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    Poll: Alternative Fantasy RPG's

    The only Mother game I've played is Mother 2/Earthbound, and I believe that Mother 3 was only released in Japan on the GBA, so I was just remarking that your concept (hypothetically) sounded like it could be applied to a theoretical and wholly improbable successor to Earthbound (or Earthbound...
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    Poll: Alternative Fantasy RPG's

    This sounds an awful lot like an Earthbound 2 concept, except for the Psi.
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    Poll: Alternative Fantasy RPG's

    A few thoughts spring to mind: -For starters, how about Barsoom? I suppose it's technically sci-fi, but that aspect rests upon a solid foundation of alternative fantasy themes. I feel the best type of alternative rpg would incorporate fantasy, tribal mythology, eons-old religion, sci-fi so...
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    Character classes you hate

    I'll preface by saying that I have a long-standing house rule that no PC is capable of dealing lethal unarmed damage to an opponent that has DR unless their unarmed attacks have at least a +1 magic imbuement (magic fang/permanence or amulet of 1000 fists). The pursuit of realism is usually a...
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    Games you didn't like, but you liked the idea of

    Doom 3. Setting, flashlight tension, weapons, monster adaptations, even the PDA-driven storyline were all stellar, and nobody makes Hell like ID. If only they hadn't kept the shooting style the same as in the earlier games, i.e., 'point in the general direction of monster, pull trigger'...