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If someone came to me with this kind of character I would do everything I could to help his character concept work. I would set DCs, I would make interesting things to find, I would set up chase scenes he could escape from and jails he could wriggle out of, I'd make a judge he could bribe. And...

I just started DMing last year. So I can't really compare 3.5 to anything. But in my learning curve, it felt like D&D 3.5 was working against me becoming a good DM, while the D&D 3.5 community was doing all of the teaching and helping. The online monster advancers, the SRD, Enworld, the blog...

If you would like to see all of the DMing advice ever given on Enworld, it's at http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/47525-dming-advice-links-fixed-july-20-2008-a.html . You can pick the thread titles that interest you, and read for days and days like I did, and you will still be...

In Magic: the Gathering, oni are worshiped by tribes of ogres. Religious ogres... that's something new. And one was imprisoned by 99 monks, but upon their death, it returned to the mortal world for vengeance.

I never realized how handy a generator that could make familiars, companions, celestial creatures, etc would be until Particle Man brought it up. I can't believe Wizards of the Coast never developed this product themselves.

I was thinking that if humans are not an official monster entry, then providing ways to advance them might be like providing a way to advance player characters and it wouldn't be OK.

The more I look at and use your generator the more I think the Holy Grail is on its way. You have a lot of ease-of-use features right -- a lot. Add 5 levels of druid with a drop box? Generate 5 CR 5 monsters to pick from for a random encounter, including "vampire gelatinous cube" and an...

You just reminded me that bards do not make good lawyers or functionaries. "Alignment: any nonlawful." I wonder what to do about that. I could be a neutral evil who worships a lawful evil god (still haven't found an appropriate deity), or I could be a neutral evil who thinks the organization...

Or for another way of putting it, 50 spaces your XP so far apart that I cannot remember what I would have given XP to roguerouge for -- I click on him and that's how I find out I can't give him XP. That's a little too long between times. (The "recent experience points received" list doesn't...

My group did it voluntarily when I and another new player joined the group. It cuts down on the brokenness, like introducing someone to Magic: the Gathering by playing Standard instead of Classic.

Well, you can, obviously, but only by making an unarmed attack roll instead of a plain touch attack.

In fact, usually only a handful of the people involved commit all the violence and the rest just give varying degrees of moral support -- a cheer, a fresh loaded weapon. Even in trench warfare. You know, if we used street gang naming conventions instead of going for fantasy, I bet more PC...

I feel like I got more good advice in this thread than I can apply to my one character, but I copied some of it down in case I ever run an evil campaign myself. That's an interesting idea -- evil out of fear. Like having to join a gang. Being a helpful fellow who always has a bandage or some...

But those limits are so low I never took them seriously. How are you gonna run a points of light campaign if you have to put in a large town every time a fourth-level character wants to buy something big and a small city for every eighth-level.

Forked from: So that's why you like it This is good to hear, because the campaign I want to join is an established evil campaign, but I want my next character to be all about teamwork. After being a DM, I have a real yen to play as a "good player" -- someone whose goal every session is to...

"The fighter didn't, the PC did" is a kettle of fish. But the main thing I want to say is related to the Treasure Tables post Lead with the Cool Stuff. Cool has an expiration date. If you don't get that +1 Holy Keen Mercurial Longsword of Quickness into that fighter's hands right now, odds...

It's just that illusion D&D gives you of "I can do anything!" Well, why not do something computer games rarely let you do? Build the evil empire, play the bad guy. It only doesn't work because D&D doesn't let you do "anything," such as PvP for one, and evil's not that much better than...

50 is a lot, I have still not been able to give Mark another experience point and he was one of my first ones. 3/day is not very much, though, you can't even give XP to the best two responses to each thread you make.

Is there a "quotable" thread where you can say "Here's a cool post you might have missed" (like this one)? Would it be possible to auto-generate one based on which posts get the most XP? That would be an interesting thing to see.

I suggest pairing the bump with a log. Tactical suggestions: it sits there like a bump on a log. http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/58054-3-5-3-0-collaborative-effort-collection-round-round-monster-tactics.html . And of course the site I linked to before, I don't know if you...