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I like this idea. Maybe when the user of one of these items dies, the only way another person can use the item's powers is if the new user is a descendant of the original user, and thus possessing some of the essence of the original user. Then you have the old fantasy standby of the magical...

If your house rules are ones that your players will use on a regular basis, such as races, classes, feats, different weapon and armor rules, magic and whatnot, then you need to let the players know, especially if they fundamentally change how the game is played, like the Generic Classes from...

I definitely agree with the only-one-side-sharpened thing. Less chance of slicing yourself in half when you attack an opponent, and the feint-and-attack tactic I talked about in an earlier post would still be viable, since the edges of both blades would be pointed toward the opponent and not...

Yep. Into the sig file with you!

A twin-bladed sword would mainly be used like a European quarterstaff, with some Asian stuff thrown in for good measure, and it would hardly be the kind of flashy stuff you'd see in Star Wars. I can see a lot of feints being used with one end of the weapon in order to open up an opponent to a...

I could see this having some great applications, such as trying to handle a riot in a major city, or taking part in a major battle in a war. How would a mob interact with an opposing mob? And for guys like villagers, how much damage would you need to inflict upon the mob in order to get it to...

My big beef with the Bruiser is the Martial Arts rating of 12. Considering that most mooks have AVs of about 8, his performance against them will be hit-or-miss at the very least. That ain't a good thing for an archetype that's supposed to hammer these losers into the dirt. And the Maverick...

The hell?! Don't think I've heard that one...

Does anybody else think that the "Illustrious Success/Dismal Failure" thing would be a great add-on variant to D&D's regular arcane spells? D&D's magic system IS based on Vance's stuff, after all.

And speaking of insanity, there are some cool insanity rules in Unknown Armies. The way these rules work is that you have five major stresses (Violence, Isolation, Helplessness, Unnatural, and Self) with ten notches on the meter, and the more severe the stress, the harder the check is against...

I like these, especially the Martial Arts school. The fighter gets Knowledge/arcana and Knowledge/religion as class skills (though I think something more physically-oriented like Jump, Balance, Escape Artist or Tumble would be a better choice for those skills myself), plus he does 1D6 damage...

I think that a lot of people have in their heads the idea that low magic = low power. Not so. I've been thinking about a campaign where the only magic comes from one-of-a-kind magic items that vary in power and impose their own drawbacks on the user. That "sorcerer" your heroes are fighting...

Check out the Expanded Psionics Handbook, page 209. And once you're through, turn to the next page to find an even nastier version of this critter. :] And how about the Neothelids from page 204 of the EPH? A GIGANTIC worm, with tentacles coming out of its mouth, spewing acid and grabbing...

Heh. The day we first got Molly, our latest addition to the household, Max, who is quite the big cat, had a staredown with the new kitty, hissing and all. Molly, who was only about several months old, hissed right back and put her little paw up as if to say, "You want a piece of me?" Max...

When I first saw the little bastard on the floor in my room the other day, I thought it was one of those little birds that Max (my cat) likes to take down now and again, and I was set to chew him out for it once I was finished with taking it out -- if you're going to kill and eat stuff, do it...

A heroic D&D game with Cthulhoid horrors has a very Conan feel to it that I like. Conan occasionally encountered critters in Howard's stories that seriously creeped him out in a "cosmic horror" sense. Some of them were killable (like the monster he took down with the phoenix-marked sword in The...

The scene just before the big church shootout in The Killer where is definitely sad as hell. As is the scene where .

Let's see. Adventurers would mainly start out with helping people in the town they live in, heading out to other towns when the townsfolk's relatives in those towns need help. Sooner or later, word of the party's exploits will reach one of the local nobles, who will probably want them under his...

If you wanted to put all three kinds of spellcraft in one world (hooooo boy...), then: Natural spellcraft uses the power of the natural world. Arcane spellcraft uses the power of dragons or the fey. Divine spellcraft uses the power of the gods.

I remember a pre-3E game long ago called Dragon Fist. You played martial arts heroes battling against a corrupt emperor, his eunuch sorcerers, and a whole army of mooks. Last I remember, Green Ronin was working on a new version.