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Can anyone explain to me the allure of playing a lame duck PC? By this I don't mean choosing some less optimal choices but actually not being good at what your class it supposed to be good at. For example we are starting a new campaign and the lame duck character concept is a high strength...

I am running a modified Hoard of the Dragon Queen game. I invited an old friend to join the game and he asked if his daughter and ex wife could join. I said yes even though I was a little worried about DMing for seven players. We played three sessions with the ex wife joining us for the third...

I am getting ready to run Hoard of the Dragon Queen and I have a question about the Realms. Is the Realms in it the 4E Realms or did they go back to another version? Or have the moved the timeline up again? I have no experience with the 4E realms and limited with anything after 2E. I know my...

http://failforward.co.uk/post/93348768153/how-dungeons-and-dragons-is-endorsing-the-darkest-parts I was saw this on another page and read some of the comments and many felt that it would stop them from buying the game others felt that it was an over reaction and that it was not fair to say...

The allegations coming out from Marion Zimmer Bradly's children of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their mother has made me think about this. I am fan of her work though I didn't like her personally I had met her and she rubbed me the wrong way. But I was able to separate that from her...

I am curious about how other DMs handle allowing players to change out characters? In the game I am playing in the DM decided to switch mid game from 3E DnD to Hero system. While I support the switch I did not like how the conversion changed my character. I want to make another character and...

I have not played a lot of Hero system and when I did it was back in the days of Champion. I have played a few sessions of Fantasy Hero back in 2002. My DM has a lot of experience with Hero, and Ad&D as a DM he has only DMed one 3E game before. He is struggling with it and feels that hero would...

I am curious on how different DMs handle and use the gods in their games. Can you kill them, do they play a major part in your world? Do you just hand wave them away except for letting the cleric have access to divine magic? Do your good temples all get along is the only strife if there is any...

I am been looking at different systems to replace DnD as my system for my home brew. I started researching Harn, Savage Worlds and fantasy Hero. Some one in passing mentioned Dragon Age can anyone give me a basic idea of what it is like? I understand it is based off a computer game. I don't...

In the heated sexism thread the drow were brought up as an example of misandry. What I am wondering is it bad to have an evil society where misandry, misogyny, torture, sacrifice and racism exist? Is having societies like this in game settings basically saying any of the above are okay? My...

My storage of my gaming things is just not working for me. I have everything on bookshelves which is fine for the books. But the box sets tend to fall open if I put them in like a book and if I lay them on their side they take up a lot of room. Also the thinner modules and things tend to get...

I was wondering if any other people have had this issue where our modern ethics on things like slavery, treatment of prisoners, all people created equal come into conflict with a game set using a more medieval culture? In the game I play in this has caused a little conflict between players and...

Can someone steer me to a decent book, PDF, website that has rules for introducing gunpowder and guns to a fantasy setting? I am noodling the idea in my brain in running a western/fantasy game.

I have a question. The skill knowledge local how does it work? My DM and I feel that it should be for an area you choose and it can be taken many times in different areas. One of the other players says the rule is that if you have ranks in knowledge local then it covers any area you just...

I have mentioned before my roommate is also DMing a game I play in. After the last session she didn't really want to talk about the game. And today while doing prep for the next session she suddenly tossed the adventure path away and said "I don't think I want to do this anymore". She is very...

Can someone help my DM with a question. A player playing a warlock just reached the level where he gets two attacks around. He seems to believe that this allows him to throw two blasts. The DM believes this is not so but can't find backing for it other then the fact that wizards , sorcerers...

I have been looking for stats for a half drow half elf character. I can't find anything. All I can find is either a half elf or half drow where one of the parents is human. What my player wants is one parent was a drow and one was a surface elf. Does anyone know of any place that has a...

My DM likes to give funky things as treasure instead of just dropping a ton of gold or gems in the game. Part of her fun is coming up with some strange items. We just defeated a major bad guy and we were expecting a nice pay off. We got some cool magic items. But there was only about 300 in...

I really love the witch class in Pathfinder. My DM has given me permission to use it if I can make it more 3.5. She runs a 3.5 game and does not want to switch to Pathfinder at this time. So I am looking for advice on how to bring the Witch class into line with 3.5 classes.

There is an argument going on at our gaming table and I am hoping for some clarification on the rules. Can you fire a ray or any ranged weapon into the square next to you? Or do you have to be at least ten feet away? Also can you using combat casting to fire a ray to avoid the AOO?