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I can't speak to all the other aspects of this choice, but for this: Centered Breath sounds plenty dwarfy to me -- look at that Stand Your Ground racial characteristic? Have you seen anything more centered than that? Dwarfiness is all about having a strong, low center.

I stat up NPCs as part of the process of thinking about who they are, what they're like, and so on. I may not actually *use* those stats -- I might not even bring them to the table. But working up a block of stats helps me start (just start) the process of wondering, how is this NPC different...

I treat the (rare) TPK just like I treated the time I had to apologetically drop GMing in mid-campaign: When we restart, a whole new party adventures in the same campaign world, far enough into the future that the repercussions of the failed previous party are clear. A city has fallen, a new...

One of my players ran one of these for me a few weeks ago, and *wow* was it fun. So very, very mobile. Lots of dashing about, doing large amounts of damage, and denying the monsters any opportunity to retaliate (granted, this particular encounter was light on foes with ranged attacks). Lately...

Twice in recent memory, I had to drop a game I was DMing. Most recently, three years ago, I'd misjudged how long it would take to run the particular adventure I'd started, and we stopped because I was hugely pregnant and we expected the baby to show up any day. (as it turned out, the baby was...

I've got one or two players who struggle with their character's motivations -- how they can stay true to their character and still be a useful participant in the game. Since I've got the time on my hands and they don't, I'm writing their backstories. They can have as much input as they want...

I blog, infrequently and usually not about gaming. I've been considering starting up posting gaming-related stuff, especially now that I'm working on my own campaign world again.

I was right about that age when my father set me loose in his sci-fi/fantasy collection. There was certainly quite a bit of it I didn't understand, and I came up with the weirdest explanations for why people would do the sorts of things they did. My three-year-old has had her own dice for over...

If you'd rather have the PCs heading directly after the devil instead of first dealing with an NPC warlock, you might instead have a former-warlock NPC, who broke the pact and is now having to deal with the consequences of a pissed-off former patron.

I don't have an answer to your actual question -- I haven't done much examination of defense in the heroic tier, and none at the paragon tier. I do, however, have the experience of watching one of my players test out the hybrid Monk/Seeker I made him. And came to the conclusion: This...

It should always be okay to say: "This isn't working for me. Can we talk about doing things differently?" You and your players working together should be able to come up with way more appropriate solutions than you and us talking about it, since they're there. I agree with everybody who said...

I like these ideas but will have to save them for later, as the area the party's in has already been established to be low-technology and experiencing a horse shortage (seriously!). Ornithopterswill be perfect flavor for signifying that they've finally made it out of the low-tech kingdom, so...

The trick, for me, is how to demonstrate to the players that their choices matter. I try to keep track of the plot hooks they pass up, and determine what happened after the characters move on -- and then make sure that they hear about it later.

I second the suggestion of the Tempest Fighter, from the First Martial Power book. The to-hit is still strength, but the build makes good use of high dexterity. Pick up a Parrying blade for off-hand, maybe. I'm playing beside a Tempest Fighter in one of my games. I think her dex and strength...

Neat! I've been using the tokens from Made By Wombat: Made by Wombat the tokens are tiddly-wink size and the stickers are gorgeous and when I ordered them without the cards & stuff, it came to about $7 with shipping (in the US, at least). I made cards with squares on them for "lasts one turn"...

I'm using CMap Tools for my campaign mapping: CmapTools - Home Page Cmap.html My favorite mind mapping software has been MindManager (not free) or FreeMind, but in general I prefer the non-linear nature of concept maps (because, as I mentioned in another thread, I think in circles...

Where's my "All of the Above" button? I wanna "all of the above..." I love having both demons and devils in my toolbox. Demons are so straightforwardly destructive, and devils are so cunning and manipulative. They've each got their role in the story.

My crowd was playing a bit of SR3 7 or 8 years ago, and the game mechanics had us tearing our hair out for various reasons. We eventually kept the shadowrun books for setting information but used d20 Modern for game mechanics, with extra rules called "CyD20" from Ground Twenty to handle...

The campaign I'm running is about to descend into a series of underground tunnels and caves. Before I send the party there, I'd like to give them one last hurrah in the outdoors. I'm expecting to put in some high ground with cover for ranged attacks, and make it so they'll probably have to...

I'd be disappointed to see Masterplan integrated into obsidian portal. The documentation at OP is all uncaptioned video and therefore inacessible to the hearing-impaired, and the HTML output from Masterplan in general meets accessibility critera better than the OP website (Web2Access - Products...