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My wife had a halfling cleric named Poppy Gadzooks. A friend recently ran a cleric named Yitzakh Rabin... a messianic jewish cleric, kosher and following all the religious laws... in Greyhawk and later Mystara. (He's a seminarian so at least he did it somewhat convincingly.) In my current...

In the USA we sometimes use "dookie" to mean the same thing. George might as well have named him "Count poo-poo" because that's all I could think of every time I heard his name. Mike

Sorry, I mean the 30-year-old set of dinosaurs that had the rust monster, the bulette, etc Mike

A number of months ago, someone posted here that they had seen some plastic toy "dinosaurs" in a local dime store. Has anyone seen such a thing locally? I'd like to find an online source, or someone to buy a bag for me. Mike

I think the D&D name would live on, but it might not amount to much. Possibly different editions would get sold to different customers, and sold older editions would see print again. Most likely, I think we'd have something like 3E, only it would be called "Ars Magica v6" or "SenZar II" or...

Just wondering how you handle arrow expenditure in your games...

I could remove Kender and Gully Dwarves and Tinker Gnomes and Minotaurs and Draconians and ignore the major NPCs and plotlines, but then why use the setting? I don't know, I read some of the books and played in a module or two and didn't like the feel of it. It's easier just to use Greyhawk if...

If you slow down advancement but leave the relative treasure per encounter the same, the PCs will accumulate a lot more wealth relative to their level. In 3E, wealth equals magic items (2x magic items if they have item creation feats). Likewise, increasing XP awards will give them too little...

53) Make a Wand of Haste. Always use it first thing in combat--or even if you only THINK you may be getting into combat. You'll double your wizard's firepower without wasting any spell slots. 54) Wand of Mage Armor. Use it every morning. 55) If you need money, make Wands of Lightning or whatever...

I have no problems with what artists charge, even ignoring production costs. Hey, it's their work, they can charge what they want. The problem is that art is a unnecessary luxury. Personally, I'd happily pay for an RPG with no art at all. If it does include art, cool, a freebie, but I don't...

A favorite trick of mine is to run a fight in stages. Often if the party can only see part of the enemy force, they'll charge... and when more suddenly pop around the corner, the PCs suddenly backtrack and try to salvage their tactics. I'll also often send out the cannon fodder first, then bring...

Could you elaborate? I was thinking about running this for my group fairly soon... Mike

Re: Re: What NON-OBVIOUS stuff would you like to see in Revised? A strength crossbow already exists: it's called a heavy crossbow. If you want an even heavier crossbow, increase damage and loading time. Historically, crossbows took about 15-30 seconds to load, except for very light sport...

In a situation like this when players think they have script immunity, I'll give them a warning. Just one, something pointed but low key, like "Go ahead, make my day!" If they persist, they get what they deserve, but I hate to see players get killed out of a legitimate misunderstanding.

I made my own. They're ugly but they're free, they're mine, and they're totally custom. (1) Take the cardboard backing from three or four pads of graph paper. It's best if it's not three-hole punched, and if all the pads are the same size/brand, but if you're careful you can also use mismatched...

That's what I do. If I know there are monsters in the room, I don't map it out or do anything unusual, I just pay very close attention to what each character is doing and where they are standing. Usually some player is running ahead hoping for first crack at any loot, someone is staying back by...

Latex paint is fine, and acrylic (water-based) should also work well. What you want to watch for is any paint that has a lacquer base. Also if you spray very light coats, even with a hostile paint, it will probably work okay -- the trick is to apply a coat so light that it dries before it can do...

Trying to create paranoia and the feeling that something is there? Consult your notes and roll dice at frequent intervals. Ask for spot checks (which automatically fail). Every now and then, throw in a faint sound in the darkness, or the feeling that you're being watched, or a faint movement...

Sure, but with OD&D, a word processor is all the support you need! ;) No cutting and pasting, just write what you want and you're done with it.

Year of the Golden Bovine. There are sure a lot of 29.95 hardbacks in the pipeline... Kobolds are too cliche. (Well, okay, so are drow.) But seriously, "the monster everyone underestimates," "the scrappy underdogs," etc. Might as well do Year of the Kender. :rolleyes: How about: Year of the...