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Nonono... that had to be a mistake. A rapier weighed 2-3 pounds at the most. I have a Paul Chen rapier that weighs just under 2 pounds and a Museum Replicas rapier that weighs a measly 1.5.

Well, this evening, I got to meet Hal Greenberg and Mark Clover for the first time. We got together at one of Mark's haunts, Sedgwick's, for a few drinks and some dinner, and I had a really great time. Mark and Hal - you guys rock. Sedgwick';s was awesome, and you were the best. You know - we...

Well, we have an 11th level party. The characters are: Human Bard (archer - support and healing) Human Fighter/Paladin/Divine Champion/Planar Champion (heavy armor, TWF, tank fighter) Halfling Rogue/Fighter/Cappurtina Knife Fighter/Bourchet Dagger Fighter (from Swashbuckling Adventures, close...

hmm - 7:00 might be a little problematic. I have to drive in from like Naperville. Do you think we could do 8? <g> Syn

Well, I have a Werewolf game Sunday afternoon, but I should be back in Chicago by nightfall. The notion of a bite to eat and a couple drinks sounds pretty cool. P.S. Hal - if you need to find out how to get anywhere in Chicago, there's a website where you can get directions via public transit...

Hmmm... new Deadlands, huh? AWESOME! Congratus, guys... this is some really good news.

I've been burned a couple of times with this. I really don't like this because I have had books come back damaged or not at all. I guess I just keep feeling that I should be able to run the kinds of games that require a ton of books in D&D that require only a handful of books with certain other...

I can't think of a single way D&D 3rd is not an improvement over AD&D 2nd. That being said, I find the premise of your post to be absolutely true when comparing D&D 3rd to other roleplaying games I have run. I really have no problem with the way the game plays. I think combat rounds run pretty...

Think about this. Someone who is lightly armored but hard to hit relies on mobility. Because BESM doesn't use the "all or nothing" armor system d20 seems to rely on, mobility is represented by a defense roll. A character can have up to seven of these if he really wants to go the speed freak...

OTOH, BESM deals with this by having armor powers that reduce the amount of damage that a character takes, so it's possible to make a super-tank character who may take a lot of hits, but is so armored up that he doesn't take a lot of damage and then really lets his target have it.

I dunno. They look good for a straight "translation" framework. But I prefer a more fast-and-loose system for designing a race. I mean, not everyone wants to eat an ECL hit just to play an anthropomorphic animal. It seems to me that you should be able to build just about any anthropomorphic...

Didn't really have my option of choice. Go Mutants & Masterminds entirely. Abstract "level" to a concept reflective of a character's total XP rather than using it to define when characters get their abilities. Make *everything* and XP cost. Levels suck. <g>

I like BESM a lot. It's very quick, easy to play, and unlike GURPS and HERO, it's pretty simple. It can handle just about any game with a minimum of difficulty. It is subject to min/maxing, but optional rules involving scaled ability score costs help with that. Anyway, it's handy and it's...

There are lots, depending on what you want. Shadowrun (cyber-fantasy) HERO (aka Champion) Any number of GURPS supplements (including an implementation of Traveller far superior to the T20 version, IMO)... Traveller is its own campaign setting. There are an awful lot of GURPS Traveller...

I've played fantasy games with Feng Shui, and I have also tried bringing some of the elements of Feng Shui to D&D. It's mostly a matter of your willingness to toss out a lot of the "conventions" of D&D, especially dealing with magic. Because so much of Feng Shui deals with creative description...

Depends on the game. SCA members wear armor and bash each other with sticks. Paintball players shoot each other with exploding dye pellets. Boffer LARPers whack each other with foam-covered PVC. White Wolf LARPs enforce a strict "no touching" baseline policy with the only exceptions being...

Hummm. Perhaps you shoudl qualify your statement. Most of the LARPers you've encountered are weirdoes. That's fine. Other people have very different experiences. I'm in the Camarilla, the big White-Wolf LARP-based organization. Most of the players are college students or professionals with...

Sometimes. Especially when you deal with established teams where people have callsigns, trademark weapons, and all kinds of stuff. It's rather like the SCA, except your cleaning bills are higher. <g>

You take a piece of PVC tube. You wrap it in closed-cell pipe insulation and seal it up with duct tape. You make a hilt for the thing, and voila, you have a sword. Now, take your sword and whack the stuffing out of your friends. Yes, a good part of the game depends on your real ability to hit...

Improved Invisibility is a tough one. My GM was playing around with some NPC designs and completely trashed our entire 11th level party (which was pretty seriously powered up) with a single 11th level NPC who happened to be an archer with Imp. Invis., just to prove a point to one of the players...