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I've played Alliance since '05, and that's not exactly how it works. It's more along the lines of "I've been playing my PC Bill for ten years. One day, I decide to play a new character, Joe. Now does it make sense for Joe, who has never adventured a day in his life, to be just as skilled as...

I currently play a warlock, and I think that while having the Eldritch Blasts being ranged touch isn't really that bad, it's horrible when your DM likes to throw enemies with a low Dex and lots of armor. My DM and I eventually had to come up with a class defense bonus that overlaps with armor...

When I started playing in 7th grade, I played Link Pendragon, Halfling Thief. I also have a Halfling Warmage who acts like a stereotypical Irishman. I took his first name from the villian from the movie Ronin, and his last name from the title of a James Joyce novel. When I introduced the...

"Guys, I just want to tell you before we start playing tonight that I wrote all of the material for our next few sessions while on acid." The resulting dungeon was actually one of the coolest ones that I've ever encountered, but that phrase has stuck with me. The DM for one of the campaigns...

The only time that I've ever had a DM complain about a name was in a Swashbuckling Adventures campaign. Since my character was from Avalon, I decided to mix and match the names of two famous English people, Oliver Twist and Lord Cromwell. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that Lord Cromwell was...

"The saying 'You are what you eat' takes on a whole new meaning when you're an Ethereal Doppelganger."

Have them work to root out a spy in their midst. Or when they're equipping themselves, have them get to know the quartermaster, the doctor, Q, and the secretary at the front desk.

And the guy doesn't know how to hold a bow. He's holding the bowstring on the left side of his left arm. How does he expect to be able to shoot? And his leather/chainmail armor must be paper-thin to be that form-fitting, and therefore, offers no protection whatsoever. Both of those elves...

You could modify the rules from the Star Wars RPG (namely Starships of the Galaxy, which has rules for designing ships including cost, time to build it, etc).

Use exploding bugs (there is a kind of ant that exploded when it dies in combat, spraying poison all over the enemy). Use bugs that can set up ambushes, etc instead of blindly rushing into combat. Unstoppable masses that won't give up despite the odds might be frightening since they aren't...

Well, if fast-healing guy is the toughest guy in the team, let him get a reputation for it. Then, the bad guys realize that they have to take fast-healing guy out, so they constantly try to separate him from the others (a teleport trap, perhaps?) and then you can let him have it without risking...

It should actually take five rounds, or 30 seconds, to reload a musket. The 20-second figure is from the time that it took the British Regulars to reload, and the British Regulars were the best-trained infantry in the world at the time. The rapid reload feat would be extremely useful in this...

I don't see how the two classes could possible be balanced. Magister, being the best parts of Wizard and Sorcerer, would be the best caster in the game. Who in their right mind would want to play a Sorcerer or Wizard when a magister gives them bonus feats, spontaneous casting, and spell...

Modrons are creatures of Law. You know what a Slaad is, right? It's a creature of Chaos. A Modron is the opposite. Take a look at some Planescape material for more in depth info (specifically "Planes of Law"). This Horde couldn't be a Million+ without some sort of organization. They'd all...

*thread necromancy* The following story is fiction, as far as I can tell, but it's the same flavor as some of the other stories on this thread. Some of you may have read this before, when I posted it on WoTC's CoC forums. http://www.holyshiite.com/caver/ Personally, I haven't had many weird...