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I highly encourage my players to pick out a god rather than an alignment; that way they can obey that god's mandates rather than the more abstract mandates of the alignment. For instance, you can be LG and worship Illmater (God of Martyrs and Sacrifice) or Tyr (God of Justice) in totally...

OK, I decided to run the figures myself for 4d6-L. It looks like you get a nice curve of some sort; it's pretty widely spread with the peak at 30. This is good, it matches stephenh's numbers. Here is the sweet spot of the probability curve: points probability 20 1.7% 21...

The math in this chart seems a bit funky. Note strangeness at 33-34. Interpolating the numbers which aren't explicitly stated, the population for each number looks like: 30 ~= 5.0% 31 ~= 4.0% 32 ~= 4.0% 33 == 2.0% 34 == 5.0% 35 ~= 2.5% 36 ~= 2.5% Which doesn't make much sense. Is there a...

Brookhurst had the best selection of miniatures last time I was down there. They had Confrontation back when that stuff was hard to get for instance; they had all kinds of second tier manufactuers with quirky sculpts too. Diamond Bar is probably just as bad for you driving-wise, but there is...

I tuned into the thread just to see whether the premise was that the Sorcerer was broken because he was too powerful or broken because he was too weak. Personally, I'd add Maximize the list of metamagics forbidden to the Sorcerer in order to balance him better with the poor Wizard. ;-)

You are very patient. I saw that line. ;-)

Well, this was one of my problems trying to shoehorn it into my existing campaign. (Note: I wanted to use it as a "second chance" for characters in a high level campaign; if you die then you can return as a ghost, assuming you can't be Raised. If you die as a ghost, oh well. This to explain...

I bought it (for $10 when Gamekeeper went out of business) and have been a bit frustrated with it for exactly the reason you mention. Also, it seems that the city of Manifest is really necessary to the functioning of Ghostwalk; it's a bit messy to extract the ghost ideas and try to fit them...

The main trance stream for me. So right now it's "Solid Globe - Sahara (Markus Schulz Coldharbor Mix)". The vocal stream is my second favorite ("ATB - Hold You (Svenson & Gielen Remix)" right now. ;-)

"Black Sails over Freeport" had dropped off my radar because of mediocre reviews; having it do well at the ENnies put it back in the "consider" pile. So, no, I haven't bought anything because of the awards, but BSOF will get a second shot that it otherwise wouldn't have gotten. I'm sure the...

It's just a manual which describes how to do all sorts of stuff for your car; you should be able to buy one for < $20 at any large auto parts store. I have the Haynes manual myself; it has lots of pictures of various procedures, which helps me a lot. It also give some guidelines for basic...

I agree; the only alternative here is to find a mechanic you can trust 100% and be willing to shell out big chunks of money on his say-so. If money is tight, I highly second the suggestion to learn how to do some basic work on the car yourself. This buys you two things: 1) you can do easy...

There are many online boards devoted to various makes of car; I use www.sr20forum.com for my sr20de powered nissan for instance. The people on such a board would likely be more knowledgable than the average D&D player. ;-) As for the starter, it should be pretty easy to slip under the car and...

JoeGKushner's review thread got me to thinking about how I interpret online reviews (and reviewers); it also got me to thinking about this one specific issue: Though a Freeport fan, I put off buying Black Sails because of mediocre reviews here (3 at 3.33). Yet, I see that Black Sails not...

What a beautiful scam! Stand there all day and try to confiscate all the RPG products you can - "I must confiscate your PHB...um....for your safety." - "I must confiscate your d20 for your safety." - "I must confiscate those Cheetos for your safety." And every night you go home and call up...

I'm in LA for a bit; where should I check out in terms of game stores? Preferably near the airport, but all suggestions are welcome.

Under the theory of "it's magic, not physics" I wouldn't worry about this. I always imagined that Slow and Haste created sort of a localized temporal disruption (a la Time Stop). So a flying beast would exist happily in his little bubble of slow time and not have to worry about falling out...

So, was Castle Maure originally published as an entire module in 1E? Or was this never published, and only resurrected from Gygax's campaign notes? (It was plenty fun reading the levels included in Dungeon 112, fun enough that I wonder if we'll see additional levels in future Dungeons...

At double-digit levels you often have an Empower or Lesser Maximize Rod; there's no simpler way to take an enemy tank out of the fight than to hit him for 10+ points of STR drain with no save. Compare this with Enervation for instance; the Empowered or Maximized Enfeeblement holds up pretty...

What happened to the Immoth's little Frost buddy? When I ran the module the Frost thing ran out and got minced by the party, but while it was giving it's life for the team, the Immoth was setting up for a big attack. (As I recall, I held back a bit -- there were so many PCs and animal...