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    The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Dungeon

    Dungeon Masters: The Dungeon Masters are one of the most unpleasant races in the Dungeon. Not actually evil, but mean-hearted, stubborn, officious, and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own Dungeon Master's Guide from the Ravenous Tarrasque of Lower Talonia without...
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    Looking for some new plot/campaign ideas

    This one was originally conceived for Eberron, but I think it could be revised to fit another world. Dream-beings are invading from the plane of dreams (if you're using Eberron, this is the Kalashtar/Inspired), but it is a silent invasion. Rather than entering the material plane physically...
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    D&D Monsters that Scare You and Your Players

    My characters in an Eberron campaign were really freaked out by the Carcass Crab, mostly because it was the first horror of the Mournland they encountered and they weren't at all expecting something like THAT.
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    What RPG books/manuals do you really regret buying?

    I'm probably in the minority here, but I regret buying Arcana Unearthed when it came out. A lot of the mechanical changes were interesting and had potential, but the flavor just turned me off. I wanted D&D with interesting different mechanics rather than something that's kind of D&D with a...
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    Massive Open Content SRD

    Observations It seems to me that a MassiveSRD would not be definably good or bad for the industry, but rather a shift in its paradigm. Anyone who is familiar with the software industry will know of the open source movement from which the copyleft concept originates. There, the concept is...
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    Books pricing themselves out of reach?

    In my opinion, RPG books are not overpriced if they fit one of two criteria: 1) They contain material I will actually use. I've greatly enjoyed my Eberron CS and my ExPsiHB, so I would call their price fair. 2) They are interesting or inspirational to read, even if I never use them. The...
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    I am death, destroyer of worlds

    The most famous instance of the quote was when Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project, utterered it upon witnessing the first test of the atom bomb at Trinity Site. He, in turn, attributed it to a specific Hindu text he once read, though I'm not familiar with the title.
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    Dropped.

    Si vous avez besoin d'un autre, je m'en interesse. Je parle la langue, mais je n'ai jamais joué en Français. Mais j'aimerais bien essayer! Mais, si vous n'avez plus besoin de joueurs, ça va.
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    Who wants some Eberron action!!!

    Animus, I'm going to run a game with the theme that interests me. Since it's set in Eberron and the people here were looking for an Eberron game, I thought I'd offer it to them. Since the response to my campaign idea was not overwhelming in this thread, I'm also going to open it up to other...
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    Who wants some Eberron action!!!

    That's perfectly alright. I'm going to make an official recruitment thread for my campaign sometime in the next few days, so keep your eyes open for it if you're interested.
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    Who wants some Eberron action!!!

    It's fine that some people aren't interested in a psionic-themed campaign. That's why I announced my intentions before hand! As to what exactly I mean by that, I mean that I want to focus on exploring the world of Eberron's psionic entities (the Kalashtar, the Quori, the Dreaming Dark, etc.)...
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    Who wants some Eberron action!!!

    I'm also willing to run an Eberron game, though I'm particularly interested in running one with a psionic theme. If anyone's interested in exploring the Kalashtar, the Quori, and the power of dreams, I'm here for you. Not to say that I don't want non-psionic characters, but players need to be...
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    Archetypal vs. Menu-style characters

    Honestly, I prefer Archetypal for a reason that nobody seems to have mentioned: I like my characters to be different. I hate systems that, for instance, make a psioni the same as a mage with some "Mental" trait. I want psionics to have a different flavor from magic, and I want the rules I...
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    LotR Film Quotes

    Now that the Mouth of Sauron is back in and they believe Frodo to be dead, "For Frodo..." Right before Aragorn leads the charge at the Black Gate. For some reason I also found Gollum's admission of his evil nature on Mt. Doom: "Smeagol lied!" I was very impressed with how it was portrayed...
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    [PrC] Warforged Technician

    Another use of Repair Light Damage per day, another two hours off repair times, and an additional +1 to applicable Craft checks?
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    [PrC] Warforged Technician

    I made this PrC, because one of my PCs is really interested in working with House Cannith and the creation forges. I imagine them as being Cannith workers who maintain and repair the Warforged, and might even have been sent into the field during the Last War to help with Warforged maintenance...
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    Grr. Return of the King makes me angry.

    I really missed Gandalf turning the Witch-King back at the gates of Minas Tirith. I can't quote it, but it's something like this: The gate breaks from the final blow of Grond, the battering ram, and Gandalf alone stands before the dark opening (it is still just before dawn). The Witch-King on...
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    What exactly makes Math hard to some people?

    One of the biggest problems I see is that people are unable to generalize knowledge. If you know how to solve one problem, you need to be able to use that solution to help your solve a similar problem. For instance, in my Discrete Math class we learned to solve Chinese Remainder Theorem...
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    Unearthed Arcana SRD - SCANNED

    I'm a little surprised at some of the fair use discussion going on here. In the filesharing world, it is a generally accepted fair use that distributing copies of a work between two people who already own it is not illegal. The argument runs something like this: when you buy a copy of a...
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    What New WotC Base Classes are you using

    I use the core classes plus the psionic classes and the Artificer. Also, I replace the Bard with Monte Cook's variant.
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