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This has been my experience. Playing a party of evil characters =/= playing a bunch of PCs that spend all day screwing each other over. I had an evil campaign I DM'd for years. All the players did was operate from the assumption that dicking over the other PCs was just not acceptable. Dicking...

Wasn't there also a "Merchant Prince" school in Minrothad?

My brother was playing the "token Evil guy" in a party of mostly Good PCs. As many threads attest, this can often go very wrong. Instead, he made him "functionally" Evil. He rolled a 3 for Charisma and it was 3.5 FR so he had regional feats to choose from. So he built a Lawful Evil Human Monk...

Snow, is this the same guy that got mad when you rolled in secret to see if the PCs would recognize the odd accent? If so, I'm really starting to see a recurring theme here.

Gith cannibals. Because that's more Spelljammer-y. :)

This sounds fairly awesome, actually (especially as I've been leaning back towards the dungeon-crawl as my preferred RPG milieu, what with the limited gaming time that seems to accompany personal fiscal responsibilities). Ryan, will we be given access to the Undermountain wiki at some point so...

Would a BECMI/RC D&D clone work? If so, I suggest Dark Dungeons. It's basically the Rules Compendium, but cleaned up with Weapon Mastery and skills computed into the game from the get-go. Also, it's free for download - meaning that your players can have copies without shelling out cash if they...

Keep in mind that these were the days before the interwebs, too. Most people didn't even know that there was supposed to be any kind of division between the two unless they were an avid gaming magazine reader. A lot of our knowledge of this stuff is hindsight after the advent of constant online...

If not, then they don't deserve to call themselves adventurers! I'm a long-time fan of the random dungeon generation appendix. Heck, since I was usually stuck DMing most of the time, it was some of the only times I got to just play AD&D rather than run it.

These damn kids today... GET OFF MY LAWN YOU LITTLE BASTARDS!!

Yeah... This is a fairly mind-boggling complaint, to me. Is the issue that he wants to do all rolls for his character? Or that you're "making checks in secret"? Or that you're "making checks for his character without his permission/knowledge"? All of these reasons seem ridiculous to me, of...

This is what I was going to ask for the same reasons. But, as mentioned above, it really isn't a reflection on the show that they didn't get to shoot a "final episode". Most shows don't get that privilege. And it's not even because they aren't good shows a lot of the time. It's often just...

I'd basically use something like this, myself. In fact, if ValhallaGH hadn't posted this, I was basically going to say the same thing (you big steam-stealing jerk! :lol: ). I mean, that's basically what we get in most sci-fi isn't it? Whether the ship is present is almost a "passive" ability...

Air rock. Duh! :) Actually, I just assume that there are small vents combined with oxygen-yielding plant life - sort of as nedjer suggests. Of course, it all eventually leads to the great Underdark caverns deep under the earth... So, maybe there's just so much air that it's never really come...

Oh... it's always your right to be a bad GM. Just not necessarily a GM-with -happy-or-even-continuing-to-play-with-you-players. ;)

Can't it be both, though? Why the pigeon-holes people?!?! Actually, I see that starting another conversation: is Paranoia a broadly comedic dark political satire or a darkly politicized and satirical broad comedy?

Maybe you read Janx's post differently than I did, but I don't think that's what he's saying at all. It doesn't matter what the shopkeeper "knows". It's what his player knows. And a player knows that "outside the city there are dragons and orcs" - unless the GM gave evidence to believe...

I'd lean more in Janx's direction. If your players really want to play that game, why would you be in such a hurry to shut them down? Sure, the GM needs to have fun, too, but part of being a GM is trying to run a game that is fun for your players. I don't mean for this to be taken as "the iron...

Well, yeah. The whole "the current gods overthrew their predecessors" meme has been sort of the standard for a lot of cultures, so it may not be as surprising as I initially suggested. But both settings involve the gods teaming up with the "Earth Titan" to protect the lesser races from the...

Materials from the slain is a good idea. Being a fur-trader used to be a fairly booming business back when the Americas were first being explored. So, fantasy-ize it - giant scorpion chitin for light plate armors, dragon scales (and other parts) for armors and magic, and cloaker pelts for magic...