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Geek? Maybe.  Nerd? Most likely.  Still, just out of curiousity does anyone on these boards have even the remotest interest in this wonderful RPG?

I started playing D&D back in the dark ages when it was still owned by TSR in Madison, Wisconsin. When Wizards of the Coast brought out AD&D I moved to that. I've played many characters, both male and female, and DMed many times. I was sad when Gary Gygax passed on.

That was a sad day indeed.  I've played a few times with the person who introduced me to the game, however after that point everyone has always wanted me to DM.  I'm so BORED of DMing I want to PLAY! Never do I get the chance however

You need to find someone to take turns with. Each run your own campaign.

Hey that could be harder than it sounds. Especially since I just moved to an entirely new city where I know NO ONE!  My only friend doesn't want to DM, and the sessions he had with a new DM were unfortunately on Saturdays which I work *sigh*

I love storytelling and being creative and D&D is a way I can do that and provide my friends some enjoyment.

I like the GURPS system more, or at least the idea behind it. Classes make my skin crawl...

I still want to play, but the group I played with is gone. There are a couple groups in the area but my situation at the moments prevents me from getting to them. I think I do like GURPS better, but I have little experience with it, and am horrible at designing stuff for it. I think I just need experience playing it, but it's pretty much impossible for me to find a group that plays it.

I haven't played in years.  I miss some of the characters I created.  My favorite was Singen Norgard.

Janet

D&D... hecks yeah...

Anyway we could do this on Susans?

Take over or set up a chat channel with voice?

I'm the ->-bleeped-<- dwarf sportin a battleax.

For battle come to me B!t@h$S!!!!

Michgar'

Doing it here would be awesome!  Sadly though I don't have a mic.  What exactly is GURPS? Classes don't bother me at all, though you were originally quite limited in your choices of how you wanted your character to be once you chose a class in 3.5 ed. You COULD technically be however you wanted, but not if you wished to "power play" and have your character based on game stats instead of as a RPG type thing.  4th Edition has fixed that however.  Granted 4th edition rules tend to be more combat oriented  more than anything, however I rarely use die to determine anything that happens in a character to NPC conversation anyway... to me THAT is all about how you role play... house rules I suppose

"Dungeons and Dragons" by Tactical Studies Rules, and "Chainmail" by Guidon Games.

Ah yes. And "Empire of the Petal Throne" (if you can get a copy of that, DO SO!)

OK, showing my age.

You know, every male character I played always ended up getting a "girdle of sex change"? I never could see why that was supposed to be a cursed item.

Now I can. The thought of a de-transition.... *shiver*.

I only ever played 1 male character oddly enough. Lucian of Blackmoor A.K.A. Luscious Lucian. Elven Fighter.

I've played D&D since "AD&D" was new.
I had a weekly game with friends, an eeeevil DM and a couple of "hamstergnomes" (two short boys who always overcompensated in character creations and would always have truly munchkin'd characters), and a couple of "goths".
My favorite, of all time, characters was a female, human, druid.
She was underpowered, useless in combat, and suffered permanent PMS.
She also had rubbish luck and ended up loosing ALL her gear through "freak" events all of three times... and by ALL I do mean her robes too. Naked Druid!

She was a favorite cause I had to actually think, and take on a "different" role to play her. That and she seemed to stumble around and still survived a trip to the abyss!

Has anyone ever noticed that once you offer to DM once, you're officially the DM until the end of times?

Also, I'm a big proponent of 3rd edition, especially 3.5, and since moving away from my hometown the only people who'll play are complete n00bs.  I decided to use 4th edition because it's so simple a child could use it to ease them into the rules, and we have played 3rd before, and they actually prefer World of Warcraft the pen and paper edition.  Kids these days.

After Lucian, I moved on to my female characters for DnD.  I did have one more male character for as an NPC for a game I ran for my wife... that went no where as it got stalled when she couldn't choose who she loved more, between the two characters in her group. My Characters include:

Shen Raven; Female, Half-Elven, Multiclass Fighter/Sorcerer, Werewolf.

