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1. Huge intellectual villains who are well intrenched in the kingdom's power structure and have plans of their own 2. Potential game self destructs at the 3, 6, 12, and every 6 months afterwards. 3. Layers of secrets and plot that never really get revealed 4. One stealthy NPC who is a part of...

Unfortunately, I'm a little too out of it to give actual good advice at the moment, so instead, I'll say the following. Don't get your heart set on things going the way you want them. Players find the darndest ways to mess things up. The easiest thing I can think of is that the mutant brother...

Too many questions and unknown variables! Is it DC 15 to climb a rope using just your hands? How about when being shot at? How about to retain your dex bonus while being shot at? How about using a move action to climb while using an attack action to swing a sword at an opponent nearby? Hm...

Yeah. This is a problem. I try to deal with it by comparing the difficulty of the task they're doing to other things I know the DC for. If it's something I can expect an untrained person to succed at half the time it's a DC 10. From there it's just a little bit of mental balancing to find out a...

I get paid for DMing in fact. The people whos house we play at makes dinner. I've recently started giving my DM money because he always has munchies for us. Plus, I occasionally buy game props. There have also been figure exchanges, videos and comics as 'inspiration' and some high quality art...

Well D_K, I figure that you and your DM have already come to this agreement (seeing the comments already said), but the best thing to do is handwave the requirement on TWF. Ability score requirements on feats is one of the more quirky segments of D&D that I disagree with. It all too often...

Depends on the game really. In the one I'm currently running, that's acceptable, as one of the overriding attributes of the game is that the PC's are just really ridiculously awesome. So it fits the attributes of the game. But it would come back around to the PC's, in the form of a general...

Thanks everyone for the replies, and sorry for the delay in response. As far as adversarial gaming goes, the game has gotten more adversarial of late. However, if I start playing adversarially, then the game goes completely adversarially, with no hope of redemption. I think that's what concerns...

Celebrim, we're not too far apart on this. I like the shadow dancer for pretty much all the reasons you do. I dislike the blackguard for being 'a lv 20 evil paladin in 10 levels. With Sneak Attack.' And funnily enough, I was going to point out that I was more bugged by feats, but my arguements...

Am I going to cross the line of acceptable behavior? Things are going strangely for our adventuring band. First, we were just running into a lot of dangerous creatures for going through a populated area. Then, things were sneaking into our camp and specifically targeting party members. Ok, now...

My problem with the whole bit about breaking the shadow dancer into a series of feats is that there aren't nearly enough feats to go around. 4 abilities + 3 prerequisites is 7 x 3 = 21 levels or so. Simply from a standpoint of the basic mechanics of the level progression system, it doesn't work...

Only one session last month. The rogue makes plans for gathering all the 'head chiefs' of the thieves' guild together and there do a dramatic unveiling of the culprit behind the attempted frame. Except... they don't know who did it. Oh yeah... they've got a prisoner. But now the clock is...

Actually, I can see how this would work. In a land of ice somethign pure fire, that melts the snow around it, and leaves trenches filled with steam would be pretty well the most unnatrual thing around. There could be one of those around, or better yet, a cadre hidden under a glacier. Then the...

On average, I'm above average, I have very large high spikes though, and some drops as well. So, overall I'm a little above average (firmly in the good category), but at any given time I can be spiking out of that range. As prep time goes up, and work stress goes down, I tend to even out at a...

Hm. I think I agree with that well enough. And I actually was using the constantly taking 10 approach in a D20 modern game. I had a low people awareness guy playing a high wis high sense motive sort, and, since he never would think of it, I just assumed that he was constantly taking 10 on his...

So, does this make the charisma score of the character involved irrelevent? Is it possible to be so people savy to push the buttons of someone to the point where they break? Does being in a world where dragons live, and people can talk to animals, and teleport via trees make it any more likely...

Well, assuming you mean 'dumpy' but not quite '****hole'... Smell, there's got to be a bad smell, a combination of old beer, BO, and the hint of rotten stew. There's not a real floor. It's probably straw over dirt. Most of the place is in disrepair, holes in the walls, drips from the celing...

Currently running one game, and playing in another. The one I'm running is part story, part fun interaction. The one I'm playing in is mostly hanging out as a group. Funnily enough, I was in the middle of a long conversation between my DM (very on the rules are the basis of the game side) and...

Well no wonder charisma is a dump stat. ;) In all seriousness though, the difference in our expected outcomes I think shows the strongest part of my point.

Erm... Sorta. Blizzard North made Diablo. They were a second division of Blizzard. I belive that the head guys from there split out to start the company that's doing Guild Wars. But it's likely a lot of talent from there got into the WoW thing, and you know, they did have all their other...