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Thanks for the clarification and the example.

In the Burning Hands description it says "Flammable materials burn if the flames touch them. . A character can extinguish burning items as a full-round action." Does this include creatures? My initial thought was that this only applied to unattended items. My players have interpreted this as...

My PCs have recently acquired some magic black studded leather armour from a goblin wererat. I'd like to give it a special property or ability, in addition to the usual +x, to make it more interesting. I don't want it to just be adding +whatever to something that they can already do. Have you...

I think there are some things that are more fun to resolve with roleplaying than dice rolling. I'm trying to get my players to engage with the fiction and use that to their advantage, rather than mechanics. The flip side to this is that I need to provide hooks to them so that they've got...

Wow, some great ideas here. In my scenario the door hasn't been used for a long time because the current inhabitants haven't found it. That makes things a bit more complicated, but now I've got a lot more that I can work with.

I don't like letting my players have their characters automatically detect secret doors by say, having an elf just walk past them, but I'd like to provide some clues in the local area that they could pick up on to indicate to them that it would be worth investigating further. One of the maps...

I would much prefer "You wiggle your fingers and shoot fire at an enemy adjacent to you, causing 1d6 points of damage." than "1d6 damage to 1 adjacent target".

Even by the time my 4E players got their characters to 6th level, they were still unable to describe what their powers looked like. Ridiculous.

I recently started playing with a guy who says things like "I'll roll a perception check on the door" - it totally weirded me out the first time he did it. His character never looks, listens or pushes - he make perceptions checks or strength checks. Maybe I'm just old school, but that doesn't...

Well, actually, in the Mentzer Basic Dungeon Masters Rulebook, page 3, there is a table "Order of Events in Combat", that starts as follows: 1. Intentions: ... 2. Initiative: ... 3. Actions, side that wins initiative: ... ... I was just wondering how this really works and if anyone actually...

I'd forgotten about those, they'd certainly give my PCs the willies.

I was wondering about this, it's good to know how another group reacted.

I didn't know anything about mites, they look like a good threat for the PCs when they are just starting.

What's "RC"? My original books from the 80s have intentions before initiative.

I was wondering about doing that way. I'll give it a go tonight and hope my players are OK with missing a go every now and then.

I really like the idea, but I already have a major antagonist group, I was looking more for what they'd randomly find in the wilderness.

I don't know why I didn't think of re-skinning, that gives me a lot more options.

I'm starting a new campaign and I'd like to try something different than have the characters fighting the usual kobolds, goblins and orcs. Initially I tried to shake things up by getting the players to be the goblinoids, and be going against elves, humans etc, but they didn't go for that. What...

When declaring actions, then rolling d6 to see who goes first, what do you do in the situation where what you said you'd do is no longer relevant? What if, you said you'd fire your bow at an orc, but by the time you have your turn, that orc has disappeared around a corner. This becomes more...

It's been a long time since I played 3.5 and I'm starting my first Pathfinder campaign. I'm a little out of my depth trying to figure out what the tone of Pathfinder is, and what the gems and dregs of it are. Is there a good podcast or two that I can listen to, to get a bit of a jumpstart to...