Recent content by Shadrach_Storm

I have to agree with Morris. I would encourage you not to start the new player at a significantly lower level than the rest of the party (meaning not more than 2 levels lower). Starting the player 1 level lower seems like a common practice, and I don't see anything wrong with starting the player...

I've been contemplating an idea similar to Domino's Destiny stat, but more like destiny points (or bennies from Savage Worlds) rather than a stat. The number of destiny points a character gets would be 1 + the character's charisma modifier (with a minimum of zero destiny points if the character...

So, I'm in a 1.5 edition (yes, that's not a typo) campaign with a high-level party (I run a dual-classed 9/12 dualist/psionicist), and the party was screwing around wasting time in a bar. To get things going the DM has this really large minotaur teleport in to attack us, and I laugh and...

The Second World Sourcebook from http://www.second-world-simulations.com/ has a short section and "flowchart" for technology advances that you might want to look at. It discusses prerequisite advances for other advances as well as game results of advances.

I have only argued with a DM over XP in one campaign (2nd edition), where his house rules were dumping on me over and over again. In that campaign, characters generally only got XP for what they did. If one character made more successful proficiency checks or rolled more "20"'s or killed more...