Adrian Nailo (First incarnation); Half-elven, Rogue

Adrian Nailo (Second Incarnation); Elven, rogue

Kat;  Human, Rogue

Seres Victoria; Elven, Fighter

Eric of Greyhawk; Human Wizard

Reverence (Princess Fiora); Tiefling, Warlock

Adrianna Nailo (Final incarnation); Elven, Ranger (Currently at risk of becoming a werewolf, might also be bitten my a vampire.... wonder what'll happen there)

Number 9; Elven, Druid.  Currently not in use, waiting for my wife to DM.  This character has no name currently... no gear either... naked druid lol

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Quote from: Jester on May 18, 2009, 10:33:05 AM
Has anyone ever noticed that once you offer to DM once, you're officially the DM until the end of times?

Also, I'm a big proponent of 3rd edition, especially 3.5, and since moving away from my hometown the only people who'll play are complete n00bs.  I decided to use 4th edition because it's so simple a child could use it to ease them into the rules, and we have played 3rd before, and they actually prefer World of Warcraft the pen and paper edition.  Kids these days.

Prefer WoW? My god that's horrible... WoW is fun online... on private servers that I don't have to pay for... but DnD all the way.  4th edition is generally kick ass because it doesn't really matter what class you are you still have so many customization options.  My final incarnation of Adrian is a ranger for the purpose of dual wielding, however she's still a thief! I hate being the DM till the end of time... but I always get told my campaigns are the best and no one would compare *sigh*

I call 4th edition the World of Warcraft edition because the rules are all simplified and streamlined to appeal to WoW players' short attention spans.  Also, all the art from the core books for 4e look just like the concept art for WoW.  I hate how races don't have shortcomings anymore, but like how classes get to customize but the loss of skill points is depressing.  4e makes DMing go into automode they made making encounters so easy.  I dunno, I prefer 3rd edition because you get more intimately involved with the characters you create.

4th edition was released WITHOUT DRUIDS! so in my book, the 4th edition core books are blasphemous horrors!
It's part of why I'm happy to DM.. I can go "NO DRAGONIC DUDES AND NO TIEFLING CHARACTERS!"

Quote from: Miniar on May 18, 2009, 02:50:12 PM
4th edition was released WITHOUT DRUIDS! so in my book, the 4th edition core books are blasphemous horrors!
It's part of why I'm happy to DM.. I can go "NO DRAGONIC DUDES AND NO TIEFLING CHARACTERS!"

Druids are out now, and they are more kick assy than ever!  They brought the bard back too sadly.  Although I agree Dragonborn are F'n weird excuses to be slightly dragon like, I don't agree with not allowing tieflings... they're cool!  Well with some slight modifications.. click on the world under my avatar to see my tiefling.. as well as some other things I drew

The last characters I ran were a brother and sister. Aethelredd the Almost-Ready and Fallimae the Fair. Aethelredd was a Paladin who became a hero, got married, was martyred, had a shrine built to him, and then came back from the dead. FAllimae, his younger sister, was a cleric, was not satisfied with being a subservient female, went adventuring, took over a city, and became an oil tycoon.

I'm one of those lifetime dnd players that started in the dark ages of basic dnd.

I've yet to play 4th ed. My group seems to be happy with 3.5, we have only played it for a couple of years. I never used to like dming but then it kind of just grew on me and I really enjoy it. I probably dm a year on year off kind of thing. My campaigns usually wrap up within a year.

My main group also regularly plays rolemaster (classic rules mainly - 2ed?, not standard system) spacemaster (again not standard system). I also had a second little group where we played vampire the masqurade by white wolf. I've dabled in other stuff too.

Recently we got a couple new players that played a lot of games like Neverwinter nights on the pc. They have quite a different mindset coming from the computer games. I find it a bit strange. Maybe I'm becoming a dinosaur.

I'm currently planning a new campaign, I'm not sure if I will use d20 modern or spacemaster yet. I think spacemaster would be good for a break from d20, but I might do a kind of call of cathullu themed horror game, set in the near future post apocalyptic modern world.

It is interesting how rolemaster is known as a game that requires a lot of book keepin. In practise I think it is a much more elegant and leaner system than dnd. Though like dnd you can add a lot of extra fluff.

I've only had the chance to play a few times, but I love it.  I also enjoy painting the D&D miniatures.  Here are a few early ones I did.  Probably wouldn't get me great props on CoolMiniOrNot.com, but I have fun with it.  ;D

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I've been playing this game since I was 9, and I've read several novels based on the game, from the DragonLance novels to the Forgotten Realms novels, and even a few of the Greyhawk novels.  It's a game, nothing more, like any other game or hobby, it's only as good or bad as the people playing it.

