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Have you played or run the Rolemaster/Spacemaster system? Did you play one of its offshoots such as MERP or Cyberspace? If so, what did you think of it? Rolemaster and Spacemaster by Iron Crown Enterprises are complex and intricate RPGs that cover the fantasy and sci-fi genres, respectively...

Cool! I will have to give that a shot sometime. Thanks! :)

Interesting... straight out of the AI or a combo with Photshop/filters?

And this isn't just common to Hasbro; it's not uncommon for companies to hold onto IP rights tightly even if the thing is languishing into obscurity. As a longtime fan of FASA's Renegade Legion, and someone who hosted/ran the mailing list for a long time, every couple of years someone would...

When 3e was announced I was definitively excited (and followed all the news on this site's predecessor!), and I loved it when it came out. Played across multiple campaigns for 8ish years, and like all editions I have played I enjoyed myself aplenty. Now 3e/3.5e sits at the bottom of the...

From what I've looked through, it did seem like it was a hit or miss type situation with the modules/maps as a whole. Some would be pretty intricate and engaging, others, not so much. For opponents I usually found that giving one or two abilities (perhaps on a recharge or as a single encounter...

Unless that room has 50 occupants or more, or the combined exiting totals 50 or more, in which case the door must open in the direction of exiting travel, and if the door has a latch it must have panic hardware on the push side... ... then again BBEG rarely follow the building codes. Or, if...

As a brief aside, WEG's Star Wars game did this in their adventures as well. They would often start with a short in media res script for the players to read/act out and to get the ball rolling quickly, and then often peppered throughout there were cut-scenes of sorts featuring the oppositional...

Couldn't they have at least cleaned up this sketch conversion by removing the big black blob in the middle of the handle? Silly me, of course not, that would take skill and/or effort and/or and care. (Also I am amused by myself once again becoming fixated on the (lack of) graphic design...

I have heard some some good things about the Reavers of Harkenwold. There was also the Chaos Scar as a whole sandboxy-type campaign set across many issues of Dungeon as well as the Encounters program, the latter of which I think is compiled in The Keep on the Borderlands: A Season of Serpents...

It doesn't help that some of the core classes were given bracket renames -- Cleric (Templar), Fighter (Weaponmaster) -- while other's weren't -- Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer. :P But that oddity aside I understand why they did it, in order to allow the newer E-classes to access powers and feats...

Hmmm, a single one-shot adventure, full module, or a full campaign? Do you want it to be focused on showing off 4e's differences/strengths, or something that's more of a 'full rounded' adventure?

I too never found the Essentials classes necessarily 'bad' or a 'wrong headed' direction to take classes. A variety of the AEDU structure could allow for some interesting classes. Take the Skald: two daily powers at LVL 1, but you can only use 1, and they operate as a kind of encounter-long...

The Delver's Guide to Beast World posits something somewhat adjacent: the world itself (through reasons unknown -- maybe ancient magic? rip in the cosmos? mad mage experiment gone wrong?) causes fully stocked dungeons with all of its denizens to come into and out of existence. The...

I was running the Bloodstone Lands in 4e* and so absolutely wanted to make it to the last module (H4, Throne of Bloodstone) to get the players up to epic just for those Epic Destinies. I too loved the "Once per day, when you die..." abilities, I mean, what a great opening condition. :D * The...

We recently started a 4e game in my main group and it's been great, both in general but for me especially to return to it after 10 years and rediscovering many of the things that made 4e sing. In addition, one of the players had never played 4e back when it was out (his group at the time...

The Warren uses something similar called Threats. :)

While MHR is out of print, if you get the Cortex Prime rules there is a hack that recreates MHR-style games available here. :) (And, of note to this thread, character creation rules begin on page 12.) One thing (among many) that MHR does very well and that I really appreciate is model...

Do you mean the blurb on the back cover? If so, Grognard is only the name of a tank unit in the game (fielded by alternate history France) and I'm not sure that they were trying to use it as much of a selling point other than as a pun/one-liner type joke/nod towards the term long used in the...

Wow, that brings back so many memories. Despite never having played myself, the board and components of that game are burned into my memory. :D That's hilarious. It feels a bit like the designer had not much interest in that section (or that type of character) and wanted to handwave things...