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I couldn't agree more... I'm going back to Warhammer & GURPS... or WoW, if I want to play a video game - and it has 70 levels!!! Sounds twice (and a bit) as good :\

I know your pain; I became that guy too… My epiphany occurred when the regular GM had a night off, and, as second chair GM, I stepped behind the screen. Our regular GM acted like a right royal SOB as a player, and after the game I asked myself, “Is that what I do; is that what I sound like…?”...

Nope - read it again... "...You can understand the spoken words of creatures or read otherwise incomprehensible written messages. In either case, you must touch the creature or the writing..." it a Personal spell...

Yeah, down here in Australia some speak 'Strine' - and like your wife's relatives, it's generally a ... rural ... problem. ;)

I love the feel & atmosphere added to a game when a more comprehensive language element is added; I loved it so much in MERPS/RoleMaster, I dragged it into 3.5 (and any other game I use…) I renamed Common to 'Trade' and relegated it to a language of last resort. And I use skill ranks for...

Yes, this happened to me a couple of years ago... The character out grew the original concept during creation. I just couldn't get a handle on it. After a couple of days mulling over the problem, the solution struck me; if its not the same character, why does it have the same name? I renamed...

Yep, this has happened twice for me… a) With the first group, two things happen pretty much simultaneously; a new player entered the group (a friend of a friend of a friend) and we really didn’t hit it off (like BlueBlackRed’s newb, he thought there was a pecking order), and I had a bit of a...

3rd: 1d4 4th - 7th: 1d6 8th - 11th: 1d8 12th - 15th: 1d10 16th - 20th: 2d6

Totally agree with Meruri; failing a UMD check should never expend a charge.

I agree with most here, standing from a seated position, as a ME action, would not provoke an AoO. However... I would also give the option of standing as a free action, which would provoke an AoO...

Great idea, but if you do this, make sure it is something worth knowing, else it will just pique the player's attention to the possibility that something is amiss... Maybe: '...scratches on the floor, like the desk has been moved...'

I would recommend you check out Robin Laws' Esoterrorists for a slightly different take on the topic of advancing plot lines based on character skills. His arguments are quite compelling and enlightening (as always); even if you never run an Esoterrorists game, the book is a good read, and good...

Any of the characters from Deadwood (specifically Al Swearengen, Seth Bullock or E. B. Farnum)...

Yep! Played it at MacquarieCon in Sydney (in the mid-eighties?) with the author as the CM (David Brugman???). Utterly brilliant... Unfortunately, the rules were but a tool in a masters hands and didn't shine as brightly in another's... more's the pity...

I’ve written something similar, just a little more granular (but have never got around to play-testing it)… * As soon as a character falls below 0 hp they move to the Bleeding state (see table below) and must make a Fort save (DC half negative hp); failure indicates the character deteriorates...

Gut reaction; No - I wouldn't allow it. The charge portion of the action is a limiting requirement (straight line, etc). If you allowed full attack as a standard action, then the character could take any move first...

Sorry dude, I have to disagree with you here... Light Weapon is specifically a melee term: "...It indicates whether a melee weapon, when wielded by a character of the weapon’s size category, is considered a light weapon, a one-handed weapon, or a two-handed weapon..." When it is thrown, a...

It's not the dpi at which they were published in this case - it's the low resolution at which they were created (due in part to the size of the map) - it shows up every fault. Virtually no effort has been made with these maps; I'm guessing the two major filters used here were a bevel & a drop...

Dude, that really cool.

Sauteed with garlic and chives, with a side of wild rice and roasted vegetables. (our game is likewise a gnome-free zone)