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Always good to laugh out loud at a message board while at work. Thanks :D

I'd think this would be more agnostic though...

Sometimes that's all they are :D

Would it be possible to actually disbelieve in the existance of gods in a world such as a 'standard' D&D world, where the gods are real, and their influence can be seen everywhere? It would be interesting to come up with a character concept where the character refused to believe in gods, when...

House Rule. I hate how trivialized the raising of the dead is, always have. If someone died, it's quite possible they died for a reason. It's not impossible, just not all that common. We have a lot of fun that way, sometimes a diety will extract a price from the cleric - a quest of sorts...

Thanks for moving this, didn't even think about that. :)

There is no "chipping in" to raise a dead character. Ressurrection involves the casting cleric's diety petitioning (yes asking - or bargaining) to the dead character's diety (or the god of the dead if he/she didn't have one) to let the soul return to the Prime Material plane. Needless to say...

Back when I ran 1st and 2nd ed AD&D, whenever a PC died, the player created a new PC at 1st level. In several of the groups I've also played in, this seemed to be the norm. The increasing XP requirements just after the mid levels tended to quickly close the gap between the characters, usually...

So I've heard some good things about George Martin, but I have to admit I'm not familiar with his work. Is it good, how would you describe it? If I want to read his stuff, where should I start?

I tend to use latin for divine spells and draconic (from dragon magazine) for arcane. I have the spells I have memorized summarized on index cards. When it comes time to cast a spell, I say(or shout if it calls for it heh) the words and describe what my character does with any material...

So, I just finished reading Jim Butcher's Novels: (this page has a blurb on each one) http://www.iago.net/fanattic/dresden/ And I just want to say WOW, these novels were great. Present day, mixed with fantasy, magic, wizards, faeries, all wrapped around a mistery novel. Very compelling work...

One of my players is starting a Paladin in our campaign; he's never played one before. He has asked for advice on how to play the paladin, which I was happy to give. Personally, paladins are my favorite class. BUT, I don't want to jade him with only my views on some ideas for motivations, or...

I see several of you talking about the differences between playing into the epic levels and starting right in the epic levels. That is one of the reasons we chose the gladatorial theme, it fit in perfectly with knowing little about the PCs themselves. They were simply professional gladiators...

My group recently tried an Epic campaign; we were able to play it for about 8 sessions (once a week). I thought I'd share my experience running the game. Overall it was a negative experience for me, but I'll try to be subjective. First off, I'll describe the campaign concept. We wanted to...

While I on the other hand, am just rotating into the DMs seat after quite the respite. Happy trails Dark.

I really have to agree with Dagger75 here. My group tried playing an Epic campaign over the last two months. (they were epic gladiators - that part was a really good time at least) It ended up being rather dismal. First off, as the DM the prep time was totally unacceptable. A typical...

Anyone happen to have some ideas / links that aren't related to Latin?

Actually we did that for a while (the shouting out)...I just wanted to try something a step further. The latin is working ok, just wondered if anyone had done any work on some documents on possible languages for it. Thanks for the rhyme, would be neat for a bard I think.

Sorry if this question has been posted in the past, I was unable to find any threads about this. If you know of any, please post links here. At any rate, I was thinking of trying to add some oomph to the spell casting in my game. What I'd like to do is get some 'mystic' or 'magical' words or...

I too have been a Tokien fan for a long time. We read The Hobbit in school, and thus began my obsession with fantasy novels. Have you seen the animated version of The Hobbit? It's a good little show, you can get it on DVD or VHS now. I have to agree, while I enjoyed the Silmarillion...