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Spare of Density would be way cooler :cool:

I think we have a winner. Simple and elegant.

I DMed RttToEE for my players ;) On top of that, when the PCs were camping inside the dungeon, I had a couple of NPC assassins and an ogre mage attack them in their sleep. Invisible ogre mage used mind control on the lone guard, and then the assassins killed all the PCs in their sleep. I did...

I don't think that many people in real life would have much trouble estimating whether they can climb a certain tree, and whether it's going to be easy or hard. It's not exactly rocket science.

Snort coke in the bathroom.

Yeah. The first AD&D campaign I played, we approached everything as if it was a dungeon. When we got into a village, we'd start going through it door by door.

Quasqueton has done a lot of threads providing material from ye olden times, proving how all the "ills created by 3E" were already there. Only thing left for him to do is to find accusations of 1E being anime :p

My DMing style is usually more episodic in nature. Usually only minor things come back from the past, unless it's something obvious, like PCs forgetting to destroy a Lich's phylactery. Sometimes I do it only for flavor: Once I made an adventure where the PCs are asked by a distressed mother to...

Didn't think about that, but you're right. Except that adventurers have (a little) more staying power. As in moving to the presidents palace and setting up house, but then again that was the part that brought a lot of discussion in this thread :\ Killing bad guys, YES! Nation building, NO! ;)

Hi, just musing here about the nature of D&D.. Most of my experience with D&D is about foolhardy adventurers that go on adventures for the personal gain in power and wealth. Adventurers also seem to enjoy the thrill of combat; kicking ass seems to be a value in itself. The premise for most...

Feel free to point out my inferior knowledge of the conquistadors / aztecs and sidestep any points I made in the rest of my post.

Altering power structures will usually result in collateral deaths (like we've seen throughout world history up to this day), and it's always a heated debate if the new power structure is worth the deaths. But to claim that altering the (originally evil) power structure is outright EEVIL? I'd...

Calling a woman a whore can get you fined in 2007 Finland, so I don't think it would be nonpunishable in a feudal society, however enlightened that might be.

No, "show respect" meant here not calling a priestess a bitch and backtalking a lord. Only after that was the guard pushed against the wall: Surely grabbing a guards tunic and shoving him against a wall isn't as serious as calling a priestess a bitch or backtalking a lord? Even after that the...

Reminds me of a specific incident that happened in year 2000. I was a officer trainee leading a platoon in a field exercise. We were having a break on a march, and I was goofing around with the three NCOs in my command. Out of the forest appear, in full batle gear, a major and another officer...

Finland has a mandatory military service, so everyone has to go. In that sense, not only the strong end up in the military so avg STR of 10 could be assumed. The full pack can easily weight 100 lbs, and everyone could carry it for extended periods (first time in full gear I thought it would be...

Same with me, I even like roleplaying morons when I DM. I was just surprised that you would equate calling an NPC a moron with calling the DM moron. Let's face it; the NPC acted like a moron, let's forget the noble thing for a while: 1) Called a high-level character a bitch. That will get...

This is really the problem with some DMs. An insult to an NPC is an insult to the DM; disrespect an NPC and you're disrespecting the DM. That's why there's a double standard on what a PC Lord is forced to tolerate from NPCs, and what PCs without Noble rank have to tolerate from NPC Lords. BTW...

Evil should go unpunished because punishing evil has nasty consequences? Sounds like cowardly adventuring. Screw the consequences and kill the bad guys would be my approach. Consequences should not deter any stalwart adventurer, but they should be mitigated. You know, make evil dudes death...

There was also an adventure for the Book of Erotic Fantasy called "The Rod of 7 Inches". Or if there wasn't, there should've been :p