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I have noticed the psions' ability to unload spectacularly but haven't decided that it's too much. The players sometimes moan about another being more effective than them but they generally shine some other time. One thing I keep meaning to do, however, is to add anti-psi stuff, specifically...

Them's the breaks. If there were -LA races I'd leave them in. It's all part of the wonder that is magic. Some you win, some you lose. Provided the players know the risks before they decide I don't see the problem. I had one player roll Halfling for the new body inhabited by his big butch...

I voted S&S but I like them both, really. I like to read what I think of as High Fantasy (Tolkien, Jordan, Gemmel, Eddings, Feist, etc.) but I'm about halfway through the Complete Chronicles of Conan and, man, I love that stuff. I think I enjoy reading S&S more. I'd like to play an S&S hero...

Fair comment - I digressed. It's a fair cop, guv. I take it the assumption is 1 session per week? How many groups play the same game once a week every week? I'd guess few, unless there are a lot of DMs who only DM. My 3.5 campaign has been going for about 3 years and the average PC level is...

IMC yes. I am not going to punish a player for rolling an +LA race. If I was worried about it I would just remove the +LA races from the table. As an aside, my long-standing houserule is that a roll of 00 = Troll. This started in a high-level 1e campaign (which didn't have the same baggage as...

Sometimes 1 (BIG fight), sometimes up to 6 or even 8 or more. Depends on the situation. I have never thought "I must give them X encounters this session". I feel that would be a futile attempt to impose order on an inherently disordered system. I mean, a fight could take 2 rounds (a few minutes...

Individual. Good = sheep.

Important point for me too. A character's progression was laid out in the PHB and the player concentrated on the game. One other thing I remember from ye olde dayes of role-playinge is that we played Characters (Dorian, Vorlon, Rashid, Steel, Sparrow, Azra, etc.), not "my [Insert Class Chain...

I think there is more Rules Lawyering nowadays for one simple reason: Everyone has the rules. [Edit] And so much of the Rules are ambiguous/badly worded. When I started I was the only one on the group with a DMG, so people simply did not know the rules. The books were in short supply and the...

IMO: If the seller was Evil, he'd sell it as a Bag of Holding, priced accordingly. If the seller was Good, he'd either have it destroyed/keep it as a curiosity/sell it as a rare curiosity, in which case it could cost much more than a Bag of Holding.

Hmm. there are two major reasons why I couldn't publish my homebrew: 1. Most of it is in my head. 2. Many of the ideas were stolen from other sources. For example, the basic world-premise is taken from Moorcock's Hawkmoon books, thrust 50,000-odd years into the future.

Some of you have hit on the thing I miss most. Being a young RPGr. Playing 1e in my teens/tweens seemed to be much more fun than playing 3e/3.5e in my 40s. Actually, I think it was more fun. D&D now is a little too complex. Being able to have an all-weekend game with EVERYONE present, not...

If you don't want psions augmenting their manifestations, don't allow it. If you don't want psions at all, don't allow them.

Bit of both for me. It meant different bonuses depending where you were standing but meant that players couldn't fiddle with their figures willy-nilly. They had to leave them where they were or spend an attack turning (or something like that. Heck, it's years since we played 1e).

Things I miss: The feel of the thing. 1e felt more "right" than 3e or 3.5. Being able to think up a ready-to-use creature in about 2 seconds (hit dice, AC, number of attacks), rather than figuring the right number of feats for the hit dice (and choosing said feats), 3 different saves, BAB and...

I use it as the starting wealth for new characters. Don't really use it at any other time. I prefer to give out what I think are reasonable rewards for the tasks set and I'm not too worried about the PCs having a lot of kit (I think the richest of them is about 30% over the guidelines). I'm...

IMC: If the NPCs are with the PCs, they get a fair share of the experience. If they are outside the party they are the level I want them to be. I've never been asked to justify why an NPC seemed to have shot through the levels and I don't expect it to happen. Players care less about an NPC...

Never had this problem with paladins, though I have grown tired of being a conductor on the DM's railroad when playing a paladin. If I Fell though no fault of my own then I'd expect a way back or a sensible option (atonement or blackguard). If I did something stupid then I'd probably atone...

I would beg to differ, certainly for the MM1 templates. Half-Celestial and Half-Fiend say "The creature's type changes to Outsider". Half-Dragon says "The creature's type changes to Dragon". In the sample characters, the type is given as "Augmented Humanoid" not "Augmented Human", so this can...

In the old days, before Low-Light and Darkvision, we had Infravision (Dwarves and most other things that could see in the dark) and Ultravision (Elves). Infravision pushed into the Infrared, allowing some vision in darkness where there were heat sources. Ultravision pushed into the Ultraviolet...