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Do you require your PC's to account for every last meal and mug of ale? Do you simply charge them a weekly or monthly "upkeep" fee? Or do you just let it ride? I have always simply let the players hold on to their coins and I never bothered subtracting for anything short of "I buy a round...

Boredom plain and simple. I notice that alot in my own game group. If the game starts picking up then magically the dice stop spinning, the laptops get shut, and everyone is focused. Not a whole lot they players can do. GM's gotta pick up the pace or the one bored player needs to calm the...

Thank you, thank you all. Guess I gotta go find those books...

Boccob's gotta go. Anyone know anyone who every played a cleric of Boccob? Neutral = Blah. "The Uncaring God" = Blah. Just plain dull.

I have implemented a modified version of the Conan 1/5/10 level extra feats rule for favored classes in my D&D campaign. Works great. Does not penalize multiclassing and is not a game-breaker for those who decide to play an archetypal character. In Conan, every PC is Human. Favored classes...

No true profanity per se, but the double entendres constantly fly fast and furious amongst the players. Constantly. Out of game. In game, the PCs are too busy fighting for their lives to do much joking around..... But at least once a month I have to stop the action for awhile because I am...

Why so on the softbounds? Fell open better at the gaming table perhaps?

I would reccommend adding mooks or obstacles or other distractions to the BBEG encounter rather than simply beefing up hitpoints or saves. 6 on 1 is still 6 on 1. That is to say its 50% more firepower than the supposed 4 on 1 ratio that the encounter is scaled against. Thats a big jump...

Warhammer's to blame? As an old-school Warhammer FRPG (NOT tabletop...blech! :p ) gamer, I can't say that the dwarves were any more "Scottish" than not. Just about everything in that game had a strong Germanic flavor, including some of the Dwarven surnames. Sure some dwarves (particularly...

I too am blessed (cursed?) with a ton of nice shiny books most of which I will not be able to employ in actual gaming. They are still fun to read and ponder and especially plagirize (sp?) from, but thats about it. Probably 90% of the current campaings that I run or play in utilize material...

Ditto. Used VERY rarely out of game. Never in game. By me or by the other players or DM. Silly little term.

I would never normally yank a cleric's spells or powers "because their god is dead" but that is kinda the whole rationale behind the City of the Spider Queen adventure in the first place. Lolth is "silent", her clerics have become (mostly) powerless, and in that power vacuum...in steps another...

For PC's they get max hit points per level. Boss or critical NPC's/critters get the same treatment. Tough NPC's/critters get 70-80% of max hit points. Scrubs and cannon fodder get whatever I roll (high or low) or the printed average (if I'm lazy and just using something straight from the MM)...

When a cleric or paladin turns undead, is he/she channeling divine power and acting merely as a conduit or is it an inherent ability of that character? Specifically, I am thinking about starting a campaign with a party of drow PC's to run thru the City of the Spider Queen adventure. Given the...

Oooops! WooHoo! I found 'em. Thanks!

Waaaaay back when 3.0 had its debut, WotC published a small phamplet or sheet (given for free at game stores) on how to convert 2.0 characters into 3.0. It told you what to do with your multiclass characters and how to convert the 2.0 xp into 3.0 xp, etc. I recently came across a trove of old...

Cavalorn, love your idea of the non-lethal CDG knockout house rule. If there was a way to ensure a 1 or 2 hour knock-out, I'd have gladly done that rather than play lethal whack-a-mole on the bandit's head. Heck, I was just trying to keep him out of the fight for more than 1 minute by any...

WooHoo! My first thread to go to 3 pages.... :D

Some wondered what my PC's motivations for killing the sleeping bandit was: revenge, tactics, self-defense, etc. I would say more tactics than anything else. Again, thinking we were outnumbered around 2-1, I figured that if I did not dispatch the sleeping bandit now (who had suffered no...

So I dont get my DM mad at me let me clear something up: he did not countermand my action and refuse to let me CDG the sleeping bandit (who was a half-orc, btw). Rather, he told me that my declared action was evil and it would have some consequences, etc. I balked and the table got into a...