Recent content by Brother Laszlo

Fantasy: GEORGE R R MARTIN I cannot recommend his series strongly enough. I got hooked on Jordan before I got spoiled by Goodkind, and now Martin has spoiled me to Goodkind. Martin packs so much action, mystery, and emotion into each of his books my entire social circle is hooked on them, and...

My DM used tower shields to good effect when our 5-man party (stupidly) attacked a unit of thirty soldiers. They used tower shields, arrows and spears, and were really annoying. They weren't very high level, but their shields and cover made them very hard to hit when they swarmed us. The one...

Sigh. I recognized the useful tool that was the Immovable Rod, so I gave it to my party. The first thing they did with it was pawn it for a magic weapon. What became of subtlety? :)

I see your point, but I think that when a person or organization puts their cause over human life, they become lawful neutral. Every country's military will shoot their own citizens on sight if they wander into a military compound. That's because militaries are Lawful Neutral. They place...

Lawful assassins would almost have to be Lawful Neutral. They might obey a strict code that was set in place for the good of all, but in order to carry out their objectives, they must do evil things. Thus, their devotion is actually to the code, rather then to goodness. A lawful good...

You're asking for trouble if you use up your Stunning Attacks on big, beefy creatures in just the same way you waste Hold Person spells on Clerics. Their fort save makes them relatively useless in evening the score in duels with fighters, but they kick butt when your monk tumbles past the Big...

I have a Ranger/Barbarian in an African-themed game who used animal empathy to calm a giant ape that an enemy had been riding. He's not much of a mounted combat guy, but the image of this half-feral orc charging on the back of a giant gorilla is too cool. So weird mounts are definately cool.

Hehe! I made a Strength 20 Orc grappler for an OA game my group did. Basically if he got a pin on you, you were toast.

This is why I always avoid "scarring" the characters. The game should first and foremost be about fun, and if you "ruin" someone's character, its just not fun. I agree that a cursed character CAN be more fun than a new character, not because the new character is less powerful, but because...

I think that trying to nail down Great Ones with statistics defeats the whole flavor of the CoC setting. Great Ones should be so comepletely alien and unfathonable that they cannot be translated into statistics. Hit Points? How about 1.3 x 10^29873? How about fifty times that? As I think...

Sunny Southern California. Weather? What's that?

Here's something to think about: piracy has been around a long time, and publishers know how to deal with it: they factor it into their price. They manipulate the price, taking supply, demand, overhead, marketing, risk, whatever, and come out with a price that will most likely earn the most...

Well, a real attack dog wouldn't be a one-trick dog. Yeah, any shmoe can teach a dog to attack something, but to have a dog that's worth something in combat, you'd have something more like a highly trained police dog, that wouldn't get scared off by loud noises or get confused, or just start...

I agree that Assassins' guilds are probably subsets of Thief's guilds. The skills intersect. If you can slip into his house, you could just as well slit his throat as rob him. If you mean "globe-trotting bounty-hunter" types, that's different.

Piratecat that is the cutest damn picture I've ever seen in my life.