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The second edition is much improved over the first edition. And reading all the modules (especially the ones by John M. Ford) are a joy by themselves. Players really need to keep meta game knowledge separate from game knowledge as everyone knows they other players are mutant secret society...

I enjoyed playing a number of one shots over the years. Still have the books, haven't played it in a while.

The Graphiz program can handle your map if you have multiples of the same star in different hexes. To clean that up you would just need to define all the pairs. The other programs allow for more customization of the map (such as clusters and size of clusters)

Make it cartoon supers and go with Toon

thomas Bowmen The files I pointed you to are a .rar you just need a program to open .rar files. Once it is opened it's a .exe program I built a PERL script to something similar if you are having trouble with .rar files you might not be set up for a PERL development environment either. Another...

You might want to go look at the Starfire Design forums. http://www.starfiredesign.com/forum/ There are people there with software around creating different warp points (which match your worm holes in function mostly). I know I built a system generator that built clusters (groups of 6-10...

My party had a great time with their imp familiar. It was always shapechanged to look like a chicken. They gave him a top hat and loved to send him along to talk to people/monsters encountered. Who wouldn't talk to a chicken in a top hat?

The only combo that is annoying is the great save or suck spell and the divination wizard forcing a low roll. Banishment and the save roll is a 3. DC17 Force cage and the save roll is a 5. DC17 This the players cannot do all the time but it is the one ability that is hard to plan around...

1.) How many players in your group? One group has 6 One group has 8-10 2.) Do you DM? Yes for both current groups 3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many? 1 other person does but rarely 4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group? one group 1 female / 5 male one group 2...

GURPS books are usually so good for their background material

I've always liked GURPS Roll for attack then roll defense. I just like both sides having something do roll in each attack. Not always easy to manage but I enjoy it.

22. Goblins are born quantum entangled with another goblin some where on the same plane. Occasionally they switch locations.

Some of the balance points is where the designer (or the target audience) falls into the Game, Narrative, Simulation spectrum. Lots of early games tried to be simulations. There were charts for everything and there was more worry about was it realistic and the deterministic series of events...

Nicole Lazzaro has been doing hard research on the concept of fun for around 20 years so your burden of proof is pretty high. I've listened to her talks and had private conversations with her and other people about what fun is and the funny thing is all the things you are talking about are part...

Serious fun is more about how your fun makes a difference in the world. Did you learn a new strategy? Did the game change your emotional state or your behavior? Did you make a change to the world during your fun. One of the classic examples is making a game out of a task to make it fun.

I played a few games of Stars Without Number and I'm just not fond of level systems in modern or sci-fi games. I think the original West End Star Wars or if you are feeling especially brave you can grab the 4th edition GURPS Star Wars book. (Edit: The GURPS Star Wars book is totally fan created...

It really depends on your taste in games and what you are trying to get out of them. I prefer GURPS for the more simulation aspects of play but I do enjoy storytelling so I don't always let the simulation get in the way of a good story. I've played so many different rule sets that I usually...

I hope Steve Jackson gets Rivets as well. I loved the Ogre versus Rivets in one of the OGRE books We use to play Wizards and Melee a lot as quick tactical board games, never really got into TFT as an RPG. I still enjoy GURPS a lot though.

I'm the kind of person who buys at the FLGS at the MSRP because I've seen a couple of friends' businesses close because they can't compete with online store prices. I don't have the schedule that allows me to play at my FLGS regularly but I do pay when I do have the time in my schedule for it...

Can't believe we got to page 4 without a mention of when What's New with Phil and Dixie covered this. http://www.airshipentertainment.com/growfcomic.php?date=20070617 As someone who played Traveller, Space Opera, and Aftermath. the difference I saw between Sci-Fi and Fantasy games were players...