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Only to the sacred cow worshippers. I got rid of this little rule – a huge loophole in the AoO rules – and my campaigns have neither been unbalanced nor derailed, nor did my players ever try to lynch me for it. :p The way I saw it (and most of my players agreed with me), why have all those AoO...

So, do you think Vorenus (her husband) would've killed her, if she had not commited suicide? He looked so enraged, there. After learning that his grandson was actually his wife's baby from an affair with another man, Vorenus' face became so twisted and red with anger, he was almost...

The most "ugly" (i.e. lean, muscular and man-like, even in the face) woman I've ever seen depicted as a she-warrior was Grace Jones as Zula, in the movie, Conan the Destroyer.

I have not read it, but I've heard lots of news and read lots of reviews about it. And what intrigues me about this novel is how it's a best-seller – written by a teenager, no less – when all it really is yet another rehash of old, overly used themes and plots. I mean, sure, it might be a good...

Vorenus will not have to make that choice between the two... at first. Mark Anthony and young Gaius Octavian will be teaming up, at first, to exact their great revenge on the murderers of, and the plotters against, Julius Caeser. Afterward, the two will split the Roman Empire between them...

IIRC... During the time of Julius Caeser, the grand "true" arena (as depicted in the movie Gladiator) hasn't been built yet. So, the producers were being historically accurate (as well as budget saving), by showing the gladiator fights in such a lesser arena.

Not to mention that, with the advent of 3.0, spell casters got (from 1st level, up) a lot more spells per day, and they also got (in the higher levels) the option for special feats that could enhance the spells they cast.

That seems to me an okay blanket rules change.

Hmm... That is indeed the paradigm that WotC seems to be forcing upon us with those spell changes. And, so, what does that say about D&D 3.5, in general? (That is, where 90% or so of the Player's Handbook concerns what happens in combat.) :\

The more heart-pumping and muscle-pulling action a person engages in, the less acute his sense of touch becomes. If that wasn't enough, a combatant's adrenaline surging would further desensitize him to tickles. And then there's the armor that most combatants wear. (Even leather armor would...

Really? I thought they had reduced it to 10 seconds in 2nd Edition. Oh, well. My statement still upholds. Even so, 6 seconds is a long enough time span. Practically anyone can swing a longsword and hit a stationary target several times within a 6-second time span. But if the target is moving...

But combat in D&D has always been fundamentally built on those two very concepts; that... 1.) During a 6-second (or 10-second, in 2nd Edition) round, a combatant in melee engages in a series of feints, jabs, and parries throughout the combat round, but the attack roll represents an opening in...

The maps in this new book look like they were drawn with crayons, and the terrain looks like it was molded from claydough. :( SJ Games really screwed up on this one, here; because, while I think Yrth (Banestorm) is one of the best fantasy medieval/Renaissance worlds ever produced, I also...

Well, sure! But what makes you think Elminster would deign to visit with you? ;) This reminds me of when I first began running a "Dalelands" campaign. The player characters started as 1st level nobodies. During our very first session, the guy playing a gnome spellcaster made a beeline through...

Please bear in mind that, when advising whether or not I should upgrade from GURPS 3E to 4E, that any changes in 4E made to better facillitate superhero characters/campaigns are totally useless to me; and in fact, may even be counter to what I'm wanting out of GURPS, here. When I flipped...

Okay, what about the changes in the combat system, between 3E and 4E? Everyone seems to be saying the changes in the combat system are so much better, but from what I've seen (perusing the new rulebooks), the changes are not all that many or great; at least, not enought to warrant my forking...

Really? A 13 or 14 DX in GURPS 4E will cost 60 or 80 points, respectively. That's an awful lot of points to put on one ability score, for a 100-point character. What I foresee is most 100-point characters in 4E having an 11 or 12 DX; that is, unless they're a rogue type. Still, I can see the...

I'm starting a new campaign, using GURPS. It's been nearly a decade since I last gamemastered using GURPS. I've been DM'ing, using D&D 3.0/3.5, for the past five years, and before that, I had taken a long break from role-playing gaming altogether. This new campaign will be set on a fantasy...

The best - i.e. the simplest and the most fair - "instant kill" rule I've seen is this: When a critical hit is confirmed, first the multiple damage is rolled. Then, if the victim is still alive, he makes a Fort save. The DC for this save is 10 plus half (rounded down, as always) the damage...

One player is a woman who wants to play a vengeful vigilante rogue/wizard specializing in illusions and phantasms. The other player is my wife, who wants to play a rogue/wizard specializing in charm and seduction magic; that, and she really wants to have a cat familiar.