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    Core Religion Survivor - Round Eleven

    Wee Jas. Scottish for small butt. Gotta go.
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    Is D&D magic purely Vancian? Let's settle this.

    Vance should be read if only to delight at the various schemes of Cugel the Clever. The hardest-working lazy man in all of fantasy literature. He is a gem of an unforgettable character. The entire Dying Earth cycle is chock full of good game ideas.
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    all time Favorite module cover.

    S3 - Expedition to the Barrier Peaks: Wizards, Swords and .... Laserguns!!! It didn't get any better than that back in the day. Cool cover.
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    What module are you running?

    I'm running a little gem called "The Keep on the Borderlands". It came in the boxed set with some pre-printed chits numbering from 1 to 20...... Oh wait, this isn't 1981! :D
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    Core Religion Survivor - Round Nine

    Wee Jas. Silly name. Boring concept. Oh...and that hair! :eek: Blech!
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    What was so magical about 1E/OD&D art?

    I just knows what I likes.....
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    What was so magical about 1E/OD&D art?

    Nostalgia rules! Rose colored glasses or not, I have yet to run across a picture in 3e that MOVES me and fires my imagination like the 1e stuff did. Plus, alot of the 3e character art is just plain stupid. The females look like men. The men look like either hyped-up roid raging gorillas or...
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    Wizard Or Sorc.

    If you have a DM (like mine :\ ) who does not give a whole lot of "downtime" in the campaign then the Wizard may actually be at a big disadvantage. Scribing scrolls takes time. Crafting wands take time. Memorizing spells take time. Placing new spells in your spellbook takes time. Learning a...
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    Core Religion Survivor - Round Eight (The Final Nine!)

    Yeah, but who is going to bother playing a LN cleric of a death deity? Your motivation is.....hmmm? Making sure no one robs tombs? Thats where 50% of the good loot is found! ;)
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    What spells do you get tired of seeing wizard players take? Cliche's, etc.

    I'm not so much tired of players picking Fireball, per se, but rather in HOW they choose to implement that spell. Its kinda like the 98 pound weakling who all of a sudden learns ninjistu: "Now its payback time!" - in other words after four levels of cowering in fear they become the biggest...
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    Core Religion Survivor - Round Eight (The Final Nine!)

    Wee Jas. Silly name. Is it Scottish for "small rear end"? Death deity but NOT really evil??? Hmmmm. She gets my vote. PS - Glad to see there are few Hextor haters out there. My six-armed man rocks!
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    Rules that never made sense to you?

    One problem with losing XP is that the loss of a fixed amount of XP hurt different levels differently. Losing 500 XP is a tragedy at level 2 but a mosquito bite at level 12. But I do agree with you that as written Energy Drain is a total pain in the rear. You basically have to redraft your...
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    Character Generation

    I'd go with the PHB and the "Complete" books and keep it to those. Every character type gets a meat-and-potatoes version (ex: fighter) and a variant or two (ex: swashbuckler) as well as a decent selection of PrCs. In my own campaign I make all PC's run a PrC idea thru me WAY ahead of time...
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    Slay Living or Finger of Death

    Phantasmal killer is still quite potent, 2 saves or not. No one really has mad bonuses to saves at level 7 (absent buffs or magic items) which is the earliest level that a comparable enemy spellcaster can access this spell. Two bad rolls = dead PC. That's rough.
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    The Wii May Be the Bane of Roleplaying

    A rough timeline list of all the things that were supposedly going to kill off PnP RPGing: The Personal Computer Gaming Consoles (generation zero) The Internet itself LARPing Gaming Consoles (N64 / Playstation) Ultima Online Everquest Gaming Consoles (PS2, Game Cube, Xbox) Next generation...
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    Houserules - Yay or Nay?

    My current campaign has 12 pages (albeit in generously-sized print) of house rules. Mostly for slight modifications of feats and spells. A couple of feats get thrown overboard. A few spells get "clarified". Classes and races get a minor tweak here and there. No one has objected so far as...
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    Core Religion Survivor - Round Six

    Exactly.
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    Rules that never made sense to you?

    The new 3.0/3.5 Turn Undead rules. Okay, a d20. Check result on this chart. Now keep that result in mind and re-roll these other d6's over here....check for effect. Seems very inelegant and not akin to the way other things in the game work (such as roll 1 die higher to beat AC, roll 1 die...
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    I've turned around on Downer

    I don't know why everyone was so "down" on Downer (no pun intended). I always thought it was pretty darn good.
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    How closely do you track daily expenses for your players?

    I don't even give out copper in my own campaign. It's silver on up. Maybe I can just assume that there is some copper in each find and thats what covering the "invisible" incidentals of everyday life.
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