Recent content by dcorbin

I'm getting ready to begin campaign using EoM, and a player pointed this out to me. Since Evoke Force doesn't require a saving throw, doesn't that sort of unbalance things? Why is Force singled out this way? David

Does anyone ever play where the DM creates the characters, perhaps some of the background, and gives them to the players to play? If so, what are advantages and disadvantages of this technique? As a player, what would you think about being on the receiving end of this? Any other related...

It's everywhere.... In the campaign I play, of the five most frequent players, four have love interests (the other is a half-orc, if that matters). Two of them are now married. All the relationships are Male PC to Femail NPC. Kavel's "girlfriend" is a CHA-19 half-elven bard, but she...

Balance, PC Choices I love these ideas. Every now and then I raise the idea with our DM of some of these ideas (or something similar) as a point of discussion. More things that are rules-system rather than environement. He always comes back with "No one wants to play spellcasters to begin...

Two sayings come to mind (these from the mid 80's): "I am Carl Lewis", short for "I am Carl Lewis, fastest man alive" which basically meant that character was running for all he was worth. and "Toast". indicating the discharge of a fireball. "Those orcs are toast" (this one seem like it...

Really Old Dragon Issues Do you folks think there might be a demand for "substantial collection" of really old issues? It's been a long time since I've looked, but I've got about 90% of the first 100 to 150 issues of the Dragon. (#6 was on the new issue when I started playing). Thanks David