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Well, for "several times a day" try "a dozen". :) It varies, but I haven't developed patience yet...

Fair enough, I suppose. :)

Hmm... I'm not keen on Marl exploring the mines entirely on his own. But he'll press onwards... Creamsteak, were you expecting him to react differently? Start a confrontation that the others would hear? Speaking of hearing, I hope *someone* in the party will succeed at that last Listen...

I only just started PbP gaming here, but I tried to turn email notification on for Heroes of Vesper Peaks, which I'm playing in. It would be very handy not to be compulsively checking the forum several times a day looking for new posts. :)

There have been quite a few threads in the past, I think, related to improving the Healing skill to partly make up for the lack of healing magics, should one get rid of the latter. I used something in a short-lived campaign, along the lines of allowing 1d4 hit points to be healed if they were...

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Oh - looking at the original poster's handle, I'm reminded of the amazing book (released in the US as a series of multiple books) Ash: A Secret History, by Mary Gentle. It's supposedly a "secret history" - there are parts which are email exchanges between historians who have discovered a lost...

Some thoughts - Personally, I like the idea of a ruling council better than mayor and council. If there's a mayor, then he's probably got final say - more power, anyhow. If it's just the council, then more things will be decided by vote, and that will mean more interesting politics. That...

Newbie question - can anyone, including (new) players, submit stuff? When I created my character, which was recently, I looked at the available deities, and I've also been looking at the ones being proposed, and a lot of them seem very specific and I think I have yet see one that my character...

Sadly, this sort of thing just isn't supported in D&D. You're going to need your DM to approve something custom; assure him that you don't want to be able to create permanent stone traps (i.e. you want "Craft: Simple Traps" or "Craft: Wilderness Traps") and maybe he'll be more lenient. There...

Just testing the die roller... and wondering why no one has posted since me and Quirhid did... :) [dice]

Got it! I did some searching. The catoblepas first appeared in the Natural History written by Pliny the Elder (1st century AD). So it's from the ancient world, sort of... http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/catoblepas.htm This site seems to be a goldmine for what you're doing - it mentions that...

Eldragon, thanks for the detailed post! I like the concept too; I was quite disappointed that the DM wouldn't allow the battle sorcerer, because it seemed like a nice base class for the idea... Even though I haven't played a FM before, I'd certainly looked at the Power Attack/True Strike...

5 :) The fifth is Midnight Tides. I've got it sitting on a shelf... waiting for the right moment to read it.

This is really great, Shadowdragon! I know I'm going to be swiping your list of monsters for my own OGL Ancients purposes. Are the catoblepas really from Greek myth? I don't recall anything involving them, but they may have come up in a historical work. Hey, now that I think of Herodotus, he...

Unfortunately I don't think so. It's a Scarred Lands game, but my only SL books are the Gazetteer and the booklet that came with the DM Screen. :) Thanee, SirWhiskers, you both make good points. Dunno what to do at the moment. Of course, I could play a cleric... on looking at the pantheon...

I was hoping to play a battle sorcerer in an online PbP game (not here), but the DM nixed that idea. I just looked over the eldritch knight, and while I doubt my character will ever reach that level, that seems to be the way to go when restricted to core books only. They don't get any ability...

Aaaaand... Marl Oconna has been approved. :) Bonus points (not that I can hand out any points) for the hardboiled detective pun in his name. :D

Very cool... I don't think I have the time to join, but I love pulp. Are you actually using THE Spider or is this a different character?

Well just the coverage of people having drinking problems is a shift. I don't think they showed that much in The Old Days. How much sherry did they actually drink in Frasier episodes? Did they sit down and go through a bottle? :)