Recent content by scottdunphy

Conventions DON'T make a profit. Sometimes they operate at a loss but most of the time they break even or make enough to run the next con. We have two convention organizations in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Benefit Gamers Association (RMBGA), which runs Ben Con, and the Denver Gamers...

What would it be? I had stopped playing D&D for about a decade. I started again in 1999. I bought all the 2nd Edition books again and quickly discovered how messsed up it was (How long did round last in 2ed?). I had been playing several other systems over those years and thought most of them...

Bloodlines I am using Bloodlines in my world building to create variant humans. I think the write up in UA is one of the few real problems with the book. It doesn't make it clear if Bloodline levels are levels at all except that they apply to abilities that use class level as a numeric...

My FB Thanks for coming to my defense. The full story is that I was joining a Forgotten Realms campaign of 18th level characters so I made the Barbarian/Holy Liberator/FB from scratch and gave him a back story. He had been a prisoner and gladiator and one day freaked out and killed his...

The problem is with the character concept, not the class. A CN destroyer is an NPC concept, not a player concept. I played a FB in a campaign of several months and it didn't cause any problems. The concept: Holy Liberator/Frenzied Barbarian - he'd see someone in chains and freak out. His Holy...

Anyone who has a problem with the term "Halfling" and thinks they should only be called "Hobbits" has not read the "Lord of the Rings" (or at least isn't a fan of JRR's work). For that matter, they weren't paying that much attention during the movies (but they were only referred to as...

I don't think retribution is the point, but what parts of a product are OGC and how easy it is to use that OGC in a project are considerations that inform a buyers decision. I think Cergorach praised "The Book of the Righteous" for its OGC. Most of the book is not OGC, but the parts that are OGC...

He has a much more important place in the history of role-playing games. He led the fight against B.A.D.D. (Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons) and exposed them as the liars and idiots they were. Many people consider him the savior of RPGs for his work in this regard. But yeah, he blew it on...

I used this plot device in a one-off, character provided convention event (i.e. 4 hours) I wrote. The characters had lots of secrets that were revealed due to the switch and all kind of problems relating to other people in their lives (for D20 Modern - wives, boyfriends, etc.). And of course...

The thing that pops to mind immediately is the desire to reproduce. You've got Adam, but where's Eve (or the other way around for female PCs)? Not suggesting you play out the whole fall from grace, but I think the PCs would be mighty interested in finding out about the opposite sex...

This forum might be a better place to get an answer to this particular question: http://holonet.swrpgnetwork.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=61

I would think that is too big a forced change in the character concept. Maybe the guy wants to play a Jedi struggling with the Dark Side, but if he doesn't you are really forcing somethin ugly on him. Besides, Sever Force is rather severe and I can't imagine it would be used for something short...

It seems that most of the responses here agree that the player has done something unreasonable. I would have to disagree. While the DM needs to do something to balance such a character with the rest of the party, that doesn't mean the player is being a jerk. Paul has a player that is very into...

I like the idea of making him old and giving him NPC classes, but the player may see this as a big let down or too big a change to the original concept. Some other ideas that could serve the same purpose of balancing the character with the rest of the party: - He was recently blinded (no time...

Well that's sad. The guys from Mongoose make themselves very available on this forum and they really don't have to do that. They also seem to be listening to our input. If you want to see a better game, then come up with some constructive criticism. But if you really don't care then please don't...