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Walpurgis U. is so geeky… G'day To set the stage, I am about to start a GURPS campaign set in a weird university in 1933. This university (Walpurgis University) is somewhere in the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts, in a town that is a shadow of Northampton Mass. in the way that...

G'day Some gamers prefer to have a single, versatile, robust game system that can be used for nearly every setting and style of game--a general-purpose RPG. The idea is that they can (if necessary) buy a sourcebook with information and maybe special rules for a genre and setting, or even use...

G'day I was a smart kid, but contrary as a cat and obstinate as a pig. I refused to memorise multiplication tables (what did TI give us calculators for?) until I started playing an RPG called ForeSight, which was based on the 'ease factor' system from James Bond 007. Now mental artihmetic is...

G'day There are a few references in the 3.5 rules to a character buying levels as a cleric of are particular deity, for example banning a cleric who has offended his or her god from buying levels as a cleric of that deity until he or she has Atoned. This hints at the possibility of a character...

G'day In the many and interminable threads that discuss whether a paladin ought to lose his or her paladin class abilities for having done something-or-other (and yes, I do my part to make them interminable) we often see many posters either posting that the decision depends on what the...

G'day In the setting I am working on, there are four sub-races of elves. I was thinking of making the differences between them essentially cultural (and sticking with PHB eleves). But I thoght that perhaps you might suggest otherwise. I'd like to read what you think. High elves The high...

G'day Just suppose that there is a lawful good but stiflingly nannyish High Elvish World Empire that controls 85% of the Known World. On the north-west border of the World Empire is a human land called the Gwlad Cenenryth, the Land of the Free People. The Free People are numerous and stroppy...

G'day Suppose that you are a lawful good (but rather high-handed) race of High Elves. And that you decide to establish a world empire under which everyone will be able to live in peace and frugal comfort, eliminating war, disease, and hunger from the face of the world. After 300 years of...

G'day I just took a quick wander through the Dungeon Master's Guide II. There is some very good material in it, especially in the first chapter and the first part of the second chapter. I can foresee a time when this book is interleaved with the Core DMG, to produce perhaps two books: one an...

G'day Can anybody point me in the direction of write-ups for, or that would do for, the following cleric domains? • Truth • Light • Justice Regards, Agback

The logic of my game world provides that a certain group of elves who live almost entirely on ships, and live by trading, fishing, and whaling should share the religious position of the druids. Unfortunately the druid spell lists are not very useful on a ship at sea. Can anyone point me in the...

G'day I'm joining a party that is weak on heavy hitters and has no healing magic to speak of (2nd level paladin, ranger, rogue, ninja, and sorceror), so I have decided to play a buff-and-bash cleric. Ie. I plan to prepare spells that will increase the targets' mêlée capability (such as 'magic...

G'day On Monday I will be starting to play in a campaign set in the Forgotten Realms (near Waterdeep). Are there any sites onteh web that will give me just a basic sketch of what the area is like, enough that I can pick a cultural background, aspirations &c for my character. Teh party I am...

G'day A lot of people these days seem to use the phrase 'internecine conflict' as though it meant 'internal conflict'. It doesn't. 'Internecine conflict' is a fight to the death. The Latin source of the word, spelled variously 'internecnus' and 'internecvus', meant “fought to the death...

G'day Since the late board upgrade I have had a problem when using the 'back' button on my browser (Safari 1.0 v 85 running under OS X 2.6) to return from a thread to the general discussion message board. I get the error message "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: globalize() in...

G'day Every now and again a gaming book comes along that does something better than it has ever been done before. After a while, the publishers stop supporting it. The copies on your shelves get tatty. You search second-hand shops and stalls. You look for copies on eBay. You light candles to St...

Bad double-post. Bad! No biscuit.

G'day In view of the danger that this thread might survive past the some respondent's birthdays, I have decided to ask "In what year were you born?". Sorry I had to group the years, but teh server won't let me post polls with more than 15 options. Regards, Agback

G'day In view of the danger that this thread might survive past the anniversaries of some respondent's first RP gaming experience, I have decided to ask "In what year did you first play an RPG". Regards, Agback

G'day In the spirit of the thread "What Fantasy rpg's, other than D&D, do people enjoy?", I'd like to ask what RPGs everyone uses for spy, western, mystery, and pulp adventure camaigns, and for other roleplaying that lacks any overt science fiction or fantasy content. I have played and...