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Never had it come up. Now there's an interesting idea for a long-term campaign. It certainly would not be easy and it would take a very long time. My first question to the players would be "Are you all on-board with Bob's quest to become a god, and are you cool with a very long term campaign...

Which of course means that it won't happen, right? Dude, have you seen how many threads we have along these lines and how many people 'agree' with the people who think that they should be allowed to play whatever they want, no matter how much it doesn't fit in with the setting or the other...

Which would instantly lead to a huge thread about how the dumb old GM wouldn't let some guy play the character he wanted to play and how unfair that is, leading to more GM bashing because he has no right to do this. Yeah, we've seen it before, don't laugh. I think the GM and the Paladin player...

I guess I just don't see the need for them to be a completely new and separate race. I'm tired of more, more, more races. I have an Amazon 'nation' in my current campaign region. Probable population is only 700-800, but the control a pretty good sized territory. A good percentage of them are...

Telling me not to bother with the 10-page (in my case, more like 60+ page) hand-out is like telling me not to bother with even looking at the Eberron (or Forgotten Realms, or whatever) book. I ask my players to come up with some background information, but then tell them that the single most...

I use a Silver based system, at 40 silver = 1 gold. Then I essentially cut the price of everything in half and put it in silver. In other words, a Longsword is 300 silver "dollars". I adjusted the value of some things quite a bit, because they're seriously overpriced in the PHB or DMG. Start...

Yes, but they'll always be played by female actors. That evens things out. :confused:

It's pretty easy when you figure that a lot of places are named for geographic features, mundane stuff or people's names. From my own Homebrew: Republic of Freetown. Started by a bunch of Adventurers. Freetown, Rivermarch (a military and lumber town down river, pushing into new territory)...

I have used the same world since the early 1980s. I think I'm on my seventh campaign set in this game world. The first was in 4500 CY, then I moved around to different places and cultures, advancing a bit every time to about 4800 CY, which was my fifth campaign. The for the last one, I went...

Yeah well, some people get some really hair brained ideas in their heads and think the whole world should work to their advantage. I once had a player who wanted to retire his character for a few years and insisted that his moderately high level (12th? 15th? In 1e.) character should go up at...

Not real jobs, but those aren't being offered to your adventurers, are they? "You, young man! We desperately need people to chop wood and wash our clothing. The job pays 2 silver a day. Can we count on you?" Nah. But in the real world, look how often people are trapped with those "I want...

Makes me recall some GMs who took great pride in making us waste an hour or two of game time nitpick-searching everything we could think of. Hiding things we absolutely KNEW had to be in that room in places that NO ONE would think of. May be fun for the sadistic GM to sit there and chortle...

As for the "20 flasks of oil in a backpack", I have already made it clear to my players that if they engage in this sort of behavior, then there are going to be legitimate and logical consequences. One of my players wanted to carry around a pack loaded with Alchemist Fire and Acid Flasks. I...

That is so totally nabbed. Loved all the references and poking fun at themselves and all the conventional scifi forms.

Ranged Scout. Put a few points in Strength, then get a Strong Shortbow +1 with an energy ability. Right there you're looking at d6+1+str+d6 energy+Nd6 Skirmish. Even better if your party Wizard or Bard can add Sonic Weapon on top of your energy type. Potentially a level or three of Rogue...

I don't have any problem with half-races, per se. Although in my current setting, which is strictly regional and a bit non-standard, they either don't exist, or are rather limited. Very 'racist' setting. Orcs are feared and hated enemies, even if most people will never see one. Therefore...

At no point do I guarantee that all encounters will be fairly balanced to the party's abilities. In fact, I go out of my way to guarantee that encounters will vary wildly, from the "you encounter 4 Kobolds and kill them - we're not going to bother with that", to "As you crest the hill, you see...

Oh good god. Please don't even get me started down that line of mental images. Warforged: "Ahg! The full moon! Grr-ahk! Uhhhhhggg. Aaaaaaaaa!!!" (*poof* He's a Washing Machine.) Adventurer 1: Does this happen every month? Adventurer 2: Yeah, but we don't mind. It helps us get...

Insurance selling Were-Gekko. Gekkos? Gekkii? "Were-sloths! RUN!!!" "Ok, maybe you don't need to run. Walk." "Would you believe 'amble steadily away'?" How many Were-possums and Were-Racoons do you find dead on the road every morning? (Were-roadkill. Damn those silver-shod wagon wheels!)...

I think a large part of the problem is the incorrect usage of the skills. I've had GMs make me make Diplomacy rolls for some of the most basic interaction. One to the point where I got quite irate. Another did stupid stuff like have the merchant sell us stuff at what is probably less than his...