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    Do you get the chance to shine in the game?

    Actually, I crave spotlight time so much it hurts, but usually just ignore it and try to contribute to the group as a whole. Generally I fill out areas that need filling, and serve as the throughful reminder sort of guy. Typically, though, I havn't had a chance to shine in the games I'm in...
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    Roll-playing, is it utterly condemnatory?

    Dragonlancer? Prepare to be jumped. DL? Come over the top with me, the view from up here is remarkable. You can see for miles. What I find disturbing is that you believe that you're in the minority, but insist that everyone else is doing it wrong. Anyway, any evidence that I can give you...
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    D&D 101: A lesson in fun

    So, lset's get the 'off topic' bit done first. Here's my explanation of why two CR x monsters aren't worth an EL of 2x. It's a matter of available resources. At a certian point, the power curve assumes you'll have particular resources. If you can overcome one creature with DR 5/+1, you'll...
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    How Should the Paladin Suffer?

    Ahem. True or False: "By brining a little girl back to her father who loves her, the paladin has knowingly committed an evil act." While I'm agaisnt taking anything from the paladin, if you are going to take something from him, then the dreams should be his and his alone. Unless the...
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    How Should the Paladin Suffer?

    I third this notion. Obviously now, there's some smiting that needs to be done, and some asking for forgiveness afterwards. But I wouldn't see any zapping of abilities until he has a chance to knowingly screw up. Set the stage when it becomes obvious that some small part of this state of affairs...
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    How do you REALLY play Chaotic Neutral?

    Well, my current game has someone who fits CN pretty well. He's a rogue/resistance leader. He's high up in the thieves' guild and uses his pull to weaken those who have, and take it to further their operations. His biggest pet peeve is seeing someone forced or blackmailed into something...
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    Pet peeves of D&D gaming

    Allright. I have several major traits that make me less than endearing. The cone of silence: I have this ability to take a deep breath, and make an almost touchable aura of quiet and peace. I usually use it when I get started, causing the group to be sucked in and feel too hushed to say...
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    Some questions about social situations in a game.

    Here's how ours go. Guard: "HALT! Who goes there!" Player: "Ah. Good sir, can you show me to Baron Stronhiem's? The ball is tonight, and I'm afraid your city is easy to lose oneself in." DM calls for bluff roll. Usually there are a couple iterations of this, as the 'smoothness' of the...
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    What's it like to DM?

    Can you tell the people who have good groups? ;) Since so many people have covered the good part, I'll cover some of what it can be like with a bad group. Arguements. They're stupid, petty little things that can come up from a group of people who normally get along well. But suddenly every...
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    Why aren't paladins liked?

    I agree. In fact, I feel that everyone should have to deal with re-precussions with their actions. With one caviat. And that's that consiquences are within the scope of the campaign's feel. And here's why I can agree with your choice of actions. This isn't his first deviation, so it's not like...
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    Why aren't paladins liked?

    Right, so digging through someone's grave isn't paladinish. I agree with that. However, I am extrememly wary of wholesale destroying someone's character like that. Slap them on the wrist? Definately. Maybe take their smites away, and, as they do more good deeds, give them a level back each time...
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    The Liberation of Tenh (updated April 24)

    EEEEK! Creepy little children!
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    Why aren't paladins liked?

    As a player? I dislike paladins since they're the only class that has such highly built in DM Fiat for "You lose all your abilities." It's hard dealing with 2 skill points a level, especially when I want 5 skills off of a skill list. Stat distribution is a pain; Str, Con, Cha and Wis are all...
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    Too many ideas, not enough time

    At the moment, I have a 20 page file of "Things I'd like to do someday" as well as a notebook of "Cool snippets and ideas." Whever I come up with a small idea on the road, it goes into the notebook. Whenever I come up with a more complex idea that needs explanation, or clarification, I break...
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    Exalted: what's the big friggin' deal?

    And, just to chime in annoyingly, you pretty much NEED to buy three books to run a D&D game. While you can do Exalted with the core book, there's a bit of extrapolation, and self work that needs to be done to get it to work. Though I feel more comfortable making charms after a week in Exalted...
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    Exalted: what's the big friggin' deal?

    And this far, I'm doing fine with just the core book (since it's more dramatic and concept than D&D's numerical crunch I feel safer making charms and spells). Though I do feel the need for a "Monster Manual" sort of supplement, for the most part, I feel like I can run an entire game from what...
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    Exalted: what's the big friggin' deal?

    The big frigging deal is that this is the first game that my players willingly created backgrounds for. The CG scottish dwarf (in every game of D&D) is equivalently a LN samurai. This game system itself has strong overtones of "This is the day my life changed." This allieves one of the big...
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    How do YOU play a rogue?

    I play rogues like they're bards, but have to make up for my lack of spellpower with generally being more useful (but less flashy). They're charming, personable, and they've got a whole bunch of other useful skills too, when they decide to show them. Anyway in the good cleric/ paladin group, I...
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    How do YOU play a bard?

    I'm willing to go along with you requiring the bard to have to be inspiring to inspire as long as you're willing to create several hundred years worth of quotes, great battles, ballads, epic poems and stories to use. Sound fair? And you don't HAVE to be singing. The orcs thundered forward...
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    What is your Opinion of GURPS?

    I like GURPS, and I was glad when 3E added feats in, which supplied a method of character and skill differentiation, because it felt a little more gurps like. Gurps is about the only system I've used where I can comfortably make my estranged prince, heir to the imperial throne who was raised...
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