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I almost lost my current PC the other night. He foolishly stuck his hand into something that turned out to be a very, very large Mimic. Said critter engulfed my character then began to swim away with him. I started at full hitpoints but was losing about 1/3 of them per round. As the events...

Main problem with Paladin: you can't spell Lawful Good without AWFUL. Folks get so wrapped up with being SO DARN Lawful and SO DARN Good that they play their character like they want to be the most gee-wizz Lawfullest Goodest most Lawfully Lawful person who ever was Good at being Lawfully...

Keep up the good work. I've been waiting for someone to do this setting right by the new rules ('course I've been too lazy to do it myself). Can't wait to see the finished product.

I could see the situation being more properly a "cover" action. The PC basically stating "I shoot whoever moves towards the alarm" and will hold their action until the bad guy jumps for the lever, horn, gong, whatever. If no one moves towards the alarm that round, the PC can continue to cover...

Gestalts should certainly not have LA *2. Its easy to think that they have "double" of alot of things, but (as stated in UA) one thing they don't have two of is actions per round. Yeah, maybe your Gestalt can cast Fireball AND Turn Undead, but he can't do both at once. No way one gestalt can...

Get well soon. Your creativity has touched us all.

Do not forget that vampires can summon swarms or packs of wolves, rats, bats, etc. While individually not a big deal, they can delay and harass your party (especially spellcasters) when appearing in large groups. You don't want your mage's counterspell of the necromancer's Symbol of Pain...

I have not experimented with Gestalt yet, but mixing it in with non-gestalt PC's may be kinda dicey. The gestalt characters will have loads more options (spells, combat feats, skill ranks, save bonuses) than their non-gestalt counterparts. The "normal" PC's may just feel like extras while the...

The joys of CREATING a HERO system character are wonderful. The pains of RUNNING a HERO system game are often excruciating. The system handles the supers genre par excellence. I have yet to find a better system to run a good continuing supers game. But the cost, oh the cost! Cost of time...

We use Reaper minis for our PC's, most of the non-combat NPC's, and the BBG's and their henchmen, or hench-things. We are increasingly using the WotC minis for opponents as current DM is adding to his stock by leaps and bounds. Our group has also pressed into service dice, counters, and little...

First level all the way. But usually I fudge at the beginning levels (1-3) and wont kill off a PC with a lucky die roll unless he or she does something tremendously foolish.

A much different experience these days. Combat is so tactical and s-l-o-w, and while all those options and neat combat tricks are kinda cool, you have to pay for it with increased time between turns, etc. Sometimes it feels like playing a old-school cardboard box wargame (e.g. Squad Leader)...

D20: not my favorite, but I'm not a D20 hater either. I would play / run Warhammer FRPG or Chaosium Call of Cthulhu in a heartbeat but no one seems interested, so I pretty much stick with good 'ol D20 D&D. Can't beat it for the amount of source material to borrow and steal campaign ideas from...

Every Wednesday from 7 to 10 -10:30'ish. Not a long time per session, but since we meet every week, the time tends to add up. We have stuck to 3.0 / 3.5 D&D but we may add another alternate campaign of either Modern or perhaps D20 Call of Cthulhu. I'm lobbying to run Paranoia on those days...

So let me get this straight, I give up one of my character's precious feat slots for a lousy three hitpoints? Not an extra 3 per level, or even one per level, just a one time infusion of a measly three? For such a bad-ass sounding feat (that's unfortunately a prerequisite for a number of...

Ditch the super-heavy (and noisy) armor, slap on a Chain Shirt, and start adding on a few levels of Rogue. In just a few levels the character will gain a ton of skill points to play with, a boost to survivability thanks to Evasion and Uncanny Dodge, as well as the thrill of dealing out extra...

Our 5 person group's combat was greatly speeded up when the DM instituted two new rules recently: one - no flipping through the Player's Handbook until AFTER you have declared what spell, feat, etc. you are using (that way you cant waste time "shopping around" for the best spell for that exact...

Eight quickie ideas for some caravan encounters: 1. An Etherial Filtcher snatches something important from the caravan and needs to be tracked down. 2. A non-critter encounter event: sandstorm (or even a freak rain storm) threatens the caravan. The PC's must react quickly to help save the...

For some reason Eberron is more like Ever-yawn to me. From what I've seen its ok, but just ok. I feel no compelling reason to jettison my homebrew campaign for it. I'll keep an open mind and peruse the material as it comes out. Maybe it will hook me in after all. Kudos however to the whole...

Gestalt characters are a great idea for the right kind of party (only a few members), and the section in Unearthed Arcana that presents them is pretty well thought out. Explaining, among other things, how to balance the CR of encounters when dealing with a party of gestalts, etc. As for the...