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My copy also had some extra glue on the top of the back page. No harm done to the book in fixing it. PS

Isn't the folk hero fighter from Thundertree? Is his/her house marked on the map? Seems like it would be a place the character would want to visit. PS

It's never the Dex fighter vs the Str fighter that's the issue, because they play differently. It's when your friend says "that's cool! I'll play a Dex fighter too and can have witty repartee while we dash around and defeat the bad guys!" And you bring a fighter with leather armor and a rapier...

I've recently moved so I'm trying to get my 4e game on to Roll20. I want to keep playing that forever, basically. I've recently been playing in a Pathfinder game. I find the game pretty awful. It's bad in all the ways the internet says it's bad. But it's what the friends are doing, and they've...

The last 3.x game I ran (which is likely the last I'll ever run) had a monster listed as "vrock 67 hp". So I printed out the vrock. And his spells. And his summons. And their spells. And their summons. And their spells. 10 pages later . . . I switched to 4e. :D If I get around to running a 5e...

You could figure out the hide modifier for the bandits, let them take 10, and roll every PC's perception (spot, whatever) vs the static DC. Then if less than half the PCs pass there's a surprise round. PCs that pass the hide DC also get to act in the surprise round. Tho Greenfield set up...

Actual quote from my last Pathfinder session (another player, talking to me): "I have +22 to hit. Why do you only have +21?" Some people notice . . . PS

Sigh. I was so certain this was going to say "I prepared Explosive Runes today." Such a missed opportunity. Tho now that I think about it, you could put Explosive Runes on a parchement, then your Command could be "Read!" which would be funny. PS

We played AD&D for years - most of a decade. Our games diverged greatly from the published rules. Trying to figure out how to play just from the published materials now completely eludes me. PS

Our 4e game is once a month, with some skipped months. So we're at about 40-45 sessions. 19 PC deaths, including 2 TPKs. PS

I think it's a pretty fair reading of the Arthur stories to say most of his knights weren't paladins. Isn't that what makes Lancelot stand out? PS

I add NPCs to the party all the time. It never has anything to do with the composition of the party. It has everything to do with the motivations of the NPCs and the actions and reactions of the PCs. If my players want to roll with no healer, I let 'em. PS

Looks like last night's game - with me as the only PnP gamer. I haven't ponied up for Hero Lab, so I have to print out. And printing last week was a comedy of errors (6 failures before printing, then my PC almost died :D), so I might go with the laptop next time. PS

I hadn't really thought of this before, but the "players vs. the dungeon" style has an interesting dichotomy of strategic thinking. The DM expends all his tactical thinking in the set up, scripts monster/NPC actions, places loot and environment ahead of time, then minimizes adaptation. He's...

I'll often do this when I play. I'm usually more interested in having my PC fill gaps than I am in a particular class (or character type in classless games). And as it happens my favorite D&D class is cleric, so I'm often the healer. :D PS

I only got 2 sessions of my Goblins of Eberron game in. They managed to organize a Warforged Nation invasion of New Cyre, and are currently infiltrating New Metrol to wreak havoc before the warforged army arrives. By infiltrating I mean they've kidnapped the prince, stolen the treasury (and...

I'm not making light of your situation, and I certainly hope it turns around, but if you're putting food on your credit card you should probably hold off on RPG purchase of any kind. PS

Love his work on the game Titan. The monsters are essentially all silhouettes, but they have great character. PS

hey! hidden text! Please set your font color to default. :D PS

We were 9 years old, and hadn't started playing D&D yet. We started with Melee and Wizard. All I remember about it was there was some lightning spell and our "gold pieces" were called Golden Gonrupees. PS