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I've seen way more selfish behavior out of spotlight-hogging drama-bunnies than I have seen "gamespace power" hogging by min-maxers. Bad roleplayers do NOT add to everyone's fun. (Except in retrospect.) Cheers, -- N

Nobody has a soul, because "souls" are nothing but Pelorian propaganda. Same deal with "alignment". It's fiction. - - - Everything has a soul, because there's a god for everything, and within each thing resides a spark of its god. We call this spark its "spirit". Gods of the living dislike the...

There's a spell for that. Cheers, -- N

Yep yep. And they needed their sickles, IIRC, because they had to cut their own mistletoe & holly at night, under the full moon, and catch the clippings before they touched the ground. If you lost your berries, you were out of luck until "that time of month". "Nature is a Mother", -- N

Mmm. It is, and it isn't. Whether you start with a +5 or a +7 on your Diplomacy check could determine how moving your speech turns out to be -- and whether you have a +5 or a +7 on your attack could determine if you win the fight that allows you to stand before the king and speak. Now...

Let me repeat: HE FILES AROUND FOR HOURS ON END and he remains fat. Therefore, flying does nothing to relieve his fatness. Drinking only water = not eating? That might help. But you've already established that flying does not help. You want to role-play frustration or insanity? Because that's...

Wow. I have no idea which adventure this is, I just have to say wow. What level range, and which edition? "Welcome to the site", -- N

Nope. I'm the sort who appreciates things more when I have a deeper understanding of how and why they work. Same deal with art: knowing the cultural context of a work increases my appreciation. Ignorance isn't my bliss. Cheers, -- N

A multiclass Ninja / Pirate, who is a zombie made from a dinosaur, but with some robotic augmentations. He has a bio-engineered mutant flying henchmonkey who spits acid, fire and lightning. Cheers, -- N

2009. Cheers, -- N

Form follows function, and characters chase crunch. If you make a game where people are rewarded for being engines of mindless slaughter, you'll attract people who wish to engage in mindless slaughter. If there were a mechanism for playing into "angstful alienation", and a mechanic which...

Yes! But these ones also scream horribly when they get stabbed, so there's an extra layer of comedy. Cheers, -- N

Okay, here's a 1e-compatible version of a 4e core mechanic: Healing Surges. These become 1e Henchman Surges. Every PC has 4 Henchmen around him at all times. These guys are so dedicated, or their families are so poor, that they're each willing to take a lethal hit for the PC. When you take...

One might follow that chain of argument, but it's not the only way to look at the situation. There are ways for a Vampire Druid to to justify his continued existence, just as you've found one way for him to justify self-extermination. Cheers, -- N

There is no "darker side". Nature is happiness and candy! Yes, exactly! There are no creepy nocturnal blood-draining flappy bastards in nature. Nope. None at all. Right on! No, no, no! Nature is made of fluffy bunnies! "This message was NOT the result of psychic coercion", -- N

Like war in general, it will end when all men and gods are dead, and no stone stands upon another. Cheers, -- N

What does he like about D&D? Does he like doing lots of voices (i.e. playing NPCs)? Does he like puzzles / plans / traps? Does he like violence? (... of course he likes violence.) Are there any particular monsters he favors? Does he prefer any particular terrain (including sailing ships /...

My aunt is a Slider, so I asked her how things worked out in the time-stream where Dark Sun was the initial 4e setting, and FR came out in 2010. Here's what she snipped from online discussions in that universe: ... in that time-stream, there were no survivors. Cheers, -- N

I used six deities, one for each non-evil alignment. They were: Raelor / LG - Sun, Justice, Nobility, War. King of gods, and god of kings. Eagles, lions, gold, longswords, Paladins. Selene / LN - Moon, Magic, Death, Knowledge, the Ocean, Winter. Owls, a scale, silver, spears, Wizards...