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Ooh, that works nicely. Although I might work it slightly differently: after the spirit has crossed over, he can spend some XP (25 or 50 per HD of the spirit, or something) to maintain the connection over the great divide. It may not last forever, but it'll last at least as long as the...

Thanks for the advice, everybody! Pawsplay - thanks for the list of issues. I think that just thinking through the different characters' stances on the different issues will help me make them more different from each other. Although apparently I'm not doing as badly as I thought. :D Cailin's...

All right, let's see. I've already got the link with Anna established: a strong psychic connection that drains his energy when it's active and could cause Alex a fair amount of damage if the link was broken suddenly. How about if the releasing of ghosts is a follow-on from that connection...

Thanks again, Malcolm. The problem here is that none of the trapped ghosts the PC is dealing with here have a problem with closure. They've been forcibly held on "this side" by magic, so it looks like I'm going to have to take a few steps away from the more real-world methods you mentioned. I...

Yeah; that's exactly it. What Serena/Jez/Cailin would do is sometimes very different from what I would do. And that's when the problems crop up. (The other difficulty is playing in challenging groups where I feel the other players have much stronger personalities than me. In that situation I...

Malcolm: nice. Thank you! The word Spotter, which I didn't know, is helpful. The PC: I'm already providing him with dreams. The first one was reasonably coherent, because he has a strong, strong link with Anna, but later dreams are going to be less coherent and more disturbing. We also had a...

All right, people, I'm looking for a little advice here. The default alignment for characters that I play is Neutral Good. I can't think of a single character I've played that (despite the alignment written on the character sheet) I haven't played as NG to a greater or lesser degree. And I'm...

Absolutely. I'm already part-decided that Rashi is going to be partly based off you and partly based off the kids we work with! :D I'm also fairly convinced that Rashi is going to be more important than I originally though, possibly in tandem with Madame Luludja, who I like already. I think...

Important, but not important beyond all other things - the most important thing IMO is a fun game. Party harmony, by the way, is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be: some of my most fun games have involved characters (not players) arguing or plotting against each other. Of course if you...

Wow - thanks SM! Those NPCs are fantastic, and they give a real "London flavour" to the game. I'm going to change a few bits, though... Elizabeth Huntingdon Used to live in Alex's apartment way back when. A little history: the building Alex lived in used to be a council block which was then...

Epic slots being of 10th level and above? I guess so - same way you can prepare a 4th level (or lower) spell in a 5th level slot if you really want to. (I certainly remember my sorcerer casting fireballs out of 4th level slots when things got desperate...)

Jamis Buck's NPC generator. Don't have a link to hand, though it's somewhere in the ENWorld downloads section. Free, and it's rather nice too. :)

Never heard of a cambion, but a yugoloth is a type of fiend. Planescapey in nature, I believe. And I think they're NE.

Essentially what I was trying to do - until I looked at the Modern charts that give 450 xp for a CR1 encounter. That's cool if you're playing with a party of 4 or 5, but when you only have 1 PC that's going to end up with some fairly fast levelling! I've been experimenting. :)

Technically speaking, I'd fought orcs before, but the second session of the Midnight campaign really taught me to be scared of them! First level party of six taking on a little band of them. :eek: Not as bad as the wolves,, though...

I'm still working on this. I'm running a no-combat (so far), solo Modern campaign, so all my XP awards are ad-hoc. I'm a fairly inexperienced DM, and I'm never sure what to award for a session that's heavy on the roleplaying and skill checks but light on the actual CRable "encounters". I don't...

I voted yes. Of all the games I'm playing in, the one I find most exciting is the low-level (currently 3rd) Midnight game. That feeling of "living on a knife edge" is great - you're always worried your character's about to die! :D (Yep. I enjoy that.)

Terraism, if you're reading this, STOP NOW. NOW. Thank you. Okay, I think he's gone. ;) I'm running a solo d20 Modern (over instant message no less) for my friend Terraism, and while I've got lots of ideas, I'm looking for some help piecing a few bits together, and some of...

vBullletin indeed has a free version: PHPBB, which you can see in use on my boards (link in sig).

1980, here. :D (And very immature...)