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How to tell if it's still D&D: 1. Is it a roleplaying game with pseudo-fantasy tropes? Check. 2. Does it use funny-shaped dice? Check. 3. Can I sit down around a table and play a game of it with my buddies? Check. 4. Can we crack jokes and quote Futurama and do funny accents with it all the...

I played in a short adventure that stretched over two sessions, and even though I wanted to add a nice rules-lite game to my library, C&C just wasn't it. Character creation was just too boring, and while interesting, the SEIGE Engine in practice just didn't work as well as I would've wanted (the...

Sounds like my first DM. Awesome worlds to explore, fascinating NPCs, and truly excellent quests to go on. However, he also had a "pet PC" who he essentially showered with loot on a regular basis while leaving the rest of us with equipment best suited for the old Slavelords modules. He also had...

23. Oh so easy to type. I pitty you poor folks who have to stretch your finger all the way across the keyboard to hit a more distant number!

Because this has to be more than just my tabletop at home in cyberspace. It needs to be a program that not only allows for playing D&D online (which I can do in an interface as simple as AOL Instant Messenger or on an internet message board like this). It needs to be able to facilitate gameplay...

I pretty much only get to game online these days, and that's mostly via Instant Messenger. Our group is scattered across the East Coast, and for someone to really wow me with a virtual tabletop, here's what it'd need. 1. Make dice rolling as easy as can be. I want to be able to roll quickly...

If random hit points must be kept (and I'd honestly like to see hit points die in favor of a toughness save or something, then go ala Iron Heroes, but rephrase it. Call the +1d4 "bonus hit points". That makes it seem like an extra that you don't need, but a little something more. Then even...

I've always found that the most satisfying resolution to the death/ressurection problem is to get rid of the anti-climactic, "Well, Bob's dead. Let's finish looting these orcs, then we'll strap him to his horse, drag him back into town, and let Greg the Cleric know that we need another...

My absolute favorite part about D&D: being able to find groups. I can't assume that gamers have heard of other games, like BESM, True20, Mutants & Masterminds, or what have you. But most gamers out there who are still chucking dice are probably playing D&D. Nothing worse than having a game but...

If I might make a suggestion, let me recomend you change the name from "Science" to something like "Academics" (which I've used in my system as the catch-all for Intelligence skills that come from being well-educated). "Science" is a very different beast in almost every definition from many of...

I gave C&C a shot, but it went back towards inflexible character archetypes (something I strongly dislike), seperate XP charts for some reason I couldn't fathom, and a whole bunch of other AD&Disms that I just disliked (like the strange breakdown of saves). Then they went back and cut out the...

I never ran a module before I started 3E, and that one was me gutting a module from an e-Zine, almost entirely re-writing it before the game started. There just really isn't any published stuff out there that I could ever drop into my games... they go too far afield from the "traditional"...

One weekend later bump. Anybody have any recomendations?

I like the d20 Modern wealth system as a nice, abstract approach to wealth. However, I've also heard of a few glitches that exist in the system, and I thought I remembered hearing about a nice take on it from a third-party publisher, but for the life of me, I can't remember it. So does anyone...

The only way to counter an entirely subjective argument is with another entirely subjective argument.

Thankya kindly. Always nice to have an excuse to inflate my ego a bit :)

My setting is an all-psionic world which has just gone through a failed/stalled Age of Exploration. A world-wide cataclysm destroyed almost the entire planet, save one small continent (where the game takes place). The two colonizing powers (a European-esque empire and an oriental-esque empire)...

I always enjoyed the flavor of monks (the lightly armed-and-armored mystical warrior... never understood the supposed conflict between "eastern and western flavor" in a world that has nothing to do with our own history), but while the mechanics have improved, they're not great (because all of...

Actually, you live in an environment. You said you wanted something along the lines of a scientific theory, and that is the language I am using. A world is not necessary for a roleplaying game, as you yourself have said. All that is necessary is an environment. A world can indeed enhance the...

A world isn't neccessary. At best, a setting of some kind is. I know you claim that "world" in this case could mean something as simple as a totally isolated dungeon, but why beat around the bush when what you want is a simple definition anyway? Just say "setting", or even better, "environment"...