Recent content by Chupacabra

This is pretty much where I, the DM, was coming from. I thought that the pirates would not fight to the last man if there was a hope of escape. Bullies are sometimes the biggest cowards as well. Also, the big bad guy leaders knew that in a scant few more moments (less than 8 rounds or so) a...

Thanks for all the input on my post. For whatever its worth here is the exact scenario: There were actually 2 big bad guys and their band of minions. They had overtaken a strategically-important lighthouse for the purpose of extinguishing the light and messing up navigation in the area. When...

Ah ha, I never looked at CR-based XP that way. Heh, and I've been doing this for a L O N G time. Thats why I love this board. I always learn something new. :D

Award equally in both cases. Example one could have gone any which way depending on initiative order, attack rolls, saves, etc. Your critters could have easily gone first and threatened the entire roster of the party. Everyone was potentially at risk, so everyone shares in the reward. It'll...

After a two-session-long battle taking up about 7 hours total, my players caused the Big Bad Evil Guy to flee and bumped off a good deal of his minions. Now comes the XP awards. Obviously they get full XP for those minions who fell based on CR, and I know that you can get XP for "defeating"...

Take a survey of the players. Heck, let 'em reply secretly / anonomously (sp?) so that you get the real unvarnished truth. Find out what they like and stick to that, at least for a while. Wing it. Learn to wing it. Wing it but don't look like you are winging it. Its a skill that requires...

Welcome to Warhammer. Get ready to have some serious fun as a GM! Your players will NOT be strutting around after X level -- unafraid of the bad guys, unafraid of the critters, unafraid of the local townies/police/etc. They will always be a couple of bad rolls away from death and that leads...

Answer: Someone who can only fire once a round. Serious Anwer: Crossbowman or Arbalestier (but the latter technically only refers to a user of a particular type of crossbow: the Arbalest)

Although I spent (wasted?) countless hours of my life playing 1.0 & 2.0, I genuinely prefer 3.0/3.5. I like the crunchy bits of tactics and character creation and development. There is plenty of crud too in 3.X that I just house rule out of existance.

It just goes to show why Monkey Grip is such a crummy munchkin-esque feat. For what its worth our game group has house-ruled it out of existence. It's 100% fair game to sic a baddie using that same feat on the party. Just don't do it repeatedly. Otherwise whats good for the goose is good for...

I ran 3 or 4 sessions while one of our key players was on assignment in California. We had VOIP to let him hear the action and a web cam pointed at the the battlemat to show the position of the minis. One of our game laptops was configured so that we at the table could see what the player was...

Hextoricus Maximus! Hextor's church rules as a plot-device for DMs. Unlike most other evil churches in the pantheon, they operate quite openly. Also, the church seemingly isn't run by psychopaths or "cultists" (read: run by cliche boring stock NPC's). It's real easy for the party to stroll...

Everyone gets wiped out at level 6 - 8 and we have to start the campaign over. It has happened 2 times and almost happened a third time last game session. Everyone was level 6-7 and a bunch of folks failed their WILL and FORT saves vs. two sea hags and their death gaze. But if I had to...

Gotta dump the Wee little Jas. Glad to see my six-armed dude Hextor is running in last place!

I don't think the player is totally trying to min/max. He simply doesn't want to keep track of a familiar. He (and I too) always found it humorous in the other campaign that we are both players in the arcane caster seems to always forget that he has a familiar: Fighter: "Hey Wizard, where is...