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Diehard and Diehard It's so dreadful that I'd like to vote for it twice. Seriously, the 0 to -10 threshold is there to keep PCs alive, so that enemies think "ah, he's down, I'll attack the next guy". Being standing and fighting at -8 is just asking for a PK. Failing the option to vote...

Whilst I like the idea that Charisma grants bonus feats, the problem with this approach is that although it achieves the primary objective (i.e. to make Charisma more attractive to classes that ordinarily dump Charisma) it is the unfortunate corollary that it is a major boost to classes which...

Whilst I fully appreciate the tired old dead horse that Charisma is not equivalent to Appearance, I would strongly refute the assertion that Charisma cannot be readily gauged. Most people could hazard an intuitive guess upon first meeting someone what ball-park figure their Charisma would be...

That is what I do - sorry if I gave the impression otherwise. Needless to say, forcing class/race picks then rolling organic woul dineed be "bastadry of the highest order".

The most important way to make Charisma useful is to make NPCs react accordingly. Unless your campaign consists of a large series of dungeon-hacks, NPCs will be a significant driving force in your campaign world. The example of shopkeepers possibly trying to get poorer deals to low Charisma...

Go Organic! 4d6 in order, one reroll and one swap. I opted for this method as opposed to straight 4d6 when I realised that no matter how hard you tried to cajole them, a lot of players played the same characters over and over again. Moreover, you get a lot of potentially interesting...

Just don't ask for an Apparatus of Kwalish!

Bit of a side-issue, but recent scholarship has reached the broad consensus that Churchill did not allow Coventry to be bombed, but rather was unaware that it was the primary target. At the very least, it's a contentious issue and shouldn't be used as a solid argument. Having said that, the...

I'm still going to advocate the "None" position, but this time I be a little less concise - I managed to get the second post before the discussion had really started. The fundamental problem with discussing the relative intellectual merits of the various different alignments is that the...

No. Alignments can rationalise their character, but eventually there will have to be reduced to a key set of core assumptions. Since these assertions cannot be proven, nor moral values balanced against each other in any meaningful way, no alignment can claim intellectual superiority. Of...

Lawful Neutral. It is an unflexible and static code not subject to any form of discretionary judgement, and hence is paradigmatically Lawful. In the absence of any such discrimination but also lacking compassion, it's Neutral on the Good-Evil axis. Stormborn has it right: since the...

I find Skill Focus fine as it is, especially for opposed skills. For example, if you had an equal modifier to someone and were using an opposed skill, Skill Focus helps you move from a 50/50 chance of success (also assuming the same key ability modifier score) to 66/34, so from winning on a...

IMC Reincarnated characters roll randomly for gender. Needless to say, if the race is genderless, this is a moot point.

A possible sample NE town: Ever since the necromancer Lord Vestrell killed the local mayor, wiped out the militia and put his zommercenaries on the street, the people have cowered in fear. They know that if they step out of line, they've had it. This is not to say that there aren't occasional...

I'd add a small caveat to the section about lawful characters and obeying laws that they personally disagree with, as I personally feel that for a lawful character, if an authority is legitimate, then all of its laws are likewise of legal status and should be dealt with accordingly . Thus, if a...

This makes this much more interesting regarding your stance. If I read this correctly, it means that you tend to oppose cross-gender RPing for pragmatic rather than principled reasons. Would it be out-of-line for me to further speculate that if a male player with a proven track record for good...

fusangite - It's good to hear from you in this debate, as I believed we have discussed this topic before. Then, as now, you have been one of the most articulate exponents of the wrong side :p . Without sounding overly reductionist, it seems as though the argument you are making falls into the...

So you're using a 1st level spell, a 5th level spell and two rounds that inflict 20d6 damage assuming that the BBEG fails a trivially easy Will save? Fine. I'll stick with my Scorching Rays.

I don't think that "totally-freewilled" is the argument deployed, and though I wouldn't level an accusation of you deliberately attacking a straw man, I'm afraid that this is probably what you are currently (inadvertantly) doing. The so-called "free will" notion is not so much that you turn...

Hi, another Brit here and another comment that I, like S'mon, personally can't see the problem. The question is which premise one starts from: many posters have been asking "why do you need to play a female character?". As a DM, I start from the opposite: "is there a good reason why a player...