Recent content by Thedip

It seems that, in this forum, if you make a post that people don't agree with you get a terse response and then ignored. I would have thought that with a role playing game people would be up for some debate, but it seems that people are so set on their own views they can't take any form of...

Fighters have always been a problem and given the number of examples in fantasy literature it seems rather strange. I have been playing DnD since before 1e and the job of the meat shield was to stop the monsters before they got to the wand and staff caddy wielding mages. The only benefit that...

The issue with having a lot of non-standard races is that they tend to become the standard and the more normal humans, elves and dwarves become the non-standard classes. I have DM'ed at conferences and games and saw lots of half this and half that, but few of the PHB races. Ask yourself, is it...

Just looking at the Gnoll it is far too powerful with no real disadvantages. Let's compare it against a human, You have +3 stat bonus in the stats that you want for a barbarian - a human gets 6 to stats that also include ones that will not fit in with desired class (+1 int, wis and char for a...

The problem, for me, with adding more and more non standard races is that people don't tend to "play" them - they just become a human (in this case with a dog face). One of the reasons that I stopped playing DnD around 3/3.5 was the plethora of new player race. It got to the position, I DM'ed a...

For me it is zero; I have a limited amount of spells that I can cast, other people to hit things, and so I tend to concentrate on areas that only I can do.

For anyone who is interested in how the murders were carried out in my example: 1: Ask yourself what creature can and is expected to get through a locked door (even today). 2: What would be the result of crossing that creature with a Wolverine (TM). 3: What would happen if a rather nasty...

There were no tracks of anything untoward in the houses and something had somehow got past all of the guards and wards of a high level wizard. A good ranger would have likely have found tracks of a creature who resides in the sewers. It is a low level adventure and so teleporting demons (that...

I ran an adventure for a low level party that fits the locked room scenario. There had/have been reports of a number of deaths in the local newspaper (The Daily Maille) of strange events in Sunport. One person, Councilor Beck, people had been found dead in his bed with his throat cut. His wife...

Rogues are one of my favorite classes and whilst I have the ability to choose to use a rapier, I often don't bother (even though it has the best damage). For my latest rogue, she will be using a shortbow and for melee she will have a couple of daggers or a shortsword. Not only that, it is...