Search results

My gaming group and I have talked for a long time about how cool it would be to adventure in an airship. When I think of the kind of encounters I could pull off, well, the sky is the limit! See, even in an airship I'm not above puns :) In any case with the advent of 4th edition we're going to...

Allow them as is. Not that I know what "as is" is: I've got races and classes. In any case I think they're cool, and it seems like 4E is really separating itself from Middle Earth, and I like that. In any case I can't wait to use burly Dragonborn fighters to intimidate my PCs. But first I'm...

I know it's a little off-topic, but can anyone recommend (with a link) a good picture of a knight in heavy armor on a warhorse (preferably barded). I'm sculpting a Britonnian Lord for my Warhammer army and could use a little inspiration.

Why would you believe that a sword is an easier weapon to defend with than a Mace or Katana? I'll point you to this site and specifically this video. First off if you use a sword like you see in most movies, blocking with the edge, you're going to ruin it very quickly. It takes a lot of...

It really depends on what kind of game you’re playing. Think of Descent, the board game. It’s dungeon crawling boiled down to it’s very essence: you go into the dungeon, kill the inhabitants, take their loot, and upgrade your abilities. That makes for a delightful experience when you’re in...

I thought the topic read "4 Rules for Role-playing" That's a fun topic anyway, so I'll contribute: 1. Everyone should have fun: it's not the DM's job to say what can and can't happen, only say how difficult it is. 2. Reward creative thinking. If the player's explain why they think...

Lemme throw in my two cents about this game: first off it's awesome. Simply awesome. What does your player want to be? The Immaculate Sword Goddess who does things unimaginable with her weapon? The Pirate Commodore who commands a fleet of pirates so terrible even the Great Sea acknowledges...

Spells and Magic (part of the Player's Choice series for 2nd edition) had a complete table of spell components. It also has their relative availability (which is modified by the size of the city you are in) and mechanics for finding them in the wild. I still have that book and I think it's...

edited: Math in public. How embarrassing.

Ah, see you're right on one count and wrong on the other. It does become repetitive to eat the same thing over and over again. But in this case repetition adds to the experience. Not only do the players get sick of me telling them the same boring foods they eat, but they get sick of eating...

As a DM I'm firmly convinced that more details add to a player's experience. When my players sit at an inn to eat dinner, I tell them exactly what they're eating. There's no mechanical benefit to eat at an inn that serves wild game turkey and turnips over rat stew, but my players will choose...

Exactly. If I'm a rogue in 3.5, I get the same sneak attack dice no matter what weapon I'm using. So why mechanically would I opt for anything other than the one that deals the most damage? I know a few prestige classes that offer mechanical bonuses for damage, or restrictions etc. but the...

Yeah, that always bothered me that a longbow had such a long range at which it was accurate. Especially since in 20 modern, some of the sniper rifles didn't have that kind of range increment.

Definitely situational. I always wanted to houserule it, but never got around to it. I understand the value of making math easy though: but instead of having a set distance/penalty why not have just 2 or 3 ranges? Short range would be no penalty, Medium -4, and long -10. Something like that...

My biggest beef with the system was (as a DM) I always felt I was playing Whack-a-Mole with the players. A pet-peeve of mine was to make encounters that were exciting and challenging, and had the players fearing for their lives, while making character death relatively rare. It was hard to get...

Thanks for the advice, I mean it: A curse from a necromancer isn't something I would have thought of on my own. I already started writing the adventure and drawing maps for it, and I'm pretty satisfied with the outline. Instead of re-typing it here (because it's hand-written right now) I'll...

Thanks for all the replies! I'll be trying these out after work tonight.

What are the community's picks for map making software. I'd want something broad enough that I could make a world map, country maps, town maps, and dungeon maps. For the dungeon maps, it wouldn't be necessary, but I'd like something with enough detail that I could print it out and mount it on...

I've got a bunch of friends who've never played any kind of table top RPG, but have fun with some board games like Descent and Arkham Horror. So I'm making a two shot zombie game using d20 modern rules. The objective is to make something that will get them interested in tabletop games in...

I like the resource dots too when I'm playing Exalted, but something about knowing exactly how many gold pieces my rogue kept hidden from the rest of the party gives me a great deal of satisfaction. I'm a little OC on this I know, but every adventuring item has a set value: the price...