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Hi folks - I'm going to be starting a caravan-themed campaign soon and I'm looking for some adventure ideas. I have the overall story arc figured out but I find myself lacking inspiration for adventures. Any ideas? Each session will need to have some significant action as well as...

Hi folks. Tantalized by reserve feats and the new SW Saga approach to force powers, I've been trying to figure out a way to adapt 3.5 to a per-encounter or similar system. It looks like the "recharge" system presented in UA might be appropriate...

IMC I'd like each of the gods (there are four, elemantally-themed) to have their own flavor of paladin. I've seen chaos/evil paladin variants, which are helpful, but the water god is neutral and I'm not sure how to tweak the paladin for that. Has anyone seen or used any neutral paladin variants?

Yep, I've got all of them and they all run fast. Any similar games that I should look at?

Hi folks. I'm thinking of getting a new game for my laptop, but I no longer have the time to follow the news about what's out and what's good. Can you make any suggestions for things I should look at? I'd be interested in exploration/building/strategy games as well as any good rpgs. Stuff I...

That's extremely helpful, thanks! That sounds very much like my problem - I want the players to feel like they can do something with their character's expertise without me just narrating all their actions. As you say, the only problem will be anticipating likely places where this will be...

Thanks for your thoughts. I anticipate two problems with just abstracting the knowledge into dice rolls, though: 1) We lose the flavor of scifi - if the roll is just changed from "spellcraft" to "nuclear engineering", the game doesn't feel very distinctive. 2) We'll have physics arguments...

I've been interested in running a hard sci-fi game for some time, but I've never been able to figure out how to get around this problem: the players don't know any science. That makes it difficult to base adventures and campaigns on specific scientific and technical issues, and makes technical...

Thanks for the help, folks. This is a low-Int, high-Wis character (Druidic Avenger). His scores aren't that appalling (Int 8), but the player is used to very high-Int characters so I was looking for things to help balance out that tendency.

I have a player IMC who usually plays high-INT, high-CHA investigator/leader types. But this time around he's playing a dumb-as-a-post lizardfolk, and he's having some trouble curbing his usual instincts for social interaction and puzzle solving. Does anyone have any suggestions to help a...

What do you think, folks: can a barbarian/druid multiclass rage while wildshaped?

I have a player who wants to play a spellthief, a class I have no experience whatsoever with. What are people's opinions on it? How does it work out in play?

It is an excellent tournament module.

I'm ditching the Tolkein races for my new campaign to try and get a fresh role playing start. These are the four PC races I'll be using - can you folk help me balance them? I've balanced them as best I can with http://rpg.hmimages.com/racecalc.cfm , but this isn't really my bag. I'm leaving...

Does anyone have useful guidelines for how to calculate (or at least estimate) the LA for a new race?

By "official" I really just mean I want to avoid unbalanced third-party creations or similar. What are the gold elves' adjustments? There will actually be no wizards (all spontaneous casters) IMC, so I was hoping for just an intelligence bonus. Racial bonus on knowledge checks will be helpful...

I'm trying to find races for my new campaign, and would like to have a race that is especially gifted as scholars - but I can't seem to find any races with a bonus to intelligence? I've heard people claim that it's an official design decision that no PC races have positive adjustments to mental...

You are the absent minded professor beloved for your entertaining lectures and lively seminars, but you are constantly sitting on your glasses. You can recite the entire Illiad and make the audience cry for Achilles, but without your secretary you couldn't pick your own graduate students out of...

Hi all, I'm thinking of including some elemental-themed PC races ("Children of the Earth" or somesuch) in my new campaign - does anyone know of any +0 LA races or templates I could use? I'd be equally happy with either.

Is it just me, or is calm emotions a really poweful 2nd level spell? The text suggests that you could use it to end any fight: With a bunch of these, could you just waltz through any dungeon, calming every monster? Calm the BBEG and march off with his treasure? What am I missing here?