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Absent some specific house rules, this doesn't do anything. Doesn't this just burn away the web, freeing them? Is this more effective than using Alchemist's Fire and not worrying about the Sphere? The most common means of picking pockets involves slicing a gash into the bottom of the belt pouch...

If I can save a thousand people by cutting up one guy and distributing his body parts, it makes no sense to let that guy live, right? Superman has always been about black and white morality. Superman is the big blue boy scout. He's the guy you can count on to make the right decision, rather...

I once put a puzzle in a dungeon. It wasn't meant to be solved, but rather to delay and damage intruders. There was a tile grid in front of a door. On each 5' tile was a small pictograph. Simple things like a bird, or a bird in the air, the sun, a cloud, etc. Then on the wall beside the...

Back down off the indignation, captain. My response was to your own text: You're trying to fix a problem to help someone who may not even be here. Who may never come here for all we know. Semantics. *shrug* I DM with a DM as a player. He reads monster stats all the time. It doesn't impact...

I did some cooperative writing a few years back, and in it I had created a series of cyborgs created to hunt down rogue psions. The cyborgs were called Anti-Psionic Cyborg Interception Devices, or APCID, for short, and of the many experiments, only three succesful cyborgs were created...

If you're divorcing character motivation from the equation, then it's all about flavor text, and you can spin that however you like it. Raising the dead might be considered a Good act, for restoring life. Or it could just as easily be spun into an Evil act, for perverting the sanctity of life...

A player in the game I currently play in is the greatest D&D cheater I've ever known. He plays a cleric, and always has the right spell. When he casts a "healing spell" (he never specifies,) he always heals himself up to just a couple points below max. He never runs out of spells. He rolls...

Voted "care." I wouldn't accept a friend pulling an ace out of their sleeve when we play cards. I wouldn't accept a friend adjusting the scorecard while I'm not looking when we go bowling. I wouldn't accept a friend kicking his ball into the hole, when we go golfing. The fact that I'm...

But I have to ask, do we really need to censure ourselves for this kind of imaginary player who may or may not exist? And even if they do exist, why is it a positive to deny them what they're looking for? I think the mere idea of putting spoiler tags on this kind of information is the first...

I don't really see where you're coming from, Infiniti. If you have players who don't metagame, then Mistwell's info is beside the point. If you have players who metagame, then you have an entirely different problem. Mistwell's info is no more a spoiler than addresses to "what are the best...

Same here. It was a fun strip, something most of us can relate to.

What he said. My bard used this tactic all the time. It helped keep him survivable. I wish I'd thought of that while I played that bard. I'd just drop the spell if we returned to town before it expired.

I tend to work from a modern moral standpoint, then soften up certain aspects of it to get the feel I want. So things such as gender equality remain untouched and modern, despite the time period of the setting. This may be due to the fact that every long-term campaign I have ever been a part...

Are you quoting from the wikipedia? As I've been taught, a moral dilemma is facing a difficult situation and being forced to determine what the moral choice is. i.e. you have to examine and define your own moral stance in a way that most of us don't think about very often. i.e. your child is...

Having just learned about the wikipedia today, let me just say that it is worthless as any kind of reference or validation of any kind.

I think the answer to this is very campaign-specific. In my campaign, if the gods had vanished completely and no longer touched the world at all, then paladins would lose all of their powers. They are channels for divine power, and all of their special abilities are granted to them through a...

This is not a moral dilemma, although far too many folks seem to believe it is. This is one of those no-win situations you mention. Evil flourishes either way. A moral dilemma is one in which the PC (and player) are forced to figure out which choice is the moral one to make, not one in which...

Ah. Well then, I can answer you with a resounding no. I would never play under such rules. Me too. What exactly are you basing this on? What was the thread that led you to this conclusion?

While this is true, I don't really think I could begrudge any kind of character a single round of buffing, especially if it means the wizard is going to be able to keep spell-slinging throughout the other 7 rounds of the combat, rather than fleeing with low hit points a few rounds later. First...

I'm not entirely sure I understand the concept. A paladin's code does not in any way dictate the paladin's behavior. It merely sets up penalties for certain kinds of behavior, in the same way that any fraternity might. Save that because the paladin fraternity is divine in nature, breaking its...