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I'm in for a "Charisma/dump stat" tee, if there is still room.

I was saying that I would simply turn the math around from a descending THAC0 vs. descending AC system to a ascending Attack bonus vs. ascending AC system; the hit probability (and therefore power level) remain the same with either system. The attack bonus is meant to be used in place of rather...

I recently made the exact same transition as you, and had about the same gripes with the skill/feat system (esp. since fighters are garbage w/o them). A few simple port overs has made it a fun system for us, although I'm not sure how balanced the classes are. (Were the classes ever balanced in...

I really appreciate all of the advice. I had already decided to choose the locations and outcomes from the fortune telling deal. Depopulating rooms is a great idea; it kind of stuck out to me that it wouldn't play out as horror in the castle. More of a drawn out slugfest. I plan on really giving...

I'm thinking of running the 3.5 in my Pathfinder game. Any advice, opinions or random comments. It doesn't seem to deviate much from the original (other than adding stuff; I have both), but any input would be useful. The encounter format seems bizarre, but workable: I'm not really sure, as I...

Since my dwarves are pseudo-viking, I tend to think of Scandinavian fjords and glacial peaks. The rural area of Quebec on the Candian Sheild is probably the closest thing I've seen in person. I do live about 45 minute from the Great Smokies Mountain, however, and they make me think elves: huge...

Has anyone used the sample dungeon from the DMG? I'm thinking of throwing it into the next game I run as short dungeon excursion. What did you think? Any changes? I am thinking of adding a few rooms, or maybe even altering the shape/ size of the rooms to fit my dungeon tiles.

Ok, one seems obvious to me: have Otho show up at some point while the PC is disguised as him. When guards that know him are around.

I use Conan for my "D&D" as written, and it works great. I wrote up races to match the ethnicities, and that is about the only change I made. That said, it is a very different game than 3.5 D&D under the surface. The core assumption of powerful spell casters throwing around magic every fight...

Most of the problem from criticals (especially specific injury variants) is that PCs can be maimed by an inconsequential fight. The reason that I'm able to use them is the nature of combat and the attitude that the player have toward it: they only fight if they really need to. We don't do...

What critical hit system do you use? Straight up natural 20, double damage? Or 42 charts? I'm more more the latter. I like combat grim and brutal, so I use the system from 2E Combat & Tactics. With the 3E ranges. Yeah, I like dismemberment. Any "threat" is a crit: none of this cockamamey...

I usually DM, but I took a break for a week and allowed one of the players to run the game. His girlfriend was playing a female swashbuckler type character, and she was followed by a couple of guys in the opening scene and they attacked her and forced her into an alley (they surprised her, and...

I do an end around that by using a hp based condition track. Maybe one day I'll get around to posting it... The gist is, you aren't really wounded until you reach half you hp...I better stop or I'll ramble forever. Suffice to say, IMC clerical magic (and magical clerics) are relatively rare...

I'm right with you on the fudging, but generally unless it's mega lethal I just have the PC put in a bad place: in prison, temporarily/permanently maimed, bad guy knows identity now, girlfriend kidnapped, etc. I guess it's a preference thing, but I prefer having the PC around the same...

By saying episodic, I wasn't discounting it being plot driven (quite the opposite). I've just found that beaking the plot down into small chunks of quickly acheived goals leads to quick pacing. You just have to connect all of the small chunks to the over arching plot. And the number of plots is...

If anybody else has something I missed, let me know.

Earlier today I was lurking around, reading a thread and someone asked for advice about running a solo game. I didn't want to threadjack (the discussing was good anyway...), and I think the subject deseves it own thread anyway. I've been running a solo with a good friend of mine for about 2...

Are you still looking for a game? I'm trying to reload, since I've lost most of my group to moving... We're in the east Knoxville area, but are pretty flexible about scheduling. Drop me a line.

The fact that one of the designers is listening to Death Cab for Cutie is the biggest warning signs vs 4e yet. I always thought D&D was very metal (and I don't even like metal that much). WTF? Is Effeminate Pout a daily or encounter power? Can all characters where overly tight girls pants, or is...

I guess I'm a bastard... I like how Conan does it: unless you have very specific plans for your loot, half of it goes down the drain in a month. This represents living it up when not facing daily death. My characters are relatively poor as well (>50% wealth per level), adn I use silver standard...