*pout* My Gnomish Bard gets No love.. None!
Why won't you love my depressed gnomish bard?
He's got great roleplay value and is a wonderful comic relief!

Quote from: Miniar on May 19, 2009, 08:59:49 AM
*pout* My Gnomish Bard gets No love.. None!
Why won't you love my depressed gnomish bard?
He's got great roleplay value and is a wonderful comic relief!

Awww don't worry I'll love your gnomish bard.... sorry for downtrodding the bard... just anyone who has ever played one in any of my games has been a complete and utter RETARD!  However, there was this one guy once, who played an Half-Orcish Bard who's instrument was orcish war drums.... yea he was cool...

See! there are some Brilliant bard players out there. Though most people aren't up to handle such complex characters ;)

I played a human, neutral evil, bard in an old old game.
He played the gong. And all his musical effects were adjusted with house rules. So instead of "inspire courage" they would "demoralize".
And so he'd walk around going:
*Gooooong*... "we're all gonna die".... *goooong*... "your parents don't love you"... *gooong*... "your partner cheats on you while you're out in battle"... *goooong*... "with your elderly father"...
and so on..
He tried to kill himself by going before the Lich king and playing his demoralizing music..
The lich king clapped his hands and went "I LOVE THIS GUY!" and made him undead so he can't die..

obviously that made him more depressed.

Truly D&D characters can become such wonderful works of art.

I had a drow character who, of course, was raised to be evil, but was experimenting with a good lifestyle.  ;) Unfortunately, the group I was playing with disbanded before I had a chance to take this character very far.

My friend decided to play a Drow in one of my campaigns... Sucked for him though because it started in a desert wasteland!  Why does that suck? Well not your normal sand desert, it was a frozen and snow one!  So the entire group is trying to hide in the snow and there's the Drow a human sized black speck on teh landscape bumbling around since he has been blinded by the sun!

Quote from: Nicky on May 18, 2009, 10:17:56 PM
I'm one of those lifetime dnd players that started in the dark ages of basic dnd.

Actually, I started with basic D&D, even though 3.5 was out at the time. I didn't know there was another newer than AD&D actually. I found that we had the old red book with the expert book in the basement and I started with that.

Quote from: ZoeB on May 18, 2009, 07:42:06 AM
You know, every male character I played always ended up getting a "girdle of sex change"? I never could see why that was supposed to be a cursed item.

When I was nineteen and before I knew that transition was even remotely possible, I used to dream of finding this magic item...instead, I stumbled across a ring of three wishes. Never could understand why my compatriots were SO pissed that I, a relative newbie, found that item.

Guess we had different priorities.

So, I've got the pot smoking DM's dilemma- I need to write a new campaign.

4e.  No variant rules except for I've got this thing where if I think the 4e rule is stupid I fall back on 3.5.  I think I'm just gonna like... take Arthurian literature and mix it with Baldur's Gate.

Anyways, mostly I'm posting to say the best thing about 4e is the removal of those godawful gnomes as a playable race (God I hate gnomes,) and then they go and re-integrate them with the Forgotten Realms core book and the PHB2.

*sigh* Gnomes.  Nature's mistake.  Except they don't exist.

Gnomes are always either evil, or deranged sexual predators in any of my campaigns.... I hate Gnomes 

I love playing gnomes :P

Gah, you just like pissing DMs off don't you? LOL Kidding of course!  Onetime, before I made all my Gnomes evil... actually I made them evil because of this.  Anyway, onetime one of my players was playing a Sorcerer  (same game as the Drow), at a tavern in the only city for miles around he asked the Gnome waiter for Chicken.  My friend loves chicken...  due to the fact that it was a frozen wasteland, they had no chicken.  The poor Gnome told the sorcerer this, apologized and offered something he believed would taste the same.  Then, the unexpected happened...
"No chicken?! I'm going to hit him over the head with my staff"
"Well your a sorcerer, so I guess that won't do too much damage.  Alright if your sure, roll!" The sound of a rolling D20 followed.
"20"
"With bonuses right? Let me see that! My god.... alright roll again, everyone... lets pray for the Gnomes safety." Once again the die rolls.
"20"
"Your fu-kin kidding me... roll again!  Dear lord... I'm so sorry Nobby."
"20, that's an instant kill isn't it?"
Deep sigh "Your staff comes down upon the poor gnomes head with a deafening crunch, the gnome, who had been no taller than 3ft, was now less than 1! His limp body slumps to the floor as everyone in the tavern, including your party stare at you in disbelief."
"No, chicken."

