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Why does this bother you? If you look at black dragons, they do very little damage. But they do get a semi permanent cloud of darkness. What if they had given the cloud of darkness, and ALSO used the guidelines for damage? You would have an overpowered monster, that's what. I am guessing this...

It was a homebrew setting, but well established NPCs came to save our bacon when suddenly, one of our opponents turned out to be about 15 levels higher than us, and had a special fighting style that we as PCs were not offered originally. We helped, but the charges of our wands and measly...

My group consists of a Warlord, a Cleric, a Paladin and a Rogue with a Bard multiclass feat. I completely agree with you on this making the game dull. Death, for them, is unthinkable. There is always a minor action to heal one of them somewhere. Rav

Couldn't you just change the direction the hordes come from? Something like mounted hob-goblin horse archers coming from the north? :-)

I also think it is an abomination. Perhaps also why the goblins weren't scared of it: it is descendant from a goblin god?

I am halfway through with Age of Worms. Almost everything is easy to convert, except for thee arena battles in Champion's belt. These need to be done differently. Players going nova with Dailies and action points makes for short encounters.

We had a thread about this a few weeks ago. There are such shifts from hour to hour in that list, that the numbers must be very low so mean absolutely nothing.

It's also a deep recession now. I'd wager that anyone that buys used items very cheap to resell them cheap, is seeing an increase in both supply and demand. *oops, missed crothian's post. Oh well, he's got plenty*

Who is kitchensinking? And would it really ruin it? Do you really think the spice thing is a good analogy? I don't, but I'll run with it. Perhaps if I gave each race a perfectly equal place in the world, each with an entire fleshed out nation on the same continent. But I need not do that. Some...

I had a four paragraph post typed, but it would derail the thread and I don't really want to discuss it. Suffice it to say, I thank you for your apparent insight into my game, but I find it strange that you strangely cannot say anything useful about your own game. Ie. I strongly dislike your...

Do you know when sometimes, you want two NPCs to talk to eachother? On a messageboard, that is not quite so ridiculous as doing it in person, at the end of a dining table, with four people watching you try to pull it off. I also found it to be easier to do cinematic interludes with NPCs...

4e made me switch to squares. Funny thing is, though we've used feet for 14 years now, I think finally the players and myself are actually getting a sense of how large a room is (mostly because we now always use minis, but still). I couldn't do an environmental hazard by the book in 3e because...

"You get an 18? You just make it." "wait! Did you remember to take into account your armour check penalty?"

Thanks, having everyone only effected once was our ruling as well. It does make it slightly stranger than I would like it to be, but the combat went a lot faster, so I think we'll be going to use it this way permanently.

How have all those who have been using the "ars ludi" system handled "until the end of your next turn" effects (or how would you handle them)? If you don't make some ruling a power, blinding barrage for instance, might help your allies twice.

I had 10 years of fun with 3e, it matured me as a DM, and I learned to love Dungeon/Paizo during this time. My best sessions so far have still been 3e sessions (Freeport!). Your list? It matches my "3e shitlist" exactly, and is the reason I DM other stuff exclusively from now on. I'll gladly...

Good for you! Thankfully, the atmosphere here has become a lot closer to its old level of friendliness lately IMO. Every little bit more is great!

Between about 60 and 75 minutes, but we do have slightly optimized characters. So far I haven't felt the need to shorten encounters by reducing monsters to minion status though.

He said daily ITEM powers. Not daily attacks.

It does cost a move action to stand up again, so generally that limits your options for that turn (or you don't stand up, and grant CA for an entire turn again). I'd say that's definitely worse than just granting CA.