Recent content by DethStryke

With all due respect, I don't think you understood my original post and following replies - I was not the DM that ran them through the Marilith, nor was I the one that gave a (then) 9th level character a relic-level rod, etc. etc. All of this happened before me - it's the history associated with...

I'm up to the challenge of DMing them, but I was really of two minds on this question when I posted it and so I felt I should air it out and see if anyone had a particuarly clever idea on how to run with it. I'm not above "borrowing" a bit of offered brilliance. ;) We had stopped for the...

If I were the one who gave him the rod, I would agree with you in the absolute - If you read my initial post again, however, you'll see that I did not give him this rod at all. In fact, it was cooked up by a previous DM who was known to be... how should I say... heavy-handed in his rewards and...

Sounds like something out of the Art of War by Sun Tzu. Perhaps you're right. Polymorph can be perminant... :] "Familiarity breeds contempt... and children." -Samuel Clemens

Interesting view - I am inclined to agree as well. I would TOTALLY play really bad naughty-video-style music in the background whenever it was mentioned - bow-chica-wah-waow! I think for that kind of idea, that may be punishment enough! :)

The concept goes that no self-respecting dwarf would assume the shape of a hated enemy on general principal; it's a dwarven pride thing. I don't think this question would come up if it were any other dwarf - however, the description of the dwarven defender prestige class reads: "The dwarven...

The Situation - I'm running a mid-high level game (~13th right now) in which I inherited some interesting PCs from previous DMs - I'm not responsible for the builds or equipment of these. :) Three of the primary players (i.e. the ones that show up every week) are a Paladin of Heroneous, A...

Robert Jordan passed away today. That does not bode well for ever having a true ending to his Series. :( Rest In Peace, good sir. http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=90

This is the prime reason you have to design the game and the complete balance there-of with concepts like "no facing" a part of it from the start. Pulling it out otherwise always leaves a gaping balance wound of some sort, as you readily point out.

Star Wars SAGA is the example I would point out where I think this is going - Nothing has facing. Whether you are flat-footed determines where you can be sneak-attacked, not the direction where the attack is coming from. Additionally, no facing applying to the vehicles/spaceships ==(?) dragons...

I'd choose a complete, solid story from start to finish that only lasts just two seasons than a story that was injected with filler and stretched just to fill extra seasons. This covers any story-telling medium for me. I wouldn't want someone to make three films where one would suffice...

This is a nit-pick, but BSG is completing in the fourth (upcoming) season. It was not canceled as Firefly/Serenity was. That is to say, there will be story completion in line with what the writers, specifically Ron Moore, had wanted from the start. Whether they had originally wanted two more...

Set up the connection with the plug-in ethernet card first, then set up Wireless after you get it all working (obviously). I'm sure you got most of this, but I find it is easiest to go simple-stupid through all the points just as a checklist for missed bits. This saves the "whoops, that's...