He's been hunted by Gnomes in every game since
   

Hahaha I'm loving your narration.

Poor Nobby, lol

My old DM had "evil DM's Syndrome" meaning that the night's game wasn't complete 'till he'd chuckled and went "sucks to be you".

I've had a few DMs do that to my party.  The limited times I actually got to play.  However they didn't have the last laugh, as I always found unexpected ways out of the issue. One time they or rather my SO threw a dragon at our party.  Our party being level 1 had no chance to survive so she was expecting us to run.  The dragon was at least an Adult. I ended up talking my way out of the situation, with the proper amount of groveling and I think a party member sacrifice, but no one liked him anyway.

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P.S. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in playing D&D over MSN or something like that.  Could be fun.  I know typing takes awhile but anyone who had a mic could feel free to use it!

Quote from: michellesofl on May 18, 2009, 02:08:08 AM
D&D... hecks yeah...

Anyway we could do this on Susans?

Take over or set up a chat channel with voice?

I'm the ->-bleeped-<- dwarf sportin a battleax.

For battle come to me B!t@h$S!!!!

Michgar'

First time I've ever quoted myself.

Yes LOL, I did read that post. Just there was no actual reply to it so I was kinda reiterating it myself.

Quote from: Adrianna on May 23, 2009, 06:39:00 PM

P.S. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in playing D&D over MSN or something like that.  Could be fun.  I know typing takes awhile but anyone who had a mic could feel free to use it!

sounds great, who is going to dm it?

who ever it is something you might need

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I don't know who would be dming, though I love the idea of the clue bat.  If I get enough players and no one volunteers I suppose I could DM....

glad you like the bat, I could of done with one when I was DM'ing, I found it and a load of others on a site a few months ago.

I couldn't find any naked druids (female or otherwise), but I did find this.

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Use to play table top.  I still would, but myself & the only other person who seems to still be interested can never get a group together anymore.  I don't think I'd play over MSN.  I don't use instant messengers.  They turn 30 second conversations into 30 minute conversations.  So does texting.  It's also generally pretty impersonal to me.

Quote from: brittanyfear on May 28, 2009, 12:16:17 PM
Use to play table top.  I still would, but myself & the only other person who seems to still be interested can never get a group together anymore.  I don't think I'd play over MSN.  I don't use instant messengers.  They turn 30 second conversations into 30 minute conversations.  So does texting.  It's also generally pretty impersonal to me.

I was wondering how it was going to be run, how for example does the DM plain to solve the character sheet problem?, do we bring our own?, which raises the question of cheating, someone could claim their stats are higher then they are, which could be a problem if you repeat what this kid did at this DnD group I was a member of 20 years ago. He wanted to join the adventure, the DM asked him to role up a character, so he did (4D6 drop the lowest) 18 every stat, we watched in disbelive. He must of used up his luck quota becouse "the dice were against him" didn't turn out to any other meetings after that.

The 30 minute conversation can be solved, we just need some kind of audio link, then we can "chat away" whilst typing.

we can use an online dice rolling tool and a word-based character sheet and send a copy of each char. sheet to the DM for "approval"

I doubt I can play cause of the timezone differences (unless I get kicked out of Iceland.. which solves that)

I rolled up a character with all 18s once before as well.  Anyway stat issues can be solved by using the standard array for all characters.  Another way would be to use the trail version of the character creator provided on the Dungeons and Dragons web site, for the initial write up.  Then you just send the DM the character file and he or she loads it on their computer which then tells them if the character is legal.  I agree a voice link would most likely be mandatory. Online dice roller would solve the die problem as Miniar said.

Would be an excellent way to hold voice school as well. :D

My characters never have 18s.. but they rock none the less, from a roleplay perspective..

when I DM I give "excellent roleplay xp boost" at the end of a play night to those that portraied their characters excellently...

Quote from: Miniar on May 29, 2009, 06:44:51 AM
My characters never have 18s.. but they rock none the less, from a roleplay perspective..

when I DM I give "excellent roleplay xp boost" at the end of a play night to those that portraied their characters excellently...

