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I once did this to play a game of Immortal (if anyone remembers that not-so-succesful RPG). I was DMing it, and we pulled it off without an argument - we based it on the Vampire 5 dot system, because the dot value have really good descriptions. If anyone tried to claim Dex 5 (which if I remember is "juggle 5 knives blindfold" or something similar) we just asked the person to prove it. Lo and behold, most people ended up with average stats! One guy we had was in Mensa (UK organisation for geniuses) so he actually got an Int of 5. You can then just scale the five dot system up to D&D 3-18. We just scaled it to the Immortal stat system (can't actually remember mechanics now!)

The game was excellent fun. The characters got caught in a shoot out in a pub and discovered they were Immortal, and one of the characters ended up roleplaying post-traumatic stress disorder for 5 weeks, and loved it! I've never actually seen such good roleplaying from a buch of hack and slashers!

My advice, if you are all friends, go for it!

A few years ago, I bought the Dragon Magazine Archive CD-ROMs. Now, this product seems forgotten.

Would it possible for you to send me the computer source code for it so I could make some improvements to the program?

I'm an expert programmer and everybody who bought the product would doubtlessly appreciate it if I could get the source code and make some improvements.

I e-mailed Wizards and they responded: "Dragon magazine is not owned and operated by Wizards of the Coast. Paizo publishing now own Dragon magazine and dungeon magazine. They can be contacted at Paizopublishing.com."

Now, from what I heard, you'd be lucky! The reason as far as I am aware that the Dragon Archive is not supported by anyone is that when the CD was released, Wizards never renegotiated with individual authors to re-use their stuff! I believe that Wizards got in a lot of trouble for this, and quickly stopped selling the CD - I therefore doubt that they will hand over the source code!