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It is so hot in Europe right now that even the French aren't cool.

*Verdigris [wincing] casts Bigby's Forehead Smack on himself and quaff's a potion of "Restoration" to regain whatever points of Intelligence he obviously lost considering this nonexistant paradox*

For several weeks now I have been contemplating what appears to be a statistical paradox. Since my highest math skills consist of discretely copying Brian C.'s answers over his shoulder in Algebra class some yeas ago, I thought I would pose my muse to the board and see if one of you can answer...

Ahh...original Top Secret. That game was the very one that got me into roleplaying. The underground sewers in Operation Sprechenhestletessletle (sp!) just blew my mind. Plus I had a concealed tommygun beneath my bulletproof vest and at least 50 other guns, knives, and grenades (all concealed...

When I was a kid DMing, I used to shrug as my PCs slaughtered each other. It invariably ruined every game, or at least derailed it in the "cycle of violence" mentioned above. As it stands now, as a DM I wouldn't let it happen but not by "reading the riot act" or disallowing it, but by fudging...

I believe the correct form of the spelling is as follows: roll play [Legend has it the game we currently enjoy had its roots in Zurich's "sudden-theatre" movement of the 1920s. Apparently employees in industrial bakehouses would gather in public places to imitate their favorite breadstuffs.]

I went home last night and thumbed through my 3.5 PHB, found that indeed the advice I had been given in the above posts was sage (as usual). I was pleased to see that Use Magical Device is now available to any class, albeit with cross class penalties for most, but another issue immediately...

I am looking forward to an unparalleled view of Mars. However, if Uranus gets any closer, we should all prepare for an unparalleled view of a black hole. *shudder*

If somebody "stored away" a troll head in a safe, for example, would the new body grow into the shape of the container? If so, troll-slayers could accumulate stackable (and quite harmless) troll cubes, maybe build a wall or a tower out of them. I see a new building material here. [Verdigris...

These posts are too funny. I'm liable to get fired if I laugh too loudly in the middle of this moldy ol' archive. Here are my humble contributions: disrobe undead tasha's hideous splatter mage toe endure Republicans summon banana peels (I actually used this in place of "Grease") Nystul's...

Wow. I must be rustier than I thought. Can't the rogue use magical devices? I was under the impression that all he had to do was roll under his Use Magical Device skill vs. the spell level of the wand or something. Are the other spells simply too high in level for beginning non-wizards to use...

Hey all, I have recently been passed the DM baton and I want to outfit the previous DMs new character with an appropriate magical item as befits a 2nd level [gay] Elven Ranger. Any suggestions for rangerly items? This character will be slaying drow servants of Lloth. On the "neat but not...

Jacc Swinn, the Swindler Bard: Ol' Jacc is the epitome of the raffish bawd: he sings poorly but makes up for it in volume. He can always be counted on for a good story (most of which prominantly feature himself). Jacc Swinn always tells the truth, but only if it makes a good story. Jacc...

Better to drown them in a bucket of barf, just to be safe.

I almost ran "Necropolis" but decided against it for this reason: Although it is big and has a cool alt.ranger and some neat monsters, it also had various nonsensical traps and such that operated something like this: "If your PCs touch the doorknob on the left and say the magic word, they make...

I echo all sentiments that going back to school as an established adult is easier and more rewarding from a purely educational standpoint. From other standpoints it is good as well. In order to obliquely refer to what I am driving at, I will attempt to paraphrase a classic line from "Dazed and...

The punk "movement" was a (thankfully) brief fetish originating in the late 70s and early 80s. Typically it was characterized by angry anti-hippies: people who hated groupthink and codified social conventions of any sort, as well as government, corporatism and nearly every other other...

As stated in earlier posts, I am converting the original Temple of Elemental Evil into 3.5. I need some suggestions as to motivations for my PCs involvement with the temple. So far I have the following: The Elven Ranger: will have tracked Lareth the Beautiful (a half-elven follower of Lloth) as...

WoTC stores have turned away from the video-game/RPG niche to the family-game-store-in-the-mall kind of place. The reason is obvious: malls are not great environments to play RPGs and the audience is not really the geek-game type. That being said, the WoTC store near me sells all sorts of cool...

Speak with Plants is worse than Speak with Dead because typical plants: A) don't move B) can't see, hear, or smell C) don't have brains D) know very little about the world outside of their little slice of it E) etc. The Dead at least, presumably, possessed enough of these qualities to be...