That's the way to go ^^

Quote from: Miniar on May 28, 2009, 03:09:58 PM

I doubt I can play cause of the timezone differences (unless I get kicked out of Iceland.. which solves that)

You've got the same problem as I have, the time difference, only I'm in the UK which is something like 4-10 hours in front of the US. If I didn't have my kid brother staying at my place it wouldn't be too much of a problem, he's usually up all night downloading torrents. This slows my conection right down!

The second problem I'll have is my stammer; you won't want to listen me stammering all night, unless you have a play by e-mail, but I've a strong suspicion that will kill the game dead, (to much agro for the person running it, the players will need to communicate with each other to see what their characters are doing before they email what their character are doing).

*bangs head against wall* I just agreed to let a person who's played DnD twice, and who is very creatively... opposite of me help DM.  I did it because I appreciate his enthusiasm and he caught me off guard.  But *sighs* I've failed at keeping control of my game.  How do I deal with this awful, awful situation?

If you let him continue "Your" story line on his own, then the next time you DM, think of an explanation to inform your players why his section never happened.  Time Paradox? Dreamscape?  There's lots of wonderfully creative ways to pull the game back where you want it without completely denying his style of play.  Your best bet is, to start off continuing along his style and slowly moving everything in the proper direction IN game, so he doesn't feel like a boob, and your players aren't dissatisfied with you just saying "Ok so... that never happened, back to where we were." If however, he was DMing something completely different, then it's easy just to keep your two games as two different universes entirely

Most of my D&D experience has been online, using AIM for it. AIM has a built-in dice roller, though Y!M does have built in voice chat. I personally prefer to only use the voice chat for OOC chatter, though, cause it makes things easier when you can scroll up to double check what was said in regards to the game itself.


There's also some handy programs out there to make online playing easier. I forget the name of the program, but I can ask my roommate about it. There's this one that lets the DM create a map for the players to see, which the DM can reveal as s/he wants to. It also lets each player make custom dice rolling macros for different checks and whatnot to make it quick and easier.

As for the issue of character sheets, we always had the stat rolling done in an AIM chatroom (though that program I mentioned also works for it) with the DM present to see the stats rolled. We also used .doc templates made by the DM (I still have the template, it's very well put together) for character sheets and sent a copy to the DM so s/he'd have it to look at to make sure we're using the right stats and whatnot. It's also pretty detailed so he can be sure we're not cheating.

I really *really* miss playing D&D. ; ;

I do know the program your talking about,  or one similar.  However, I never was able to get the mapping to work just right :( it's also on my old computer so I know longer have it, or the name. 

My roommate says the program is Gametable. He got it working, though we didn't use it much. The game didn't last long cause one of the players had to be forcibly removed from my life. >.>

Couldn't we always just form our own WoW guild. I've never played, but that could be easier than piecing together a D&D system.

Quote from: michellesofl on June 11, 2009, 06:12:19 PM
Couldn't we always just form our own WoW guild. I've never played, but that could be easier than piecing together a D&D system.

That is so exceptionally not the same.
(=
Tis fair game to do both..

NO! NO wow!.. NEVER AGAIN!..
*cringes in horror and goes away to cry in a corner*

Hey, I didn't mean to start a holy war here.

If you really want to try to combine D&D with MMO, go for DDO. It's really not too bad, though...it really house rules a lot of stuff.

What edition of D&D do ya'll like anyway? I'm most fond of v3.5 myself.

Played DDO, thing is I don't like paying for things.  I only play WOW since there are private servers.

I love 4th Edition since the combat is a lot more streamlined, the classes are more rounded, and the customization is less limited.  Still I house rule 3.5 stuff a lot when it comes to "skill challenges" as well as general role playing when needed.  So what I generally play is somewhat of a hybrid.

Right now I'm playing with my SO and she hates all the rules, so it's really more of an interactive story/roleplay as there is no die rolls or anything.... it's fun in it's own way but obviously would never work with multiple people.

I've actually done completely "rule-less" roleplaying with friends online that involved 3-5 people and worked well, but I've also seen some of it go really sour in things like Furcadia.

I've yet to try 4e. I wouldn't mind giving it a try, though I'm a bit hesitant because a lot of the changes don't sit real well with me. I don't mind the step away from Vancian magic (cast and forget), but I hate how they nerfed critical hits and whatnot.

