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Price Gouging...just what is that? Its an assumption that goods you wish to buy are overpriced for the sake of making a profit....but isn't that what capitalism is about? I offer goods or services for a price, and you are free to search around for the best value. I used to run a medical...

You hit the button on one of the main aspects of DnD that becomes tiresome: Paranoia. I know players at our table who assume every NPC is out to get them. And yeah, they assume that every encounter is going to be combat oriented. BTW have you ever noticed that almost all combats occur during...

Wizards still can cast only 1 spell a round, two with quicken. They normally have fewer spells or access to fewer spells then clerics. If you are playing a true core rules game, clerics have access to ALL spells and wizards only to ones they get to pick and what the DM gives them. The magic...

So let me get this straight....From your post, you don't put any work into character background, or try to make your character have any fluff or extra cool things about it. You also don't mind if, while having a fun or challenging campaign, that your character dies and the DM tells you, sorry...

As an aside, to me a mainstream player is someone who would be upset after spending 2+hours making a character, then painting a mini, or finding a pic, or some other cool character fluff, only to see his character die in the first encounter on the first d20 roll. Hey that actually happened to...

While I agree that sometimes death does happen, and it is due to bad luck, I think a good DM knows when not to allow death or TPK. Like I said...not in the first encounter, and not right before the big final fight or dramatic moment, unless it is significant. I don't want to have my players...

Dislike Combat spells. Unless your god is a God of War, clerics should not have spells that let them zap people or have higher ac etc. I think Domains should, like specialization for wizards, be used to cut off certain spells for certain mages. Clerics have access to all the spells possible, and...

I find mainstream players don't want their characters to die in the first encounter. Nor for TPK to happen right before the finale in a meaningless fight. <shrugs>

Thats when you go find another game or DM. If you play by the book, then what happens when a DM runs a combat and rolls hot and ends up with TPK??? Don't you trust your DM to fudge the combat so that you don't have to put a "the 2nd" behind your characters name?

A PC wizard yes. This wizard is a mercenary hired by the caravan master. It is called capitalism. And he doesn't need that fighter to stand in front of him, he can handle himself. ( and just in case anyone is thinking I would show favoritism to an NPC, twice now he has gotten himself hit for...

I was not aware of a political bias when I wrote this as much as a cultural bias. Looking back, yes Superman 1 and 2 came out during the Reagan years. But the Batman period covers Bush41, Clinton, and Bush 43.

Actually.......I thought I posted you could bring in an established 10th level character, or a new one if you didn't have one with 2000GP of gear. Oops. The wizard is only making a 100GP profit off the magic items. Sheesh! You know you will be finding a knight's corpse with some magic items you...

If you had been paying attention, A. I rolled to-hit with the cannon. B. I then rolled an artillery die, not a scatter die, to see how far the cannon ball bounced. C. I rolled for damage behind the screen and killed the low hit point mule. It was a frickin cannon! Let's see you take a cannon...

. Just to educate you, alot of DM's...if not MOST...do not randomly roll up treasure. They pick and choose, making sure the players get items that are good for them, and good for the adventure, and keeping out gamebreaking items. And where exactly does it say in the rules that prices for...

You missed the point. DnD should be fun, regardless of the treasure award. You seem to fall into the kick the door, kill the monster, get the gold kind of gamer. Which is fine. In the end, thats pretty much what the game is about. What I am saying is, the players shouldn't play for the...

I just watched this and the Kid with the Golden Arms. Fun movies, and great for DnD adventure ideas! Ironically, the group of actors from these movies and who became known as the Five Deadly Venoms did not include Snake! The group includes all of the Venom characters and the student sent to...

It was the late 70's when the Superman movies came out. We had come through the horrors of Vietnam to see victory stolen from our grasp by the Watergate scandal. We were sitting through high inflation and a presidency that seemed to be paralyzed into in action. For Americans, hope of a better...

Having a blast at playing the game isn't reward itself? Are DnD players egoes so small that they need to have piles of gold thrown at their characters to make them come back to the table? One of the best game sessions I ever saw....we had rescued a merchant from some zombie pirates, and he told...

I think perhaps had he been more truthful about what he posted then I would feel the outside perspectives would be more helpful. He is very inexperienced at gaming, so his assumption that he was in a bad game does not warrant a post full of insults. I can find dozens of players who can attest...

I am only going to assume the game itself was not fun, and the reason you quit wasn't because your characters were only earning 100gp. Did that 100GP balance out according to the economics of the campaign? Or were you strapped for cash. Why would a low treasure payout kill a game? Why do players...