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My characters tend to represent who I would be if I could. That is to say, me if I didn't have all the cares and concerns of real life.

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Now that d20 Future is out, I'm thinking about running a near future/cyberpunk style campaign. Actually, to be technical I'm looking more at a near future, postcybrepunk campaign. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcyberpunk) Unlike the standard cyberpunk genre, which tends to be defeatist and...

As a linguist myself (I'm a graduate student in linguistics) I'm all for correct pronunciation (if there is such a thing, but that's a different topic...) Anyway, I'm pretty much a geek when it comes to linguistics issues in the game! ;)

Ninja's have the Real Ultimate Power! ;)

Cyberpunk being outdated? I don't think so! If anything, this world is moving closer to the world of the cyberpunk genre than we may think! The internet has become extremely pervasive. Every company, university, government, institution has it's own web page. And the internet has really...

I'm still running a pure 3.0 Ravenloft game. I don't allow any 3.5e rules to creep into my game. No "3.25" rules mixing. I only allow stuff published before the release of 3.5e! :D Seriously, I'm just too cheap to shell out any money for the new books. Most of the changes that I've seen...

Midnight! I really wanted to like the setting, I really did. A dark fantasy world where the true heroes were rebels. A world where people adventured to restore justice in a suffering land! Legendary heroes descended from ancient bloodlines! The premise really appealed to me. Unfortunately...

How about the 12 Monkeys soundtrack? While not exactly circus music, some of the tracks have a rather freaky carnival-like feal to them IMHO.

In modern English warlock has come to mean a male witch or sorcerer. However, interestingly, Warlock comes from an Anglo-Saxon (Old English) word meaning "oath-breaker". (wær meaning "oath" or "covenant" +loga meaning "liar".)

I suppose that I'm getting into quite a voilatile topic. (dons flame retardant suit) Personally I would really LOVE to see a Shadowrun d20 conversion. Why? For several reasons. The ancient magic meets high-technology setting of Shadowrun appeals to me. However, I was never very impressed by...

Cool! I'm a linguistics graduate student, so I'm naturally somewhat of a language geek. I've been thinking of developing my own language for my setting for sometime. The only thing preventing me is lack of time. still I've come up with some basic phonetic rules and naming conventions for the...

I'm pretty sure that 4e will be very successful! Sure WotC would catch a lot of flak for it, but in the end most gamers would make the switch; after all Wizards goes on market figures, not the angry rants on message boards to decide how to make decisions. 4e will be very sucessful for number...

My games are definately rated X! They are filled with gratuitous sex and violence! Players routinely make use of the Book of Vile Darkness and the Book of Erotic Fantasy. I describe all the violence in graphic detail; I don't "fade to black", I make players role-play out their (rather...

Nisarg brought up a point that has really bothered me about the whole Cthulhu mythos for some time. What makes knowledge of the Cthulhu mythos so horrifying as to drive people insane? Knowledge that there is no higher power, and that life is meaningless? A depressing philosophy perhaps, but...

IMHO, D&D "jumped the shark" some time ago. Probably about the time the Epic Level Handbook was released. Still there have been some good books since then, but overall, I haven't been impressed by the quality of WotC books.

I still use metal minis, and I refuse to buy plastic ones! To me painting is half the fun, so the prepainted D&D ones aren't right for me! Besides, I like the sculpting and variety of Reaper miniatures, so I remain loyal to Reaper!

Standard characters are good or neutral but not evil. Evil alignments are for villains and monsters -D&D Player's Handbook Although the PHB implies that characters should play non-evil characters, I have heard of several players who like to play evil alignments. I have heard many different...

True, perhaps I'm really thinking about a "near-future RPG". Still, some of the dystopian ideas of cyberpunk intrigue me. For example, the idea of a corrupt government, prevalent in the cyberpunk genre, could make a good opponent for the PCs. The Final Fantasy VII video game (while...

I'm trying to come up with campaign ideas for a d20 modern/future game. I want to do somewhat of a cyberpunk-style campaign. I've always been somewhat of a fan of cyberpunk-style technology. Grounded in a near future world, much of the tech featured in the cyberpunk genre seems at least...