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No, no ... I loved them and hated them. (Although mostly I love them.) Actually that's not fair. There's no reason to hate the story of the books, as they are superbly written. The hate attracts to (some of) the characters, most especially the protagonist, who you want to root for, while...

DQ 1st ed. combat was indeed pretty terrible; slow and clunky and worst of all, didn't even work very well. DQ 2nd ed. combat, on the other hand, was exactly what my players and I were looking for, and ticked pretty nearly every box for us. We didn't find it slow or complicated at all. For...

Consider that SPI had tried it just a year or two earlier with their Universe SFRPG; the boxed set included the Delta-Vee hex-based spaceship wargame (which was also released separately as a stand-alone game). Unfortunately, this was pretty much a total failure, as DV was OK (but not...

To me, at the time, it seemed like it had a lot of the good ideas of Champions, in an easier-to-play package. It had a metric ton of errata, though, which sometimes made things muddier rather than clarifying, and there didn't seem any easy way around the relatively small number of hit points...

I imagine that this became The King Arthur Companion, authored by Phyllis Ann Karr. It was later republished by Chaosium in a new edition with the title changed to The Arthurian Companion. It is not written as a game supplement, and is not directly linked to the game Pendragon in anything...

says Barrett, but as someone who had been running DQ for many years at that point, I didn't agree then and thought this was an absolutely terrible article. These days, after having played the game to the (literal) breaking point, I concede that he may have had a point. DQ was my first RPG and...

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RuneQuest Glorantha

Congratulations! So the problem is what, exactly?

Why would I want fiction in my core rules book?

I voted "Other". The individual DM (which is usually me) approves or disapproves individual books for use in the campaign. I have no explicit prejudice against non-WOTC books, but they are the de facto standard. I only have limited gaming dollars available, and the bulk of that goes to...

Which people would that be? A PrC shouldn't be all crunch, but I don't want the book to waffle on about the role they play "in the world", when the book doesn't know what my world is like.

Yeah, I know. I'm just looking for ideas to work with. I don't really expect to find something suitable "out of the box", just looking for something that would be a "close enough" match. I don't want drow because they're completely inappropriate for my campaign world, and I don't really want...

I selected "other" because, well, you're asking a whole bunch of different questions here. Should mindless undead be allowed to speak? No, because they're mindless. However, based on the summary of the spell that you've used, the undead actually has a small amount of INT -- more than 2, which...

I chose "Other", and it's very like the above, with the exception that the players don't so much choose "storylines" for themselves; rather, they decide what they want their characters to do (in general terms), and they trust that I as DM will provide interesting adventures for them as they go...

Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for an adventure (doesn't have to be generic D&D3.5, although the closer it is the better) that can fit within the following guidelines: * A journey deep underground. Ideally, something with the same sort of underground travel concept as the old...

Sabretooth Tiger. It's always struck me as an odd omission.

Not me. I've never even seen a copy of 2e Monstrous Manual. Some people here seem to forget that it was not the original 2e Monster book. See my previous post just above. And they weren't the creatures I was referring to, so you don't need to be concerned about that, OK? If their only...

And a very fine adventure it is, too. I ran that for my regular group as a one-shot and it was very well received.

Such as the creatures that appeared in the 2e Monstrous Compendium, Appendix Three: Forgotten Realms that had originally appeared in one of the core 1e monster books (i.e., Monster Manual, Fiend Folio and Monster Manual II). There's more than a small number of them. Why had these "core"...