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I don't outright ban anything, but I do tell my players, "somethings might not be available, or not available immediately. Ie: tell me what you want to buy before you add it in Character Builder. I do reserve the right to say no to an item, but I'll try not to unless I feel there's a good...

More than simply fight locations, most encounter/rooms should have something unique in it. It doesn't have to play to the adventure, but merely added for atmosphere and something the players can interact with after the fight, or even incorporate into a page 42 stunt check. The smaller, the...

One of the concepts of Points of Light that I think is important is that travel between settlements, as a whole is relatively dangerous and avoided if at all possible. So you can have small thorps, thriving villages, functional towns, and magnificent cities, but huge movements of goods and...

Since the SEALs natural 1'ed their imtimidate, (which while not an auto-fail is still not impressive) there are many ways to play it. 1) Target panics, and attempts to flee. Not rational, but people do irrational things in stressful situations. 2) Target goes along with SEALs, since they...

Generally, when a player says, "I use X skill." The DM is allowed to ask, "How?" The idea is not to punish uncreative players, but to promote role-playing. Don't be too hard on players who are not silver-tongued devils, or those who don't know the difference between an elm and a spruce tree...

For a logical view: Imagine the Shadowfell, the World, and the Feywild as part of 1 apartment building. The shadowfell is a suite in the basement, the World is on floor 1, and the Feywild is on the top floor. Being apartments, each suite is generally similiar to the other two. There are a...

This is more difficult to do, but not impossible. Think of the skill challenge as consisting of 2 stages, each with a set of skills that are relevant for that stage. ie: Stage 1: get the ghost calm enough to tell the party where the 'children' are buried. Stage 2: work on the rocks to free...

One possible way to limit (but not totally remove) the posibility of rez magic is to pull that little bit that also happened when Buffy was raised... "We brought something else back with her." Some kind of cosmic balance, so when you give life to death, you must also give death to life...

Old 2E game, we started around level 5 or 6 and played for something like 16 hours straight that first time (so everybody was flying pretty high on no sleep). We had to deal with a necromancer animating monsters as the opening adventure. My group named themselves after the first 4 things we...

I admit to not being completely up to date on current (313X) timeline. What is it that amuses you, good sir? Pity. I liked the idea of a region of small powers within the Inner Sphere. Still, that one action is the most exciting thing to have happened with the League since Anton's rebellion...

Watch and dream, mechwarriors, Wolf Hunters assault a Republic base Watch and dream...

Interesting. I suppose you 'pay' for it by the wasted tonnage required for those 'junk heat' weapons, but as you say, it could be manipulated. We never used BV, just asked the question, "Is this mech a good match for other examples of its weight class?" As an example, if you have a...

Interesting theory. It certainly holds up at a first glance, but it might also be a case of overthinking the whole thing or giving FASA too much credit for a game where the goal is to beat down giant robots. ;) The universe is certainly aimed at an 'after the fall of Rome' vibe. I wonder if...

Reading this thread made me unbox my Technical Readouts and run through them again. Great fun, great fun... but some gosh darn awful art in a lot of cases (pretty much all of TR 2750), and FASA... while it was fun, you made so many bad mech designs (Cicada, Hussar, Hollander, and JagerMech I...

A 20th level character has, through bad rolls and low CON, 21 hps. He falls into acid and with lucky rolls on the 20d6, takes 20 points of damage. He is at 1 hp. A total immersion bath in acid has almost killed him. A single night's rest returns him to full. And this is using 3.X's rules...

"Direction of the game?" :-S I've been dropped in vats of acid since Keep on the Borderlands, and hps do now what they've always done. The only difference is that now I'm not always begging the cleric to reattach my face. Sometimes a simple, "Suck it up Princess!" is enough to get me back on...

As others have said, don't try and force it. If it's important the name will come to the party naturally. As an example, in a 2nd edition game we finally named ourselves after the first group of big bad undead we defeated. Our name: Three dead trolls and a banshee.

a) "The immortality of Lord Daddy." (Since we get immortality through our children.) b) "The dawn of a new hero/slave/etc." c) "Hero/slave that sees the world through new eyes." Slave: Property, cattle, tools, the hands of [their owner]. Former Slave: the free, risen, the assended, those...

Also remember that wizards are smarter than the average member of the population (needing Int as the key stat). Because of that, a sizable number of the wizards that do exist will not want to march off to war. War is unpleasant, messy, you have to spend your time with stupid levy soldiers...

He will be helpful... he brought a scroll. Prediction: girls use Belker's projectile vomiting as Area of Effect weapon to facilitate escape, cleric dies, but Hailey steals liberates the scroll and later makes her UMD roll after Roy golem is defeated. NPCs always have a point... even if it is...