Recent content by Vaxalon

I'll be posting a demo of a game I'm working on to the evening slot.

By who? Why the hate for FR and BP?

I see this a lot; people who liked the old Planescape like Oathbound.

Yep. Even moreso. The Forge has the most successful results of experiments made on ten thousand worlds, each of them as varied and wild as the Forgotten Realms. So yeah. The Forge stands head and shoulders over other worlds in terms of weird monsters to encounter.

Duck back into the dungeon... the PC's know it, the ambushers might not. Find a good spot to counter-ambush THEM, or maneuver around behind them and escape.

If you want to maximize the damage you do in melee, your big mistake was taking the rogue class in the first place. You should really be seeing melee as your secondary role, here. Any sneak-attacking you do is gravy. Your primary thing is skills; be sure to take skills that fit the style of...

The DCRPG Yahoo group may be useful to you when looking for a group in the DC area.

To say the bubble burst implies that there was a bubble in the first place... Like, someone (besides WotC) was making money on the deal. Has it ever been wildly profitable? Ever?

Date and time have been decided; we will be having our game session at the Game Parlor in Chantilly, on Saturday, January 29, at 8pm. If you want to join up, you'll need to contact me (email, YahooIM, AIM) before the event to make a character. At present, we're in need of a rogue (or possibly...

I have to say, this may have figured prominently in the death of the NPC. Not only was she murderous, she was manipulative and nothing gets a player's hackles up like deprotagonization.

Sure it is. What's happening here is that the challenges aren't being described in specific terms. They are, indeed, encounters of one kind or another. Let's take the typical farmer. He's got a CR 1 challenge every month. Here's a list of what those challenges might be: 1> An infestation...

Venue change; Chantilly, VA The venue on this event has changed; we'll probably be playing at the Game Parlor in Chantilly.

Yeah, anyone who accepts that resurrection deserves the reward for their stupidity, but I wouldn't call it an alignment transgression.

You can build whatever magic system you need using Elements of Magic Revised. It's not skill-based in the sense of skill bonuses and suchlike, though that's an easy bit to add in.

Processing ore was often simply a matter of heating it up in a kiln. This works for copper, gold, silver, iron, tin, lead... any metal that doesn't have "-ium" in the name of the element is old enough that simple methods sufficed. Chemical processing of ores is a much more modern invention...