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'You! Paladin! You insult my honor by detecting evil in my home!?! We will meet on the field of honor in the morning!' Says the much higher level lord of the manor.... 'Paladin Jones, you have been brought before this tribunal for the unwarranted attack of magister Lorn. What say you? 'I...

You are slightly off, the players are the customers, not the employees. I make a game, I run a game, it is my game. The players are the customers, so I need to make a product that they will buy, so I need to take into account customer reviews and if my game is not worth the cost to play, people...

And you have completely missed the point. I never said I was using d20 Modern. What calibrations I use to determine the interaction of has not been determined. Should it be that a contingency spell takes 10 milliseconds to activate, and has a detection range of 5 meters, sniper shots will still...

3.5 incorporeal isnt proof against physical attacks. At 8 rounds a second, a machine gun would disrupt incorporeal pretty quick. You could also use massive spotlights to make them powerless also. Blam blam blam blam blam. Modern force now under its own controll. One high level mage disposed of...

It would all depend on how you set the calibrations. If I have an army in magical full plate, that can only be penetrated by iron rounds, then all the automatic rifles and machine guns just got turned into fragile melee weapons. Grenades and shells would still kill lots tho. I could come up...

Why do the others even play if there are two problem players? Especially ones that complement each others bad tendencies and have no corresponding good ones? Tracking down a too powerful monster isnt not being obvious, it is being dumb. Going along for the challenge is more dumb. This sounds...

You might ask him why his parties keep dying, but make sure you do not get into the middle of this. This is a problem for his players, not for you. If he is not receptive to discussing his game, do not push him about it.

Why does banning Essentials have to be hate? If I were running a 4e game right now, I would ban essentials stuff only because I do not own it so I dont have access to the rules. That applies to every game I run. There isnt any like or dislike of the rules involved, just a lack of access. In...

Alot of people seem to be making an assumption about encounter 3. GM said 'So I had to go out of game and say "Guys, she is one of the last not corrupted" before they got it' He didnt say: 'You guys are supposed to be friends with this spirit' He had to stop the game because there was an...

I dont think that you did anything wrong. Sometimes things just dont work out very well, no matter how well you plan or how well you think you know your players. Encounter 1: Do they have a habit of avoiding avoidable encounters? If not, I would ask why they did this time. If they do, then that...

Does that make it broken?

It can be explained in that your analogy is incorrect. The DM cannot cheat, cannot fake and cannot be dishonest on how they run the game. They can only run a fun game or a not fun game. IF the DM says they find the secret door instead of making a roll, he isnt being dishonest, he is simply...

It is an irrelevant distinction. As someone said, there are no actual wounds in D&D, but there is also the fact that there is no mechanic to make an open wound an effect.

Not quite directly in theme but: I had a paladin in my 3e/3.5e game, played by my younger brother no less, that for 8 freakin years and 18 freaking levels I was trying to have a good crisis of faith. Not a month after that campaign ended, I came up with a whole new idea for the entire...

First-Fun Second-Plot Third-Rules With the qualifier that plot be a major thing, not whim. If a rules is not fun, it goes, no questions asked. 'Everybody roll climbing enough times to climb to the bottom of the cliff' is not going to happen when I know that it is tedious roll-playing that is...

I wouldnt play it. I make my character and not getting to make and develop my character in both mechanics and roleplay aspects would take alot of the fun out of the game. It is a very fine line tho. I dont really have a problem with the railroaded aspect of the idea, as long as it is done...

Skill based classless levelless systems are my choice. Heavy Gear 2e (not silouette, that is a good example of a skill based system gone too complex), and WEG Star Wars are my favorites. It does depend alot on the genre tho, I do prefer D&D for its ease of play and run for a fantasy game more...

A stone golem can reason exactly as far as the DM wants it to. If the DM wants it to relentlessly pursue the characters, then it has the ability to relentlessly pursue the characters. If the DM wants it to be so dumb it cant figure out that the ballista bolts hitting it are coming from the...

Once he said he 'looked through the all the books', he no longer deserved the whip.

? All the dark elf would need is a bedsheet and a vial of poison.... :) I kinda straddle the line here. I can see both sides of the arguement, but this should have been taken care of before the game started.