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Hey as long as they aren't... On second thought, I'll keep my mouth shut. Never give the GM ideas....

Hah. When you're in a superior position, there is no need for desperation. Unlike those low to the ground who must constantly fear being stepped on by the true giants. As for your decorating scheme - I like mine better. The wails and cries of my inferiors are so soothing. Or if, by chance, those...

Either works for me. And thanks to all the judges for their comments. They helped, and the next one will be better (I hope). Of course, it has to be. I'm looking forward, with both anticipation and trepidation, to the next round.

And add votes for Champions/Hero (and the other Hero variants as well), and Ars Magica.

Your target temperature is 32. Assuming a baseline temperature of 67, that's 10000 feet above ground level - probably sea level in this case.

T20 is a d20 port of Traveller. It's intended for space opera along the lines of Andre Norton's Forerunner series. Essentially no magic. It also assumes you start at a level higher than 1. IIRC, I think 7 is the minimum. This is the result of the background rules. It also has good rules for...

House Rule in the following: 1) Warlocks get familiars 2) Eldritch Blast must always have at least one invocation. (And then require the player to say the key phrases.)

Thanks for the compliments. As for the denoument, well, Commune, Scry, and Teleport make short work of puzzles like this. But, yeah, I wasn't wholly satisfied with it; I just didn't see an alternative with the time I had left available (about 2 hours due to prior commitments). Now, of course, I...

The Case of the Missing Beacon The Case of the Missing Beacon The shores of Celestia are home to thousands of lighthouses. Set among scenes of natural beauty that could bring joy to one of the shades of Hades, surrounded by carefully groomed grounds that even a modron could admire, each...

Well, I kind of do both top down and bottom up. I find it easier to start top down, as it helps me build some consistency in the world, and think of those great world-shattering secrets. But I only do a light dusting here, something roughly comparable to the original WoG Gazeteer from the...

I'm not as fast as my opponent, but I'm done now too. I'm going to give it one more night so I can do a final proof tomorrow.

I like my idea better.

Well, I'm an old Rolemaster fan myself. Except for the incredible drag the chart lookups put on combat. So when I heard HARP had simplified that, I was very gungho and went and bought the core rules and the monster book. And a signed up for a HARP game at TerpCon last fall. When I got there...

Go very slow. Speaking as a professional programmer, I've found that all I can reliably use my computer for is: 1) Using an electronic SRD (either Sovelior's from this site, the one at www.d20srd.org, or CMG's pdfs) 2) Keeping my adventure notes (I use a rather complex HTML setup, but anything...

Whatever makes sense for the world I'm using. In my current campaign (pre-3.x but updated) I basically allow all the core classes, but some classes are restricted geographically/culturally (monks, for instance), and others are racially restricted (druids). I don't allow the alternate base...

And here I am about to undo all that 7&14 planning... I'm a little nervous about this (especially if I end up in 1a 'because my weekend is already committed) but I'll give it my best shot. Here's seeing if all those "Once Upon a Time" games have been wasted.... In short, I'm in.

Yes. My 2e games are part of the backstory of the 3e world. However, the next 3e games I play are in an entirely new and unrelated campaign world, so no history carries over. When I return to my original world, new campaigns will either be set in the past or in another region (possibly both)...

Lilied (adj.): From the Bug Bunny cartoons where he staggers around holding a lily before (pretending) to be dead. Used to mean an opponent is within one successful attack of being dead, most especially anything in single digit HP. Zoom Up (v.): post-combat healing; from a campaign where the GM...

A darkness that's really dark. An invisibility that's improved. A harm that's actually in line with the other 6th level death effect spells. The overwhelming attractiveness of alt.rangers. A blindness that can't be cured with a dispel magic. I've always found that lassos or dart guns, manacles...

Hmm... I guess I've never really thought about it before. I guess one thing I'd caution you against is thinking that world-building is a linear experience, the way some tutorials suggest. It's a kind of drunkard's walk though subjects and level of detail (at least for me). And it isn't all...