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Mmmmmmmmm. Secret of the Silver Blades. I loved that game. The finale, when you're taking on the Storm Giants (who are immune to electricity) and the Iron Golems (who heal when hit by fire), was fantastic. I wouldn't necessarily want to see a straight port of the game, but if they moved it all...

Congratulations! I'll give it a look!

JRR, if they fight differently and have a different roleplaying style, what's left to be the same? I meean, yeah, the paladin probably isn't hunting for traps or stalking through the shadows in almost any build (at least, not until you get Shadowbane Stalker levels), but that's a fairly wide...

If it's for your own campaign, then just taking classes out sounds pretty easy. And you may not have to do even that. In terms of Wild West/Wuxia power groups, you've got: The Natives: (Aboriginals, hermits, wild men, etc) Barbarian: Native American warrior class Druid: The Native healers you...

I'd just note that anyone who thinks they are bucking the system by not tipping isn't bucking anything. They're screwing with the lads and ladies at the bottom of the food chain. That rarely if ever results in changes at the top. If you want to be a jerk, be a jerk, but don't delude yourself by...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the gigantic failure that was d20 Modern still outselling most roleplaying games out there?

Chaotic Good. All the paladinic good I want to roleplay, but I'm allowed to be snarky and bluff like a maniac at the same time.

When I was a kid, I got SSI's "Wargame Construction Kit" just a bit too young to appreciate it. Now, about 15 years later, I'd love to find a game that does (in a modern fashion) what that game would have let me do if I'd figured out how to use it properly. I'm looking for, essentially...

Guns didn't ruin d20 Modern for me. They certainly wouldn't ruin D&D. Heck, the Grim Tales game I run over e-mail is a Renaissance-level fantasy game. The party's sorcerer and the party's gunslinger are about on par in terms of damage output. The sorcerer's better against crowds, and the...

Got me. :) Personally, I'd drop him to Neutral when he made the decision to do it, and Evil when he carried it out. The easiest self-justification is that if ol' Hugo wanted to take a level in Blackguard, for which he qualified in every respect except alignment (having summoned an evil outsider...

True. I consider it a big messy mix, frankly. I'd put our Warrior Princess at Neutral, given that your line instantly hit my "Yes" button. You can instantly stop being Evil and climb to Neutral, but you have to EARN your way to Good. (Ideally with the help of a cute little strawberry-blond bard...

Yep. So don't make baby trolls detect as evil in your world. If trolls in your world are a metaphor for people of a different race or ethnicity, then yeah, having them ping evil is, uh, bad. But if trolls are meant to be sinister inhuman forces of non-metaphorical destruction, then flip the...

In a House Rules discussion, that's fine. In this discussion, the DM took creatures listed as "Usually Evil" in the SRD and actually made them MORE evil by having them radiate evil even as babies. 1) Yes, it is. That's what the paladin's god wants the paladin to do. I mean, yeah, if you pass...

It was distasteful when they were described as babies and tadpoles. I don't play paladins to kill babies. It might be Lawful Good to volunteer to spend all day cleaning out the temple's outhouses, but I also don't play paladins to shovel... stuff. It's a simple question of what the player wants...

I disagree with your disagreement. It's evil, and it's gonna try to kill you when it grows up. If it's evil as a baby, it's evil in the blood. Evil by nurture you can cure. Evil by nature has no cure available. Paladins have d10 hit dice and the nice attack bonus for a reason. And that reason...

But it is clear. They detect as evil. They are as evil as a low-level evil cleric, or a mid-level evil warrior. They are evil by D&D standards, which means that they are inherently evil and will definitely pose a threat, and deserve to be smitten as much as a lemure or a dretch. The real issue...

As far as I'm concerned, there's no debate. They radiate evil. If the paladin wasn't supposed to kill them, his Smite wouldn't fire correctly. If they don't radiate evil, that's an entirely different situation. Anything that radiates evil deserves to die. It's either personally loathsome and...

Wouldn't that just be giving the creature a specific weakness in the Creature Creation area? Any kind of distraction (like the PCs making noises to spook him beforehand) causes him to have to make a Will save to avoid becoming Shaken? That's the quick & dirty way, anyway.

I was kinda hoping for Griese, too. The Super Bowl is not when you have a young QB stick in there to see what losing feels like. The Super Bowl is when you maximize your chances of winning. Whether he has the potential to be good or not, Grossman was rattled out there. I didn't mind Manning...

Not an example a lot of people here are familiar with, likely, but J.D. Robb's "____ in Death" series has a cop whom I consider LG (although shading toward NG because she lets her computer-hacker husband give her information that she knows he gets through illegal hacking). She does some great...