Recent content by Matt_Rourke

By saying "food is available for all" I meant that when there is food, everyone gets a share - it's not like you have to go into a restaurant and buy it, or beg for food on the street. If there's a kill, it is shared (often with those with most status getting first dibs), and if there's...

I've been toying around with primitive, survival-based game setting ideas, and the concept of money has become more and more troublesome. In a realistic sense, once survival of the group becomes paramount and every villager must pull their weight or civilization collapses, money becomes less of...

I had just bought the 3.0 books when 3.5 was announced. I just couldn't see shelling out another large chunk of change to get a revised version of what I just purchased. I use the 3.0 books with the 3.5 SRD, and it's suited me just fine. I also do most of my gaming with PBEM, so the SRD is...

I never knew Druids weren't allowed to wear crystal armor. Learn something new every day. But why is that? Because it's inorganic? Does that mean they can't wear stone armor, or is it just crystal and metal they can't wear? As for metal in this environment, it's so rare that it has become...

Chitin would be available as heavy armor, medium armor (sort of as a breastplate idea), and light armor (as a sort of studding for leather). Essentially, chitin carapace of giant insects (and other nonmetalics, such as crystal or types of stone) would replace metal. So, there would be other...

Though, thinking again, I guess all the other skill checks would be a big drawback for a druid in the wild. And I take your point about wildshape, hypersmurf.

It's not so much metal-poor as it is metal-virtually-nonexistant. I already figured this would give druids a bit of an edge, though I understand what you're saying about giving up a feat to be able to use heavy armor when that feat could be used for something else. When wearing heavy armor...

Well, doesn't Ironwood spell just change the properties of wood to be like that of steel? So far as I understand the rules, the druids don't just have armor check penalties when wearing metal armor, but they can't cast any druid spells while wearing it, or for 24 hours. This is far more...

While developing some armors for a new metal-restricted campaign setting I'm working on, I came across a problem. The class restriction for druids and armor is: "Druids are proficient with light and medium armor but are prohibited from wearing metal armor; thus, they may wear only padded...

I don't think someone who plays in the style of a 10 response has to be a campaign killer. A lot of that depends on how the character was designed before the campaign, and how well the character's goals fit the campaign. For instance, if a character has a very specific goal and will not...

I ran a PBEM campaign where the players worked so much on their backstories that I never even got to the campaign I had originally planned. There were so many fascinating hooks in their backstories that I could weave together that I pushed off the intended "start" of the adventure in favor of...

In our gaming group, we have a pretty consistent DM because most of the players are just awful at it. They try, but it ends up being a disaster, so the regular DM just takes over. I DM from time to time to give him a break, but I am much more comfortable as a player than a DM. That said, the...