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That's a good one! I think I'll use it IMC.

I know that Feats can emulate Merits, but you have so few feats that you just can't take a flavor feat and have that feat you need to survive (I'm talking character creation here). I know flaws are unbalancing if let unchecked, but I guess rolled stats are worse. If you want to play a...

I don't get it, we have rules about AOO, but not about character quirks, personal problems and n'importe quoi d'autre. Merits and Flaws are a good way to flesh out characters without unbalancing the game too much. Is it because DnD isn't a character development game, but a Wargame with some...

That's a good point, I've just noticed that ALL the other games I play have merits and flaws. Silhouette (Heavy Gear, Tribe 8), Storyteller (Vampire...), Shadowrun, whatever, they all have some "official" if not optional Merits/Flaws system. When I create a DnD char, I tend to think in terms...

I agree that a mix of roll and role is the way to go, but when that ugly dwarf who smells like a toilet bowl starts to explain to peasants how he and his friend are just here to help and will take care of the kobold problem without asking for anything in return, and gets irked (sp?) when I ask...

BelenUmeria: Actually, it sounded more like some cop negotiator talk, where we told them we weren't ennemies, and would like too meet their leaders to find a way to get out of their sacred island. Only we won't take the chance of letting them have all our stuff (and holy symbol...) just because...

This is bad, but I think it's more of a problem when the DM doesn't accept good social rolls (with good roleplay). As in, we got into a ancient portal and ended up in Evermeet (in FR), and got caught by grim faced elves. I was a ½ Elven Cleric, with my Aasimar Cavalier friend, so we didn't...

Aha! The 100 CAN$ Question! We had that problem since we started playing something else than AD&D2e (thac0 WAS simple!), and we still can't deal with all theses cases. I had a player in a VTM game who never gave some thoughts to his social skills/stats, but would almost make you do in your...

In french Gratis means free. Is it the same in Scandinavian ?

Sexy ladies always have a head start, don't they?

Good Idea! I'd love a list of components!

Yeah, but in our games, we sometime come to long in-party arguments, and we seem to have the most fun when our characters argue, while all the players agree. So, if after a 4h-long session the DM says: "We all had a great time, let me calculate the XP.... no XP, since there was no CR. See...

I both play and DM, and we've had these problems before. In 2e, the more monsters you killed, the more XP you got. We usually used a % of dam / % of XP system, wich in the long run favored wizards... until Combat and Tactics. Now we use the 3/3.5 XP/CR system, but until Star Wars D20 came...

(by the way, it is extraordinaire, there is so much crappy french used on these board, like rouge, that I feel bad not correcting.. sorry) I think the best players are those that can give the DM a break with intense in-party roleplaying. We had a party where the cleric changed her patron deity...

Hehehe, I had a somewhat similar experience on the bus. My girlfriend was talking about how her evil character had had enough of the paladin the had to travel with. Then this guy, wich was likely in is early sixties told her : "Eh! You're evil, kill the guys in its sleep, with the rogue's...

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I invented lots of skill boosting items in 3E, both as a PC and as a DM. These were far more fun to introduce than simple guirdles of strength. My cleric gave her cavalier friend a Saddle of Safe Riding (+10), and was considering crafting some pants of surefootedness (+10 balance), but she...

I had that problem, but it ended up far worse... I DM'd a dungeon crawl, and when the scouting party member came to some drow's "rape room", things got weird. We had always played with mature themes, and my campaigns often dealth with such things like rape, torture, maiming, etc., to get the...

I had some bad experiences about all that balance thing. In my group, we never did real campaigns, so we all created characters, and each person would end up DMing for 3-5 sessions, then pass on to the next. As it happened, we did not always created characters together, some used old...