The main v3.5 game I ever run is a custom setting of my own, which has custom mage classes in place of the wiz/sorc/druid/cleric classes and also steps away from Vancian magic. I do prefer to be a player rather than a DM, though. ^_^; My roommate was running a v3.5 Dark Sun game for me, a friend, and my [ex-]boyfriend, but that stopped when I dumped him. ; ;

Crits are actually easier to obtain with 4E. Before you would have to roll a natural 20 (or your threat range) then roll again, and your second roll would need to be high enough to hit, then you would roll a third time (if you got another Natural 20) and if that was high enough to hit it was an instant kill.

In 4th, as soon as you roll a natural 20 (or your threat) if you total after modifiers are enough to hit, then it's automatically a crit.  Of course the lack of double damage (ie. Crit means Maximum possible damage not double damage) sucks on the players part, it also helps the player as that means Monsters can't do double damage to you either.  Also if your total damage is more than half an enemy's total HP, the enemy has to make an endurance check equal or greater than your damage, otherwise they die automatically.

Furthermore, healing surges help so MUCH!

Crits aren't supposed to be *easy* to obtain. They're supposed to be very powerful hits.

And some weapons do crit easier in 3e/v3.5...rapiers crit on an 18-20. Most swords crit on 19-20.

Not to mention the weapons that, though they only crit on a natural 20 (without keen or improved crit, anyway), they do even heavier damage like Gaxes doing x3 or Scythes doing x4.

3e/v3.5 do crits a helluva lot better than 4e does. So what if the players have a bit easier time getting killed. That's part of the game. I don't want my game to be on "easy" mode. =\

Well once again, that's the wonder of DMing. The rules are more like... guidelines than actual rules!  Unless your playing at the RPGA whatever the DM says goes. So like I said before, I prefer playing a 3.5 4e hybrid

I don't suppose that there are any fans of the GURPS system here ? Or for that matter anything but D&D ? I don't mind DnD mind you, but I can't help but think there is something better for how I like to play out there. Easily introduce crosscampaign elements -- be they psionic powers or high technology in a fantasy campaign or magic in a high technology space setting for instance. -- with GURPS, such things can be done with ease and are basically expected. But, is there anything else?

As for how to 'do it', I think IM has worked "ok" so far but I am inclined to say that it is far from optimal. Perhaps a forum setting would work, but I do not know. (The Forum RPs I have been a part of have been very free form and basically rule-less, fwiw.)

Me and hubby are currently in love with the Burning Wheel system.

I presonally have no clue about the GURPS system. I've previously played Robotech the RPG.  Mostly though just DnD as that seems to be all anyone I know is interested, due to a shift in work hours I missed out playing a Star Wars RPG back in Orillia :(

Quote from: Kimberly on June 14, 2009, 02:14:06 AM
I don't suppose that there are any fans of the GURPS system here ? Or for that matter anything but D&D ? I don't mind DnD mind you, but I can't help but think there is something better for how I like to play out there. Easily introduce crosscampaign elements -- be they psionic powers or high technology in a fantasy campaign or magic in a high technology space setting for instance. -- with GURPS, such things can be done with ease and are basically expected. But, is there anything else?

As for how to 'do it', I think IM has worked "ok" so far but I am inclined to say that it is far from optimal. Perhaps a forum setting would work, but I do not know. (The Forum RPs I have been a part of have been very free form and basically rule-less, fwiw.)

The thing about D&D is that the system itself is the d20 system and there's things like d20 Modern for easily adding in things that are not purely fantasy or default "D&D" even in D&D settings. Also Star Wars D20 and a few others, plus just the general adaptability of d20 rules. D&D also has Psionic Powers (an entire book devoted to it in v3.5, the Expanded Psionics Handbook, which I have somewhere~). I love my Thri-Kreen Psychic Warrior in the Dark Sun game my roommate was running.

I thought GURPs used d20 rules also, but I don't remember. I'm not very familiar with GURPs myself, but my roommate is.

There's also White Wolf's setting and d10 system, but I'm very unfamiliar with it (though I'm helping my roommate set up a Vampire: The Masquerade game with some friends of ours).

http://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html (http://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html)  Before DMing for anyone from now on, I think i should make them read this first lol