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I kind of feel bad for the DM. You described him as by the book, and then he gets stuck running one of the least by-the-book campaigns I've ever heard of. I'd be hard pressed to find the rules about containing entire planes within your corporeal body. ;) Have you considered changing systems to...

Just curious, do your players want to convert? Or are you spearheading the transition? While I think the multiple maneuver option posted above is an awesome mechanic, it certainly doesn't really couple with leveling up per se. If players are primarily interested in making cool choices while...

On the Westeros wiki, it says:

we're still technically playing 3.5, but just started adding elements of Pathfinder for an eventual conversion. We gave 4E a shot but it wasn't our cup of tea.

In our campaigns, when such spells existed, you couldn't just buy resurrection spells. You had to convince the priest that this was worth the time, and potentially the ire of his or her deity. I mean, the soul of your companion must be wrenched back from the afterlife at the behest of a higher...

When my brothers and I were young, we learned to play using the reissued basic D&D box set. Eventually we got more interseted and somehow got our hands on AD&D material without it being clear that there was a book called "The Players Handbook." For a long time, working through reverse...

You could just have preternaturally strong bones and tough muscular tissue. Where a normal person bludgeoned by a mace would get a broken bone, you'd wind up with only a large bruise. Of course this would lead to you having a lot of scars if you're ever slashed or stabbed. Or maybe your skin is...

4E isn't as popular as it could have been because it doesn't smell like D&D. I'm not sure if that's really the fault of the lack of setting, though the absence of a touchstone certainly could contribute to its sterility.

Its a tough call to compare the two. They're pretty close in CR, but CR is relative to parties, not between monsters. U is a better one on one fighter against the type of foes that Mostin regularly encounters. However SC is basically a good/alive creature grinder. Also spell-wise, U only lasts...

You need to find a way to immediately reward cooperation, rather than expecting them to have the foresight to know the dungeon will be getting harder. One way would be to let them duke it out, but introduce the idea of Karma (or the Obi-wan effect :-)). When a player's character dies, their...

Have you removed monster lore knowledge checks as a way of identifying a creature? It sounds like you're making this change as a way to defeat metagaming; it seems okay as long as you don't remove valid in-game ways of figuring things out.

Great attitude mate.

Don't forget of course that one of those kids created the others. :)

Isn't a rebellion against the divine being's will an instance of corruption? In a sense, the Nameless one corrupted the angels by showing them a way perpendicular to Oronthon's plan. More over, what space would be set aside in the mind of a nearly omnipotent being for the disobedient? If there...

It sounded like the archfiend rebuild added a significant racial adjustment to her stats, maybe on the order of +15. Also, she's wearing a headband of intellect +10. Int 18 + 5 inherent + 10 enhancement +8 class would give her 41 int. Looking at the other archfiends in the Fiendish codex, a +21...

I believe Sep said he rebuilt her using "reverse-engineered Archfiend stats," which lead to her using a quite beefy starting array. Come to think of it, she's probably the smartest devil in all of Hell.

Yeah, there's definitely a hole in the Alter Reality SDA. I think Sep's house ruled it to cost XP to prevent abuse. Otherwise, like you said, with the rules as written, it's almost irresponsible to give a god Alter Reality without intending them to have infinite power. Plus if they can create...

I believe Sep or Chiero mentioned this earlier in the thread. It's not an infinite loop of boosts, because even ignoring other sources of friction (such as spell development costs) you have to increase your INT 2 points for a 1 point increase in Spellcraft, and at a certain point you experience...

I think there's a "hole" in your world if criminals can just commit a crime in the largest metropolis and then hop into a portal and appear thousands of miles away with little consequence. Presumably even if they escaped through the portal, you'd think some sort of City Guard would try to...

It goes without saying, but: only if it's good dialog. One of my favorite techniques is Sepulchraves, where he's definitely not transcribing the players, rather writing the dialog the characters themselves would have said if you had a video camera inside the game world watching them. (Or at...