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Yes, I've read that before too. It would work rather well I think. The game is built around raising stakes, where you roll d6s for argument, d8 for physical interation, d10 for fighting, and d12 for pulling out the guns. The PCs travel from town to town upholding the Faith. The Faith becomes...

Inglorious Basterds really made me want to play a WW2 game. Actually it made me want to write a WW2 game called Killin' Nazis. Chargen would determine what kind of accent you had and your favorite way to kill Nazis. Combat would be split into different parts of course. Shootin' Nazis...

I think you're looking too deep. I really don't think it was anything more than 'dude, what if there were monsters that looked like dice!' Not a modron fan. They're nearly as dumb as gelatinous cubes, piercers, and mimics.

Did your players end up usually just freeing whatever Evil Menace was lurking about and run like hell as it gobbled up cultists and innocent passersby? I lost count how many times a game ended like that. :D

Well, PDQ is about as light as it gets. Each character has so many qualities worth a certain bonus or penalty. If you want to do something, roll 2d6 and beat a 7. If one of your qualities applies, add the bonus. So if you're a dashing pirate, your character sheet might read Being Dashing +2...

A good rules light system will have a standard resolution mechanic for such things. You just decide how to apply the standard mechanic. Really, this is how d20 works - roll a d20 + your mods vs a TN. A rules-light d20 might not have any proper skills but a list of character descriptions. So...

Thinking about my most recent characters, I would have to say outside the box. But like others, I don't intend it mechanically. My real goal is to make a character that is fun to roleplay, then figure out a way to express him in the game. In my oWoD game, my vampire is a southern rocker in a...

I pretty much agree with everything you said about Dread. Especially that last bit. I ran a game recently that I dubbed 'Dread at a Funeral'. Got the idea from a friend. The story involves a small-time crook that had found a magic amulet that gave him incredibly good luck but drove him...

I think this is called Baron Munchausen. I'm running this next month :D My 10 year old was raised on a steady diet of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so she doesn't really take to this Twilight nonsense.

Truthfully, none because I don't like generic system. I much prefer a game to be made for its setting and genre, not the other way around. I wouldn't want just one game, though there are games I really, really like.

I really don't get the argument. Yes, you use the same mechanical structure to define each character. This applies to pretty much every RPG ever, except D&D. There's no real reason to define them differently, it makes the game work a lot better to have a common structure. And no...

One game is Savage Worlds: Slipstream, which uses cards as noted. I run Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Each PC rolls d10 + Dex, and if they have the Fast Reaction Time quality they add another five. Dex is rated 1-6 for normal humans, though supernaturals can go higher. Doubt you'd see PCs higher...

The character doesn't "know" anything because the character doesn't exist. If by this you mean the character is played as if he doesn't know anything about being a character in a roleplaying game, I agree for the vast majority of games. There's nothing about the player using other criteria to...

I'm not a character. Characters don't exist outside the person creating them (author) or viewing them (audience). The player is both author and audience for their own character. The other players and GM are audience. The GM is director, but has no control over the script, just stage...

Same experience here, not a bit of Gamer Funk. There was even a water outage briefly downtown, which filled me with dread. But it was all for the best. :D

Well, I don't know about only one-offs, but my group seems to like short runs so we can play lots of different games. Most of the games I play aren't really about the hero's journey, so advancement is much less than in D&D. I'd rather play a short term gritty survival game, another short term...

Beneath the Mask, one of the scenarios in Dread. Love it to pieces, though its a bit tricky to pull off.

Your budget looks about right on, though I'd not bother trying to stay outside the convention center. I've done it once, and it really isn't worth the extra hassle. Either you've got to drive in to park every day, which can take over an hour to find a spot, or you're taking a cab. Done it...

This thread is now about Schrodinger's Campaign World. Nothing is real until the PCs have interacted with it, and the rest of the setting is subject to change whenever a better idea comes along.

I do believe it to be false, I believe that you have a false dichotomy. A good roleplayer needs to be able to optimize, because the unspoken question is, optimize for what? Lets say that my character concept is that of Inigo Montoya. A six fingered man killed my father and left me scarred...