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This right here is why I've never been interested in psionics as a player, and even less in them as a GM. I've only seen how psionics were handled in 2nd edition and the third edition book, and both of them radiated strong auras of "this will take a lot of work to integrate into the game as it...

Right now we're playing a 3.0 Scarred Lands game on Saturday afternoons and a 2nd Edition Vampire game on Thursday nights, and we've been really good about sticking to that schedule. Occasionally we have to miss a session because someone is travelling for work, or because someone's relatives...

I'll say similar, because the style of play and the settings remind me of our old high school AD&D game. But different, because this time around the ruleset is actually pretty good, fairly consistent, and not at all a pain in the ass to use. I don't think I've ever been so shocked by a gaming...

The last time I used minis was back in high school, and that was just because two of the guys I played with back then really enjoyed painting 'em and had huge collections. These days, no one I game with owns any. We don't even use a gaming mat or use graph paper divided into 5' squares...it's...

Our Scarred Lands GM was giving a flat story award per session at the beginning, when we were doing a lot of NPC interaction, investigation, and "town activities." Generally these came out to about 900xp per character per session. But for the last six or so sessions we've been going through a...

Ah, but it's hardly a de facto Faerie Fire or Glitterdust spell. Both of those spells reveal the invisible creature to everyone: now everyone knows where it is and gets to attack it normally, without suffering the 50% miss chance for total concealment. Allowing Spiritual Weapon to continue to...

That's so weird; in our high school gaming group (where I first ran across Shadowrun and CP2020), it was the other way around. Players who came out of Shadowrun always assumed the worst, trusted no one, always sold out to the highest bidder, and their PCs were ready to kill anyone and anything...

Hm. I could've sworn I read it somewhere, but now that you've mentioned it, I can't find anything in the core books that specifically says it. So either I'm just imagining that I read it, or I read it in a different d20 book, or it's hidden really well. But hey, in the chapter on magic in the...

Our group had this happen once, but it was a bit less acrimonious. (Mostly because the person who left for a while was mature about it and didn't phrase it as an ultimatum.) See, one of the people we used to play with was a girl with a lot of deep personal problems and a tremendous fondness...

If you don't mind my asking, Majere, what's your native language? You have one of the weirder writing styles I've seen. Oh, and: Which is funny, because the very first post in this thread was from a player who was unhappy that, while his character was really survivable, he couldn't hit or do...

Milo, the halfling wizard in our ongoing Scarred Lands game, is moving in the direction of becoming a magical artisan, so here's a handful of new items our DM has approved for construction there. We're playing a 3.0 game, so some of the market prices may need to be adjusted if you're playing...

I don't know why that should be a problem at all. Three words for you: Glitterdust. Faerie Fire. (And then I'll add three extra words to make the last 2 words of that hurt even more: 1st level spell.) And those actually give EVERYONE involved in the battle a chance to beat up the...

I don't. But I'm not as fanatical about "let the dice fall where they may" as some people here are, either. If I suddenly discover mid-combat that I have grossly overestimated what the party can handle and it's going to end in a TPK, I try to find more artful ways to fudge things to avoid...

Seems like you answered your own question right there, doesn't it? -- bee-eye-en-gee-oh ryan

Hey, but what if the cleric drinks a potion of See Invisibility? Would the SW no longer have a miss chance against the invisible bad guy? And if so, would it still not have a miss chance even after the invisible bad guy runs behind a building and the cleric can't see him anymore? My gut...

This thread started with a player who had a genuine problem with his character in the campaign that he was playing in. The vast majority of the discussion has been focused on that problem and problems similar to it. Yeah, sure, everybody is special in their very own special way. But campaigns...

Ah, yes, because everyone loves playing the character who never stands out, never impresses anyone else, or never manages to even be the equal of any other party member. Why, in most games, players are lined up around the block for a chance at running a second-banana character who only supports...

One of our players (in fact, the wife of our regular GM) HATES making characters. She'll do it, but it's a serious ordeal, and as our group tends to collaborate on character creation at the start of games in order to make sure all the PCs have a reason to hang out together, it's an ordeal the...

Well, my halfling wizard used to take his riding dog, just so he wouldn't slow down the rest of the group. But then came the day when an ogre mage came out of nowhere with a Cone of Cold, and that was it for poor Rover. He was a good dog, too, and deserved better. *sniffle* Ah well, it's a...

Hmm...yeah, that'll do. Much obliged, sir! -- man, i hate naming towns ;)