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I've never really looked at this forum before, so I apologize if my etiquette is off. I'm home from school and starting to go crazy. I don't even know where to find a game shop outisde Borders in the East Bay area. Being a university student, I've never really needed to make a quest of...

If a 'Cool Factor' was an official, distinct part of game balance, how would D&D change? I think assassin might have to be an Epic PrC...

What is the best free mapping program? Particularly for world maps.

Not quite sure where this goes... Does anyone know of or have rules for injury-infection, and such things as the results of being shot with feces-smeared arrows? I am planning on running some adventures on the Icewall from a Song of Ice and Fire, and need the amped nastiness. :D

So, I was in the dining hall with a couple of my players, when one asked a Knowledge question. Wishing the answer immediately, we came up with this system to roll the check... Bean 20 System: Gather 20 beans into a napkin. Flick the napkin so some number of beans fall out in front of you...

I think subtypes aren't important enough. Sure, Dragons and humanoids and animals are all important creature types, and help define how magic and skills affect them and are affected by them, but how about those more precise quantifiers, which speak to the very nature of a creature. Is it a...

With all this discussion of Mystic Theurges and bad class combos, I was wondering, for the sake of wondering, what people think of just summing up all caster levels? That is to say, a Wiz 10/Cleric 10 is caster level 20 for purposes of spell effects, spell penetration, dispelling, and so on...

If you came here with that thread title, you might know my problem. I've just read the first two books of the third Deryni series by Katherine Kurtz thinking it should be pretty decent, I've heard of this world and her work before. It was difficult to keep reading. Biggest problem is that ALL...

I don't have the splatbooks in front of me. Quick n' Dirty idea... Brawler Whether dockside thugs, wrestlers, or martial arts experts, the brawler is a tough customer to face with or without a weapon. HD: d12 Requirements: Improved Trip, Improved Grapple, Improved Unarmed Strike Attack...

Gather Info vs. Diplomacy... when trying to get information, which do you use when? I view gather info as a skill of casually hanging out in a bar, making chitchat, and coming away with knowledge people didn't realize they were giving away. Diplomacy/Intimidate, on the other hand, is between...

Just had an idea... One of the more expensive things you can do with precious metals is make it part of your wardrobe. With the new damage reduction, maybe monks will stop being so against wealth, and buy some nice cloth of holy silver gloves. And that dashing swashbuckler with his Cloth of...

Just playing around trying to get the right mix for my campaign... Thoughts? Desires to see the flavor text? Good Reflex Poor Fort & Will Good Defense (if used) Rogue Attack table. HD: d8. Requrements: BAB: +4 Feats: Weapon Focus*, Weapon Finesse*, & Expertise. Skills: Balance...

Just thinking that there aren't any conditions for physical pain... This is a quick first draft of the idea. I realize that combat is likely to cause aches and pains, even bad ones, but this is designed to present the notion of lingering, great pain to characters, instead of just taking off hit...

No Plot. No sub-plot. No Character Development. No climax. (Okay, there was a climax I think. its associated with a barely explained event and is the only mystery in the whole book.) Half the book was new/tertiary characters. It felt like *every* character Jordan had made needed to be...

Yeah... is there a way to get spaces/tabs to show up without something crazy like php?

I want to make spellduels in my game more interesting. As it stands, a spell duel is about each wizard absorbing fireballs and resisting enchantments. If the spell-lists in the game are pretty much restricted to the PHB, it might even be possible to fire off a counterspell. I want more...

I just read through the preview. Having only looked at previews and reviews for maybe four superhero games, I'm not nearly an authority. But this impressed me with its simplicity. It had me seriously considering trying to run a superhero game, which I have never done before (considered it)...

Should masterwork weapons and equipment be more common? Pro: They represent stuff of exceptional quality, so wouldn't anyone of any wealth contract out for the masterwork stuff? Con: If you suppose these are the great achievements of a lifetime in the crafting of items, well, of course its...

THEY HAVE COME!!! Whether you have adventured for minutes or decades, you are now faced with the otherworldly denizens and machinations of other planes intruding upon the mortal soil of your homeland. Where will you go? What can you do? From the dark corners of the world, demons are...

One of the themes to the day seems to be disappointment in themed issues of Dragon. I guess that upsets me, but I would first push that they add back the cut pages of dragonmirth. That was great stuff, when I first learned about the magazine I went into the backissues at the library and...