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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 485144" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>1 Rules Lawyers.</p><p></p><p>You can either say hold on, pull out the book and show me, or you can say, bring that up with me after the game, This is how I'm ruling now, and I'm the DM. Don't argue, either listen to what he's saying or pull rank for the sake of the story/combat flow.</p><p></p><p>2 Settings</p><p></p><p>There are a ton of obscure ones</p><p></p><p>There is Umbragia on here which is free as well as Daemonforge and I think Dusk.</p><p></p><p>Commercially, There are a lot: Penumbra's Nyambe (african) MEG's Hunt rise of Evil (dark dreams horror setting), Living Imagination's Twin Crowns (heavily naval and high magic setting), Arcanis from Paradigm (I think, some dark fantasy again), Troll Lords have the Worlde of Erde(sort of germanic), I think there is also a five dollar pdf about an elemental world.</p><p></p><p>You can take any obscure fantasy book you've read that you liked and are familiar with and make that your own, perhaps with a few thinly veiled name changes.</p><p></p><p>With any of these you can usually take published modules, read carefully, modify a little, and plug and play.</p><p></p><p>And these are just sticking with standard D&D tech levels. There is also dragonstar, historical ones from Avalanche press, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 485144, member: 2209"] 1 Rules Lawyers. You can either say hold on, pull out the book and show me, or you can say, bring that up with me after the game, This is how I'm ruling now, and I'm the DM. Don't argue, either listen to what he's saying or pull rank for the sake of the story/combat flow. 2 Settings There are a ton of obscure ones There is Umbragia on here which is free as well as Daemonforge and I think Dusk. Commercially, There are a lot: Penumbra's Nyambe (african) MEG's Hunt rise of Evil (dark dreams horror setting), Living Imagination's Twin Crowns (heavily naval and high magic setting), Arcanis from Paradigm (I think, some dark fantasy again), Troll Lords have the Worlde of Erde(sort of germanic), I think there is also a five dollar pdf about an elemental world. You can take any obscure fantasy book you've read that you liked and are familiar with and make that your own, perhaps with a few thinly veiled name changes. With any of these you can usually take published modules, read carefully, modify a little, and plug and play. And these are just sticking with standard D&D tech levels. There is also dragonstar, historical ones from Avalanche press, etc. [/QUOTE]
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