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I love Mercedes Lackey. The Elvenbane is one of my favorite books. Visually, I also like the "idealized human" sort of elves, and hate the huge eared anime elves. In artwork, I like elves to be either slightly taller or slightly shorter than humans, with thin, delicate features and ear tips...

I think that players should make an effort to know what they're doing with their characters. That way, by the time you've played a whole bunch of characters, you'll know a whole bunch of rules. I think that yes, having to explain over and over and over again what dice to roll when can get...

I have to agree that trust is very important. It's one of my chief failings that if a trusted friend does something, it doesn't bother me, but if someone I don't like does the same thing, I can get majorly cheesed off. But there are still instances where you can tell if you should be mad at...

Of your list, probably Comeplete Adventurer. It's a terribly nifty book. I will, though, stick up for the map folios. I like them. When it's time to brew up a dungeon, I flip through it, find a complex that I like, then use my computer to copy the map and change any bits I need to. It saves...

I, too, am a woman gamer. And I say "hear hear!" Fortunately, I haven't had any problems with my gaming group. In the games I've played, as a player and a dm, the female representation averages out at a just over 50%. And all the guys in all the games know how to treat a lady: exactly the...

In the first campaign I ever ran, before things went horribly wrong. (The first session.) The PCs need to buy fodder for their horses for a long boat ride. This is as best as I can remember the exchange. Shopkeep: That much feed for that many animals will come to five gold. PC: That's too...

Good thing is that this dood is the head of the thieves guild. Huzzah, he suddenly has a partner, who inherits all the plot hooks with the estate. :p Anybody who's clawed their way to the top of a thieves guild has got to have a whole network of allies, as well as a lot of people who want...

1. When one shotting, I like having people make characters in advance over pregens. Give em a few directions, and a reason for being together, and just roll the stats and check the sheets before you start. The lower lever the party is, the easier this is to do. 2. Keep it simple. You don't...

Here's a related question. So my elven druid died and was reincarnated as a half-elf-hobgoblin. Not being terribly keen on this (her elven heretige is very important to her) she'd like to pay someone for a "Polymoph any object" to get her back into an elven body. What situations could turn...

I think character problems should be solved in game, and player problems should be solved out of game. I think of XP as an out of game things, since it's an abstract that doesn't really affect the players' behavior or surroundings. On my "Rules" sheet, (gaming courtesies, basically) it...

I have, to my shame, already begun the creation of dwelves as a PC race for my campaign. -2 to charisma. Big penalties on interactions with elves and dwarves. Some nifty bonuses, though.

System wise, I hate the fact that my character cannot charge boldy at mine enemies without me saying that no, I'm not charging, I just run up to the thing and thwacketh him. I also hate Skim-tar. One guy in my group says it that way. But what really makes me have to forcibly restrain myself...

I should be getting a few bucks back (and I mean a few). I can't afford to spend it on gaming books, but I will be spending it to finance prints of some gaming inspired artwork to sell at the comic convention I'll be at. And my hand-molded chocolate d20s. No one ever fumbles on a chocolate d20!

To get all the marker residue off my mat, I use windex multipurpose cleaner, vinegar formula. Wiping with a wet cloth or paper towell (the markers I use wash out of cloth just fine. Staedtler Lumocolor. Blue, if that makes a difference.) So it wipes off easily, but it does tend to smear all...

I don't like favored classes, personally. I think it prevents people from getting as creative as they want with thier characters. What if I'm a half orc cleric and I decide that arcane magic is really cool and want the party wizard to teach me some spells? Nope, can't do it, not unless I want...

Owlbears! Because...they're nifty. Owls, but bears. The possibilities for avian vs mamillian debate are endless. Do their babies hatch from eggs, or are the chicks born live? And they're surly, but so cute and lovable, like teddy bears with Real Mauling Action. Our gaming group calls them...

Does your metagamer have lawyer tendancies? If he knows all the rules and every monster in the book, this could be contributing to the feelings of not really being threataned. That makes screwing with them all the better. Change stuff. I think the suggestion for diseases and stuff is nifty...

If you're looking for some rules on how to run an interrogation, there are rules for torture in the BoVD that involves intimidation checks. Might help put some structure to it.

I'm gonna echo someone else and say huzzah for druids. A few psycho druids could wreak some major havok. There's all the weather control and big summoned beasties, but theres one example that never fails to give me the giggles. You want bombs? It's all about the fire seeds. Say youve got a...

I gotta agree with the majority and say this sounds awfully mean. Less like razing and more like just being jerks. I have, fortunately, already DMed enough that I can't fall prety to first time dm shenanigans. However, if my gaming group decided to give me a hard time the first time i ran a...