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  1. Stormrunner

    D&D General What are your weirdest parties?

    Back in college, playing TFT, we had an all-Lizardfolk party - except for one halfling archer. We called ourselves MERC - the Meat-Eating Reptile Company.
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    [Player Help] Lizardfolk: Interesting builds and class ideas are welcome and encourage.

    From a roleplaying perspective, the common trope that lizardfolk ought to be emotionally Vulcan just because they're physically cold-blooded is kinda bogus. Consider that the "reptile brain" is the source of fear, rage, lust, and hunger, all powerful emotions. The case can be made that...
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    Level Up (A5E) Another New Lineage (Updated!)

    R.e. Centaurs: "human-like horse and head" should be "human-like torso and head" in the second paragraph. I second the idea of making their Move 35 for the small centaurs or 40 for the Large ones. Move of a draft/war horse is 40 and a riding horse is 50, and Wood Elves get a Move of 35, so this...
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    Joke Names you've never used...but want to.

    Queso RA, so RA, Whatever will be, sees He, The future is His to see, Queso RA, so RA
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    Ropes and Leather

    OK, the creepy little skin-lizards from the comic Digger would work perfectly as the kobold servants ... Digger by Ursula Vernon » Archive » Digger "We would have waited, yes. The little digger would sleep in time. Or fall down a hole." "Then we would remove the little digger's skin." "We...
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    Complete Dungeons of Dread Photo Gallery

    I picked up three boosters to see what the new set was like. Very mixed bag. On the bright side, the gnoll and the bugbear look MUCH better in person than in the gallery. The bugbear could do with some wash/highlighting, as could the orc. I also lucked into getting the red dragon in one of...
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    Dumbest questions of the year

    Transformers: Beast Wars ? :cool:
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    Custom Illustrations (warning dial uppers)

    Problem with a pyramid is, it's such a simple shape that it's really hard to tell just how big it is. A plain black pyramid sitting on some sand could be a few feet high up close, or a few miles high far away*... You need something else near the base of the pyramid to provide a size clue. Put...
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    The Throne Room

    Just make a Cloak of Greater Displacement part of the royal robes.
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    4 Map Styles

    The standard way to avoid the grey "halo" when filling anti-aliased lineart: First, make sure your resolution is high enough that your black lines are at least 3-4 pixels thick. Keep the black-and-white lineart on its own layer. Set that layer to "Multiply", this effectively makes all the...
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    Charging

    Charging, per se, does not provoke an AoO. Moving within the target's threat area does. So, if you charge, and the target has a longer reach than you (whether from having a reach weapon, or from natural size/long arms), they will get an AoO against you. But they would get that exact same AoO...
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    Gaming Aids for the DM that has everything

    Does he have the MacFarlane dragons? They're roughly Gargantuan-sized, very nicely detailed, and much cheaper ($15-20) than the WotC big dragons. I've been getting most of them as they come out, so now I have a unique dragon mini for any powerful dragon the party might face :)
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    The Proper Use of Nudity in FRPG Art

    Hey, some of us like the beefcake too. The nudity double standard for gender has always bugged me a little - succubi get big boobs with nipples, but a demon of lust or a handsome centaur stallion can't have balls? ;) I prefer the way Donna Barr handles her centaurs. They wear clothes on the...
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    What 'other' races have you played

    Lizardfolk - my first memorable character was a lizardwoman mage named Snakey. Centaurs - many, though I keep "reincarnating" Stormrunner through various editions and systems (D&D, GURPS, Hero, ...) Anthro-otters (replaced halflings/kender in many of our games) a minotaur a satyr a harpy bard an...
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    Who's getting the freebies from RPGNow?

    Looks like they're having some trouble, or maybe its just me - I've been able to purchase the sale freebies using the method above - but now that I have my list of purchased items, when I try to actually download one (or for that matter when I hit the one-click button on any of the regular free...
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    Who's getting the freebies from RPGNow?

    OK, I'm trying your system and it appears to be working. Yay! (happy centaur dance) On a completely different topic, what's the deal about Sinister Secret of Whiterock? I missed the free download, but a lot of people seem to have it on their recommended list. What is it that makes it so...
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    Who's getting the freebies from RPGNow?

    I'm still on dialup, and I really hate the fact that they are forcing the "one-click buy" on all the free items. It means you HAVE to download each item before you can buy the next one, and on dialup, that means it takes 1-2 hours to buy each item. As a result I was only able to buy 1 item...
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    My miniatures... - so far!

    Nice paintjobs! One standard trick for eyes: paint the eyes first. Allow the whites to slop over the eye socket, then paint the pupil as a vertical black line across the eye (generally easier to do than trying to precisely place a single black dot). Then, when you paint the skin tones, you...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 New to gaming - Should I wait for 4E or should buy the 3E Core Rules?

    Also (heresy, I know) don't necessarily focus totally on D&D. There are a LOT of game systems out there, in a lot of genres - fantasy, space, superheroes, cyberpunk, horror - and as a newbie you haven't sunk oodles of time, sweat, and money into any one system yet, so you're free to choose...
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    Minitures through the ages (but where is the pics? OK, they finally put them up)

    Y'know, I actually have some of those miniatures.... The wolf on the left, the first of the three orcs in the foreground of the Orcs Lair pic... Ah, nostalgia... The orc was nicely detailed, with individual teeth inside the mouth. I was quite proud (heck, I still am, considering I was what, 12...
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