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I'm wondering if you might share the same problem I have: I just don't "get" fantasy settings. Not well enough to be able to jump right in and start playing a fully self-directed character right off the bat, anyway. If my character isn't being asked to do something, he doesn't really have...

I'm surprised so many people find this annoying. Me, I'm with the people who feel exactly the opposite way: bad fantasy-ish names turn me right off. Especially if they put in a lot of useless apostrophes, and throw in tons of nearly-unpronounceable syllables. I mean, for god's sake, just...

At one point in our old Scarred Lands game we went through the Banewarrens module (it converted very nicely to the setting) and managed to succeed at it. So naturally, we returned to Shelzar to look in on our homes and to spend some of the loot we walked away with, and told our friends where...

Yeah, this is the route I'd take. The grateful villagers would offer to pay the mighty heroes, who would (of course) nobly refuse any payment for doing good work. So the grateful villagers would turn right around and give the reward to the churches of the deities the heroes worship, making...

Without disputing the rest of it (hey, feel free to change the poison rules however you like), it seems worth pointing this out: Unless this is some kind of magical plant, dripping with the foulest contact venom ever devised by assassin or wizard, then probably just brushing against it should...

In our last game, our GM had a few loose guidelines that he followed. People who spent most of their time in "civilization" (in or around cities) tended to have less magic than the DMG recommended for characters of their level, and treasure allotments for enemies based out of cities were always...

Usually we go with juggling: cutting back and forth between the solo PC and the others. It's not a perfect solution, because sometimes you can't make quick cuts and that leaves either the solo PC's player bored or the rest of the group bored, but them's the breaks. We've talked about it in...

This thread reminds me of a question I've had for a little while now: Has anyone ever used self-identifying magic items in a game? I'm fairly sure I saw stuff about it in Magic of Faerun and in the DMG; just a percentage chance that an item will let its owner know exactly what it is when he...

Well put, sir. I'm going to go with what Lord Pendragon just said: it's playable, it's elegant, and it looks like the most accurate interpretation of the rules. -- thread over, cut here ryan

I think that in general most "typical" paladin religions would at the very least frown on cannibalism. Whether it's an evil act (of the kind that makes you lose paladinhood), that's mostly up to the GM; but it's certainly not a good act, and it's not the kind of thing you want to make a habit...

Our Scarred Lands game just ended, so next Saturday or the Saturday after we'll be starting "Project Tenebrous," a superhero espionage game using the MURPG ruleset (we have a website if anyone's curious). We're also playing in a NYC-based Vampire game (2nd edition), but that's apparently...

Well then, you're getting a good range of answers, including ones from groups where your question is (thankfully) irrelevant. Hooray for you! You really should have included a "no one" response, though. I think many people would agree that power trips occur when someone actually cares "who...

Well, personally, if it was really beginning to bug me I'd start openly making fun of them for saying things like "Fred wasted 20 minutes talking to this guy," and for making characters who have all the vibrant personality of a stalk of celery. When one of them wanted something from an NPC, I'd...

Power? T'cha! The only real question is who gets first dibs on the loot, man. But seriously, here's an interesting idea: have friends who don't give a rat's ass about "who has the power" and then game with them. Then you don't ever have to worry about a question like this. -- they said...

Um...I guess my most direct, obvious, and significant influences are: * Huge amounts of Dashiell Hammett (all of it, but especially The Maltese Falcon, plus Red Harvest and his other Continental Op stories) for plots, characters, and everything else * Lots of Raymond Chandler (any of his...

I can only dream of some day playing in a game where 8th level spells are actually available to us. That, I'm sure, makes my opinion in this poll slightly suspect, but oh well, you never said we needed to have solid experience to back up our opinions, right? ;) That said, Mind Blank is the...

Just out of curiosity, how'd you manage to pull that off? You make it sound like it wasn't any big deal, but most of the worst group-cohesion failures I've seen (thankfully, nearly all of them are far, far behind me) were because the GM assumed that it wouldn't be difficult for the PCs to find...

I'm not sure that the economic system makes any sense to begin with, actually. ;) ...which is why I usually just avert my eyes from it, and encourage other players or GMs in our games to do the same, under penalty of the Stare of Death(tm) or excessive sarcasm. Trying to figure out a way that...

I'd say that in nearly every game we play now, this is the way we go. It ends up working out really well for us. It's sort of like what Mac Callum says above, except we don't necessarily write bios for everyone. It's more of a "hey, in the next few weeks I want to start this game, let's...

I've never looked at Chaositech itself, but the amazingly long time it takes to craft most things is something that's bugged me for a while. It might be "realistic" to say that it takes most of a year to make something like plate armor or a barrel full of alchemist's fire, but it also typically...