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How about Eliminster is busy catching up with his TiVo recordings. It's canon that Eliminster has a portal leading to present day Earth in his secret asteroid base. If you were an Epic spellcaster what would you rather do, constantly risk your potentially eternal life fighting all sorts of demons an...

Just make it "the evil primitive barbarians made up from various races and driven by evil ideologies and religions are threatening our way of life". "Diverse Evil Primitive Barbarians" still has the mighty whitey problem. It's just the British Empire vs Africa, Asia, and the Mid...

Including aliens into the setting means including reasonably easy interstellar transportation so that the aliens can get to Earth in the first place. This means all 9 planets in the solar system, their moons and whatever other planets/solar systems the aliens come from. This is probably alot more s...

What shadzar is saying is that the players aren't limited to actions on their character sheet when it comes to actions. Some things fighters can do that are not in the realm of character sheets include carrying luggage, handing you your tools and equipment, pulling out the chair for the princess at...

The existence of something resembling old nation-states who have the ability to project power but are limited by MAD can provide extra political tensions and can be a source of both secret agents and contraband. Having MAD is not a good idea, because in heroic fantasy there are totally people and f...

The first one is that the way war works in a modern world. In a fantasyverse it's possible to have several wars going on all at once without it impacting the setting. If the Fire Nation is fighting the Winged Horde, big deal. You're two countries over exploring a ruin. This isn't so for modern wars...

What you are missing is that to be "working together" everyone needs to be able to contribute equally. As long as you understand with that last bit that everyone is the players, NOT the characters. So they do NOT have to find a reason to be a team, as they already have it...to play the ga...

Why do I feel like this whole class balance issue has been spawned from someone experiences in a party where every Wizard and Cleric (or just to make this simple, EVERY DAMN CASTER) wasted time obliterating the enemies instead of bothering to heal, buff or shield the melee classes. Wouldn't healing...