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Good point but bear in mind a short rest is a minimum of 1 hour. Once you have got to the point of having a short rest, in most practical situations (unless artificially DM'd to constrain the party) you would be able to take a long rest if you really wanted. After all, 1 hour of not being...

Let me preface this by saying that IMHO 5e is shaping up to be a classic edition fit to challenge BECMI D&D and 1st ed. AD&D in my affections. Multiclassing Spellcasters [EDIT:- since I posted this it has been pointed out to me lower in the thread that the following example doesn't work...

Hi all In an effort to cut down the pre-game warm-up time for my forthcoming game Soul's Calling to the barest possible minimum, I've written this free-to-download 16-page intro guide:- Invitation to Soul's Calling by Matt West in Games If you have time to read this and give me any feedback...

Following the public playtest debut of the pen & paper fantasy roleplaying game Omnifray Lite at Indiecon 2009, you can now get your copy of the Omnifray Lite Core Guide (Public Playtest edition):- - in pdf format as a free download from Lulu.com - as a softback book for £9.95 + P&P from...

My game Omnifray - PDF of Basic Handbook available for £2.50 UK price but check out the free to download preview guide first, links via Omnifray RPG - Home - recent reviews including one on rpg.net which followed an 8-week playtest RPGnet : Review of Omnifray: Basic Handbook (which gave it 5...

Exactly.

That wasn't what I had in mind. "Appeasement" does have a meaning outside the context of Neville Chamberlain and the pre-WWII era, you know. Having said which, now you mention it... ;-) Nah. They may be reared on a diet of All Hail Me the Conquering Hero [in Every Encounter, and Especially for...

2nd Ed is in the same bracket as 3e/3.5 The real issue is not the meat and bones of the rules, nor even the style of adventure that people play (railroaded or whatever). It's that 2nd edition is when the game lost its gonads. Let's be honest here, AD&D 1st edition had Deities and Demigods...

How Each Alignment Reacts You are a mighty, combat-capable NPC of true power and cunning in a game of AD&D or 3rd/3.5. Some snivelling PC has stuck his middle finger up at you, backwards. How do you react, depending on your alignment? LAWFUL GOOD:- "You cur, by your insolent tongue you...

I didn't say that it depended on the substantive US law of copyright on a self-standing basis under the law of tort/delict. But aspects of US law will presumably be involved - e.g. perhaps procedural law on service abroad. If contractual terms are involved, there might be a choice of law clause...

I don't know why people seem to assume that a US judgment would not be enforceable in Poland. Would it be? - I don't know. I'm not a Polish lawyer. But I would NOT be surprised if it is enforceable, and I would NOT be surprised if WotC could use that judgment to make the OP bankrupt, seize his...

I should probably add, people have had to put up with a fair few things from me. :-) (Although never farting. Thus far. Touch wood.)

GMs for hire Over on RPG.net there's a long, recent thread about some guy who's in dire financial straits and thinks he can dig himself out of it by charging people US$15 per game for 5-hour sessions (in Queen's, NY). He's planning on getting 30 players, 6 per session, 5 sessions per week...

4 kids, + you think you're going to game every week??? Best of luck with that :-) I think your only hope lies in them becoming gaming nuts, one of them learning to GM and running the campaign and then all you have to do is turn up and play. But the others may get jealous when his Christmas...

My game Omnifray (Omnifray RPG - Home) includes guidelines for vampire player characters (only in the Expert Manual). You can have them alongside mortal player characters no problem because their points advantages and disadvantages can balance out pretty easily. In fact one group that I am...

Troopers from five warring factions stranded on the barren world of Tundari, cut off from your mother ships - will you survive? Can you regroup? Will you forge a truce with troopers from the other factions who are trapped on this planet with you? And what of the ancient secrets of the Xen race...

The setting you describe pretty much is Middle Earth - why not run a game set in the 4th Age of Middle Earth (about which not so much is widely known, if I understand correctly), but use the mechanics from a game like Ars Magica or Mage.

I get that you want magicians to be rare so that magic is still *magical* - does that mean you want *magic* to be rare too? If you have few magicians, but each of them can tap vast, almost infinite power without real constraints, the world will be flooded with magic... Do you want the common...

Monster Summoning, and in 3rd (less so 3.5) Bull's Strength etc. - there are more, and Druids share some of the guilt, but that's a start. And some Cleric spells are pretty horrendous with no direct Wizard equivalent (e.g. Implosion).

Maybe run a monthly game on a weekend, without interrupting your existing game, invite all, and see who shows. Keep your existing game going. Tell the D&D-only players that you will handle most of the rules and CharGen for them - they just need a 10-minute chat from you on the game-setting, and...