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Great minds think alike. :) In the "modern" campaign, there certainly will be a Resistance force. Indeed, that resistance force will tie into 1400 years of the campaign's history, as well as a prestige class taken by one of the PC's. Furthermore, everyone in the campaign truly believes the...

Indeed. The overall world-history is divided into 700-year chunks (which correspond to the Phoenix's Resurrection). 2800BC: Gods imprison the Ancient Elemental Lords, populate the world with animals and plants 2100BC: Elves from the southern jungle migrate north, driven out of their homes by...

Yeah, this is something I've been struggling with. I made sure to let all the players know that this would be something of a doomed/hopeless game before we started. And I've been trying to present it as, "If you fail, the world ends (as Ogremoch is released); if you succeed, you'll at least...

Very interesting idea! I was planning on having them develop an egalitarian society--kinda like communism. My thinking was to model RL communist nations (USSR, China), where everyone is equal (except, of course, the leaders). Having a rigid caste system would provide a better incentive to the...

In a larger picture, I do this all the time. Someone on these very boards coined my favorite term for it--You're schroedingering the results. See, Schroedinger postulated the whole "cat in the box is neither dead nor alive until we observe it" thing. In your case, what's hidden in the ashes...

I'm currently running a 13-session campaign to detail the history of my campaign world. It's taking place 700 years in the past, relative to the main campaign. During these 13-sessions, the PC's will witness the downfall of a peaceful empire (of elves and orisha/spirits) as it is overthrown by...

I used to game with someone like this. She was a great role-player, but hands-down the worst tactician I've ever seen. Her serceror was constantly getting eaten/torn apart/etc. I talked to her about it out of game. She said she really hated combats. She never bothered to read the combat...

<in-joke> "YAY, we're off the hook! Oh, wait...didn't we just witness our own horrible deaths?" </in-joke> :) Spider

Ironically, as I was writing the above post, I was also setting up our newest latitude x300 laptop. It shipped with 2 bad USB ports, and it took me 2 hours to convince the CSR on the line of the problem. Thankfully we've got the on-site next business day service...but it's still a pain. Ugh...

A big part of this answer is: How tech-savvy are you? The more savvy you are, the more you can do for yourself, meaning the less you have to pay. I like Dells. In the past couple of years, I've owned/ordered about a dozen of them. Here's why: 1) Great support site. I'm a computer tech...

I'm the DM in this situation. Interesting. I had never interpreted the spell as compelilng truthfulness. I can see where you're going with it, though. The Will save actually makes me thing the corpse *does* have a will. It's essentially trying to resist being interrogated. And the...

Just this past weekend: A powerful wizard and his ninja-assassin minions crash a party being thrown for the city's nobles. He mind-controls the whole crowd to go berserk, uses illusions to make them think they're fighting demons, and then vanishes. He's teleported before, so the PC's think...

I'll agree with the other posters: One-shots rarely are. Only once have I seen one wrapped up in a single session. Things always seem to take longer than you expect. I'd break it up into "scenes". And try to give each scene a rough timeline. IE: Scene I: PC's are given orders by the...

I had this image picked out from Human Descent.com for your dad, seeing as how he's going grey... Spider

I'm beginning to think you do. From the Spider Climb description: It says nothing about "need not make Climb checks to continue climbing when damaged." I personally think the intention was probably "they're like Spiderman, with sticky hands and all that. They're not climbing with handholds...

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Last night, the bad guy tried to escape by climbing up the walls; he was affected by a Spider Climb spell. The PC's had 2 or 3 rounds worth of shooting at him, and hit a few times. Should I have forced him to make climb checks each time he took damage? Climb Skill: Any time you take damage...

Heh, fair enough. Maybe I *was* just askin' for it. :) Well, at any rate, I'm quite pleased with the constructive responses. Thanks all! Spider

Sigh. I was just hoping for a few good responses. Instead, I got a lot of great responses, and one stupid flame war. :( Perhaps next time you guys want to toss around the gasoline, you'd be kind enough to start your own thread? At any rate, thanks to everyone who provided some useful...