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Thanks for the input, everybody. I am going to scratch the damage reduction house-rule. Ah! Good. That's mostly what I wanted. I wanted guns to be a choice for PCs, not a trump.

I've been fussing with some homebrew firearm rules, that limit their "terrible power", making sense in a magical millieu while still being useful to the general populace. This is what I've come up with so far: They do damage as Monte Cook's firearms from his Chaositech web enhancement...

I'm going to trade my sorcerer's chain shirt for (studded) leather, because it's only a difference of one AC that can be made up for by enchanting, but it's a 10% difference when considering chance for spell failure. That count?

My wife is always grumbling about how different storytellers use different mythological creatures in different ways. Like, in some vampire mythos you can change shape, and in others you can't. My answer is that, since the creatures in question aren't real, authors can use any means necessary to...

I've been fiddling around with ways of making tough encounters easier to use with lower level groups, and wrote an adventure with a drunken NPC recently. I've kind of decided to treat alcohol as a poison, with a fairly low DC (10) and 1d6 Wis and Dex damage for failure, meaning you can drink...

How do people find Screen Monkey? The part I like is that I wouldn't have to make my players buy the software. I've looked at WebRPG, and I liked it too. I just looked at Kloogewerks and fantasy grounds, but they both look relatively expensive.

Which I think is solid, too.

Oh, hey. I worry about the violence issue with my kid, too. Killing Monsters is a great recomendation. It rationalized my worries about the effects of media. But it sounds like your wife could use it more than you. Killing Monsters doesn't really address the issue that mythago brought up, as I...

So. Um. What does it make them?

You know, it's amazing what people think is private. There was an article in the detroit news about teens with blogs, and one kids was saying something to the effect that he didn't want his parents to read it, because it was private. Um.

I do. I have been tired, so tired, as of late. And so when I slack off, I choose to slack off on my blog. It hasn't been updated since mid-January. http://electricwell.blogspot.com Maybe soon, I will recommit. Or quit. I supposed I should choose one course or the other, soon. I mean, it's not...

I thought the whole series was a fun read, and smarter than your average fantasy. He managed to keep the magical aspects of it internally consistent. If you like alternate history and magical technologies, you will probably get a kick out of it.

Oh, hey. Thanks for the answers. Yup, it looks like the website is up again. Well, wish them luck in their new enterprise.

Dude. Before crisis, his clothes were special kryptonian fabric. Insert acronym for, "I think." In Marvelese, don't they still use unstable molecules?

Websites down today, but I was also wondering if they'd decided to do anything besides Book of Erotic Fantasy. Idle curiosity. As opposed to Idol curiosity.

Dude, you're a hero of the working class, and a rebel. I think people should play the games they like. I think any broad statements about the worth or quality of games is fanboy trolling, and anybody who returns fire is a sap. There's a way to ask questions about which games people find simple...

Well, it's only the easiest way if you don't take the challenge ratings seriously, which I think is one of the handiest tools available in the game: although it doesn't make matching encounters to groups a perfect experience, it is a much better system than my guestimating used to be. The...

Hey, WOTC had a drider template: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mm/20011118a If the link doesn't work, look in their archives under Monster Mayhem. You could create some fighters and add the template to them. Badda-Boom. Or whatever. Lawrence

Not if he were a 45th level wizard, which is what he'd need to be for the wizard to be able to control him. I suppose it would be a little gimpy for a 45th level character to control a CR 70 creature. The real danger might be in losing control of them...

See, this I really don't understand. Why not just make it up? The standard answer, I think, is "I don't have enough time." Which means, essentially that you are expecting a commercial entity to conform to your personal economics. Your needs. That isn't very realistic. Plus, you only need...