Recent content by JBeatnik

They'd be quite at home with the range-r class.

So after CharGen and my concerns voiced to the DM, he decided that there would be ramifications to ultra negative stats. The thing is, we've been having a major problem with people not roleplaying AT ALL, and one player even being vocally abusive towards those that do roleplay (LULZ LETS JUST...

Honestly, I've always wanted to play a "brawler" type of character, but the "ki" theme of the monk and all their supernatural powers always mucks up the DM or the world. If the power source was named "soul", it could be like the inner anger of someone or their will to fight that produces some of...

We're rolling up new characters for a 4th ed campaign. We're using a point buy system, and one of the characters (a druid) is dropping his stats to 7 to game the system. This is especially dangerous in 4th ed, where you can use half your stats for dump stats, while pumping up the useful ones...

Tri-Stat DX is completely free for download, and look how popular that is. They make money on selling 'genre' books that give alternative rulesets. GURPS lite is a free download of core rules, enough to play as well. Between both of these, I'm willing to bet you don't have much of a strong...

Awesome, keep em coming. :D

pardon my ignorance, but what gives the avenger two rolls?

Playing a Gnome Bard, I've been trying to think up and make a list of various quips, jokes, puns, one liners, stories, limericks and quotations. Also included could be various Pranks he can pull on his party and/or enemies. I had this idea from a prank I pulled on my party this last week in our...

In our gaming group, there's a guy just like this. He doesn't read the rules too closely, but he tries to say realism works in his favor ("Electricity should do more damage if they're standing in water, right?") I run a couple of one off sessions to give my DM a break, and he rolled in with a...

How do these tournaments work? Do you fight other players?

for a flying creature to be considered 'prone', imho, it would be unbalanced and/or faltering in flight and need to spend time 'righting itself' much like a prone land-dweller spends time 'righting himself' on his ground bound legs.

I would like to say that my 3.5 Gnome bard, "Nimble" Dimble Garrick, who was a notorious prankster, will be making a comeback. I'll be playing him at GenCon all over. For me, there is an infinite amount of prankery you can do with Ghost Sound, Prestigidation, and Dancing Lights. I don't have my...

This is my first year to GenCon. My DM Matt and one of our players Nick went last year and had a blast. We've played 3.0/3.5/4.0 DnD and GURPS Space, so we're looking to expand our horizons a little bit, but also get some ideas on how to play the systems we're into. :D I just got the PHB2, and...

What I've found that I'm missing greatly are rules for grappling and throws. What I've been relegated to doing is using opposed skill checks. Examples: -Fighter grabs Orc. -> Grab action, Orc immobilized -Orc grabs fighter -> Fighter immobilized (what to do here?) Here are some options...

In my campaign, the dwarf cleric of Moradin has his divine symbol(s) carved into the head of his warhammer, so he strikes with it, or raises it up and points/brandishes it (much like a scepter).