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I've got a copy of this, and used to read it from time to time. I love a lot of the art in it. That said, I recently re-read it (or re-flipped-through-it), and was rather disappointed with how many rules there were in it. For a light humorous game, there were a lot of numbers involved.

There's a number of auctions for the Miniatures Handbook on ebay for fairly low prices - you probably can pick one up inexpensively. you might also see if there's a person who is into the miniatures who might be into sharing the cost of the book and sharing the book with you.

All Flesh Must Be Eaten is a fun game of Zombiness. It uses the Unisystem, which means that stats are on a 1-6 range, with skills at the same range. You add 1d10+stat+skill to determine success, trying to get over 9 to get at least some measure of success. The various sourcebooks for it are a...

I'm playing a FAvored Soul in one campaign, and I'd have to say one thing that's annoying is how the class has two different statistics for casting - Charisma gives your more casts/day, but Wisdom is what shapes your save DCs. Due to my rolls, I had to go with a 10 for Wisdom, which means that...

Hm. I'm interested, but I do have a question - you mention in the rules that you can't have a professional relationship with a publisher. What if you've had a professional relationship with a publisher, but no longer do? I did have an adventure published a number of years ago, but since then...

That's interesting, because it's the first things they say when they find out Harry's on the team. :) I can't wait to get home tonight and see the trailer!

Lilian Jackson Brown was doing this for a while in her 'The Cat Who' books. But you've got to give it to her - she eventually realizes she's stuck on a formula and then does her best to get out of it. Some of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt novels have an unfortunate sameness to the flow of them...

I've bought several for Call of Cthulhu, and at least one for D&D. I think they're a great way to save my time and increase the fun for my players.

I so agree with you and the guy who started this thread - I remember really loving the comics as they came out, went to the movie with high hopes... and came out feeling rather brutalized. I liked the Dwight part best, and I thought a lot of moments were really well done... But you know...

Here's something I figured out recently for quick and dirty conversion of BRP to D20. When you've got a stat roll in BRP, it's often along the lines of INTx1 or DEXx5. Convert them as follows: STATx5 DC10 STAT Check STATx3 DC15 STAT Check STATx1 DC20 STAT Check It mostly preserves the...

Seems to me one way of doing this would be to give them Metamagic effects that they could trigger by burning nearby vegitation. Empower spell, enlarge spell, maximize spell - give them various power-enhancing effects at certain levels, and all they have to do is kill the world a little more to...

We've been playing 4th edition in Denver for six months now, as a double-secret playtest group. It's pretty good, but I still think the cybermancer is unbalanced.

So, what exactly is the problem with the magic system? I'm curious about Iron Heros, but I'm allergic to buying books that were published with the author knowing that part of it was unfinished.

I'm a fan of Elmore - I like his work. I was looking through the 'Women of Fantasy' book that he published back in the early d20 days, and looking through the book I was surprised at how the six women he illustrates aren't like each other. I will admit I was somewhat expecting and looking...

Hmmm. ShadowRun 4e The Castle of Zagyg series. Anything new from Cthulhu I'm curious to see Exhalted 2e, to see if it finally grabs me or not.

Well, the Gen Con folks note it here: http://forums.gencon.com/default.aspx?f=3&m=107665 (Turnstile does mean that a 4 day pass counts as four people.)

Okay, that's a good way of putting it. Ah! That's good! Why isn't that paragraph on the website? That explains stuff. I'm afraid I have to agree with the website detractors. My problems are: 1) The color scheme. Ugh. Very hard to read. Gold on Red? 2) The 'Setting Brief' link doesn't...

I haven't been turned off yet, but I'm flabbergasted at how little publicity there's been for this. I hadn't heard of it before I came across it last weekend, and - as I said - the back of the book wasn't any help in convincing me that this was the book to buy. I've looked around on the Spiros...

I just looked on the discussion pages of the DM Genie. Apparently someone reported that the group had copyrighted materials, they confirmed it, and they shut it down and all of his email as well. It's a shame - they had been working to make sure that the people who used the files actually...

There was a group here in Denver that was doing that for a few years - they had once-monthly gaming days at the Borders near Park Meadows. They had an advantage in that they worked in the store, which helped. But Borders is pretty smart - while you were playing, they brought out all the racks...