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Well, my first ever CoC character, a reporter for the Boston Globe, survived *six* gunshot wounds in the span of two hours of ingame time using the BRP system. The doc kept making his first aid/medicine rolls and I kept getting my d3 hit points back (yep, only one check per wound... but they...

But I don't believe that's in the rules, at least not in 5th+ Edition, to my knowledge, so that's a house rule, and my current GM is running things straight out of the book. It's much easier to adjust DCs than make ad hoc changes to percentages.

Let's just say, it's not easy being green...

I'm playing in a bi-weekly 5.5(?)e CoC game, and the only thing that really bugs me about the BRP system is the non-scaling nature of the percentile rolls for skills. So many failing Spot Hidden rolls, no matter how large or small the thing it you're trying to find, gets really frustrating. I...

Actually, I've liked they way they been doing organization statblocks in Dragon lately; I enjoyed the whole article on creating guilds/cults and am actually quite surprised it didn't make it into the 3.5 DMG (could've dropped a lot of those "paper cut-outs" pages) along with the more detailed...

If it's a magical creature, perhaps it can cast shatter. I remember the first time I pulled that out at an RPGA game... the look on the DM's face was priceless when the BBEG's armour cracked open... *laugh*

Started our current campaign in January 2001, deaths seem to be sparse, with occasional blooms of near TPK. Have been generally running with 7-8 PCs and most are now around 7th level, nearing 8th. 1st: Human Mnk2 - crushed by a bugbear's greatclub 2nd: Human Bar2/Ftr1/Rog1 - stabbed by a...

We were just wrapping up a five year campaign when we found out 3rd Edition was coming out, so we finished it and started a new campaign with the new rules. Simplicity. *laugh*

Many, many *many* years ago, I taught my brother how to play RPGs when he was eight; while out working in the fields on the family farm. We used no rules, no dice, no character sheets, nothing, just taught him the concepts of role-playing by starting almost every scenario with, "What do you...

Some suggestions: -orders from superiours if a knight or part of a fighting order. -a call to arms by the local lord -tales of a great battle -an intelligent weapon with a secret, that only respects great warriors -rumors from mercenary bands that are being hired for some campaign far away...

Just remember, the victim can always just pull it out and say, "Hey, free weapon!"

Even at noon you can have a shadow... just look under your picnic table! Would people allow a Shadowdancer to HiPS while standing beside a low stoll at noon on a flat plain because there'd be a trace of shadow under the stool? To stay hidden can he just carry the stool with him? Or how about...

It's all a matter of taste... I highly dislike Dork Tower and Nodwick and quite enjoy Mt. Zogon... perhaps it's the bloody-mindedness at times that tickles me. *laugh* And I too vote for Order of the Stick!

The question I'd pose to that is what harm would arise from including or designating things Open Content? Considering the short shelf-life of magazines I can't see it reducing sales, but only increasing them and adding more ideas and information to the great OGC pot. Is there concern that...

Word and Excel for notes and characters and Campaign Cartographer Pro with Mappa Harnica for city and wilderness maps and Dungeon Crafter for crafting dungeons... *laugh* The cost of Campaign Cartographer has come down a *lot* recently. See here!

The Discipline Powers list seem awfully sparse compared to the massive Psion/Wilder list; I wonder why there are so few powers restricted by those lists.

For stopping zombie hordes, of course!

This is the only problem I (and my group) have psionics; we tend to call them mystics or mind mages and try to think of less "technical" names for their powers. A simple change that prevents psionics from jarring with "fantasy"; it just becomes a point pool based form of supernatural power.

Same here... *sigh* Thirteen years and a couple of compliments... I'd love to go to GEN CON... *SIGH*

The Book of Vile Darkness (p.26-28) has some rules on sacrifices and magical powers that can be gained through them. The process is based on Knowledge: Religion checks with various modifiers, but I tend to allow Knowledge: Arcana to be used as well for arcane casters; one just needs to tweak...