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About once or twice a campaign, although one campaign involved seven and a couple of others didn't involve any. A lot depends on the concept I started with. I'd probably use them a little more often if I didn't have to work out a new set of stats every time I wanted to throw one into the game...

Another vote for Mutants and Masterminds 2e. It's the first Supers system that's allowed me to run a campaign longer than six sessions without balance issues making things less-fun for everone involved. It has a fairly solid community on the Atomic Think Tank forums and it's easy to adapt into...

Sure, drop me an e-mail at peter@clockworkgolem.com

I'm inclined to let the improved natural healing stack with Stamina, although it's probably a feat that's best decided upon depending on the nature of the campaign. The rules for werewolves are largely designed to support characters that charge into melee and hit things, which isn't...

I'm in the process of finishing off the Vampire's manuscript at the moment, as well as cleaning up a few issues with the race/class combo that came up during playtest. Depending on how long it takes to go through editing and layout, it should be out by the end of this week or the beinning of the...

As presented, no. They just get the +2 bonus to Strength, largely because they have a diluted connection to their inner wolf when compared with the werewolf. From a game balance POV this largely in place to prevent a group that uses both natural lycanthropes and infected lycanthropes from...

Usually once every three or four levels, usually against opponents that used to give them a hell of a lot of trouble. One of my players still fondly remembers the 18th level group decimating a force of 20 ogres, 4 manticores and a pair of wyvverns that were threating a town. All three had given...

I largely started GMing because I wanted to game as often as possible, and my first GM was a friend of the family that I only saw about once every six months or so (and even less by the time I was GMing regularly).

My memory is obviously going. Although I voted for aorund 30 or 40, I just wented and checked my RPGnow history and discovered that I've got a little over 120 from there alone (and quite a few more from other sources).

I'm with Heap, for much the same logic. I'm tend to focus on making the weapon work on a meta-game level than a realism level.

Hell, I'd go so far as to say that Green Ronin went out of their way to help Superlink publishers make the transition. They do their best to get the rules to us as early as possible and Steve offered advice on streamlining write-ups to make them 2e compatible during the approval process. To be...

I'd probably consider it a power, which means the only way to get a Deflect rank above the campaigns power level is to trade out your Maximum Attack Bonus. Judging by whats on the page ("make a normal attack roll"), I'd have the hero make a normal attack roll when reflecting and reidirecting...

For me, it's a fairly strong model of the way comic books work. Captain America is no-where near as strong as the thing, but I know who I'd expect to be landing more punches in a fight.

Your Dodge bonus is a component of your Defense - for a character that has bought nothing by Defense figuring out the dodge bonus is a simple matter of dividing their defense bonus by 2 and rounding down. Knowing the dodge bonus is important for two reasons. The Dodge bonus doesn't apply...

1) It depends on what you're looking for. A good 60% of the PDF's I own never get printed - they're the kinds of resources I tend to keep on my computer to reference while I'm writing notes for a game, but don't really need to have a hard-copy of during the game itself. Of the remainder, I'll...

I'd probably suggest trying a site like Dragonsfoot.org, which has a higher population of folks that use the 1e and 2e rules. ENworld is kind of a 3rd edtiion bastion, and the 3e Psi books have either re-written psionic combat to the point that it no longer resembles the 1/2e version, or simply...

No problem. I'm always happy to listen to advice from folks that know what they're doing, If nothing else, it lets me know whether or not I've made a good decision :)

Hi Phil, thanks for the advice. The upgrade was largely a matter of necessity, as our text-only thumbnails were on the verge of running into the quality standards at RPGnow. I have a very strict budget that I'll be working to for most of the covers, and we'll be using a generic design for most...

In addition to the disclaimers that others have mentioned, I'd probably suggest avoiding anything that could be construed as a conflict of interest - publishers your working for are the obvious example, but so are products that fill a similar niche to something you've worked on professionally...

If I was god-emperor of the universe, the DnD 3e books would have been a single tome that imitated the look and feel (although not the art) of the Rules Cyclopedia. The rules aren't really any different to the Basic-through-Master rules set, but the amount of information that was crammed into...