Recent content by STARP_JVP

OK. Here's another one. Memorable character deaths. The most memorable character death that involved my character was probably the time my fighter/thief (2nd ed) died because she refused to go along with a geas spell to kidnap her friend. She didn't know it was a geas at first, but even after...

I find all this talk about 'maturity' interesting, as regards to sexuality in the game. I'm also intrigued by the number of people who say that sex isn't really mentioned, or even those people who said their game doesn't involve romance. In most, though admittedly not all, sexuality has...

I take the view that there is only one Tarrasque, anywhere in the multiverse. The fact that it pops up on many different worlds indicates that it shifts around. To that end, in a campaign I ran many years ago, a cabal of civic leaders and mages in the large metropolis performed a ritual to...

Is it just me, or is "Magic Shirt" an awesome name for a rock band? Mind you, people might confuse them with Magic Dirt...

Another player I used to know did some fairly dim things as well. Notably: * In a Vampire game, the group were on the tail of another vampire group who were devout Catholics in Paris. This player assumed that because of this, they 'obviously' hung out at Notre Dame cathedral. As the GM pointed...

The DMG says you can only make adamantine weapons out of weapons ordinarily made of metal. To me, this makes no sense. Why couldn't you have an adamantine quarterstaff? A quarterstaff is basically just a stick. You get the adamantine, hammer it into a six-foot long, two-inch wide cylinder, and...

I had to tell someone this story. We're playing a Lone Wolf campaign. There were four of us - a Sage of Lyris (me), a Summerland Knight, a Herbalish and a Kai Lord. At the end of the last adventure, we were stripped of most of our gear, including all weapons, and thrown into a 'maze' in which...

Well, if they aren't, then it would defeat the purpose of a spell point system because the number of spells per day would not be different enough to justify the system. If they are, then you need to be careful the game doesn't unbalance.

I totally agree about the "if everyone's an adult" thing. We tend down downplay sex and romance in our campaigns (by "we" I mean my group), but it is there. Everybody I know is open-minded enough to not freak out at an openly, or even subtly, gay character, or some kind of homosexual dalliance...

I'm just curious here; this was sparked by a conversation I had just recently. Without editorialising homosexuality itself, has anybody here had a gay or bisexual PC in their game, or a gay or bi NPC? I'm just curious to see how common it is. It's never actually happened in my game - not for any...

We had something similar happen in our group. Over time, most of the PCs and almost all the NPCs figured out the character was actually a woman, but nobody ever said anything. It became a running gag.

This is a rule I use in my campaigns. I like it and I think it not only works, but is logical. The way I see it, you don't start life as a Fighter or a Wizard. Everybody has a class, but when you're old enough to count as a classed individual, you don't just walk into one. There has to be a...

I'm doing what American TV does when it sees a popular British show - ripping it off and making it less good. To whit, this thread: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=157447 becomes this thread. And this thread is actually about clones. How do you use clones in your game? Do you even allow...

They wussified the spell. Now, the clone doesn't wake up until you die. Sucks donut.

Does anyone remember the good old days when a clone spell activated even if the subject was still alive and they both went crazy trying to kill one another? I miss that. :cool: