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True - I think the dagger (or Oberyn Martell's spear tip) going through the armpit or behind the knee is what I meant. However, if it were sword vs sword, does either sword have a chance to slice through the plate itself, or does each combatant have to try to poke the other guy in the weak...

Thank you everybody. Good replies so far.

If fighting against a knight in full plate armor, what would be the best weapons? Can your standard "D&D" broad sword or long sword slice through plate armor? Or, is it like George Martin and how he describes an experienced swordsman like Bronn going for the joints in the plate, and that's his...

big change from the books, where the zombies were the slow, lumbering types you saw in Night of the Living Dead and its sequels or the somewhat faster lumbering zombies from The Walking Dead. This is more like 28 Days Later/I Am Legend... in fact, one of the scenes reminded me of 28 Weeks...

I don't think it's that hard. A group that knows how to work well together should be able to beat it. However, a group of strangers bringing their own builds into the local gaming store will have a more difficult time of it - heck, you could end up with a party of leaders, or a group of...

OK - I don't have access to my DDI today - what does a pixie music box do?

wow, great stuff. It makes me reconsider my idea for a diverse world with many different races. However, I do agree that D&D overall has too many humanoid/demi human races. Not to mention sub-races (how many sub-races of elf are there?)

Interesting - no interest in four of the more popular races? How did that come about?

Thanks for the input. When I DM, though, I'm the type that says, "I have a world that's somewhat like earth in terms of climate & geography. What type of adventure do you want - traditional Medieval, desert, ocean-going/aquatic, arctic, Asian/Oriental, jungle,..." So, unless I started with...

steel - I'd XP you again if I could. Great work, great ideas.

Didn't the Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian monarchy with a very small number of actual soldiers? but, good point on the barbarian hordes against the professional military, but didn't Rome at the end rely more on mercenaries than citizen-soldiers like it had at its height?

good ideas so far everybody. Thanks for the input so far!

Thanks - good ideas. I think I can modify the orc and/or hobgoblin backstory enough that a kingdom is possible: females stay behind & farm/fish while the males hunt/gather and also make war. Or, maybe only an elite group of the biggest/strongest are part of the armies, while the remainder take...

Some good ideas, but I'm not into that much detail yet. I can easily see the traditionally lawful-evil hobgoblins as having developed into a major race with a large population - the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting has two decently sized hobgoblin kingdoms. Given some time on their own, the crafty...

I was thinking about world creation today and wanted something to echo medieval earth, only instead of all humans, it would be a mix of humans and fantasy races - elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, halflings, etc. The climate & overall topography would be somewhat similar to earth. In...