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I can imagine a LG paladin in the Wee Jas organization defending the world from the evils of magic misued. As for your party, there's a world of difference between rebuking undead, commanding undead, and bolstering undead. Although I believe challening negative energy (rebuking undead) is "by...

Once upon a time, I taught a friendly Mormon fellow to play the WEG Starwars d6 game. I'm not sure I could have persuaded him to play D&D. A few thoughts: * Fantasy tropes traditionally are means of explaining the unexplainable (e.g., Timmy got sick because the werewold infected him, the milk...

http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=216 You'll do fine.

Once and only once at my game table were the words, "Alright, I take 20 on the poo" uttered. There be treasure everywhere, lads....

Assuming my copy of SR4 arrives by game day, I can have something ready. Piratecat--if there's a Thenardie sewer-lurker character in the pregens, I can start working on my anachronistic cockney accent.

As far as how a commoner lives long enough to become 87th level, it should be pointed out that there are some long-lived races out there. Even in beautiful Elfland, there's got to be someone to pick the sweetly smelling fruits, and milk the unicorns, or prepare the lembas bread (or whatever...

I would disagree. It all depends how the player wants to use craft skills beyond the normal, mechanical item-creation rules in the game. There are huge roleplaying opportunities for something as simple as a "craft (jewelry-making)" check. Say the PC wants to impress a noble NPC with a gift. What...

Craft/Profession skills are often a lot like social skills in that roleplaying them is often more enjoyable than rolling them. The case in point would be Profession (lawyer), where a tense courtroom scene could take place and be totally roleplayed out, only to go south when the opposing...

Don't forget to have your orcs call the humans "Breeder" (an old SRism). I like the term because it conjures up terrifying mental images of what must go on to produce a half-orc....

It looks like there will not be room or need for an afternoon SR4 game. Could I secure that last UA slot? Mmmmm Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs....

As someone who loves the RAW, I'd just suggest that "ignoring" a flanking opponent is already taken care of in the rules by the +2 flanking bonus for the attackers. What that bonus represents is all of the things folks have mentioned: the inherent difficulty to evade two or more sets of blows...

Yes, cheese: milk's stab at immortality.

Reunite Gondwanaland! It sounds in many ways like a rich, meso-American-esque setting, although I realize that was not the original intent.

One key to moving gaming beyond the state of a simple combat simulator is recognizing that the onus is on the players to create characters who have goals beyond "kick in the door, kill the monsters, take their loot." If every player brought to the table even a paragraph of backstory with...

Assuming slots are still open, can I nab a seat at the morning Warhammer FRP game and the afternoon Underoos? I'll bring the Cocoa Puffs. Part of me really wants to run a Shadowrun 4th Ed. game in the open afternoon slot, though. If it looks like there is more demand for games than spots...

That was my point--that being accustomed to keeping class skills maxed out means one is prone to forget the details of improving cc skills.

Excellent. Thanks, all. It was a bit of a brain fart on whole spending multiple points per level thing. I get so used to having maxed out skills (keeping my wizard's craft: blacksmithing as high as I like it is expensive) that I forget about that.

Since I prefere example to description, I thought I'd post my latest take on true neutral. This is the standing on one foot personality description of my latest PC cleric--a NN cleric of Fharlangn. I've always seen neutrality as the foil to the other alignments: Good should compare itself to...

It came up for me as an issue because there are so many useful language-dependent mind-affecting spells out there. My cleric was in a position to cast Command on the leader of a threatening group of orcs when it came to my sudden attention that the character did not actually speak orc. I think...

From Ye Olde SRD: The Speak Language skill doesn’t work like other skills. Languages work as follows. You start at 1st level knowing one or two languages (based on your race), plus an additional number of languages equal to your starting Intelligence bonus. You can purchase Speak Language...