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    What Makes a Hero?

    This gets to the heart of the matter. A Hero moves to a higher calling pulled by invisible strings that compel the person either internally or externally to do what needs to be done because it is the universally good thing to do overall. Not some realivistic thought process that they use to...
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    What Makes a Hero?

    Greetings Everyone, First let me say, Alignments are a big pain in the butt. They have been for a long time but since they are part of the game and as Monte Cooke said it would be near impossible to remove them. In Dungeons and Dragons so many things revolve around your Alignment that taking...
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    What Makes a Hero?

    Ummm . . . sorry about the over reaction to that statement, but my players, well one in particular, is always "justifying" his actions as being heroic. It just annoys me that he never gets the point of being a hero is more then just whacking evil people and taking their "phat lewt". Being a...
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    What Makes a Hero?

    Lets not get into the whole moral relativism. It works as a "real world" philosophical construct but in dungeons and dragons it is not that helpful. If you can justify and explain away every action with some justification then the idea of heroic and villainous become blurred and useless. Not...
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    What Makes a Hero?

    OK guys we had a wonderful little discussion befor the stuff started flying. Lets get back on topic now. I haven't read Campbell unless you count Bruce Campell's "if chins could kill". But I was thinking of the specific Dungeons and Dragons universe where alignments are a factor in the day...
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    What Makes a Hero?

    From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Main Entry: he·ro Pronunciation: 'hir-(")O, 'hE-(")rO Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural heroes Etymology: Latin heros, from Greek hErOs 1 a : a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability...
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    d20 Modern, Survival Horror,-- Parody!

    I could always give the zombies Improved Grab and feats related to being immune to attacks of oppertunity. So no matter how slow they move they always manage to get a hold of you with out being able to do anything about it.
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    d20 Modern, Survival Horror,-- Parody!

    Hello Everyone, I was struck today with an inspiration for a game for it came from the late late late show type game for d20 modern. It would be based on the survival horror genre. What I need to know is they are clichés that are common to the genre? If so could you provide some examples...
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    Scarred Lands: Ask the Sage [Version 3.65729 with Upgrades!]

    Hello Sage Dude, I have a question for you. Has there been an update and or conversion of the spells list for 3.5? If so where do I download and or find this information. thanks in advance for your time.
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    Kara-Tur and Zakhara, are they going to be released as portions of FR?

    Does anyone know if Wizards of the Coast are going to revise these settings as part of the forgotten realms? Or has any one done any work on trying to bring them up to date with the current ed. of the game. If so could you post a link for me, please?
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    Downloadable character sheets

    You might want to take a look at these excellent Microsoft Word Version of the Character Record Sheets. They are the ones I use most for my characters because of the ease of modfication to specific campaign needs. http://www.geocities.com/toytools/dnd/ on this page is the links to the 3.5...
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    You Gaming this weekend?

    Gaming: Saturdays 7pm-? Where: Louisivlle, Ky <Yeah, there are gamers in the Bible Belt!> Setting: Scarred Lands in the city of Mithril at the moment. Players: 5-6 Characters: all 8th level Frequency: Bi-Monthly Notes: Our little group is called the Chosen and it seems that we have been...
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    Question about old 2nd ed "Priests" coming back as Prestige Classes.

    Where would I find the Chossen of Bane PrC? There is a character in the FRCS that has the class but I haven't seen the actual PrC anywhere.
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    Request for plot help from the Excellent Egos of Enworld.

    Greetings, I found the d20 Scriptorium web site. It has the rules for making new books and really cool information for making them unique. I made this book using that system and wanted to post it to see if it seems a little overly powerful. Also does this particular book inspire any plot...
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    Quick Little Campaign Ideas

    Do I dare add my thoughts to such great minds? Awwww. . . what the heck! Here is my .02$ 9) Dragon Kin campaign, the players are children of dragons and they are contacted by their parents to lead a new "golden age" of dragon kind across the world. At low levels they will be spies in the...
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    Request for plot help from the Excellent Egos of Enworld.

    Quote From the Dungeon Index "Ex Libris (5-8) Opening a book in this library can expand your mind-or scatter it around the room!; *** (fantastic adventure-jh)" A book that transports you into the story could be fun but what I was hoping to get from the board is some suggestions for plots that...
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    Request for plot help from the Excellent Egos of Enworld.

    How do I get a hold of these adventures? I don't have a copy of this particular issue. Anyone have a copy that I could look through?
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    Request for plot help from the Excellent Egos of Enworld.

    Greetings Everyone, In the next few weeks I will be starting a new campaign set in the Forgotten Realms (Silver Marchs/Silverymoon area). I have this idea for a series of adventures for the first few games being around collecting some books that were lost. The books used to belong to a...
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    Question about old 2nd ed "Priests" coming back as Prestige Classes.

    Is there a product coming out in the near future for classes based on the old Priest class from 2nd ed. for the 3.5? Has anyone done any work on this kind of thing or is there a site out there with some specialty priest classes for the forgotten realms pantheon? What I'm looking for is a...
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    treasured OOP gaming book

    How many of you remember the old Mystara setting books? I loved those things back in the day. I played with mine and as a result they fell apart in short order. I had the whole set up til the shadow elves but they disintrigrated and some got water damaged. While trying to get replacements on...
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