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Ok. It still doesn't address the disparity in character abilities problem as I see it. In Nightspawn you can have parties where the Nightspawn PCs are massive shapeshifting tanks next to wizards that are 1-ply tissue but have a variety of neat spells. I guess the best way is to make...

As I was driving home from work today, this idea came to me. It will be a discussion of how to relate the Charisma score of a character to their alignment. It's less of a new rule as I see it and more of a way to make sense of existing game mechanics. Mods, if you feel this belongs more in...

Thanks Crothian. I prefer the old name, too, but wasn't sure people would recognize it. Who puts out Beast Builder? I haven't seen that anywhere...

Hey everyone. I have a problem in that I own several books for the game Nightbane by Palladium. I like pretty much everything about it except the actual Palladium rules, which who anyone who's played Rifts knows are pretty piecemeal and pain in the ass. I'm looking for a way to convert it to...

Wow, really neat stuff. One of my opening battles in the campaign will involve PCs happening on a scene like picture 3 in some farmland. Really cool, thanks Nyaricus.

There were two one-shot gaming experiences I've had which I truly enjoyed: 1) The orc/goblinoid raiding party adventure. The usual complaint against generating an evil character/party is that you can't motivate them to stay together long enough. Well unless your players are just immature...

LOL. I don't even like football and that's a great example.

I'm sorry if you feel the thread's been derailed, but that is my honest opinion on what is missing from Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures: A basic set of WotC non-random figures to support the RPG. I'll leave it at that.

Yeah yeah yeah, shame on me. I've also been distracted with other things in my life and finishing all of this is not a priority because I don't even have the players to get started on the campaign yet anyway. As for specific updates, nothing yet. Still trying to decide how I want to handle...

Yeah, what Thia said :)

If we're not intended to use their brand miniatures in conjunction with the RPG, why is the RPG rules system formatted to use the 1inch-to-5foot conversion, references are made to squares, and a battlemat included with the core rules? We all know that the RPG intends the use of miniatures...

Hey Don. I'd say let her keep whatever conception she wants at her own little part of the table, but enforce your vision for all players. Make sure every other player sees your drawings of dark elves (not drow) and explain how the African Lothlorien concept works in the campaign world. Then...

I don't think the current format will necessarily stop people from playing the RPG. I feel it shows a basic lack of utility and support for it. I myself only recently made the jump to 3.5 DnD. I had a lot of experience with 2e and played 3.0 several times with my friends without minis. When...

Well the thing is, it's not just a lack of utility to war-gaming style DnD players with mass battles. It's a lack of utility to a starting gamer period. Let's look at the new RPG DM/player, and how they have to face an introduction to DnD. Let's say they played an RPG once or twice and liked...

You know, for the number of times this has been posted, it would be nice if WotC marketed a product that chose the first two instead of the latter two. It wouldn't even have to fall under the DnD Minis brand name to avoid offending the skirmisher/collector market. Call them "Dungeons and...

Yeah, I guess I was wrong to try and keep the discussion moving further. I just like having discourse with people of a different mindset to prod out how they feel compared to me, but I guess there comes a point of no impasse. Oh well.

That's fine, been distracted myself. Kind of hit a writer's block as I've been working on my bigger work, the Elementia handbook, kind of a compilation of rules conversions so players can create characters for the campaign world. I zipped through the Air character section but kind of stalled...

Whoa, I never said it was an evil to be managed. I just am of the mindset it's hard to come by in an average player. Down sparky!

Ok, so if a player has the capability to regularly generate Braveheart quality speeches, do you as DM regularly allow them to convince NPCs? Are there any limits? What about 1v1 interactions? When examining the quality of this word choice, how do you weigh it against the character as...

So no one caring to take me up on post #241? Voadam? Misihari Lord? I understand with no Ender players, no Ender genius characters, but those are less central to most fiction than outstanding leaders and persuaders. So which players get to rise to that level consistently in a RP-only...