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I have gone back and forth with every member in the group on how to do this, and it seems like every one of us come up with something different. Here's what the issue is: 18th lvl 3.5 game - a pseudodragon (+3 LA, 2 racial HD) PC is a warmage. The player is buying off his LAs as they come (9th...

I mean, I agree with you that would be highly annoying them basically bull-in-a-china-shopping through town and acting like outlaws, but you called the game? Why not roll with it? They'll ruin their own fun eventually. It's not very exciting to roleplay wasting away in a dungeon or being hanged...

Thanks for the replies, folks. Going to be giving this a try sometime in the near future I hope.

I think your group is over thinking it a tad. Do what is awesome. With regards to 1 - Your character can fly however they please within the maneuverability and speed granted by the spell. Saying someone gets cover below you because you have to shift upright to attack? C'mon, that's ridiculous...

Something interesting has been happening with our 2e Mutants and Masterminds game. Our group has a pretty heavy D&D background, with all the tropes that tend to come with it after so many years of play together, and we usually end up trying to carve a little piece of whatever campaign setting we...

Reading this thread has me interested in Hackmaster itself now. Could anyone here who has played it compare the experience to something other than 1e/2e? I have zero experience with those editions other than paging through a friend's older PHB, but our group does play alot of e6/e8. Is the...

I don't know if I'd like it to tie into a point system or scoring or anything. I think it would work better as a fun little way to encourage friendly competition and maybe even creativity. "Most Heroic Move of the Night" "Coolest One-Liner" That type of stuff is what I would get a kick out of...

Agreed with this, and for spellcasters just write down the page number of their most-used spells to save space on the stat block. It really doesn't take that long to look a spell up and scan it quickly for the relevant info (range, casting time, targets, duration). Or do what we do, assign the...

I actually do frequent those boards, and I very rarely see a thread get as over-the-top as I do here on ENWorld. In fact, as far as boards go, the ATT is one of the calmest and most respectful in tone. There are a couple people who snipe at each other, but by and large things are pretty...

Good points and I see what you mean. The only paying attention to WotC I do anymore is on this site and others like it. Our group plays a lot of different games by a myriad of different companies, so maybe that's why I feel the way I do. I don't feel as beholden to Wizards for my gaming...

What if the reason for that backlash is that WotC's announcements are, in actuality, seen as bad moves by most of the vocal community? I never see threads on here decrying the latest Paizo blurb, or that Green Ronin is shooting itself in the foot. What if most people genuinely don't like what...

I won't be buying them. I mean, is the end result any different than rolling randomly on a treasure table? Maybe some people just like the physical act of picking something up and discovering what it is, with the card as a compact analogue to a Giant Battleaxe of Ridiculousness. Speaking for...

I am not a lawyer or a copyright expert. I'm an average gamer. I have used Crystal Keep for the past three years as one of my goto reference tools for 3.5, because there are about eighty-bajillion templates, races, and monsters scattered over thousands of magazines, splat books and web...

Well, I mean you've already said that working together would be the best way to accomplish their goals. I'm not sure how else you can say it exactly. I guess you'll have to just show them. Let them fight amongst themselves, then when only one or two return to the King or whoever, they get...

I was speaking in generalities. I know how rage works, how stances work, and I let the buffer tell me what bonus they are giving. Yeah I have seen the PA spreadsheets. I never needed one to figure out the 1:1 2:1 ratios. How about my last point? Because you just want to? Got an answer for that...

Because sometimes you don't want to fiddle with spells/extra bits of math here and there. Sometimes you just want to hit something without calculating which version of Rage you have activated, how many stances you have left, or making a concentration check to take an action, or adding in buff...

Well, I haven't technically been playing all that long, but it feels like I have. Picked up 3.5 oh... almost seven years ago. I played that with my then soon-to-be father-in-law's group for a good while, then he (being an avid collector of random games/accessories) saw how much I loved D&D and...

I too would love to hear more about this randomly generated hex approach. I love sandbox fantasy. Please as many details as possible.

One thing I have noticed as I am DMing a very story-heavy campaign right now is if you can get even one of the players interested and engaging you about something in the gameworld (usually easier if it directly impacts his/her character) that enthusiasm is contageous as hell. I began to do...

We add up as well, but also use the minus sign for damage. All agree it's faster.