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Hot on the heels of our recent announcement that everything is now FREE at Animalball, we're also proud to share our newest game release under our new business model: ABG Releases Animalball Melee for Free Download! Animalball Games is proud to present Animalball Melee for free download...

Everything's Free at Animalball Games! After many months of studying the market, spending dozens of dollars on various demographic studies, and reviewing the balances in their checking accounts, Animalball Games has decided to start offering its products for free download. Games that had...

I think that without the Ki powers, a pugilist (fighter with feats designed around unarmed combat) will always come off weak vs. your typical armed and armored opponents. Realistically, the only way to make an unarmed assailant a viable warrior in typical D&D combat is to give him mystical...

I tend to use the rules as-is. I pick and choose what prestige classes are allowed, and occasionally there's a call on rules from supplemental books, but like others have said, the only real restrictions/changes I might make are based on the setting/campaign. I might create new creatures or...

That's absolutely brilliant as a game concept. I may steal a version of that for an alignment-centric setting I'm working on. Thanks.

Not always. Sometimes you're trying to explain to a good roleplayer from another system why you think they'd really work well in your D&D game in spite of these seemingly awkward D&D elements they've heard about before. Or you're trying to convince your regular group to let you try running a D&D...

Eh. "Standard" D&D is such a hodgepodge of mixed myths and decades of literature and rpg storytelling and wholly created items that I'm not bothered by little things like certain creatures not matching my personal conception of their myths. And any GM is welcome to create their own personal...

But that's the equivalent of saying, "Just because." If you've got someone who is new to D&D--especially if they're coming from other RPG's--and they don't really dig the alignment concept or see the utility of it, yet it is a requirement for your campaign, then you're going to have some...

I've come up with minor ideas of relatedness between sentient humanoid species for an old campaign of mine, but it's very specific to the world. And I think that coming up with a taxonomy for a specific world is probably about the best you can do. In standard D&D, there are so many things that...

This is the third of these types of thread I have done (I had them on Animalball and RPGnet. This thread has gotten the best response so far, and that last post is by far the most detailed and intricate of any entry yet. Thanks.

Wow, Wanda... that may be my favorite so far--the cream of an already impressive crop, as it were. Thanks.

I'd have to read my books again, but I thought part of it had to do with the method used to travel the planes. Plane hopping methods that involve traveling the Astral Plane involve leaving behind your real body and reconstituting a new body from the substances of any visited plane. Thus if your...

I would too, but we've found we simply CANNOT get the same group of five or six people into the same room (or IRC channel) more than once or twice. Anytime we've tried running a game that will take multiple sessions... like, more than two... it seems that it takes us an average of six weeks...

If you dig it, pop on over to Animalball.com (in our forums). We play an IRC game of Instant Game every Wednesday, and we generally give first dibs on player spots to newbies and strangers. We'd love to have you. This week's game (Nov 17) is full already, but I'll put you at the top of the bill...

LostSoul, Flame, thanks for playing. I can't get enough of this game. Working from the same base elements, I'm constantly amazed at the diversity of results. This is good stuff.