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MRQ1 SRD is also online and really complete! Traveller also has and SRD but is missing quite a bit.

If you liked WOD you may like Desolation it uses a simple dice pool mechanic with Mage like magic system using a Shadowrun style drain mechanic. The rules tend to stay out of the way by letting you take the average when in non-stressful situations (except spellcasting). The setting is fairly...

I would guess that being less than 1/2 hour drive from Microsoft has a lot to do with it. There are many employees who have worked for both companies. It probably went down something like this "We need it to be web-based but we don't know what we want. Heh I know lets call our friend/old...

When I was young I loved complicated games like Shadowrun, Rolemaster and GURPS, now than I'm old I find anything more complicated than Ubiquity or Storyteller way too complicated.

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D&D 4e is no Wii... Way to many buttons, I mean powers. Dragon Age is much more Wii like but right now all you can get is the bundled set and no extra games ;) Though I could see D&D 4e as the Xbox and Pathfinder as the PS3

I'm not sure how good Obsidian Portal is as an indicator. Pathfinder has a Google Site template and 4e does not. There are a lot of Goggle Sites dedicated to Pathfinder as such. Maybe if you took 4 or 5 D&Dish campaign sites and meshed the numbers together you might get something reasonable but...

I have to say while not perfect I highly recommend you make the time to play these if they are on your list.

Because they have a point, seriously (the folding didn't hurt either). They could stab through plate (unlike the blunt tips of European swords of the time) I saw it on the history channel. Add movies, myths, etc. Katana is high on the romance level (like Excalibur)

I can't remember/find any real numbers but there have been a few studies over the years. I believe it is usually end up being under 2 million table top rpg players with more than half playing some edition of D&D. With exceptions of the D&D redbox and VtM years where we exceeded 3 million. And if...

I like pieces of armor but more for the "look" rather than hit locations. I don't really like to bother with hit locations.

Ubiquity basically has the Weapon Finesse feat for any stat. So you can trade STR for CHA on a to hit roll. Your commanding presence makes the enemy cower leaving an opening for you to hit or something like that was the reasoning (don't have my book on me). The thing that I loved was I could...

Reminds me a lot of Raymond Carver stories. Probably something about the style in which its written.

There is an ongoing metaplot. The game started in 2050 and is now up to 2072. A dragon has been elected president and then he sacrificed himself to stop the "horrors" from returning. Chicago got nuked, the matrix collapsed and was rebuilt, etc, etc. So a lot has happened since it was 1st...

1pt - Automatic 1pt - What did you learn? 1pt - Heroism 1pt - Including another Player 1pt to 3pts - Roleplaying 1pt - Success 2pt - Do the Moral thing. For D&D 3.5 each pt was 250XP

Seeing how I own every Shadowrun book published to date I would say pretty deep... It really depends on the setting though for FR 2 I bought the main box, waterdeep, volos guide to the sword cost and the elmisters ecologies and that was it. I usually will buy the core book and a city book minimum.

my 1/50th of a dollar... Don't underestimate the power of props, especially lighting. I have seen nothing set the mood like lighting over the years.

1. Interesting Setting or Interesting Mechanic, if it has either of those I'll pick up the core book. 2. Rules that stay out of the way and are better for the setting than GURPS. This keeps me playing/buying supplements. Some interesting settings examples - Shadowrun, Eclipse Phase...

Call of Cthuhlu, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Dread, etc The fun is playing out the story not achieving total victory.

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