Recent content by Fingol

thanks; particularly had not thought about taking ten. just a follow on question as I reread the skill: As a someone practicing their trade they can earn half their check in gold. With taking 10 and one rank and no other mods a person would make 5.5 gp a week. That is more than five times what...

1) how many ranks in craft black smithing would you expect someone to have that creates iron buckets (or other typical items) for a living? 2) how many ranks in craft black smithing would you expect someone to have that creates bells (or other high quality items) for a living? Thanks

Players might be adults and understand consequences but if not all sign up for the same type of fun it is something that needs to be addressed. Most often I think its a problem with not understanding the objectives each player (and the DM) bring with them to the table. Is it a social game? Is it...

A secret society comprising of rouges, wizards and clerics, that has figured out how to help each other level. They hire an empty dungeon, one of the rouge stocks it with traps, another rouge with a 'party of wizards and clerics' behind him finds and disarms them. The wizards then stage golem...

Played a fighter once who took quite of a few of them, just bulking up on HPs. Worked well until he had so many more HPs than anyone in the group that he could not get healing from the cleric until his HPs were quite low. As a result he wandered around habitally with less than his full...

If you're sitting in the middle on this one, don't worry about it. Spend your time being creative in other ways. As whoever plays a paladin in your games might find another way of roleplaying his character, something that you or me have not thought of, there is no point worrying about it until...

First reaction: Fight them all! Both the devils and demons. What are you lap dogs or heroes? where is your self respect? How could you let yourselves be cowed into this situation? How could you be the ones fighting only one side? Why are you guys not the ones playing one side off against the...

You're right, but I don't think it hurts the game if DMs metagame.

Yep NPCs and decent or otherwise CR monsters have a life all of their own independent of the DM. When the lights go out, the dice are packed away, the players go back to their hobbit holes and the DM goes back to his she devil, the NPCs continue to walk around looking up. However when they now...

I think it's all down to the DM and the type of game he runs. He controls the treasure and the number of rounds of fighting in a day. It would be interesting to see who runs out of what resource first if a DM firstly bumped up the number of rounds of fighting a day and secondly made a real...

aren't the stories in the modules that are for sale? For those that can't; time wise, or other... Granted lots of the are not that good, but then a lot of 'rule' books are pretty bad too.

When I started DMing that behavior was fresh new and exciting. A lot of "character play" has become cliché but stealing or even skimming from the group has become old hat quickly and now irritates me more than most stupid character play. Where previously I might have given the character "breaks"...

What if the evil necromancer was trying to make sure there was a labour force that cleaned the streets, sewers, and bell towers without complaining? What if she exhausted every avenue of negotiation with the authorities? They just did not want to buy the idea. What if the corpses would come...

How do other players share their character motivations? Do you read out your background sheet to the others at the start of the campaign and give updates before each session as their characters develop? If not how do you do this? DND seems like a game designed around actions (skill and ability...

Magical healing shouldn't be an issue for the world at large. For people who injure themselves the biggest problem is unlikely to be hit point loss. Concussion, amputated fingers, broken bones are likely much more of a disabler…specially as hit point loss does not impair any ability or skill as...