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I enjoy powerful but rare magic, improv spellcasting, and horrible backlash (like opening a portal to a demon plane and sucking your poor clothy mcfingers into it)

1. FATAL 2. Playing any game by RAW (rule lawyers drive me nutts) 3. People who like to get high or drunk during the game 4. Pages of house rules, dude just say its a home brew system at that point. 5. Saving the world plots (Epic level/Superman games)

Desolation Mechanicly its a 50/50 dice pool system with an improv magic system. The setting is not your typical fantasy setting however. Its a post-apocalyptic fantasy setting. My regular group is HUGE WOD fans and we fell head over heals for Desolation

Non weapon proficiencies start as per the rules. Then house-rule: If you buy it again you gain a +5.

Theres been alot of other good RPGs comming out recently so I'm still playing catchup Dresden Files Legends of Angelerre Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Eclipse Phase All for One Desolation

pdfs (all editions) at a discount of at leased 20% off the cover price.

Look at Cortex, its very much like a house ruled Savage Worlds and I believe it uses hit points. Should be easy to adapt.

Yes, but I would have to create my own GM screen or I can just use another system. Currently I just use Ubiquity, I find its more fast, furious, fun than Savage Worlds. Mostly because I use the attack dice that come with Heroscape so I dont have to count odds/evens. You can just look down and...

Uhhh no, I have played it several times. Ubiquity is fast (at leased with custom dice). Having a fixed TN of 4 drives me batty! Why because the math applies to your roll! Ok I roll my d6 and get a 5 sweet oh wait no I'm at a - 3 penalty so uhh 5-3 is 2 thats not 4 so I miss. Like I said its the...

Don't feel bad I have been trying to like Savage Worlds for years. The fan content is fantastic but I can't stand the die mechanic.

1e & 2e: decker rolled computer+reaction+program vs TN with number of successes vs color. Nodes/Hosts came in 6 or so varieties and examples had a map of them (though honestly you could have just one of each or less) VR2.0 & 3e: decker rolled computer+hacking pool vs TN-program rating with the...

You know its not that hard to learn especially if you just doing mods. UnrealED has a great series of videos.

first thing that comes to mind is Zombies! second thing is Cthuhlu!

I met my wife playing D&D 3.0 then I introduced her to other games and now she refuses to play D&D.

Its not as bad as it looks, just keep the blanks in the middle. Put a chart on the table like for the blue d8 5+ = Hit, 2- = boon, rinse wash repeat.

Thats an improvement but IMHO not detailed enough partially because of all the actions being on cards. I'll have to try it out again. I want sheets like this http://pavao.org/shadowrun/cheatsheets/

This times 1000, the system is actually pretty simple once you can actually figure out what your supposed to do. It needs cheat sheets or a complete rewrite. Also it needs the bits in pdf form so you can print them if you loose them. Is it a better mechanic than 2e? I would say yes but 2e is a...

I think you have to pick a game they like. I played D&D first but it didnt get me into the hobby. I became more interested with Traveller but still not a regular thing. Then I played Shadowrun (1e) and I was hooked. The cyberpunk elements and deadly combat spoke to me. I game with a guy (much...

Character Customization with "Powers" but you dont need minis... I would say Hero, GURPS, Mutants and Masterminds or possibly even the 4th Edition of Shadowrun. If you don't mind creating the world and setting up powers go with Hero, if you want the world set up and not have to create...

Betrayal on the Castle Ravenloft ;) This is a step in the right direction. Had they simplified the movement more and added some sorta monster movement (like Arkham Horror for example). This could be the new D&D Adventure game and possibly do as well as the old red box with enough tweaks (ie...