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I don't understand where you get off making personal attacks when I just stated my opinion. I wouldn't exactly consider most of the Fellowship of the Ring to be perfect, nor many of the characters in DL. FR's characters oftentimes don't seem to have any discernible flaws. Flint is...

I heard about this thread, but I can't seem to find it, as there doesn't seem to be a function to search for threads and for some bizarre reason, the system won't let me use the "Find all threads by this poster" function connected to individual posters. Would someone mind posting a link to...

It almost seems to me, as a matter of fact, that there are a lot of good ideas in FR that haven't been properly built on even by their creators. The Red Wizards of Thay are presented as your generic evil baddies who want to rule the world. But they actually have a fairly interesting...

I agree with many of the statements here, so I'll make my contribution brief. For me, the NPCs of Forgotten Realms are so basely irritating because, quite often, they're presented as perfect, flawless, and beloved. Does Storm Silverhand ever burn out, lose her temper, become exasperated...

Again, some clarity is called for. I have nothing against multiclassing per se, it's just the idea of simply taking a level of cleric, rogue or ranger simply to min/max your character's killing capacity. If it's part of a character's organic development and evolution, and there are in-game...

Oh, I agree with all of this. I'd be more than happy to go the way the players want when it comes to actual plotlines-they want to be mercenaries, they want political intrigue, they want hack-slash-kill, that's fine. It's just my own little quirks and eccentricities that make it so I'd...

1) Is it bad DMing to out-and-out refuse certain character concepts or classes? I freely admit to being an old-school grognard despite my young age, and I intensely dislike the trend towards all kinds of prestige classes, multiclassing, min/maxing, and magic supermarkets. Hence, if I were...

Well, I made these examples up from the perspective of a fiction writer, rather than a gamer, as I don't game with anyone, and am hardly an expert on the 3E rules. But even so, you provide an example of what I was talking about. Your ruling that it shouldn't do more than 1d6 damage with a...

Back in the days of 1E, I remember some arbitrary rulings on the part of Gary Gygax in the 1E DMG-like arbitarily deciding that, even if he saved against the web spell and was only partly entangled, a villainous NPC could not free himself fast enough to be subdued or killed by the PCs, that...

You know, back in the days of 1E, Gary Gygax had lots of little off-the-cuff rulings and commentary that wasn't written into the rules specifically, just mentioned in passing. He mentioned that a dinosaur might not be affected in the least by a poisonous snake-no dice rolls, nothing. I haven't...

Geez...I was just joking. That's all this was-a joke, meant to cheer any baseball fans up. I'm hardly an expert on the subject, for one thing.

Just out of curiousity, is "Sam's Town" named for Sam Houston of the Alamo? I'm Canadian, so I don't know. I'm just curious.

If you're at all depressed about Barry Bonds breaking the home run record while being juiced (I don't know if he was or not, so I'm not going there, that just seems to be the perception), think about this... If anything, guys like Babe Ruth deserve even more recognition for their athletic...

QFT. I also think that evil organizations-the Zhentarim, the Society of the Blue Salamander from Kalamar, the Scarlet Brotherhood, etc.-are also vastly over-used. Whatever happened to independent villains, whether they be bandit leaders, orc chiefs, pirate captains, or evil wizards with no...

First off, I'd like to follow DrunkOnDuty's lead and also tip my hat to funkysnunkulator for his interesting and innovative posts. Little details like this can go a long way towards coloring a game and making it stand out. I've been writing a series of articles on the gods of Greyhawk at...

Wow. Talk about your all-you-can-eat buffets... Tomnoddy! Tomnoddy!

I've never actually run this scenario, but this is how it plays out in my head. Inspiration is derived from a fusion of the movies Eyes Wide Shut and Cube, as well as some of the more Cthulu-like moments from the classic G3 Module "Hall of the Fire Giant King." As the party is passing...

Please bear in mind when I write this that I don't actually have a gaming group-I'm just speaking hypothetically here. A while back, I posted a "Would this be evil" forum where PCs, who are offended by the bullying and/or extortion of either local thugs and criminals or noble rakes out...

I resent that! Some of us are diehard Greyhawk fans too! I hate the trend towards Epic-levle powergaming, easy-to-make magic items, min/maxing prestige classes and feats, and all the other new trends as much as any of you greybearded old-timers. And I'm only 25. So there. :P

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