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I'm playing a Bard (now 6th level) in a WotBS campaign, so I expect that he'll get the most mileage (and maybe someday Millage) in the campaign, unless someone else decides to play a Warlord. The problem being the conversion speed, since 4e comes out in June, but the Bard doesn't come out for a...

During the session, that's a big NO, and the game stops, period, until the book is put away. Quoting the MM at the table in regards to Monsters that you haven't made knowledge checks about means that they suddenly gain new and interesting powers. To quote a very recent e-mail to my GM friend...

Biggest problem I've run into, besides the "holding the group together long enough" issue he also mentioned. My previous group, I quit because I never knew from week to week what game we were going to play. The GM kept dumping games and game systems to try something new. But then again, he...

Hand over Fist. Clue Bat: This old expression indicates making money with metal stamps.

Hijack; One of the best encounters I ever ran used pumpkin headed scarecrows. It was based on an episode of Fraggle Rock (of all things) where a group of scare-crow like beings (NOT pumpkin headed) lured Mochie and Red into a cornfield with their song, where they would stand, transfixed. In...

Lawyers really are the cockroaches of the CoC universe, aren't they? My lawyer PC was the only main-character survivor of our campaign. And then only because when the guy in the black suit started threatening the rest of the group, I turned and walked out the door, then ran down the street...

My basic "Old Era" Homebrew, which I attempted to run twice in the past with varying success, was very racially charged. Humans, like pretty much every other humanoid race, were a slave race to a more powerful natural magic-using race, the Calaseans. The campaign was set in a neutral zone...

Really? Sounds more like Indiana Jones meets Call of Cthulu meets Time Travel Fantasy to me, and I would sooo be there. Then again, one of the ideas I have in my mind that I'd love to either run or play but will probably never get the chance would be 'Paranoia! meets Call of Cthulu'. ("Now...

I want to play with you! Dang that sounds like a fun game.

In a very short-lived 2e retro (because it was about 2 years ago) "campaign" (3 sessions), I played an over-the-top flamingly gay Elf. (Because, after all, aren't they all?) Mostly just to show the other players a litte more flamboyant role-play than they were used to. In the campaign I'm...

Two words: Andrew Zimmer. ;)

The nerve of you players! Attempting to waste the GM's time by Roleplaying in a Role Playing Game at a Role Playing Gamer's Association event? I mean, just what the fudge did you think you were doing??? ;) I hope you complained about the GM.

Every winter when it snows for the first time (or the 2nd, 3rd, 4th time, if it melts off between snowfalls), everyone has to learn how to drive on snow all over again. Irritates the daylights out of me. Slick snow and idiots will STILL try to pull out from an intersection, way to close to...

True enough. I did some pretty crappy things when I was young, and have put up with some really unpleasant things in groups because I didn't want to start a fight. So take my response as a "If I was thinking and had my spine wound up properly...".

This is the point where I would have turned to his co-worker (who unfortunately, didn't show up in your example) and say; "What are the people in your office going to say about dillweed here when they find out that in the first couple of minutes of gaming with people he'd never met before, he...

Whereas I for one would like to carry a triple sword! If things get hairy I just use is as a propellor and fly away! (snerk)

Not really for all values of "too" (versatile). A Cleric can be a bookish healer or diviner, a simple healer, or a major league magically enhanced warrior; or many other roles, depending on his domains, attributes and what he choses to do. Likewise with Wizard, Druid and Rogue. Each of these...

Note: HIGH level Cleric. At 6th level and lower, I'm adding more than a Cleric can possibly add and in doing so, I'm freeing him up to do other things, like heal people (which I consider a much more boring job than being a Bard). So how many raging barbarians are in your party? I'm adding...

Fighting to the bitter end with friends produces bitter friends. Good luck with that.

Reminds me of my one and only foray into Shadowrun. Our first session lasted eight hours. Eight freaking bloody hours spent on ONE very short combat. The guy running the game had never GM'd before and insisted on looking up every detail to make sure he was running the combat correctly. It...