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You need Iron Heroes.

I'd definitely go with BESM. Exalted combat can be slow and the system is really tied to the setting.

About 40%, though I would have preferred if that percentage was lower. Back then, combat was not only boring but also dangerous! I enjoyed exploration and roleplaying a lot more. It was just safer.

Good idea with the Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Mythology Scroll down and look at the mythical creatures section.

In regards to d20 supplements, Jade Dragons and Hungry Ghosts, a monster book by Green Ronin, contains quite a few chinese creatures. Unfortunately, it is a 3.0E book. There's also quite a few monsters in Dragon Fist that you can adapt, but the system is an AD&D variant. For more literary...

There is merit to what T. Foster is saying. Killing monsters in previous editions was never as rewarding in experience as finding and hauling off treasure. Combat was also not as interesting as it is now.

I don't know. Aria was okay, but Patricia C. Wraede's Worldbuilding Questions and the MythoPoet Manual pretty much covered the same topics but were so much more comprehensible. Heck, someone even converted the Interactive History rules to FUDGE. So if I were you, I would check out those first.

I would have recommended finding a copy of Dragon #202 and reading the Races of Mythic Africa article written by Michael John Wybo II (who wrote several other articles detailing the warriors, priests, wizards, and deities of Africa) within, but a lot of ideas written in that article were already...

IMO, I think the bookkeeping and prepwork people are in the minority. I believe it's better to not cater to them then to require everyone else to use software.

Clerics are cool, but the character class doesn't really suit all religious orders. I'm thinking of using a slightly tweeked mystic to represent less martial orders for my Realms game.

Pared down improved rules and an adventure path in one or two volumes.

What in particular was helpful?

I third The Prince of Redhand. I think the setup can be adapted to scenarios of your own creation as well.

I used to avoid using prepared adventure material but then I realized that by using it, I would improve my enjoyment of the game by both easing preperation and being able to share and compare experiences with other people. So far, doing so has been very enjoyable. So I definitely agree that...

While I agree that making D&D "fresh" and "easy to learn" is possible without gimmicks, packaging rules, miniatures/counters, board pieces, record cards, dice, and an adventure path in one box is just more convenient for new and casual players. Still, if D&D did not go the "gameboard"-esque...

As if roleplaying only springs from narration and simulation and not actual gameplay!

The shift from experience points for recovery gold/treasure to adhoc story awards, the nonsense fluff about accepting subpar characters in the PHB, disavowing super characters in the DMG, arguing against magic shops in the HLC supplement, the habitat, society, and ecology entries in the MM, the...

I find 2E unforgiveable for the same reason I find most RPGs unforgiveable and not worth my time: emphasis on pointless simulation and narration and not enough focus on actual game.

"Group Keys"? That's a really cool idea! Why couldn't I have thought of it? :D

Except the G is shoddily implemented. For starters, most tabletop RPGs don't even have victory conditions.