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The Versatile Hero is essentially a classless system for OGL games, but one that leaves the option of playing classes open for those who wish to. I know a lot of people here on EN World and in other places on the have used it that way. And Call of Cthulhu d20 presents one customizable class...

In Lovecraft, all dockworkers have the Innsmouth look. That or, they just creep him out for being, well, not white. Great writer, but his race issues were serious.

I don't know about you, but I think Action Dice are a way better mechanic than Action Points. Not only doing what it does, but the way they wove it into the Spycraft system. How do you think the two systems stack up against each other? Now, I also think Action Points add a lot to WotC-style d20...

I have to second this. I've never seen a game store like Endgame. It is an easy public transportation ride from downtown SF. Go there if you can.

I converted every base class in D&D to d20 Modern. It works pretty well, and the characters are much more customizable that way than in D&D. I should note that I use a heavily house-rules version of Modern. The main difficulty was converting things like spellcasting into talents. If a class can...

At this point, I don't think I'll get in too much trouble if I say that our long-awaited first book for the Mecha vs. Kaiju setting might be of great interest to you.

Just a comment: kudos. A smart solution.

Heh. In both versions, I think an investigator is just any character who isn't a cultist. Although Cthulhu's probably pretty hard on cultists too-- he probably just kills 1d6+1 human beings per round, possibly a tiny bit less likely to kill chanting lunatics in robes.

Just out of curiosity, anyone actually out the stats side by side and see who wins? Because I think that was the original poster's intention... Who wins out of pulp literary monster versus French folk monster, that is hard to decide, and kind of silly. But the statistics do exist for who wins...

Hopefully, that "strategy" would be unpleasant nightmares about paintings of non-Euclidean geometry and cult orgies in the Tarrasque's hometown, and maybe driving the Tarrasque's kind uncle to alcoholism and insanity. And the Tarrasque just runs off and checks itself into an asylum, and writes...

I'm not one to shy away from advanced math, even if it were, but I always think whatever makes things go faster at the table is best. Some of us are number crunchers (I certainly am, as you can see by many of the products I write) and some of us aren't-- by aptitude or more likely desire-- and a...

Big Finger Games' POSTMODERN line was designed with an eye for the sort of detailed Modern d20 character creation you describe. The whole line was prompting by our noticing that our 1st level Modern characters seemed, well, kind of lame, and we went forward with the idea that every player...

For me, AC is emblematic of many counter-intuitive rules that dogged the older system. I'm not knocking the old system for what it was-- things evolve over time, sometimes improving, sometimes not-- but I think that a counter-intuitive ruleset is part of why the AD&D craze won't last. Something...

Do I gather that it is your own House Rules page you were linking to, then? If so, well done.

I think, like all things, the nostalgia craze will fade in time. So will the idea that a 30 year-old ruleset is better than everything that followed it. What I think has life is the idea of a "1st Edition feel" (as Necromancer Games put it). That is not just applicable to those who played 1E...

I worship Lovecraft like a god, but I find a disagreement with his central tenet-- that the true nature of the universe cannot be understood by humans without driving them mad-- to be a fair viewpoint for someone to have. I personally enjoy Lovecraft's perpsective in context, but I think if a...

He's divine, so yeah, as I understand it.

You seem to mean people don't understand your interpretation of alignment. I don't think it is fair to say that people don't "get it" just because they don't like something you like, especially when your reasons for liking it seem to be your own invention. I think a lot of these people have...

We were just talking about it. Read Post 36, above. As for where to start, start here, and make you get this exact book, not the 2nd Edition.

d02 suxxors!!! modren is teh suck!!! paladeum + rifts = kika$$ gaming!!!!!! ;)