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How do you think that personality mechanics should be used? Is it something like code of honor mechanics that you're trying to avoid, stuff which dictates behavior? Also, what sort of structured chargen systems are there besides level ones? Degree of structure is what I'm asking, I suppose. I...

I picked up Skill Focus today and loved it. It's just what I was looking for. Now... when do we get the rest of the Warden classes? :p

I'd actually like to see more on the European continent of the period. London stuff is fairly easy to come by. But Castle Falkenstein is the only work I can think of that touched on 19th century Europe, and even then it was mostly references in passing.

I'm interested in the small, non-adventure booklets. Are they the sort of things I could hand to new players and have them quickly make a simple character? Or are they more like "A roleplaying game is..." type booklets?

This does look cool. I've been wanting something like this for D20 for quite some time. One thing I'm curious about... in Spycraft, I never really got a good rule of thumb as to how many numerals should be divided between the different categories. I didn't see any guidelines here, either. Sure...

In our old college Cthulhu games, we used to burn character sheets when they PC died. Cthulhu's a pretty different game, though. This was more like giving them a good send-off. For that matter, we'd generally burn the body IC as well, or at least what was left of it. Can't be too careful, you...

When I run D&D (or most other games) stats are pretty much considered open- especially in D&D where some of our more "number challenged" players needed oversight as to what their bonuses and scores should be. Since I don't like PvP in my games I don't see the need to keep stats secret. If...

Man, even in the 80s, the early adopters missed out. At least I got free copies of B2 and X1 with my sets. After a while I'd been through Keep on the Borderlands so many times, I knew the rooms by heart. That whole "your character doesn't know what you do" concept didn't take to well at age 12...

Did the original Deadlands use both cards and dice? Sounds like it'd be a bit odd, switching back and forth like that. Obviously I've never played it, though.

Is it possible to tell them that you don't feel like playing in the game, but will just show up for the dinner/movies/whatnot and continue contributing to that? I mean, it may not thrill them to hear it, but if they're as good friends as you say they should be able to accept things. It should...

Well, there's the ancient evil ones whose world-destroying plots take hundreds of years to come to fruition. They're still crazy, but they're a lot more methodical about it.

I voted other, but I'm posting here since it's more appropriate than the other thread this was discussed in. I don't subscribe to Dragon or Dungeon. I rarely buy issues. The reason for this is that I'm not interested in 80% of the magazine content. I'm interested mostly in Eberron stuff...

Didn't stop me from using the items in my game. :p The arcane trickster was foolish enough to take a pamphlet from one of Bargle's salespeople (who had just been thrown out of the Friendly Local Magic Shoppe, which should've sent up a warning flag for the PC). After taking the pamphlet, she...

Was this the red box with the Elmore cover that he appeared in? Because I had the Moldvay box to start with, and I honestly don't remember seeing Bargle until the Grand Duchy Gaz. Of course, it was twenty-plus years ago. :heh:

Back in 2nd ed, when our party was mostly crazed Glantrian wizards, we used to make it quite clear to the warriors of the group that deadly magics were going to be unleashed on the enemy, and if anyone else was in the area, well, they had fair warning. They seemed to take the hint, after a...

OK, you asked for tutoring, so here's where I get picky. :lol: The Godfather I was set in the 1940s- you might remember that Michael has just gotten back from fighting in WW2 at the start of the film. Godfather 2 has some scenes in the WW I and 1920s era, but unless your players are Italian...

You might also want to try "Green & Pleasant Land", which doesn't focus on London so much as life in England in general. It also seems to have had a larger print run, as it's easier to find copies...

Doesn't Tatters of the King start in London? How much of it takes place in England or Europe? Most of the information given is going to be American oriented, so it might make a difference to your game. Chaosium did a London 1920s guidebook a while back, but it's been out of print for ages, and...

I agree with MarkB. Both the characters and players are going to have different expectations of IC military life than your own, and you're all going to have to hash them out. The "gnight" thing is probably a bad example, though, as it's the kind of minutae that gets beaten to death on message...