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It depends upon what you want to do. There are plenty of tools to bash together quick battle maps, but if you want power and flexibility, there is only one. Campaign Cartographer. While novice-friendly due to lots of tutorials and a very active community, the learning curve is steeper than a...

At least in my experience, games using death spiral mechanics are generally only infuriating for players who haven't really come to terms with the type of game that uses them. Another type of "death spiral" example would be Call of Cthulhu - every character either ends up dead or insane so why...

How much crunch are you willing to work with? Here is a previous post I made about a wound-based system. It is an attempt at describing the damage system used in Twilight:2013, but would require some modification to fit within the bounds of a genre where magic exists. Essentially, it uses a...

Pretty much that is the case unless you are using the optional hit location rules - if you already have a critical wound, a slight wound does nothing. But - at that point, it wouldn't matter anyway since a critical wound will result in a very high likelihood of being in shock and bleeding out...

Lets see... "Base Hit Points" are based upon that game's equivalent stats to STR and CON - they use a (10 + STR + 2 x CON)/4 formula. So, in D&D, an average human (ability scores of around 13-14) will have right around 12-13 base hit points regardless of character level, the average d20 ogre...

Twilight:2000 / Twilight:2013

If you don't mind waiting a while, The Morrow Project, 4th edition is in play-test and is supposedly due to be released soon. There is a CHAR-GEN pre-release on their facebook page.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Twilight:2013's hit points/wound levels system is great. Size/strength/health-based as opposed to level-based "hit points" that act as trip points for wound effects. Wound effects that start out with a minor inconvenience to your actions for a mere...

Assuming you mean the divination spell, it is inherently not 100% accurate and the spell description makes it clear that you only get a small piece of information. As an example, you might ask "will the BBEG attack the town?" and get (up to a 90% chance of being accurate) an answer that the...

This is a lawsuit waiting to happen. Does the store have insurance for when one of them decides to wrap his car around a tree (or plow into another driver) after drinking at the store? So - they want his (or his employees') time for free? Or would they be paying a salary for the employee who...

I'll just stick to Twilight:2013 style hit point mechanics. "Base hp" = (10 + STR + 2 x CON) / 4. The only thing that increases it is anything that directly or indirectly increases those two attributes. Now - Twilight:2013's system uses multiples of the base hp as trip points for different...

They already did this. It's called Kingdoms of Kalamar...

Have you considered going in the opposite direction? Instead of rolling d6s, you could roll a dice pool of d20s instead, with multiples of skill ranks equaling an additional die. My current favorite mechanics are based upon this. Your "DC" or "target" is to roll lower than a skill's...

I've got the "Gazetteer of the Known Realms" - aka the World of Aereth (both in print and PDF) and it is worth every penny I paid for it. It comes with a ton of maps, a Gazetteer, a GM's Guide, and two very good DCC adventures. The Gazetteer is 100% game system agnostic. I don't have the...

So it sounds like the answer is to use the Heroforge spreadsheet...

So I'm considering purchasing Herolab. I've got pcgen and it works good for what it does, but I am frustrated by the inability to quickly take something from 3.5 and quickly create custom data for Pathfinder (I've no problems doing the actual conversion from 3.5 to PF by hand prior to making it...

As a DM, the single most useful digital product they could offer would be a chargen program as customizable as pcgen but extremely simple to add to. Something that would allow me to enter a feat or prestige class or an old monster that hasn't been converted, and let me do so without needing to...

I want an option for gritty as hell. Something along the lines of: 1. You have a natural healing based on your current CON. Your basic healing takes 10 days divided by the healing factor (so someone very healthy and fit could heal quicker than a sickly weakling). 2. Successful use of a...

The problem, though is you can't charge on round 1 and end up with an Init 17 on round 2 - the full-round action means you'll finish it at the same point in time in round 2, so you won't gain the benefit of lowering your encumbrance until round 3. Likewise, withdraw is also a full round action...

And that is part of the trade-off. Can I act more quickly by dumping my gear, hoping to take down my opponent first, or should I have lugged around the gear because I'd need it in combat? The part you are missing about Delay, when used with a houserule that loads above a light load penalize...