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  1. jollyninja

    Is this fair?

    did he take away your levels and convert them to paladin levels? if not, you're down some posessions and i'd say you're justified in overcharging a bit for any magic items you create for the party. the joy of being CN is unless there are definite serious consequences, you can burn the oath for...
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    Birthright. Tell Me About It. Please.

    love the setting, interesting locales and different enough from the other published settings to make everything "new again" but familiar enough to have everyone still in the loop. the 2e boxed set was worth the purchase if only for the randomly generated kingdom events tables, great for a dm...
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    I wish my group was as cool as this...

    I have been both the player and dm. in my younger days, when my paladin found and raised a dragon hatchling to a size big enough to be a mount he named it phonetically as-wee-pay, though it was spelled differently. since i started running plot heavy games, when i get a larger group together, it...
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    Angels/Demons in a World Without Alignment?

    In the allignmentless games i have run, i made them the exception to the no alignment rule. I made them avatars of a concept, be it deception, betrayal, or compassion as the case may be and thus radiate a palpable aura of either positive energy or negative energy which detects through spells...
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    Red Hand of Doom reloaded

    I agree whole heartedly with your decision to move the fane to before the battle of brindol eric, i really wish i had done that myself. after the battle, the dungeon crawl was a bit of a letdown for my players. what i might do, were i doing that is throw in a couple extra minions and have azzar...
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    Players refusing to play within GM's ruling/narrative?

    I'm guessing the gm here just wanted "-enter any plan no matter how innacurate or profoundly unlikely to succeed in the real world-" and then the check(s) nessissary to pull it off but was simply irritated by the player's lack of interest in her character's career altering stand on the quality...
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    Red Hand Of Doom, questions

    you are going to want to up the difficulty of the dragons with a group that big and of that level. most encounters will be fine with an extra mook or two for each pc beyond 4. every major encounter will need a bit of upgrading to take your group's size and strength into account. I had a group of...
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    Ideas for a gladiatorial type tournament?

    for why, perhaps they have reason to believe there is something shady going on behind the scenes at these tournaments? people who bought the rez insurance coming back acting differently then they did before or suddenly leaving the area under mysterious circomstances? you could even have a...
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    Single-race fantasy adventure parties?

    all dwarven campaign, battlerager in a giant city "you know, one of us could bathe in a bowl of that size" now picture five dwarves stripping out of their platemail after upending the mugs of ale they had been served as a joke into bowls. needless to say it was a fun campaign. the high point...
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    How has playing D&D improved the quality of your life?

    live in girlfriend met through gaming..... check friends i would have otherwise never met...... check creative outlet for my madeningly busy brain....... check couple nights a week doing something other then sitting on my couch....... check If it was not for dnd, i'd probably be in one of those...
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    So, do you think we'll see cloaks of invisibility in our lifetime?

    right now, i declare myself emperor of canada, and i believe that to be the most beautiful cloak ever created! I shall put it on at once!
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    Favorite Third-Party Settings

    warlords of the accord lands is pretty good, have not used it yet but it's got three big fat books for support that i have seen, the phb equivalent, an atlas and a monster book, all around the 300+ page range. http://www.warlordrpg.com/products.html hope that helps scarred lands is my...
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    Posting from work... [short rant]

    My last job had such a tight policy that you could not go to anything but a specific list of approved sites, it was a sales floor job so i spent most of my day staring off into space or planning my game, until they cracked down on carrying a notebook that was not the official work blue book...
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    Should Spot checks include looking up?

    I look at it this way, when you get into that level of specific character actions needing to be described, you are making the game less fun. the first time, I can see it making sense. even the second but after that, no way. I once resorted to telling a dm every time my character went to the...
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    Help Wanted with ideas for Chapter 3 (levels 9-14) of my campaign

    I stand corrected, kansas it is.
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    How do you scare your players?

    I tend to model my scarier adventures after japanese horror movies. Throw in effects that do not fall under standard spell lists, have things be just a little bit off, not quite right. My players hate it. they get all creeped out it's great. just tossing undead at them does not do it. or i go...
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    Red Hand of Doom (spoilers) - victory of 8th level party vs. CR 15

    My players pushed through the entire lair in one assault, by the time they got to the ghostlord, they aere pretty messed up and low on healing. they pretty much just handed it over to him after he agreed not to aid the red hand in the coming battle. funny side note, when a fleeing red hand...
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    Help Wanted with ideas for Chapter 3 (levels 9-14) of my campaign

    what i'd do is have him look up at the pc's directly and "All we are is dust in the wind" before teleporting out, while playing "dust in the wind" by styx on my computer. and my players would groan and throw stuff at me. but for a serious suggestion i might go with something like "kingdoms...
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    Good adventure to run for new DM playing with seasoned players

    these could be good as well http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20030530b nothing overly complex, they are short, can be inserted into whatever setting you are playing for the most part and offer numerous options for the weeks you don't have a lot of time to plan anything or between adventures
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    Recent WoTC Adventures

    I've only run red hand of doom but let me say, i've never owned a better layed out adventure. my players loved it and so did I, and I never run canned adventures. ever. this one just seemed like it might be worth picking up and I am so glad I did. Not since i rode a goat of terror through the...
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