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Of the things that you mentioned... The thing about D20 Modern is that guns don't kill that much when you've got a lot of HP. I am used to the genre of HP and taking a blow from a broadsword when it comes to D&D, but shooting someone multiple times with a shotgun should sting a little more...

Wow. Very nice of Green Ronin to do this. DEFINITELY check out the stuff on sale if you download the free stuff. There are some truly awesome books that are on sale as part of this whole thing. M&M2e? the True20 Companion?! Sweet. The True20 Bestiary is almost essential if you want to do...

For those inspired by the True20 rulebook to buy the hardcopy rulebook... My suggestion: get some of the other True20 stuff before a hardbound copy of the rules, unless you're really inspired to create a lot of stuff on your own. True20 is a super toolkit, but having some existing stuff in your...

Well, it wasn't down for me, just extremely slow for most of the day... and then there was a brief period where it wasn't slow, but then it slowed back down again. I'm sure they're just having bandwidth issues.

I am guessing that a lot of people are on the Green Ronin server because... it... is... moving... very... slowly. Finally got to where I can download files now. :D Thank goodness I've already ordered PDFs directly from Green Ronin before because I'm guessing it would also be a bear to try to...

The True20 rulebook in PDF form for free?! That's sweet. I have the hardcover rules, and I have been thinking about getting the PDF... so this is pretty awesome.

Well, I didn't claim that Wizards didn't innovate. For me, I think other companies do it better. As a matter of taste, I don't find that Wizards are at the top of the craft of D20 and D20 supplements... there's a lot of variance in their output. Certainly, there was an avalanche of bad D20...

If there's economies of scale, why aren't WotC's titles less expensive & more innovative than other publisher's products? Why doesn't WotC consistently deliver more for less? Fracturing the player base would be an issue... but what about the 3.0 versus 3.5 thing? That was sure fun. Some people...

PDF... True20 Companion Survivor's Guide to the Age of Blood (RealityDeviant's Blood Throne setting for True20) Swords of Pride - Armies of the South (army list for Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear Blitz!) Books... Life on Caprice Caprice Corporate Sourcebook Liberati Sourcebook (Dream Pod 9's Heavy...

??? I would be violating the business model of the Underpants Gnomes if I made that change. However, perhaps I should change it to the proper gamer-grammar, which is *deep breath* KillThemAndTakeTheirStuff - all one word, hastily uttered whenever some NPC-that-should-not-be-killed makes an...

That would be an interesting model. Random iconics-as-characters... from newer ones like Lidda & Tordek & Jozan, to the old ones like Morgan Ironwolf. Random item/clix equipment, random collectable spells for spellbooks... Random monster miniatures... with random treasure... Of course, maybe...

Thanks to D20/OGL & even a newer WotC product or two (Star Wars Saga Edition), D&D is no longer the "one true way" to do the twenty-sided dice. For some people, non-D&D products do better at capturing the type of game that they want... and yet they can still even use a Wizards of the Coast D&D...

D&D is great if you want to play D&D. This is my issue with D20 Modern, I suppose. It's just not far enough away from D&D for my tastes. It's not that I don't like D&D, or that I don't like Wizards of the Coast. I just don't think that 3.0 ever really did it for me, and the move to 3.5 didn't...

Originally, I only bought "official" WotC stuff related to D20, thinking that it was higher quality & had better mechanics & so on, for the most part. EverQuest D20 was okay, but I didn't feel that inspired to keep collecting another type of D20. I bought in to the Wizards of the Coast brand...

The essential problem was that they tried to fit a movie scene into the rules with that Sarlacc Pit "battle", as stated before. It just wasn't an impressive display of a roleplaying game, IMO. A lot of dice rolling, a lot of frustration heaped on one poor player for no apparent reason ("OKAY...

Dream Pod 9's Heavy Gear setting has the Humanist Alliance (l'Alliance Humaniste), one of the factions of the Southern hemisphere's Territoires Alliés du Sud (TAS, Allied Southern Territories). http://www.dp9.com/Worlds/HG_page2b.htm http://www.dp9.com/Products/DP9-032.htm

I don't think anyone sets out to be a "bad" DM... so I'm not 100% in love with your tone right now (in my best caveman voice). So you only occasionally optimize encounters for your players? Are you boring your players in the non-optimized situations? Are you unfairly targeting the optimizer at...

Of course, as a GM, you then either have to play into or against a strength... either highly "optimizing" your encounters, or just assuming that the player wants no challenge to his optimization strategy & going forward. When you optimize against a certain character, are you cheating him out of...

Like others have mentioned, I'm not 100% in love with the tone of D&D right now. There is a middle ground between playing pure D&D d20 and abandoning Dungeons & Dragons-style gaming. True20 is what I like now. Others have mentioned C&C. These are very nice OGL alternatives to running D20...

Precisely... You'll find any number of threads on other boards (*ahem*rpgnet) that flame D20 & its fans because the rules are pretty particular to people who like D&Disms. D20 is far from perfect. There's good and bad to a lot of games & game systems. People could complain about clumsy & slow...