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I'm the DM and I buy the books that most interest me, which is almost exclusively monster books. I don't use the splatbooks for NPCs, I have no desire to use Epic rules, have no use for other Cosmologies so no Planar Manual, and use my own gods so no Dieities either. While I have FRCS & OA, I...

No. I have never seen him roll dice, and if there's no randomness then he's not being a referee in th D&D sense of being a DM.

Because they have red hair! Actually, I'm not lieing, in my world, regardless of your background having red hair makes you 65% more likely to manifest sorcerous abilities. None of my players have ever really asked why.

Slow down.. One of the reasons why I invented my own campaign world in 1e was to avoid buying the stuff. I was a dirt poor student, actually I was too poor to afford dirt, it was imitation dirt for me! A few years after 2e came out, I started buying stuff, especially Al Qadim and Planescape...

Doesn't matter the scale used. I look for the reviewers comments and depending upon who the reviewer is, that will sway me yea or nay.

I voted no, and I probably won't buy it as I have lots of stuff from other books & personal writing that I have yet to try. But if my players are itching for it, or if I read lots of really good reviews, then I'll probably break the piggy bank for it...

They all wake up from a dream...and then they are told, they must choose their actions again more carefully by a two foot tall old dwarf-man in red vestments who speaks in riddles. They must be more cautious if they ever to defeat Venger...

I use very serious themes and images, so I voted for vile. Players are good, or neutral based and they fight evil. Sometimes that evil is ugly and distinctly perverted...but a lot of what happens, they see it "off camera" as it were. There are things I won't touch, such as child abuse or...

whadya worried about? The answer is always 17 anyways....all canucks know that, or wait a second, is that before or after we convert into metric. Umm nevermind, once I check the Official Canuck Handbook on Lottories, Sweepstakes and Gameshows I'll get back to everyone on EN World.

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Does anyone know where I can find a sizable rogues gallery of psionic characters? I would like to find a mixture of classes, races to use as wandering monsters and random events. Preferably a place that I can download and then print them off, but even a place to view would be sufficient to start...

What is the essence of the game mechanics of 3E? Easy...rolling higher on a d20 is better than rolling lower in every game skill and/or situation. Add to this, the higher level you are, the more you get to add to your basic roll. Bloody brilliant and can't get more simplier than that. No...

The Shaft Yes they get the shaft. Should anything happen? uhh, no. Unless you are a munchkin, most players want to remain true to their character over extra feat(s). I find players care more about their character than maxing everything out, as role-playing at upper levels is paramount to...

why players should want to move I'm sure most of those conversations are done in character, so time passes in the game. Every ten minutes roll for a wandering monster. Actually I let the players roll a d10, and they know on a 3 or less, a random monster comes into the area. For every ten...

high level encounters The problem, or perhaps the chalenge is, as new books appear, it makes the older books and spells, monsters, "outdated." As previously stated, the effigy makes a vampire or lich pale in comparison, yet, these are supposed to be the legendary undead... Likewise, we have new...

I don't believe an established fantasy writer has a better chance of winning this thing then a no-name DM. The one pager is not about pure writing skills, it's about ideas. OK, you have to know how to read so you follow the instructions, and putting together a grammatically correct sentence...

Blade Barrier Your plan won't work, as the spinning disc of razorsharp blades ...whirl around...an immobile circular barrier. (pg 179, PHB) Once created, the blades spin around, but unable to move from it's spot and thus unable for use as a fantasy style lawnmower. Unless of course you Rule 0...

Consistency is the key. What you describe will never match what or how the players picture it. But if you are consistent in the theme, the format, the flavour, for similiar things, players will "get it." Actually, to quote one of players, they will "get inside it." Different players respond to...

When I first read the post, I thought of Monte Cook's Banebrute creatures from his latest pdf "Banewarrens." This disease or virus is changing raised creatures into something else entirely, days after the ressurection event. They are then mysteriously lulled to an unknown location, and for what...

As a DM I usually follow the same rules for a PC. On pg 54 of the PHB, a 1st level wizard receives all zero level, 3 1st level plus another per point of intelligence bonus. Each time the wizard gains a new level, they also gain two new spells of any level they can cast. They may also add a new...