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While I hear what you're saying, I would just say that, if you've ever played a Bab5 RPG, you'd recognize that there are many other stories in that setting that could be told. I actually hated the Crusade series, but as it turns out, my group played a B5 campaign that was very similar to that...

The game is ABSOLUTELY about your script-written scenes. You must assume the players are there to support your fledgling screenwriting career by allowing you to monolog every confrontation. Your plot advancements are paramount.

Here is a capture of today's email. The email message is in full-screen ( I use 1366x768 resolution), and each paragraph does not wrap where expected. I've indicated in red where the text continues off the screen to the right, and at the bottom is my horizontal scroll bar which indicates the...

For myself, I have always been getting Newsletter emails from ENWorld, and they are always welcome. However, the last few missives I have received have a formatting problem, in that the paragraph text does not wrap properly, and the graphics are pasted to the end of the paragraph instead of on...

The way I'm interpreting this is, on a failed skill check (let's say a social Underworld/Streetwise check to track a crime lord) the lead they are following suddenly bolts, forcing the PCs to give chase (leading to more physical or intelligence-based skill checks to catch up with him or head him...

Unless you and the player have discussed this as an option already, I would make sure I had his permission to proceed with a session like this; if it's not presented right it could seem like you are arbitrarily throwing a wrench into the usually smooth workings of raising the dead that the...

Do you mean this as a kind of expression of the character's journey back from the netherlands, after the cleric casts the Raise Dead spell? Or is this to be an actual challenge that may fail the revival if the PC fails the challenge itself?

In a Vampire (White Wolf) game I ran, good or funny roleplaying gained a player a "GM Boon" card, which either provided 1 extra die to the dice pool for one roll, or one extra action in a round without a standard Dice Pool penalty. In my Star Wars d6 game, the GM Boon card provides the rewarded...

Wow, excellent responses, and very informative. Thanks and I will take your advice about the build-search and about the Backgrounds (which I wasn't aware of).

Our group has been playing D&D 3.5 (among other RPG's) for many years, and our DM will soon be starting up a new D&D campaign using 5th Ed. (We never looked at 4th.) This will be our group's first attempt at 5e. My first idea was to play a Bard, but am considering now cross-classing with Monk...

When one or two party members enter the cockpit, the door locks them in and the cockpit ejects as an escape pod (all the other escape pods on the ship have already been ejected/used). Since the ship is in orbit around a planet, the cockpit pod immediately begins its descent. However, the...

In my Star Wars campaigns, somewhere and at some point, i would love to run a "Ship Dead In Space" scenario to recreate the situation in "Das Boot", dark and frozen and trapped in a dead ship that they have to make run again.

TildenThorne, it also seems to me, that you are seeing conflict or confusion where you don't really need to. From what you describe above, I don't interpret "AT WILL" to mean "INSTANTLY". The time involved to see spirits or converse with them in this supplemental rule doesn't seem to be...

But this raises an interesting point, Celebrim, did you have any synergy bonuses in mind with Diplomacy and Leadership? I would believe a high Leadership would grant a +2 synergy to Diplomacy, what do you think?

Well, no and no. Diplomacy is about Negotiation and Bargaining and working out compromise between two factional sides. Intimidate is about bullying and pushing around and being an Alpha among alpha wannabes. Leadership in my mind is about an entirely other set of effects and purposes...

Thanks, that is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. I will run that skill description past my DM and make any other tweaks that we need for our game.

Sure there's Charisma, but that's a flat bonus that doesn't increase from level to level. That's why I was hoping for a comparable skill that I could put skill points into at each level. I was hoping there was a standard skill that gave DCs for having your followers accomplish things better or...

Is there a Skill of Command or Leadership (not the Feat) in any of the 3.5 expansions or rulesets? I couldn't find any in the standard SRD and nothing shows up on Google search for a skill description. My current character concept is of a Battle leader that in later levels will be able to...

Here is where you have misled yourself. From what I read in the OP, you are teaching this other player the ins and outs about being a DM and building adventures and encounters. Ergo it was not a stupid idea to let him in on what you now believe to be an awesome idea. Your choice is simple...