Search results

I started my campaign based on the idea alternate material planes. The primary plane (Terra) is a pseudo-historical earth, with the cities of Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Alexandria, etc, with the typical cultures. All the fantasy creatures come from the alternate planes: Arcadia for the fey...

I voted "other." I think I do a fairly good job with most aspects, and throw a variety at my players (dungeons, wilderness, new mechanics, goofy role playing opportunities, etc.). However, one thing I haven't been able to do, which my players have specifically asked for, is politics. I guess...

One thing that I've always wondered about, and which the movie highlighted: Does the ring bestow the same abilities for different bearers? In the movie, why wasn't Sauron invisible? I always thought/assumed that the ring bestowed an ability based on the race/personality of the wearer. With...

I first learned about D&D in a Games Magazine article in the late seventies, when I was 14-15. Took me about a nine months of scouring every store in town to finally find a single boxed set with the red dragon picture. In my first game, I was the DM. I was the only DM for my friends for...

Answer: Keen Edge, cast by the bard with a falchion or greatsword weilding, can't be flanked, barbarian buddy. Add in other buffing spells and abilities for flavor. :D FM

[fearing the wrath of the grouchy faces, FungiMuncher concentrates... "purple page, name like meta, mega, hmm"] Oh, yeah! The ManaDrive RaceCalc. Try this: http://www.rpgcosmos.com/racecalc.cfm It's easy to use, but I think Soldarin's ECL calculator is really good. FM

Personally: I buy quite a bit of d20 stuff. As a response in an earlier thread, I think I counted about 45 books. I also bought four books this week. Most of it is third party stuff. I prefer general materials that I can use in my home brew campaign. I have two gaming groups. In the game...

Well, I posted a link in the other thread. There's also one in my profile to the older stuff (Gee, I really need to update it all...) Anyway, the whole campaign has been going for about a year and a half. I've been enjoying it, and the players keep coming back, so I guess that's a good sign...

I was going to comment on your Epic Level memory! I played Star Frontiers in my teens, too; remember the basics but couldn't give any details if my life depended on it. :p FM

I would agree that the standard classes work well. The campaign I'm currently running is set in a pseudo-earth setting, with the standard D&D level of magic. The party is adventuring in Egypt during the dark ages, before the time of the Islamic conquests. There were a lot of Greek/Roman...

Well, I just checked my copy of the Netbook of Classes, which has an index of all the classes and prestige classes listed up to the point it was published. There were four noble classes listed, from the following books: Black Flags, Fading Suns, Sovereign Stone and Wheel of Time. My copy...

I just counted: 3E/WotC - 15 3rd Party - 30 Older stuff - 14 (2nd edition, GURPS, CityBooks, etc. That's just stuff that's on my shelf, not in storage, so I actually use it - some more than the new stuff!) Oh, I also have the Neverwinter Nights World Builder's Guide. Does that count? :) FM

Here's my related story, and only TPK. The party of 7th - 9th level characters are investigating an ancient elven shrine with rumors of people becoming missing in the area. They discover the shrine is being besieged by a band of orcs, with a higher level half-orc druid leading them. During...

ForceUser, I very much sympathize with your complaining players! In my group, my nickname is "Schlep Rock," the bad luck guy from the Flintstones. I have a tradition of rolling lousy. I think my record for rolling consecutive 3's or less on a d20 is at seven times (and I'm not exagerating!)...

In the campaign I'm currently DMing, I had a new player start out as Chaotic Neutral. And, yeah, he behaved in a rather evil fashion. In his very first session, he was able to isolate one of the other PCs in the back alleys of the main town, and began to torment the character (and player)...

Providing pre-made characters would get them into the game quicker; if you're tight on time, definitely do that. Otherwise, I wouldn't be afraid of having them create their own. I've started out several early adolescent kids new to rpgs, and the idea of classes really makes it much easier...

By day, he's a mild mannered host of a children's science show on public television... But when the thugs are out, he becomes... Mr. Sticky! The rubberized super hero! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's a picture of a figure I made for a...

For myself, all the unbalanced kits and S&P rules really got me to hate 2nd Edition. I had abandoned AD&D for other games, and got back to it before 3E came out. All the characters I made in that time felt terribly useless. I didn't have the resources (all those books) or the experience of...

3. When Obi-Wan is walking through the Jedi temple to talk to Yoda (while Yoda is teaching the padawans) a jedi passes behind him that seems to be Howard the Duck as a Jedi. I remember seeing a strange little alien at about this point of the movie, but I didn't think of Howard the Duck...