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Actually I don't disagree Tree.... which is why I would say the best remedy for a character you may want to keep a long time is to choose one with at least some INT or WIS.... but I also think it's fun to sometimes play the characters with the "live fast, die young and leave a beautiful (well...

Well, looking through the thread I'd say it's hard to say something is "debunked" if there are those who disagree - and I'd point to wayne's post as a sign that many ARE focused on just the tactical idea of doing the best at combat, regardless of what their character sheets say. To those who say...

So you'd rather a barbarian with a dangerously low INT suddenly become a master tactician in the middle of combat?

Castle Zagyg: Yggsburgh for C&C from TLG. :D EDIT to include: Greyhawk (Earlier in Gaming days) Geanavue: The Stones of Peace (recent runner-up)

In 25 years I've never used a battlemat, and only use a dry erase board for the most basic of exploring needs and reference. And I've run many a game without even that - i.e. no minis, no nothing on the table... and those games were outstanding because they relied on the imagination of the...

And in returning to address the OP.... I'd say if you love settings then buy it and make your own opinion (I'd go with the box set). While I've never used Wilderlands I have read a good bit and borrowed ideas from it. Settings that emerged from older systems to be more adaptable to whatever you...

I find this thread very helpful and interesting as I am starting a brand new group in my brand new setting this weekend. So far I have shown one of the players where to access my world material, but I said "of course you don't need to read it all... just glance through the history." I like the...

Not a problem - figured the way you described AsterRogues it was less a pure sci-fi concept which is why I'll go ahead and adapt my own separately from it - but I will be sure to also keep a look-out for Elder Worlds down the road as well. Thanks again! John :)

My thanks! I will certainly look forward to AsroRogues and I'll probably also adapt my own idea - thinking of calling it Star Riders and having it basically set in a portion of the galaxy once explored and settled by an unknown world of origin (could be Earth, could be something else) and...

I also think it's fair because you have to give the players a chance to "play" their characters as well - a barbarian or half-orc character with low wisdom and int might well, in character, charge something too strong.... I can remember one player looking at me over the table, and said (OOG)...

Throwing something at PCs at early level that they should run from is never a bad idea - as long (IMHO) as it's not an every session kind of thing. The post above about making sure they have options for evasion is important. Now if your group wants to charge in screaming "I'm the king of the...

Hey Gary, Just curious - as you start putting out more LA material through TLG will any of it cover genre adaption of the rules? I ask because as I keep looking at the system I see the basis as perfect for a sci-fi game I have in mind.... I always found "class-based" not the best for...

Hi Gary, Just wanted to shout an add my support to the idea of a January LGGC... I am still bummed that surgery and other factors made me miss this year and getting to meet you, the Trolls and everyone else I've met via the boards so I would love something earlier than next summer! P.S. My...

Whoops - Sorry some of you took a couple of things I said and thought I must be attacking here - my opinions of how 3.x and d20 tend to run are just that - my own opinions and preferences and I know lots of people absolutely happy with it and I think that's great - we all have different...

I too moved away from 3.x to a simpler system - I prefer C&C, but the truth is there is a stong movement out there that is discovering that the mass of 3.x and d20 products has just become... well, cumbersome is a nice word. You have to experience a game or a session once without 50% of the time...

This is pretty much my problem with some of the more well-known settings - there's too much history, baggage and literature surrounding them that inhibits game-play. While not all players know everything, many really do know FR, Dragonlance, even Greyhawk (which I was devoted to for years). Try...

I was in the middle of composing but Dragonhelm beat me to it... yeah, bunch out there and he hit the major places to go for free ones. :cool:

Correction duly noted.

There's the kicker lol.... no large profit equals no care by H/WOTC. I like C&C because I happen to like the simplified d20 unified mechanic. I begrudge no one who was disappointed with it and prefers O/AD&D as their system of choice. I for one hope a bunch of material is produced under OSRIC...

Production values and slickness of presentation - being able to unfold large well-done maps produced with a boxed set or setting book also will always entice.... One of the realities of giving out my own is that I can't share the two poster-board sized color maps I hand-drew, and while I can...