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Yeah, I LARP on occasion. No, I don't think it's any weirder than tabletop gaming. Honestly, I don't see what the big deal about it is. There isn't really any difference between rolling dice and using Rock-Paper-Scissors (white wolf), drawing cards (some Deadlands games I've seen), or any...

They have to major RPG lines. The latest one was Jadeclaw, an standalone book that would qualify.

Well, no one knows what d20 books will get into the category because of the change, but it worked like this. By default, to compete for Best RPG, a game has to stand alone. It can't require another book to play. Their examples: Vampire: the Dark Ages is a standalone. You don't need the...

For the record, Sanguine is an indie game company that produces Ironclaw and Jadeclaw (furry-type fantasy RPG's). I don't know how to really justify this. The only difference between Delta Green (which is clearly excluded) and, say, Freeport: City of Adventure (for which an exception has been...

Monster Ranching? ::shudder:: I can see it now. "Pit Fiend! I choose you!" Ouch.

Being a collector of RPG's, I like to keep up with the publishers' goings on, and I spotted this article on the Sanguine Productions website. For those who aren't familiar with Sanguine, they publish Ironclaw and Jadeclaw (furry-type fantasy RPG's) with their own system...

Well, new races and stuff sounds kinda nice. What really does it for me is Monte's design philosophy behind the rules itself. 1. D&D 3rd kept a whole lot of things from AD&D 2nd because they were, well... D&D. Like the fire and forget magic system, magic missle, an all-or-nothing armor system...

In all honesty, even considering the "Anthropomorphic Animals" section in Savage Species, I think the best way to build "furries" in the manner of RPG's like Albedo, Ironclaw, etc. is to do it yourself. Savage Species seems to lend itself to creating races with big level adjustments or that are...

Of course not, but the gaming industry is not exactly a huge moneymaker. I suspect that a lot of publishers simply deal with the art they can get. So much the better if it draws attention to their products.

Re: Re: Re: I *almost* bought an Avalanche Press book I believe that Chessex put out a product called Dragon Skin that you can use to cover up your game books to protect the covers or, in this case, to shield them from impressionable eyes. Most of my paperback RPG books wind up in folders in...

So am I. As a matter of fact, I wrote for Avalanche because I had a friend in the company. I didn't appreciate the covers that were going on my stuff, but after while, I just stopped caring. The APL guys are very knowledgeable about what they do. To be honest, in terms of the historical...

This discussion pops up now and again, and it seems that Avalanche has put some variety into their covers. They apparently have *two* cover artists now - Lorenzo Sperlonga (who does the cheesecake art like Ragnarok, et al), and Terry Strickland (who does the non-cheesecake art like Noble Steeds...

If you've gotten in some practice, you probably already know what kinds of things will make you feel comfortable. My advice to you is to spend a month or so and check the different places out. No amount of research or discussion about what a particular style is like will prepare you for what...

I like to name weapons that describe something about the wielder. For example, a character who wielded a rapier and dagger set named "Logic" and "Reason." If you couldn't accept one, perhaps you would listen to the other.

Right now, I primarily play D&D because that's what the locals want to play. I've got a bunch of new people in the group and D&D is a good beginner's game with simple (if voluminous) mechanics and lots of stuff to help them get into roleplaying. That being said, I'd like to get into something...

Not sure if I agree with you on this one. Some prestige classes can be the objects of quests. You want to become a Mage of the Arcane Order? Cool, go seek them out. But not all prestige classes are necessarily like that. Some of them simply represent specialization in a particular field. Just...

Greg Costikyan is also the author of some very entertaining light fantasy novels, including "Another Day, Another Dungeon," and "One Quest, Hold the Dragons." I wonder if he will ever continue that particular series. Great gamer-fare.

Actually, I don't think that the "instant mastery" would be all that difficult to deal with in M&M since there is a definite point cost for everything. Since M&M really doesn't deal with training time, it's easy enough to say that spending points when you get them *is* "instant mastery." Allow...

I think that an easier way to implement this would be to stick with Mutants and Masterminds, and add certain limitations such as all powers must have either the limitation "only works in the Matrix" (for the super cool bullet-time things that you see in the movie) or "device" (to cover high-tech...

IAAL There is one big reason why piracy of this nature (people scanning copies of books into PDF's and uploading them via programs like Kaaza or WinMX) hasn't been stopped yet. It's impossible. If one person scans a book (or rips a MP3 file) and makes it available for others to download and...