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What he said, right down to the solitaire part. I don't role-play to be me, stuck in my world. I already am me, and no interest in playing Tabletop Sims: the RPG.

Since Clerics don't get an iterative attack until 6th or 7th level, the move action thing is pretty awesome. They can stand in the thick of it, make a 5 ft. adjustment as needed, take their normal standard action to heal, spellcast or attack, and still use their movement action to keep that...

Magic is easier, IMO, to base a traditional storyline around as the 'rules' of magic are squiffy and ill-defined (and can be mangled to suit the storyteller's convenience). Higher levels of technology are harder and harder to handwave away, and many, if not most, traditional adventure...

After hobgoblins destroyed your farming village, the dwarves who traded with them found your character in the wreckage. He tends to walk with his neck cricked at an angle, because he grew up in a community with six foot ceilings... He may not be a dwarf by blood, but his foster-parents are...

The closest gods I can find are; Mayaheine (Greyhawk/'Core') - bastard sword Haela Brightaxe (Realms/Dwarven) - greatsword

Keep your Goats out of our Temples! Unescorted animals in the streets (or private properties) will become the property of the city, and negligent owners or flockherds will find themselves responsible for any damages done to local citizens or belongings by unattended animals. The Shrine of...

Health Violation, Official Notice! The practice of leaving out bowls of food and sweets on the Nights of Semash is to be discontinued, by orders of the Animator's Guild. The vermin attracted to such offerings are now confirmed to have contributed to the Scarlet Shakes, which resulted in many...

Crimes Against the Dead! A team of foreign 'adventurers' have been captured within the ruins of Old Samara, having been caught looting by both the ghostly Samaran residents and a patrol of Hollow Knights. In a Speaker-brokereda agreement with the Samarans whose residences were pillaged, they...

You've mentioned using League of Extraordinary Gentleman, etc. for inspiration on the pulp era section of the campaign. I'd also recommend the Adventure! game by White Wolf, which I found really, really inspiring.

I would expect that the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game has rules for PC vampires, given the potential to have an 'Angel' or a 'Spike' in the party.

That's a cool one. Among the various 'house rules' being floated around on this topic; 1) Fighters no longer suffer a movement penalty from proficient armors, only from encumbrance. 2) All armors work this way for *all* proficient characters. 3) Medium armors only reduce movement by 5, not...

If it were a standard action, with a one round duration, the power would be a fairly awful choice, IMO, as the character would essentially be condemned to spend the entire combat activating and re-activating the power *and doing nothing else* for a 50% chance of avoiding a single attack per...

I don't play standard computer games (only MMOs, because I like the socialization and being able to talk with / roleplay with actual people), so I'm unfamiliar with the awesomeness that is Planescape: Torment. For MMOs, the best 'story' I've read so far is in Shadowbane. Other MMOs, like Dark...

Somewhere between the first sentence and the second sentence, you'll find the problem. You are spending all of this time and energy changing stuff to suit your tastes, and then saying you have none at all to see what your friends would enjoy. If I invite a bunch of friends over for dinner...

That's hot. I like the bit about the Gnomes, too. The first place I saw carved stone dwarves was in the Shadowbane MMO (which has some *amazing* flavor text, with the Irekai being one of the coolest versions of 'dark elves' I've ever seen). I never went completely sideways with the standard...

Having grown up on the fantasy of Moorcock, Leiber and Howard, whose 'heroes' are thieves and scoundrels and mercenaries, and then gone on to play all sorts of GURPS fantasy, in addition to D&D, I pretty much ignore alignment. My 'evil' people may worship evil gods and be willing to do all sorts...

Let's not forget the geekiest geeks of them all, the ones who dress up in their favorite character's jersey, paint their faces and memorize statistics and averages for the past 30 years of the sports teams that the obsessively love. Don't *even* get New England guys into a conversation about...

I wasn't a fan of it, but there is absolutely no shortage of personal interaction, role-playing, etc. in online games. Indeed, for a 'power-gamer' who is more interested in the 'crunch,' there can be *far too much* annoying role-playing garbage in online games! I'm fond of role-playing, at...

I pretty much only allow Leadership when I'm running a game with two or less players. We came up with that ruling actually because of Mutants & Masterminds, where powers like Duplication and Feats like Minions and Sidekick (basically leadership - followers only and leadership - cohort only)...

[going from admittedly spotty memory here...] Arcana Unearthed/Evolved has Alchemist's Frost (cold version). The Eberron Campaign Setting has Alchemist's Frost and Alchemist's Spark (electrical version), as well as Acidic Fire (Acid that then bursts into flame like alchemists fire) and...