Recent content by Jezrael

Combat: Your players need to understand that combat does not follow the D&D paradigm. Combat is about two things. Ambushing people and outnumbering people. It is not about charging in heroically and laying the righteous smackdown on the goblin patrol (well maybe if you're Bretonnian...maybe)...

Honestly, you probably need to find a game that's tailor-made to run vampires. Barring that, your best bet is probably to run an all-vampires game; but to differentiate types of vampires with custom templates that progress either with character level or according to some kind of 'vampiric...

Gnomish Industrial Revolution comes to The Forgotten Realms. Hilarity ensues.

When someone asked a similar question on RPGnet, back in May I posted this: Honestly? Until the fantasy version of Adam Smith comes to being in your world the nations of that world will probably follow either a Feudal or Mercantilist economic philosophy. Feudal economics is more a matter of...

I think one of the biggest problems vis-a-vis alignment is that most alignment 'discussions' take place DURING the campaign rather than before it. A good DM should discuss how and why he is going to run alignment and what that means for the characters the players have presented. If you give the...

I use Spirit of the Century (SRD here)with some optional rules. I use the Fast Character Creation in the SRD (Section 2.16) in conjunction with the Stuntless Rules on the SotC Wiki. All you need is a name, description, two aspects and your apex skill and you are ready to roll. Taking out the...

I think the a Lawful Good 'tyranny' would look like the Common-wealth of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. This type of society comes about when a group of people transfer their rights in common to one person, who acts as the sovereign. Hobbes goes on for quite a long time but distills 12 principal...

Let's see. You have Gamer's Realm in West Windsor, NJ. They also used to have a store in Cinnaminson, but it shut down. They were always good, with a good selection. You also have The Game Room. I've only been to the location in the Woodbridge Mall. It had a great selection when I first started...

I can't get past the first chapter because . So I've never gotten to the Harpers = Jerks part.

Hmm. So it seems to be more of a 'can do no wrong' attitude of self-righteousness than anything? I can see where that would be annoying. And might even cause Blackstaff to move on out of there. Thanks ya'll

So some people I've been talking to on other boards have been saying that the Harpers have a tendency to be..well kind of mean and nasty to other good guys that horn in on 'their territory'. I was interested in this because their portrayal in all the game supplements that I've seen them in has...

Howdy all, with the New Year done and past the Moorestown, NJ Wizards of the Coast Store is offering up space for anyone interested in playing d20 campaigns. A few of us will be getting together in two weeks time on Sunday, January 26th at around noon to try and get a 3E campaign together. Feel...

I chose the top 5%, but really it doesn't matter to me...I can find things to challenge any group of PCs appropriately whatever their scores.

Here is the story The Lady or the Tiger by Frank Stockard.

In addition to all of these there are the Imperial Sovereign Protectors from the Dark Empire comic series...who would probably have a couple more levels in Force Adept than Royal Guards