't play a Jedi, Jedi are broken, gah roar fuss, no Jedi in my games, StarWars isn't just about Jedi!" that it seems like the players...

Hrm, seems it's a popular line of thought, this Sagaizing D&D. I've been thinking on it as well. For myself, I've mainly been going the route of House Rules, bolting in things that I felt could be changed on the fly to keep conversion to a minimum. I am going to be running the Savage Tide AP...

I used the BCCS magic system (True Sorcery is what it became). That's very time-intensive, but I found the player with the magic user took the time onto himself and crafted effects before the game, for the most part. Sometimes he'd have to whip up something on the fly, but he'd take a time...

I usually kick the Dark Side up a notch. I play "The Dark Side". As the GM, the Dark Side is alive and hungry and willing to make a deal. It is, essentially, the Devil. I bribe, I cajole, I nudge. I give out free power. I guarantee victories. Nobody takes me up on it. :( --fje

Now I want to pick up Saga. >.< We already have a backlog for games that is going to stretch several years. If I bought it now there'd be a new edition out before I got to use it. Some of the rules sound like they'd be great for bringing into other things ... evolution, as it were. After...

I like to play and run predominantly in the Old Republic era. It's StarWarsy and open and, for me, has a lot of excuses for a bunch of Jedi to be off and doing things places without making it either "against the backdrop of a war" or "galaxy-shifting in consequences". I ran a Padawans of the...

Like ... "I found $20, now I can make a single +3 Wealth roll?" I've never much liked it, personally. I see the money as entering the abstract system when the character gets it. He's got it earmarked for various things we may not think of. He doesn't find a 20 and turn around and buy 20...

Well, with a big book of collected stuff, I expect there'll be a few terribly broken things. This sounds like one of them. I, myself, wouldn't allow a 4,000gp item to be a Ring Of Spell Storing ... that's basically what the player here is asking to do, and that's just out of the range of...

Mostly I think it comes down personal preference. Those who like it will find lots of reasons that it is better. Those who don't will find all kinds of reasons why it's bad. I like it. It works for me. Works for the people I play with. That's what really matters to me. I do have a few...

Ouch. We've recently been doing a 20s Pulp Supers game with B&V and I've found quite a bit of fun and a whole lot of power to be had in non-combat powers. My concept was a plucky young reporter who just always happened to be in the right place at the right time. We had to do a bunch of custom...

Just about the time I think I'm going to be back, my laptop dies and I get sent a new one ... with Vista. Blergh. If 12toMidnight is open to submissions, let's talk, I thought you boys were mostly an in-house talent farm. And I've seriously contemplated writing some Dark*Matter adventures and...

My thought has been that, perhaps, adventures for a discrete "Campaign Setting" for d20Modern would be more popular/profitable than any possible "general" module ... sci-fi, mystery, action, etc ... if you create a general adventure, it's very much not going to mesh with the homebrew "action" or...

Being very careful? I've had some luck taking warped plastic pieces of minis and pinching it the way I want it with something (usually old coasters or bricks or combinations thereof) and placing it in a sunny location and letting the sun warm it for a day. Back of a closed car on the ledge...

I would. Remember, this is a game. The "size" and "weight" of an object isn't just a dimensional measurement. It's also a measurement of "encumbrance", which is how difficult it is to effectively carry with other objects on one's person. Which is, honestly, more realistic than pure...

My 13th level Sorc has the Invisible Needle feat. Hasn't used it. I figured it would be a great resource, and I don't regret choosing it, but sorcs in particular get enough spell slots of enough levels that it seems there's ALWAYS a better spell to be cast. It's a nice thing for ambushes or...

Well, what works in TV doesn't always work in books. And what works in books and TV certainly doesn't always work in RPGs. For instance, we can certainly stat up River as a 24th level combat god and Jayne as a 6th level Strong hero. We can figure out "close enough" feats and skills and...

I would say River's moment in the room was something more along the lines of a Psionic Tenser's Transformation sort of thing. She's not normally that much of a badass, but she seems to be able to channel the badass in times of need. Though, to be honest, again, we're trying to stat up a...

Yea. We hates the Targeted Dispel Magic, my Precious, we hates it! The last five levels I've spent basically layering anti-TDM protections on my character. Ring of Counterspells, Mirror Images, etc etc. The way fights usually run is the Fighter-type goes in swinging and gets punted around...