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I once had a monk named Thelonious. He died to a kobold. No one even got the reference. Although the stories of his mentor, the great master Chow-Yun-Fat are still remembered. The story of how Chow-Yun-Fat defeated the one legged man was quite epic in the end.

God, no. I don't think anyone has ever played a cleric. Ever. Or a druid for more than a session or two, despite group concensus of the fact those two classes are the most powerful. I let them play what they want unless it doesn't fit the setting. If it doesn't fit the setting it's all out...

As a general rule, items go to the ones who can use them best. As compensation, often the characters who didn't get anything tend to get the gold and buy something for themselves or what not. Generally altruistic, but it depends on game and character personality. Two rather ruthless characters...

You know, it's kind of odd. It really depends on the DM. I only ever hand out story awards, in the form of ticks. Every tick grants you 100 times your level experience points, and you get ticks for roleplaying. I know it's arbitrary, but no-one I've played with has ever complained...

Cleric. Add a brown robe. Shave off a patch of his hair. Arm him with a staff and two weapon fighting. Whats that? Enlarge? Ooooh! Whats that, Enlarge, bulls strength, holy weapon? He's a monk. So what if he isn't a fist-flying arse-kicking (relatively, anyway) monk? He's a monk. A staff isn't...

The girlfriend games. She even DM's! Admittedly it took me perhaps a year before she became interested. While interested in fantasy and the like she felt a bit embarrassed coming forward to roleplay and was bored by the combat - basically sitting in the background doing nothing. It wasn't until...

Oddly enough, a friend of mine has a 1600-era rapier and a basket-hilt arming sword. A local swordmaster has a smallsword from a bit later. Both were used back by various now dead people. They have a feel. My various groups might play with historical swordplay, but there's a difference between...

Gravitate towards what I started with? Nah. I'm 21 tomorrow. The world is before me! RPG wise, I stay away from dungeon crawls as a general rule. Which is where I started. I am trying slowly to get my group away from fantasy, though. So I'm the opposite - there's a lot of stuff that I've got...

After re-reading it, that whole Winter of discontent thing can happen in the background. With a bit of luck they'll swear for the Dragon Reborn at Falme with everyone else. A few months pass is a good thing - lets the other character properly train herself to Wilder/Initiate. Possibility...

I noticed some of those mechanical issues - but thats alright, because I make stuff up on the fly anyway. What sort of got me was the waygate happens, and then basically I'm almost at the end of book two. Thats some serious timing trouble. Levels all over the joint, due to different party...

I've owned the WoT book for some time now - practically since it first came out. In the day, I used to be very keen on the books - only to be continually dissapointed by the later ones. But if there was one thing I always admired (And just knew I'd never play) was that absolutely excellent...

Takyris: I bought Blue Rose as a present to my girlfriend. I simply read it. I'm not against romantic fantasy, nor do I suppose anyone is against it as a general thing. I say that it's treatment of romantic fantasy is chipper. Most of the modern fantasy I read may have some of the elements it...

Whats this complaining? I've had all of *one* intelligent magical item in my entire history of GMing. Intelligent weapons are something special, and definately not to be overused. But then, neither should magic weapons. Most of my magical weapons basically drive to a purpose - the purpose of...

the GF tells me I must at least play a gamebook before I buy a new one. So I don't have many I haven't played. But there are a few I haven't played a lot of. Haven't played: Ars Magica Legends of Excalibur Vampire The Masquerade Grim Tales Haven't Played more than one- 5 adventures of Feng...

Hey, I turned my girlfriend into a gamer. At first she just let me play as much as I wanted too without any issues. Then I said a good way to spend time together was to play with us. After locking on to a few characters and loving the ways in which you can explore settings, she even started to...

I try for a homeric, classical feel.. mixed with Swords and Sorcery! Achilles Vs. Ancient Dark Sumerian Gods in a post-apocalyptic planet!

As a player, I love making quips, jokes and asides - in character as much as possible. As a DM, I don't mind jokes so much as players saying they'll do something, then they don't. P1: I tell him that lipstick is frightening me. And I ask if he knows an elven bard named El'Ton Jon. ME: "You...

Wayne: Just to clarify, I'm not saying this form of writing is bad or wrong. It's just interesting to see men taken from all power roles. Around the parts about festivals if I recall. It's not in pictures. Having looked through it again, I find two incidents of potential lesbian scenes. The...

What interested me: The fiction in the book either involved homosexual male characters in a feminised role or unsexual powerful women. Lesbian love is mentioned and one picture is shown, but gay pictures are through it (Though tasteful) and more gay males are mentioned. The sample adventure...

My condolences to your loss - of trust of your friends. I've had books go wandering before, but they always appear back again eventually. I haven't seen my Revised Star Wars in about a year now, but thats because I haven't needed it - it's just sitting in my friends car. As it is, I once ended...