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    Anybody running or playing in a forgotten realms campaign set in Mulhorand/Unther?

    My game is in Chessenta, but... my game is set almost 15 years before yours, and has roots in the Old Untheric Deities. If you want to liven things up....have them return some how.... My game is set during the Time of Troubles, and I decided to take the unique rules governing the Old Empires...
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    [OT] Tenth Planet in Solar System

    Ahh Zeta Talk. I remember having run-ins with them on the UseNet Group sci.astro when I was an undergraduate in Astronomy, and then again when I was a grad in Astronomy. (1995-1997) I haven't been keeping up on the latest round of fun, but the big problem is that the Zeta-Talk people have...
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    (OT) Better than George Martin

    Finished book one, and about 60 pages into book two. I liked book one. It differs from Martin in that the characters are as completely fleshed out. One the other hand, the plot is pretty interesting, and I do like how we have been pretty much started in the middle, with no clue how the magic...
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    (OT) Better than George Martin

    I got the first three in the mail today! I'm about 20 pages in so far. let you know how it goes. Thanks for the recommendation!
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    Signed copy of Kingdoms of Kalamar

    length How long does the contest run for?
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    is there such thing as a good FR novel?

    The best and the worst The best by far is the Songs and Swords books by Elaine Cunningham. Her Councilors and Kings books aren't bad either. The worst by far is the Once Around the Realms. Damn, I'm still scarred by how horrifyingly bad that book was. Ugh. Nothing but really really bad...
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    (OT) Better than George Martin

    Bought 'em from Amazon.co.uk For about $43 including shipping for the three books in the Series. I like Jordan, I like Martin, and I like the Glen Cook Black Company books. I suspect I'll like these. Thanks for the heads up.
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    converting armor

    It's magical Thanks. I can see the argument for ruining the +1 dweomer. I will probably go ahead with that assessment. It makes sense.
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    converting armor

    It's magical It has +1 dweomer independent of the material I'd rule that the armor is still +1, but that any weapon is not.
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    converting armor

    I have a PC that wants to take his magical chain mail that he found and convert it to a chain shirt with an armorer (it's magical, and made of dlarun, from MoF). (Fire res 2, if armor, +1 cold dam if a weapon) He then wants to take the leftover Dlarun and make it into a weapon. Here's my...
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    Forgotten Realms Module Tips

    Haunted Halls of Eveningstar I''ve run the Haunted Halls of Eveningstar as a 1st level 2E game long ago. I think it would work as a 3E adventure as well. It is a bit more flexible than other modules, although you have to give it focus in the form of a bad guy at the end. IIRC, I expanded the...
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    Can a FR Campaign Website have this???

    My fan site My webpage (should be in my sig) for my game has some FR stuff on it, but none of it is directly copied from any books. I've never really inquired about the legality of any of it because of Ryan Dancey's statements for a few years ago. However, it has been up for about a year...
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    Correcting the DM

    Rules Lawyers There are two rules lawyers in my troupe, me and another guy. There are two DM's in the troupe as well, me and a third player. Between the three of us, we all try to arbitrate the game as best we can. I think we do ok, really. No one has gotten really annoyed yet. I take that...
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    Tournaments and fairs

    Grand melees I did a grand melee a few sessions ago in my game, and the player who participated loved it. He's waiting for next year to get his revenge on the bastard who knocked him out. Great fun. I pretty much randomly generated a few important characters using Jamis' char gen program, and...
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    Does my party gain lvl too fast?

    In my game, people seem to be levelling every 4-6 sessions. Seems about right to me, and the players seem to be pretty happy. They are just hitting 6th level after 24 sessions of 4-5 hour games. The campaign should last 50 or so sessions, which means the group should be 10th level at the end...
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    Worst Character Name

    By a Chicago Bears fan in one of my early, early, games: Harbaugh Korban, the human archer. Like Jim Harbaugh, the quarterback, he always overshot his target. *sigh*
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    Groups who want old school dungeon crawls. Good or Bad?

    Good My group wanted one, so I tossed an 11 room tomb at them. They are very pleased now. Now we can get to the meat of the plot now. I think we've got it out or our system now. Now they are back to the rest of the plot, which is much more exciting.
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    Percentage of Original Material

    Mostly new, some old. I've been a big fan of Toril for some time, but I tend to use out of the way places for my games, and create my own adventures out of various adventure hooks in the storyline. I've run games in the Bloodstone Lands, Tsurlagol (pre Living City), and now an epic game in...
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