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In that case I'll throw out the fan made Advanced Dungeons and Savages. You'll need a Savage Worlds core book ($10) + AD&S pdf + Your old Monster Books or D20 Monster Books if you use the free d20 to Savage Worlds conversion pdf. Total cost $10 if you use the 3.5 SRD for your Monsters or have...

No offense but your dialog example is poor as you said "I hold up" in the first and the second only expands upon your prayer. Also I have a friend who is very similar to you in many ways. I always say to him why did you write a 5 page background for yourself. Because he will seldom have it come...

I think what you want is Decent or some skirmish level wargame (ie only a dozen units or less per side). You can certainly do that with D&D, GURPS, Savage Worlds and other system but you have to be upfront about it because I think a majority of other people will be wanting something else when...

Small group vs a Monster... Really if I want any other style of play there are many alternatives but D&D works really well in the specific scenario and I keep trying to use if for other things to.

My experience has been Its a house ruled 3.5, you may or may not like these house rules. Regardless the value you get for your $ is amazing in terms of art and quality of some of the product line.

Vampire and Mage are both great one on one and have a very different feel. I also think that playing a Decker in Shadowrun is a particularly awesome one on one game. You'll have to change the context of the game a bit but you can run the old skool matrix maps and have a blast without annoying...

STOP!!!!! go ahead put the orcs in the room guarding a treasure. You created the situation. That is awesome! Don't solve the problem, let the PCs do that. Let them try things, throw stuff out there. Then if they reach a reasonable way to solve the problem let it work. Steve D once said...

Witchhunter: The Invisible War I really like 80% of the ideas but between the other 20% and the rules just are a bit too clunky it never worked out past the one shot. I've toyed with using the Solomon Kane rules instead but maybe All for One will actually meet all my requirements for...

1000x this If someone made an RPG outta Twilight there would be a new flux of female gamers again. [edit] It doesn't have to be Twilight just whatever fiction/tv 10-15 yr old girls are currently reading/watching. Ride the coat tails of popularity.

Cyberpunk 2020, MRQ, Mongoose Traveller, and HARP. If you don't count setting books, for example I have played Savage Worlds but not Solomon Kane.

I recommend picking up Seattle 2072 if you liked the first Seattle book for 1e. I found myself laughing at things like there were nagas in the basement after all!

Shadowrun... Oh I complain about freaky mechanics in all editions and how goofy the premise is but man do I gobble up the books and love reading them and playing/running it. What I really want is Ubiquity Cyberpunk with a good city book and some awesome adventures, but that doesn't exist. VtM...

I don't believe there is a single perfect system for every style I want to play but Ubiquity (Desolation & Hollowed Earth Expedition) comes close for me. It needs a few tweaks but I could see All for One or some other upcoming Ubiquity game having those tweaks.

I would say bite the bullet and give Shadowrun a try. Its different yet familiar and you can always still play D&D and then throw in an ocational Shadowrun when someone can't make the D&D game. Savage Worlds may be another way to go if your looking for a generic system for heroic style play...

My advise would be not to run pre-made adventures. Tailor your adventures to the classes your players picked and throw the idea that you need a balanced party out the window.

I prefer dice pools but I like to keep them at 10 dice or less unless I'm using mini d6s. Just because its hard to fit that many dice in my hands. I really enjoy games like Desolation that use d2.

I heard it is being developed for 4e. Honestly though I think they are focusing on their Warhammer RPG lines.

Desolation Why does it rock? Setting Well its a post-apocalyptic fantasy where the races while familiar have been twisted ever so slightly. Elves for example have been rejected by nature. The world before the night of fire was much like a magical roman empire. Now its all about surviving in...

Savage Worlds is a strange beast. It shouldn't work but its just fun. I wouldn't say its particularly fast but it is as fast or faster than D&D at most things. It is however furious fun. It really does a great job for action hero games. Step outside that circle and it starts falling apart but if...

A - Improv, Plot, Pacing, NPC Creation B - Voices, C - Energy , Knowing the Rules D - Tactics, Preparation F - Longevity,