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I suppose I should clarify; I like to grab things from PC backstories or interests and throw those into the world, where the rest of the party might not care. It may not be particularly hooksome, but I'm not averse to using things that are primarily of interest to a single player. Likewise, as...

A thousand times yes! Although I suppose it depends on the degree of sidequestiness that you mean. I once gave a corporate agent get a secret mission which he had to pursue while also progressing the mainplot and keeping his motives secret from the party, for example. Is that the kind of...

Well, we found another curious thing. We have a fellow considering Bard, but as a group we're confused by Power Chord. Can you use Power Chord to cast spells while using Bardic Music? Do Power Chorded spells have their durations reduced to 1 round, per Swift Spell? Thanks, John

... You almost made me want to play a bard there for a sec. I feel dirty now. Seriously though, that's pretty awesome.

Well, the Traveller game I was playing in did strategic mapping on hexes, with small-scale mapping done freehand... While it was a sandbox, money was the primary objective, with exploration being fairly secondary (though there were a few 'into the unknown' scenarios where were quite nice.).

Hmm... Conversion seems like a very reasonable solution, and flexible to boot. I may try pitching that to him. Thanks! (Would've really helped my assassin with the useless Dagger of Poison last game, too, now that I think of it). Update: DM has agreed; guess we're playtesting this one :P

The Delusional Wannabe Wizard's Familiar - if you have the wannabe wizard in your game, at least give him a familiar... and make that familiar a PC, who is smarter than his master (and knows it), but can't communicate well with the rest of the party (because he's a cat).

The Hobbit - He's just a hobbit who, until recently was leading a perfectly peaceful life in a hobbit-hole, as most hobbits do. Prone to eating during encounters, no combat skills to speak of, and a bit on the heavy side. Also barefoot, hence particularly vulnerable to caltrops and other...

Misread thread title; now I want to make Helm of Paladinhood a magic item. I guess the old Helm of Alignment Change might work as a baseline... Not terribly familiar with Helm, and not sure how closely you're holding to FR lore, but the sense I'm getting from upthread is that they're in some...

Ah, crud. The campaign I'm playing in has just hit 10th, and nobody has anything with an actual enhancement bonus over +1 (except the Sorc's Ring of Prot +2 and the suit of +3 full plate we found but can't use), so we're well behind the enhancement bonus curve. The DM has, however, been giving...

Hey, another Bound Item clarification: If I have a +1 flaming sword, and at 7th level I pick up Bound Item and bind it, does it become a +2 flaming sword (ie, the enhancement bonus increases with no regard for special abilities), or does it remain +1 flaming, since the total enhancement bonus...

Hmmm... we're poor college students, and we tend to change DMs at least one a semester, but probably the best feeling was when I went "I might run a game next semester..." and one of my previous players went "Oh no! I don't have time for three games, but I also wouldn't want to miss yours...

Yeah, I was strongly reminded of Death domain too. Random death threshold would make things a lot more interesting - rather than 25 HP or die, try 8d6, with (in the 3.x idiom, at least) a save to half that.

We ran into an awesome puzzle in a game I played in last summer; the DM knew that we knew how to puzzle out this particular thing (cellular automata), and then built off of that. Now I want to try Turing machines, finite automata, graph colorings, and max-flow problems... The joy of gaming...

True facts. Most players I game with seem to be along for the ride / up for anything, and the DMs here seem to accept that as the norm (type 1). That's a good list you have there, S'mon. I'm looking to get back into my dwarf berserker mode, whose primary goal is to die in battle against a...

Heh... our bag of holding is the only one in the party with a spreadsheet. I tend to use text files, though if I'm going for paper, I tend to prefer notebook paper over actual formal character sheets. It's nice to be able to hack in all the little situational modifiers, and as long as I can...

Hmm... This sounds rather like Arcana Evolved's spell system, where some spells are exotic and other categories (only ever skimmed it; don't know the details). We currently play Core-only Trailblazer, but everything in core is equally fair game. Not how I'd really like things to be, but I'm...

Hmmm... a googledoc spreadsheet might work even better, actually. All party members could concurrently edit it, you could do encumbrance calculations for each, and the DM could check it to make sure things were on the up-and-up. The next best solution would probably be a dropbox'd excel...

In the internet age, the first possibility which springs to my mind is: For the lols. See, the problem with high-power pranks in D&D is that so much of the population just can't deal with them. PCs, and their opponents, have the advantage of massive resources and durability. So, if you don't...

Ahhh ok. I'm terribly unfamiliar with Dark Sun, my only exposure being that one issue of Dragon back in the 3.x days. Sounds like a good solution, then!