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How many of you value looks over functionality when it comes to characters? How many wear or use something that's not as good as it could be just because it looks better?

For the first time a thread was closed after close to 20 pages, which I read in its entirety, and I have no idea what caused the lock since I did not see much of the vitriol the mods mentioned. Then I remembered my ignore list is working.

As soon as a RPG setting gets its own novels the novelists will wreck it. Instead of working within the system they - often unimaginative hacks - will create "exceptional characters", breaking rules and flavor, and often the setting itself because they could not create an interesting character...

It's been some time since 4E came out, and I'd like to know from those who, like me, bought the three core books when they came out the first time, how many other new 4E books or other products they bought from WotC since then. Count subscriptions as one each for Dragon, Dungeon, and then the...

Shadowrun RP is a new site aimed at players and GMs looking for a storytelling PbP experience within a shared, common world.

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I didn't know there was a steam-powered airplane that flew, but I recently read an article about it: Steam-Powered Airplane Video Some steampunk ideas could be gotten from this.

This is an idea I had while commenting on Umbran's latest blog. This is a thread for those who play 3E or 4E (with their own house rules, of course) but want to implement something from the other edition, be it minions, healing surges, Bo9S moves, 3E spell system, cohorts, skill challenges...

(Cross posted from Blog) DMs are often faced with the question whether or not they should house rule something. That maybe be an entire subsystem like magic, or a rule, like grappling, or something a lot more specific, like the amount of skill points for a class, or the prequisites for a...

How involved are the players in your game? Do they show up to a session without having any recollection of what happened the last time, or what character they are playing? Do they write half the campaign's setting? Do they buy anything as long as it relates to their character, co-DM for some...

How many and how far reaching changes can PCs in your campaigns achieve? If you are using (semi-)official settings, how far can your PCs go? Is there a line they cannot cross, powers and beings they cannot topple, catastrophes they cannot cause (by accident or design)? Are there "fixers"...

Here are a few render pictures from our campaign chronicle. The campaign is set in the Forgotten Realms, but with a much stronger Sword&Sorcery touch to it, and less magic: An assassination attempt on a PC An assassination by a PC A Robbery getting interrupted A barbarian attacks a...

In the hope of getting a player to DM for a session or three, I am looking for combat-light adventures. It does not matter which edition, since they shouldn't have much combat in them and therefore would be easy to convert. So, what adventures are out there that do not have a lot of...

I cannot find the older electronic Dragon Issues compiled as PDFs. Does anyone have a link to where one can download them? The WotC website is rather unhelpful with finding anything.

I am looking for different characters (level 10+) built with the Tome of Battle: Book of the 9 Swords rules to use as NPCs. Are there any collections somewhere? If you have some, PC or NPC, please post it.

What kind of concepts, rules etc. are you converting from 4E to 3.X? I am pretty much set on using minions (basically: zero-hp, CR BAB, base saves) and I am looking into rituals as well - I've already been using "cleric rituals" for various spells like commune and such in my campaign, and might...

I really like the minions concept, and I am wondering how best to do it in 3.X. I thought about keeping the 1 hp, and just have the minions have BAB and base saves of the class they represent (Fighter/rogue), with racial modifers from stats if appropriate, and class abilities of level 1, with...

We're about to add Bo9S to our regular (if house rule-heavy) D&D 3.X campaign. The characters (level 16) will be converted, so can be rebuild from the ground up. Since all PCs are basically melee classes (Barbarian 13/rogue 3, Fighter/weaponmaster, Fighter/Blade Dancer/Cleric1), I don't expect...

The recent discussion about the upcoming changes to the Realms are a hot topic. I am wondering though how many DMs play the setting as it is, and how many change it, resulting in a Realms setting of their own. Did you follow every change in the novels and sourcebooks, or did your campaign take...

Flipping through my 3.0E first printing book, I noticed the "2000 survival kit" appendix, 16 pages with bare-bones DM info to tide the players over until the DMG 3.0E and the MM were released. It covered CL, experience awards, treasure, a few monsters, and a "do it yourself" dungeon. It was...