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LARPing? No, not for me... Putting on armor, then getting together with a bunch of people and having a pitched battle? Muuuuch better. Unfortunately, the closest I've come to either is getting together with a small group of friends and hitting each other with PVC-and-pipe-insulation-foam...

I just had the disturbing image of an awakened gelatinous cube lich... I mean, would it just be a little pile of dust? would it be a square instead of a cube?

1. I've never gotten enough to know how much, but I certainly want more than I've been getting. 2. No. If my character doesn't have a reason for doing something, I tend to lose interest. It can be as simple as a matter of survival, though, to keep me interested...but if it's just nothing, my...

Naw, that's nothing. I've had 200 megs of temporary internet files built up in the past, and once even had a whole extra gig of space hiding under screenshots in the folder of an uninstalled game.

My setting has only a few elements from the standard D&D cosmology (the Positive Energy plane ('life energy') (but not negative; 'negative energy' (i.e making undead) is just a 'perverse' use of life energy in my setting), as well as the Ethereal ('world of magic') and Shadow ('spirit world')...

Knowing that I like the Element of Magic stuff I've seen in the past, I think I'll err on the side of laziness and wait to see that D20M version you're working on. It sounds like just the sort of thing I'd want...

Step 1: Tax the peasants (i.e. take a percentage of the product of their farming) Step 2: Tax local craft and trade guilds. Heavily. Step 3: Use your amassed wealth to fund a few small conquests to gain more land Step 4: Repeat steps 1 and 2 until ready for step 3 again; once you've got a...

Hand-cannons? Hand-gonnes? Arquebusses? Those were all real-world ones... Iron Dragons? War-pipes? That's all I can think of so far...I'm sure others will have more suggestions.

Well, incantations are good, and they even manage to to hit most of the points I would want them to...but the mechanics as written don't work for what I'm going for; a system where rituals are the 'standard' sort of magic in the setting; ranging all the way from little things like starting a...

I'm surprised I haven't answered this one yet... Ok, since I'm a cheapass (which isn't much of a surprise, being a teenager and all), I don't ever order steak... I cook it myself. I like to start with a sirloin or a tri-tip... Now, whether it's on the grill or in a pan, I like to use a...

Ooh! Ooh! Another idea for the prospective system, not related to magic... Ok, so, with this magic system, I'd go on to combine what I like the most of the various systems out there... 1. Use the M&M/Blue Rose 'damage save'/toughness mechanic (or something like it), OR use GT/Modern style...

So, I was thinking about how spellcasters generally function in most game systems... At the most general terms, casters tend to trade frailty for 'big' effects (damage, turning people into stone, becoming invisible, teleportation, etc.). My proposal is this: a system where there are two main...

Well, there's the quarterstaff...if you ignore the double weapon aspect, it makes a perfectly good two-handed simple weapon...and, by definition, a staff is a long club.

My first car is an '83 VW Vanagon Camper. It's currently unopperational, but my parents are getting it overhauled as a graduation present. Yep, that's about it.

In that case, I guess the right thing to do is answer the thread's original question...so... I personally think that D&D and D20 Modern are mutually exclusive. They're two completely different things. D20 Modern is a fairly broad and customizable system which is for games taking place in time...

What they said.

Short answer: No Long answer: I use the 'basic' stuff like animals from the SRD, but build my own setting-specific creatures from scratch, and I make 'grunts' the same way I make NPCs.

Not exactly. The way it works (as far as I know) in UA, M&M, and Blue Rose is as follows... If you get hit, you make a save vs. damage, using a Toughness score (or fortitude, in the case of the 'Injury' variant in Unearthed Arcana), against a DC which is based on either a semi-static (base DC...

Well duh. They have to use microwaves to get through the atmosphere and your skull. . . . . . What?

Callon shouted out an order to his men. "Forward 40 meters, then get down!" He proceeded to stand up run forward a short distance, and then drop prone again. (OOC: Stand up, move 10 meters, drop prone...unless I can move as far/farther by crawling, in which case I'll crawl my maximum distance)