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I understand those kind of comprimises, and believe me, I feel for you. But at the same time, virtually any party can "work" if they have a common goal. Make sure those players (and the characters) are working towards a common goal, and they will start to gel. I've seen many players drop a...

All of the classes in my world (except sorcerer and psion) need training to advance in their class until they reach 12th level. HPs and saving throws are automatic, but most other things need at least 1 day of training to learn. If you only improve current skills, I would give that to players...

Whnever I have npcs join a PC party, I give them the npc's character sheet. They have full knowledge of the character's abilities, stats and items. If they are a spellcaster, they usually will pick out his/her spells, or at least make recomendations on the matter. The PC is usually LG, meaning...

Spellcasters in my world can cast power powerful spells or create permanent and powerful magic items, but not both. I use dweomered items, that can be created by anyone with high enough craft score, such as potions that if you have a high enough alchemy / knowledge (herbs) score you can...

It's not D&D or the hobby in general that is doing this, it's the fact that you are reading, which helps to grow your vocabulary. Anything which encourages reading is a good thing. Because reading comics can lead to reading young adventure books, which can lead to reading classic sf/fantasy...

See the Waterbabies creature in Green Ronin's Monsters of the Mind.

No standard way to handle this.

A moderate amount of detail; one page per deity. Not including basic divine rules or prestige classes, maybe 25 pages in total.

Elminate the arcane-divine divide. Sorcerers are the only spellcasters; some might call them priests, shamans or wizards. They can choose spells from any school or sphere. So some spellcasters can blast, others enchant and others heal. Have fixed HP per level for both the PCs and monsters...

Bump - any suggestions on my original posting?

I allow it. Players can make a Heal Skill Check (DC 15) to determine the extent of injuries. Unlike your DM, I avoid game talk, so players don't learn that someone is at 25% of their maximum, I'll use descriptive words. They might be: scratched up, walking with a limp or have their liver...

Hi everyone, I am slowly converting my psionic creatures to 3.5 rules, but I am having trouble deciding if they should be of an unlimited powers (most creatures found in the xph) or if they should be assigned a set amount of PP, like the mind flayer. For example, I have a powerful (12 HD)...

Just as rangers and paladins gain divine magic spells as they gain levels in a standard "magic" world, there's no reason why they couldn't just as easily gain psionic levels at the same pace in a psionic flavoured based campaign in replace of those divine spells. (hmmm...tastes like kiwi.)...

http://pub27.ezboard.com/btorontoroleplayersassociation This is a great local website to meet and greet. There are always a few DMs looking for new players. Have a look and drop a line.

(looks around to see if anyone is watching) ...yoink.... (thank you!)

THAC0...I miss using that word, not the actual mechanic. Frequency level and monster decriptions beyond combat. Al-Qadim, Spelljammer and Planescape. Differing exp points for leveling for the various classes. I understand why this system should be better, but I liked the other one...

Now, mostly BoEM III. There are just so many great locations and ideas in that book. BoHM and SKR's register are great resources that I often use for spur of the moment ideas. The book we previously used quite a bit was mindscapes, but we were in a heavily psionic area, so it made sense. Both...

True railroading, no. Players greatly resent campaigns that have no true options and they can do only what you tell them to do. Players should have options, controlled ultimately by their dice rolling and their own imagination. This is the difference between gaming and reading.

Half planner, half sadist, half winger, half story-teller. Not sure if this means I'm "double" the DM or just really bad at math?

Yes. Even at middle levels while going into dungeons, the amount of times my players will use up their ammo is amazing! Of course, if they are travelling in any type of wilderness/forest type area, and the ranger has time, he can make 5-10 a day depending on his craft skill archery. (I assume...