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I'm always fond of moments when everyone in the room is red-faced and teary-eyed from laughter, but that is a combination of stuff happening in game and one of us saying something completely smartass... Most recently, I whipped up a small adventure in-between pre-packaged adventures, and the...

No need to wonder. It's right there in the title. 'Vampire' dagger. Even after he dies, he'll get back up and continue feeding on the deaths of others.

It's not specifically addressed during the modules. I killed him off (and had his corpse possessed and made into a self-healing pseudo-zombie by the yellow mist-thing that crawled into his corpse). My Death in Freeport game is loosely detailed here. I'm a tinkerer, so I changed a lot...

At least one of the Spiked Chain builds linked to above involves a couple levels of Monk, which would give the character Evasion and possibly missile deflection. There are various ways to get Large size or Reach 10 ft. without Expansion or Enlarge Person, such as designing the NPCs as a Large...

Cats were used to watch the Pharoah's houseguests in Egypt. Since it would be 'rude' to surround an invited quest or foreign ambassador to the palace with soldiers, they were instead brought to a bedroom with a pair of cats sleeping on the bed. Once the 'guest' was ensconced in his chambers...

Sitting in one of Steve Kenson's demos at Origins, I was impressed with how he graphically described actions being taken. Not just 'Blast for 10, he saves' but stuff like 'You feel the gravitic generators and stablizers in your armor fire in sequence, but the concentrated blast of force just...

Oh yes, in my current game the Transmuter has a Raven familiar, and the party Fighter is prone to saying terribly ill-conceived things. In this Freeport game, some of the members of the evil cult have the sign of the Unspeakable One tattooed on their thighs, and the Fighter has gotten in the...

The tower has a big specially shaped (and magical) mirror on top of it. On nights of the full moon, the reflected moonlight bounces back up to the moon-people, who send up a spherical vehicle, it's many sails, spread out in all three dimensions, billowing with moonlight, 'chasing the moonbeam'...

I don't do Gestalt, but the idea of Gestalting a Monk and a Soulknife sounds hot! This line from the SRD suggests that one could do so already, Instead of allowing them to wear light armor, you could take the SRD rule one step further and count the monk's body as 'armor' for the purposes...

The RPGA does something similar. Anything core is okay, anything from a splatbook you have to pay 'expansion slots' for, and you get one per level. Some of them, such as a rare spell or equipment item, cost only 1 slot, while a feat or alternate class feature / racial substituion level might...

Random thought; Would 2d10 instead of 1d20 radically change the game at this point? Criticals would likely be extremely rare (barring weapons / features that had a threat range greater than just a roll of 20), but rolls in general might curve a little better, rather than having a 5% chance of...

The 'Second Wind' mechanic seems like it would do a fair job of replicating some of the cinematic feel of comic-book superhero slugfests. I'm more inclined to stick with M&M2E right now, but I've always been fickle, and have a half-dozen other rulesets lying around anyway. (With Aberrant...

That's one example. This logic applied to other class abilities; Rebuke Undead. If you've Commanded six zombies, does that effect end immediately when you try to Rebuke something else? Spellcasting. If you've cast a Wall of Force, does it go down if you cast Magic Missile? The 'duration'...

Greyhawk either benefits from or suffers from, depending on what you want in a setting, a lack of development over the last decade, and, IMO, has managed to remain less of a 'kitchen-sink' setting as a result. It ends up feeling more coherent, and yet also being more easily adapted to be 'your'...

For straight Fighters, I prefer some combination of; 1) As an option, instead of using iterative attacks, the Fighter can make a mighty strike against one target. For every 5 pts by which the Fighter exceeds the targets AC, he adds one extra die of damage, equal to the normal weapon die size...

This is like some sort of twisted faerie tale. A *Paladin* arguing about not returning stolen loot to it's rightful owners, and how the rest of his traveling companions need to pay for his gear if it gets damaged. Wow. The Blackguard class was *made* for this character. This thread will be...

During the day, this is what the tourists see. At night, a completely different lion society emerges, where males and females hunt together, and different pride members are 'in charge' depending on what they are hunting, as the different pack members specialize in different prey species and end...

Druids - the idea of different types, some specializing in Wild Shaping, some in Summoning nature critters, some in weather effects, etc. could be neat. Necromancers - hordes of critters, that's what I like. Summoners/Conjurors - not so much hordes of critters, but occasional OMG huge critters...

To simulate the 'skittering along the walls' notion, I had a kobold lair in an old drow temple, with net like 'webbing' woven all along the walls and ceilings. The kobolds, all skilled in Climb, scuttled along the webbing out of reach and flung various weapons and missiles at the party, with...

That's just delicious. Great idea!