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I once tried to insert some sexual elements to my games but it worked out poorly. One of the PCs was a cleric of Olidammara, the deity of wine and song. I thought to myself that such PC should have a fairly active sexual life but somehow we both were somewhat uncomfortable about the whole...

I just... barely... managed to contain myself. Today's session was a culmination of a story-arc that has continued for three years. In addition this was the chance for a PC squire to finally earn his spurs and become a knight. Add in a few more dramatic details and you have today's cocktail...

It's a good question but part of the word "pseudo" is that the exact definition is intentionally vague. I guess the average of all the options you just mentioned and their common denominators would be the right answer to your question. Or just spirit of the age. It's pseudo-medieval, without...

Recently I've tried to incorporate a system of social ranks into my Greyhawk campaign. I want to establish a ranking between different social classes so that my players know what the pecking order is. If a merchant and a craftsman have a word against word situation, which one is right by...

People are free to make bad movies because I'm not forced to watch them but still this pisses me off (just a little bit). Why? Because I feel that if they gave me the budget, made me the producer and I had to hire the film crew from Enworld (job applications via pm), I honestly doubt if I could...

Yesterday I fulfilled a long-time dream but it didn't quite work out well. The PCs went to investigate a problem regarding giant ants. They had a few skirmishes, tracked the ants down and finally entered their nest. They fought their way to the queens lair where the workers maintained the queen...

I have one that I really feel bad about. It happened two years ago and I had been running games for a small group. The thing was that I had always been running or playing in small groups and it was kind of a habit - a superstition perhaps - that great games only happen if you have a small group...

My current group has been staying in the same locale for dozens of sessions and they've always visited the same city. I like it, actually and it makes a lot of sense storywise. I'm challenging myself a little bit, just for fun. I'm trying to create a village of few hundred people that would be...

Magic Marts, McMagic. It's hard to imagine anything more mundane than a longsword +1. Even a spoon is less mundane; PCs use both but the spoon is mentioned less and therefore more interesting. Any game designer would struggle to create a system where magical items and buying spells is more...

I think this would have been a good idea, if it had been fifty-fifty male and female gamers. Now it's pretty sexist because it's only women. Personally I would have been curious about how handsome male-gamers are out there. Maybe one of the could have been blown all these girls of the water with...

What sort of point buy systems do you use in your games for ability scores? Personally I don't like standard point buy because I don't like the fact that scores start from 8. PCs should be allowed to have weaknesses and 8 or 6 (after racial modifiers) is not a real weakness. In my 3.5 game, I...

Yeah, that's exactly what I say about Canadian and American metal music. Po-tay-toe, po-tah-toe ;) The picture makes me want to listen to Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 2 and play Call of Cthulhu.

Nevertheless, I think 97 cm and 13 kg is extremely light. I guess a child with this sort of physique could be normal, that's fine, but I like my halflings kinda heavy.

Even though it's listed as "Vital Statistic", weight is still pretty much "fluff". So that leads us to halflings' weight. Males are 30 lbs and females are 25 lbs. Since they average at 2' 14''* it means that their BMI is under 14 which means that they are severely underweight. Calculate Your BMI...

Two sessions, two deaths. First I had a carefully tailored encountered with goblins that were riding cougars (using leopard's stats). One of the PCs was a gnome druid so facing racial enemies and animals were right up his alley. The fight was hard but successful and as the cougar-riders were...

I think it's a great class but there is too much stuff to my taste. I wish you could have made a lot more simplistic. But I salute you for the effort. It really looks great. Hard to say about the balance issues but the fluff/cruch seem very good.

In this thread we can suggest great destinations, talk about our travel plans, shamelessly advertise our own country (or state) and ask questions. Personally I love traveling but money is always an issue. This year I only visited Tallinn, Estonia. Plusses: Olde Hansa is a nice medieval...

Well, I agree with Dandu on this one. BUT it's always nice to have rules for everything. Like if you play a silly one-shot where everyone has evil characters and the whole game is more or less PvP then it's nice to have some rules for missed shots when characters are fighting in melee. First of...

(all of us were playing evil characters) Cleric-PC casted Speak with Dead and conversed with a dead PC: "Hey, I can cast Raise Dead and get you back to normal if you pay, let's say, six thousand gold pieces." Dead PC: "What?! That is way too much! No deal!" All of us: "..................."