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  1. That Darn DM

    D&D 1E 1e Play Report

    I use miniatures all the time, but I never go out of my way to buy those "booster packs" WOTC had brought out. I paint miniatures as a hobby, so I have plenty of the little buggers around my house. I got into Warhammer when I was taking a D&D break because I didn't want to try 3e and when I...
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    Multiverse spanning campaigns.

    Back in the day when I had cool friends, we played 2e quite a bit; especially Planescape. We did play through the Die Vecna Die! module which takes place in Ravenloft, Greyhawk, and Planescape. Planescape as a setting itself sends you all over the place and is filled with characters from a...
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    Running a Knighthood Campaign

    Perhaps an idea of the questing knight? The romantic figure of a knight roaming the countryside, instead of serving his lord directly, spreading his ideals about the land. War is always available, but that might railroad them further unless you give them command of something. Finally, you...
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    D&D 1E 1e Play Report

    Oh, I'm just speaking on why most people find that aspect for AD&D weak. I haven't come across a skill system I particularly liked in exception to Thousand Suns... maybe. Skill systems have always been strange to me. I think of a Roman warrior (brain-fart on the specific word for them). They...
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    D&D 1E 1e Play Report

    I'm not going to bother replying to the entire thread, though it is food for thought. Both sides have some good points and got me thinking on my own game. I've been running a 1e game for a while now with my little brother and his friends. These are kids that are more used to 3.5, Pathfinder...
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    Alignment

    The book merely expanded on good and evil. It was optional for the feats and what not, but the first chapter was almost an essay on the nature of good in the D&D world and better defines it than the PHB or DMG. It was just expanding on what good and evil are and what is expected of good...
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    Alignment

    From the book of Exalted Deeds (A 3.X core rule book on the nature of good). MERCY For good characters who devote their lives to hunting and exterminating the forces of evil, evil’s most seductive lure may be the abandonment of mercy. Mercy means giving quarter to enemies who surrender and...
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    Alignment

    *Snort* T-I-Double Guh-ER. Sorry had to do it. Interesting on the Alignment though.
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    Alignment

    Okay, first: The first D&D universe was Arneson's Blackmoore. That did not have clear cut good and evil. Read the City of the Gods. The second universe was Greyhawk, Gygax's creation a few months later. Gygax was infamous about ambiguous alignments, as seen in the Temple of Elemental Evil...
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    Alignment

    The troll, if it were looking for an easy meal, it would have taken a party member. He had to jump over the party to get to the larger number of orcs, instead of grabbing one of the party members from behind. Refusing to attack the closer, unsuspecting target shows signs that the troll could...
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    Need help; problem player

    Yeah, I was seeing it pretty bleak as well. There are some things that will be happening next game about it, but I was just seeing if I could find a nicey-nice alternative. Ah well.
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    Alignment

    Drow are Usually Evil, yet that have a god for good drow. That means there's enough in the world to keep a deity afloat. Zealousness isn't lawful or chaotic, it's just a descriptor of what. It's a devotion to an ideal. There's Zealous priests of demogorgan... granted they're insane, but they...
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    Need help; problem player

    Yeah, pretty much. He does disgusting amounts of damage too.
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    Alignment

    I was wrong. I looked up a bit of information and was incorrect. I got confused with a different incarnation of Tyr and the Redeemed Mindflayer bit was something from a really crappy, published book. Thinking on it, Tyr would most likely slay the creature and so would a Lawful Good Paladin...
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    D&D 4E 4E Leveling

    I really enjoyed the transference from Heroic to Paragon. It really felt special, like a task completed and maybe that was because the DM sprinkled it with a most excellent "escape from the underdark". I'm not sure if the actual level really felt different, but more along the lines of the...
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    Need help; problem player

    Alright, I'm in a game and I love it. It's my first time playing legend of the 5 rings, and after much trouble. I found the type of character I am most suited for with a bit of trial and error. I'm what my DM calls a "Tier 2 character" which means I'm not the best in combat, but I am a big...
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    help me build a juggernaut

    Does Legendary Dreadnought come with SR? If not, the DR should help. What you might want to try and look out for is the old Stone to Mud spells and what not. So, try and find some SR and definitely try to plan ahead for breathing and mind effects. Mages will mess you up with spells other...
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    Recommend me a classic module with a crypt or tomb

    Mud Sorcerer's Tomb. Dungeon 37 (2e) and 138 (3.5 conversion). Good module and one of the best crypts. Edit: Good luck with the game!
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    Alignment

    Just to add the already built upon discussion, which I agree the party did an evil act, that even if the Mage has a past with trolls, that is still evil. Killing a creature because of prejudices created from a rocky past with such a creature is bad. No spells for the cleric and serious...
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    D&D 4E noob 4E GM - module doesn't include all the maps. suggestions?

    You could always draw it out on graph paper and not use minis for those battles, like they did in the days of old. Otherwise, chessex battlemat sounds like something you might want to invest in, sir.
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