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Hmmm .... I am wondering if I misunderstood the question when I made my reply a few posts back there. I object to training 'player behavior'. Good character behavior, on the other hand, is definitely something to be rewarded. EXP bonus' for good ideas are totally fair game. Making all the...

It never occurred to me to try to train my players. As a general rule, the people I game with are friends first, gaming companions second. As such, I wouldn't presume to even -try- to adjust their behavior by any sort of reward/punishment scheme. I'd talk to them out of game if I had any issues...

1 - Two. 2 - Roughly 30-40% 3 - They don't. 4 - No. 5 - In my experience, there is no correlation between gender and the propensity for min/maxing. 6 - No. My wife knows the rules better than I do. 7 - I've played in groups with just guys. I much prefer mixed groups. 8 - Because of lame...

On the strength of the reviews and positive comments right here in ENWorld, I bought C&C and gave it the old college try. After spending the money, prepping the adventure, and running it over two successive weekends, I ended up feeling that I had been misled by those overly positive reviews. I...

Sure the Siege Engine and the existing classes offer some variety, but not in as overt a fashion as the feats, skills, etc.. in 3.x. One player wanted to play a dagger expert. With a small selection of feats in 3.x, he could achieve that in a qualitative and quantitative fashion. Not so much...

I bought the book, made an adventure and ran some friends through it. We've given the game two sessions (about 14 hours of total play) and have decided that it didn't meet our requirements. It -was- quick and easy but that came with a cost that we weren't willing to pay. Without feats, skills...

One's life, regardless of one's religion is based on a series of series of observations and assumptions - heat burns, gravity works, pain hurts, water is wet, etc... These things over time become an entrenched part of our definition of reality. Causes have effects. Effects can be traced to...

We've gotten some good mileage out of the Favored Soul. One of the players in my game multiclassed (rogue/favored soul) into it and it has worked out real well. He's mostly rogue, so his spells aren't so powerful in the grand scheme of things, but it certainly comes in handy to have that...

"D6" = "Dee Six" "Bulette" = "Boo lett" "Archon" = "Arr Konn" "Barghest" = "Bar Guest" "Drow" = "Dark Elf" <I dunno, I never liked the word 'drow'> "Elminster" = "Munchkin Nancy Boy" "Ixitxachitl" = "I can't be buggered to pronounce this one, so deal..."

I have been running an Egyptian themed game for some time and have really been looking forward to Hamunaptra. Up until now, I have been raiding the local library for cultural, architectural, and mythical references. While not a real honest to God scholar of Egypt, I think I have built a pretty...

Give it to me! I want it now! So when will this reach the stores? Are we talking days or weeks?

I don't really like shringwrapping, but I am an advocate of putting stuff into some kind of plastic slip wrap. My FLGS uses appropriately sized comic book sleeves that are then taped shut. They are pretty cool about letting people taking the books out of the sleeves to page through something...

Prefoession (Journalist)to make a living at it. Perform (Prose Writing) to write a good article. Of course the appropriate Knowledge skills would be useful for facts checking and so forth.

Way back in the days of yore, I played a dwarf tank in a game of GURPS. The little bugger was nigh unkillable. He waded through his foes like a foul tempered lawn-mower. Alas, when I constructed him, I gave him a phobia. I forget how many points it was worth, but it ended up being his undoing...