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For metal minis, spray oven cleaner works rather well, also - and faster than most alternatives. (even the non-caustic variety) For plastics, make it another vote for Pine Sol. (Even if Pine Sol mixed with stripped paint smells absolutely vile.) BTW, if we're talking about acrylic paint and...

Hehe... It always cracks me up when Ares gets used as a serious villain. (This isn't a dig at anyone, it's just how I feel) The little shmuck is the ultimate loser of the Greek pantheon - going down to Earth to fight mortals because he's a nobody among the gods, constantly getting his ass kicked...

A friend of mine loves to play Paladins. Claims they're his favorite class, and so on. The only problem is, he actually chooses to ignore the way D&D portrays Paladins, and his personal idea of how one should be played usually ends up as some kind of unholy cross between an angel of death and a...

Based on everything I know about Age of Worms, the issues of legality are your last worry - in no small part because in all likelihood, your LN will soon be dead anyway. ;) Seriously, though - unless your DM actually puts a lot of work into fleshing things out, I wouldn't expect a great deal of...

I think the power creep is extremely significant. I also don't think that releasing new, better classes is good a solution to the problem of certain classes being underpowered. Especially when some of those new classes then end up being even stronger than the classes that weren't underpowered...

I'd let it work, if for no other reason than to make magic as consistent as possible. Then again, I also see no logical reason why plants ought to be immune to Polymorph effects, but that's strictly a house rule on my part...

This actually ties in nicely with something I was going to bring up. I think it's not hard to get people to agree that Conan is CN, and Riddick is CE... But really, what's the difference between the two (movie) characters? Aside from the fact that one comes from a fantasy setting and the other...

I'm coming into this really late, but what the hell. Indiana Jones: Neutral Good, almost certainly. A love of history and a respect for historical artifacts and relics don't make him Lawful, especially when you consider all the rules he breaks when going after said artifacts. Odysseus: I'd be...

I think SR is frequently underrated, in particular for non-casters like fighters or rogues. At lower levels, it might not make up for all you lose as a Drow, but when you get to 10th-12th level and serious magic starts to fly around (and many monsters have abilities scarier than what any normal...

A +4 Will save is actually pretty good for a CR7 non-caster monster, and the fact it's not a humanoid and has a ton of hit dice means that a 7th level wizard isn't exactly going to be overwhelmed with options when it comes to useful Will-save based spells. Level 4 spells do include some nice...

Just do what I do - bug a friend of yours who's a good artist to draw a picture of your character until he gives in. :) I should really convince him to put up a website of the stuff he sketches when we play - for the last campaign we played, he probably has a good dozen drawings of the various...

1. Yes. 2. Check Rotten Tomatoes. 3. I'd say non-stop is a big exaggeration, but it does have a lot of action, especially in the last third of the movie. 4. Not quite, but I did end up stealing some of the visuals to use for descriptions of weapons, fetishes and jewelry for lizardman raiders...

First of all... If you want to insist that the 4-person party is integral to what CR means, then what you say about the chances of a single character isn't necessarily true - presumably, that single character's chances could be a lot worse than 50/50, since without the supporting abilities of...

...and the CR/EL system factors this in, how? (the PCs potential - and by no means guaranteed - ability to fly, I mean) Are you seriously claiming that the CR system is so robust, it's actually able to factor in things like that? If anything, it's just proof of the CR system's... lack of...

No, more like a "Since it doesn't assign CRs accurately based on something as simple and concrete like trading blows and losing through HP attrition, it's completely nonsensical to assume that attempting to factor in things that are difficult to quantify will somehow make it work better." reasoning.

Interesting how you fail to actually post anything concrete, and just make snide comments about others' lack of imagination. Care to provide any examples of these things you hint at, that'll actually relate in some meaningful and concrete way to the CR or EL system? Ideally without...

I'm sure Celebrim will be happy to answer this, but I'd just like to point out the following: It might be unfortunate (or not, depending on how you like your fights) but in D&D, the best thing 90% of the time is to simply hit the enemy with your best regular melee or ranged attack, or cast a...

It would be, if anyone ever said that all CRs were pulled out of a hat. I'd appreciate it if you stopped repeatedly misquoting me in support of your argument against hyperbole. :\ What I did say was that CRs for things over CR 20 might as well have been pulled out of a hat. You're free to...

1. Yeah, we all know what the textbook definition of CR is. But you don't need to run a whole-scale mock combat against a complete party to evaluate relative combat effectiveness. 2. Like it's been pointed out before - the NPC fighter isn't supposed to have all that extra equipment... But if...

This sounds like something that you ought to be able to easily work around, either by simply talking to the players, or offering them a stronger in-game motivation. (money, the urgent need to find someone, or something, etc.) Though it brings up an interesting point about what experienced RPG...