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This is how I see it as well.

I once created a magical "factory" that had been buried under rock and earth for a thousand years. The PCs followed some tunnels down into the complex, and eventually came to the front door (from the inside). They spent a good half-hour trying to figure out a way to open the doors, until I...

Given the rainbow coalition of Eyes of Moirel, I'd always thought that perhaps Darkeye was the host to a black Eye of Moirel, or perhaps an anti-Eye, if that makes sense.

Good grief. The Promised Land is crumbling right out from under me.

Both franchises are so expansive that I think it's impossible compare them fairly. I could field an opinion on various individual pieces of the competing franchises. DS9 vs. The Phantom Menace. Or Enterprise vs. SW: Clone Wars. But there is such a lack of uniformity in either of the two...

Here are my suggestions: 1. Have the commander designate the party a semi-autonomous commando group. The commander gives them a problem, and they set about dealing with it. They aren't bound by the same protocols as the standard infantry (being mortals,) but are also not afforded the same...

Or make sense. It always bothered me that megatron was a huge robot, and transformed into an itty-bitty pistol. The size dealie stuck in my craw for some reason. As toys, there was no size issue. But as a cartoon, it seemed strange. Same for Soundwave and the tapes that he carried. So if...

Shilsen answered all the particular rules questions exactly as I would. I agree with you regarding the relatively worthless "It depends on your DM" responses. However, I disagree with the notion that personal rulings are irrelevent. A fair portion of rules questions in this forum are posted...

My feelings exactly. Only if the paladin were adventuring with an amoral mercenary company would this kind of arrangement make sense, in which case it wouldn't make sense for the paladin to be in the group in the first place. A paladin is going to be adventuring with others who don't want to...

What's the ECL of a Balor? 28? 35? CR /= ECL

Apologies, because I haven't read all five pages of arguing. I've only popped in to state that I would love the chance, at the end of a 20th-level campaign, to travel down to the bottom of the Abyss and put a hurt on Orcus. In fact, I was part of a year-long campaign that presumably would end...

I don't have a problem with min-maxing. To an extent, all my PCs min-max, because they are all interested in being as strong as they can be, to fulfill their particular campaign goals. My paladin is going to try and find the best gear he can, to help him defeat the evil emperor, it's as simple...

I don't think you did a bad job, Space Coyote. You tried your best. Sometimes it's hard to be cryptic without being prohibitively so, since the solution always seems simple to the person creating the puzzle. ;) In the case of your specific scenarios, I think the key to the first would have...

I voted Affecting History. I don't particularly want to see my PC destroy the setting's atmosphere (be it High Magic, or post apocalyptic, etc.) by completely changing its nature. But I want to see my PCs have a powerful impact for the better. For instance, in game I currently play in, my now...

This actually comes as a disappointment to me. For me, coming from the days of Fatal Attraction, Magneto has always been the ultimate "gray villain." Which is to say he's the villain who, if you squint your eyes, almost seems like not a villain at all. He's the violent freedom fighter, the...

When you say "dispel it" where "it" refers to the magic item, are you talking about dispelling any enchantments cast upon it, or suppressing the magic of the item itself? I've always ruled that a targetted Dispel Magic had a chance of dispelling each spell present on the target, and on any of...

Hrm. Well, reading here and elsewhere, I'm probably going to hold off on seeing this movie until either it comes up on my brother's Video-on-Demand, or as a rental. There are three tiers of comic book movie for me. Tier I are movies that are good, with no regard to the fact that they're based...

For me, an epic city wouldn't be mortal. The only mortals who reach epic levels, IMC, are the PCs. At that point, an "epic city" they might encounter would be the City of Brass. Or the Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia. Where the inhabitants are djinn, angels, demons, etc. I find the idea of...

Voted yes. Two of our group are rearing their young'uns in the traditional fashion, so we have two gamers at 11 and 13 on the young side, and others in their early forties on the other side, with a few thirty-somethings thrown in for good measure.

I agree. I do ask that players be familiar with the rules they'll be using in their tactics and, if something seems fuzzy rules-wise, they give me a heads-up so I can read up on the issue prior to the game. i.e. if their strategy involves bull rushing in a questionable way, they let me know...