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Wise words on the libraries, but I'm kinda stuck depending on a small town library here. They often don't have the things I want to read. ...And I've already started Crystal Shard and have been enjoying it so far. Too late to pick another book now. Besides wasn't Crystal Shard the first one in...

Correct, we're too low in level and lack the right kind of spellcaster to know that spell anyways. Why would he not be able to? If he can pick up anything else that falls into his light load category, then the biggest issue I could see is that he might have an awkward time getting a good grip...

Just because it always happens doesn't mean it's okay to go ahead and do it...

This is no-doubt going to get ignored by most future posters but... The question was "how to punish a metagamer?" not "who's actions were justified?", not "do fighters know about charms?", not "Does this make the wizard evil?", etc. The GM seems to have already made her choice on all those...

Episode 11: Almost there again *** “Is our dead ex captain being a dragon really what you should be focusing on?” Cortez asked, seeming slightly amused. “Sorry” Slaal muttered. “You were making an offer of how to escape this place?” “Yes” Cortez said thoughtfully. “In truth it’s just an...

We've run across a flying enemy in our current game that's refusing to land. Only one member of the party is capable of hitting it, so while he can attack and the cleric can heal, the other two of us haven't been able to come up with much yet. (The game's pbp so the combat is still going on) A...

We're 2nd level (I should know, I'm playing the ranger XD)

It's been too long since I've read anything too.

Sometimes I put in rooms that are apparently empty only for something to spring out and attack. Then again I also make actual empty rooms. It keeps the players on their toes. One of my group's biggest problems is charging into things while forgetting to check for traps, ambushes, and other...

I was lucky enough to stumble across the Icewind Dale trilogy in a used bookstore on my way to work today. All three books were being sold as a set for ten dollars, so I decided to splurge (10 bucks is splurging to me... I'm poor) and buy them. You hear about Drizzt a lot on the internet. It's...

So... Is anyone already sick of the word epic after reading through this thread? I tend to like any game. Low level, high level, mundane... Epic. I think what matters more to me is that I'm playing, not what I'm playing.

Just cleaned my wet-erase map today. The process takes foreeeeeeeeever... Ink gets dried onto this thing if it stays on for even an hour or two. It's usually dried in by the time we're done with one decent-sized encounter.

Episode 10: More problems arise again *** Yaros crossed a rickety board propped between the ship’s open hatch and a pillar of land jutting from the water, and he was only just able to leap to solid ground when it gave way beneath his feet. Perhaps he’d been too heavy for it he realized as it...

My current DM actually forces players to do it that way. No taking combat casting unless you've already been successful at some defensive casting without the feat for example. No taking catch off-guard unless you've actually been improvising weapons on occasion, etc.

Bowser, AKA the Koopa King. How about... Hm, I could almost see him being a LE Barbarian/Sorcerer. Too bad barbarians can't be lawful. Maybe he's just a rather dumb Fighter/Sorcerer. Or Warlord/Sorcerer? As for race, how about Saurian or maybe Lizardfolk.

Yes, but that doesn't mean rules (or suggestions of how to DM) are outright ignored. They're sometimes bypassed in favour of comedy yes, but such cases are usually lampshaded. They've admitted that the story doesn't represent a campaign, but that have pointed out that it (for the most part)...

I'm pretty sure the DMG encourages fortune telling and other such future predictions to be vague and indirect. The Oracle's just doing his job the way it's supposed to be done. (Also since when has foreshadowing ever been clear in meaning?)

Yeah, Thog's the one they think is lovable. Belkar isn't really lovable (to most people), he has a lot of fans because they think every new thing he does is awesome.

Fair enough. It'd be far too time-consuming to explain all the details of a completely homebrewed world, so I'm just gonna go with "it's not the same as the real world" and leave it at that. If anyone asks, a wizard did it. ...And I just remembered that one of my future roommates who wants to...

One would assume magic would play at least some role in a magic-heavy setting though.