Recent content by trancejeremy

Very interesting. Years ago I ran a medical rescue based game using the D6 rules, set in the "Sector General" universe from the late James White. (About a giant space hospital and rescue service). It can be a lot of fun, as it has more puzzle solving than anything else, but some players can be...

Yeah, but based on their track record (Conan and Runequest for instance), not too likely to be error free

No, actually. The d20 Skill System is just taking the old D&D combat system (where you would roll to hit and compare it to the Armor Class of the opponent) and applying it to skills. The similarity between RQ and d20 is because BRP is basically someone's attempt at improving D&D. Basically...

Mongoose doesn't make many mistakes, business wise. So if they switch, they have good reason to. However, I just plain don't think BRP is well suited for fantasy. I based this on trying to play/GM both Runequest and Stormbringer/Elric! BRP works okay for Cthulhu, but in part because CoC is a...

Yeah, that's the weird thing. I am not a professional writer or artist, but am a long time DM, and whenever I make up a city/village, I generally draw a crude sketch/map first. I always assumed most people did the same thing, and that this was generally given to the artist as the basis for his...

Though I gotta say, after looking at the list of people in the book on your site, it seems pretty cool, having famous literary characters like that. (I'm not so sure about the historical ones, but...)

Sidewinder was out a long long time ago as a PDF and I think then made it into book from (from Citizen games). Then it was revised for d20 Modern and made as a PDF, and will finally be out again in print.

Shouldn't it depend on the level of the NPC? I mean, if he's a human, and not some sort of monster, he should be a regular character (presumably "Ordinary Person" class, unless you want to introduce new classes...)

Cthulhu Invictus - Call of Cthulhu in the Roman empire. While OGL Ancients doesn't cover Rome, if you read the description of Cthulhu Invictus, apparently it also covers Egypt and Persia. http://www.yog-sothoth.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=139&mode=&order=0&thold=0

OGL Ancients covers from 2000 BC to 323 BC

RPGObjects's Arthur book is also out in hardback. It's a more serious take on the legend, while the S&S one is more D&D meets King Arthur. Anyway, as to the amount of discussion, I think it's mostly that OGL Ancient came out the most recent. Still, to a certain extent, both OGL Horror and...

It's submitted to RPG.net, but I have no idea when they will deign to post it (my last review took almost a month to show up), so it's also at: http://www.geocities.com/nofrills_reviews/oglancients.htm

There actually was a Hercules/Xena RPG, out several years ago from West End Games. It used the D6 legend system. Pretty decent. Should be able to get it cheap on ebay for $10 or so. (Not that you shouldn't buy OGL Ancients as well. But Hercules/Xena was cinematic and campy, OGL A is more mythic)

I would agree with you, I would probably have done it by level and class. But really, that's easy to do yourself. I also don't think they're going to fix it, the OGL games are pretty much stand alone and as is. Anyway, I wrote a review of it myself...

I think part of the trouble is that Conan (or any other specific d20 game) gets moved off into the d20 games forum, not the general discussion area, which isn't read as much. Plus, I'm not entirely sure what there is to talk about. There's one book. I imagine many people haven't run a game yet...