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I have run two Greyhawk campaigns over the last 4 years, and the core pantheon figures prominently. I've used worshipers or clerics of all the major core deities (save for perhaps Yondalla), and I tend to use St. Cuthbert (The current PC's spend time in Verbobonc), Vecna, Grummsh(sp) and...

Strictly speaking, Paladins are held to a higher standard...the class description says they do not willingly associate with evil characters, this isn't necessarily true of a LG fighter. That being said, I would be careful about enforcing that kind of thinking to much, you shouldn't punish a...

Let's not forget, The Hobbit and The Cronicles of Narnia are both children's stories....

I have known DMs who were very good at winging a game (not so good I couldn't tell...), but I am firmly of the opinion that if you can run a good game winging it, you could run a great game with some planning. And any planning is better than none. I tend to use the 'fog' analogy: I can see...

Exactly. You plan the adventure, and wing that which you did not plan for.

I had a cousin who told his mother he couldn't go to a family picnic because he had to go worship Satan... This was, of course, in the early/mid 80s, so it got quite a reaction.

I'm about to throw a couple of magic items in the game that provide a really good luck bonus to saves and to-hit... ...The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune...

the aforementioned Corpse Creature Template is good, also from BoVD is the Corrupted Template...Fast Healing, + to Natural Armor and half it's HD in Vile Damage with every hit...so much fun...

I once had a villain in my Epic game who was a White Slaad armed with heavy picks named Impaler... ...Slaad the Impaler...

IME, the most used item is either Amulet of Natural Armor or Ring/Cloak of Protection...now whether or not you consider them overused is something else entirely.

Ditto to just about everything so far... *The joy that players get from being deeply involved in a plot from their back-story (What do you mean my ancestors were the ones who cast The Invoked Devastation??!!!) *A good, challenging, nail-biting fight. Especially if the PCs win through an act of...

Sorry, not here...I flipped through it and put it back on the shelf...nothing grabbed me, and even after reading your post, I'm still not interested. :\

The victory of the Last Alliance took years and cost the greatest men and elves of that time (and of history) their lives. It was not an easy victory. It's stated in the Appenddices that Sauron was still rebuilding his armies (after being 'captive' in Numenor and his body dying there), while...

Interesting idea... I may be something of a purest, but I'd go with the supposition that if Frodo fails, Sauron ends up with the Ring, one way or another. Gandalf says something to the effect of "if he regains the ring, his victory will be so complete that none can foresee his end while this...

Yes, and elves that 'go over the sea'... Maybe it wasn't a volcano, maybe it was a fundamentalist fringe bonfire... As has been stated, you're defiantly doing your part for the hobby...

Now that ought to be someone's sig.

Didn't you hear? Some little furry-footed dude threw that into a volcano...

One of the players in my current group hadn't played D&D or any RPG for years before picking it back up a few months ago with us. Just recently he started DMing for a group of his friends, and I had a little chat with him before-hand...I felt very much the same way you do. [sniff] The birth of...

I use them both...I require the PCs to play out such situations (not just roll dice) and will give a PC a circumstance bonus to his roll if he role-plays the situation well. I never allow the dice to override good role-playing; at least not as far as these types of situations go.

One thing that people (especially DMs) seem to forget, IME, is that when talking about wether a single character is overpowered, you are discussing that character out of context... In 3.X the game world can be just as 'overpowered' as the characters, thanks to the fact that anything available...