Search results

I voted #1. I could see the space a "Classed Monster" book would follow, but the problem I have with it is that doing so is a little too limiting, in one way or another. Let's start with what the purpose of a "Classed Monster" book is - it's to save me (the GM) time. No more, no less. I don't...

The systems (and the core rules) are indeed very different. It's why I suggested Ars in the first place. But it is Fantasy set in Medieval Europe. It would be *very* easy to design adventures that are essentially D&D adventures with all the numbers filed off. It wouldn't do the system justice...

Rules-lite by genre: Anime (ok, it's a meta-genre): Try the original BESM (Big Eyes Small Mouth) TriStat system, along with one of its setting books (unless you enjoy rolling your own setting from scratch). It's also available in a d20 variant, but I think the Tri-Stat version is better...

That's a yes. I've always run games with a psionics option (even in 1e), though sadly, no-one's ever taken me up on the option. Before now. Now I'm running a psionics-only campaign, using XPH, CompPsi, Hyperconscious, and Untapped Potential.

1) Give the boards more than an hour. 2) You might have better luck over at the DSP site. 3) I have no idea what an Inspired is, but a Society Mind BBEG should be a behind-the-scenes manipulator. Society Minds are big on the buffing; check out the Network powers and see if any synergies pop...

Heh. I'd been reflecting on that. I (like most of us here on ENWorld) am an old gamer; in my late 30's, playing since 1e. I GM a group of (mostly) older gamers - one or two in their early 40's, a bunch of us in our 30's and the "baby" in his late 20's. We just finished a 3+ year, biweekly game...

A1) You might find this helpful. It's some fiddling I did with some spreadsheets while preeping for my new campaign. I essentially use a 2/3 ratio (Level 2 has 2/3 the number of level 1) to flatten the curve a little, an introduce a sharp dip at level 9 (where characters no longer gain XP from...

You've got it backwards. We're supposed to be an army attacking the wizards (and defending against them), not the wizards attacking the army.

I've found that the Web has many different ways of presenting the info, almost all of them good. Technology Survey: MS Help/CHM files - My first attempt at electronic info distribution, pre-Web days. Standard web-pages are easier to deal with. Standard web pages - This is what I primarily use...

Restating the problem: Hmm... we really need more details on the level and class distribution. Does the army have *any* spellcasters? Are the mages generalists? Transmutation specialists? Etc. It can all have a big impact. Assuming the actual NPC setups look like this: Mages: 1 12th, 1 11th, 1...

Mission vs Serendipity: If while questing for the Sword of Ultimate Goodness so I can defeat the Big Evil Intent On Destroying the World, I run across someone who needs help (kitten in tree, lost children, bandits raiding a village), am I obliged to interrupt my quest? Does the answer change if...

Google "Patricia Wrede World builing" = http://www.sfwa.org/writing/worldbuilding1.htm

ENWorld is the place I come to learn what is happening in the D&D/d20 world - new products, rumored products, interaction with actual game company employees, and what site's are worthwhile. The reviews are nice, and the Online Toolbox has saved my rear a couple of times. I think I learned more...

And that's a key bit of info we missed last night. As it turns out, I let the Disjunction work - at 23rd level, save or die effects are part of the game, and flow was more important. But it's nice to know for future reference. Thanks all.

As the title says. Can you cast Mordenkainen's Disjunction on an Umbral Blot, and what would the effect be? Edit: Whoops. Sorry 'bout that. Thanks for the move.

Two. I GM one, and play in another, and no players in common besides myself. It's been higher, but that was when I was younger and unemployed. Right now I've found that two (each every other weekend) is about the most I can comfortably do. Right now, the "play" group is running much more...

Not much to add, I suppose, though I slightly disagree with the Runebound assessments. It's the quite worthy modern successor to Talisman, and they both suffer from many of the same play defects. If you play Runebound, it's almost required to use the countdown supposedly-optional rule. Otherwise...

If it's a joke, then it's in bad taste. It may be a common joke, but it's still in bad taste. If it's real, then you've got a very big problem, as the character belongs to you, not the GM or other players. Honestly, if this happened to me for real, I'd walk. Enough grief enters my life that I...

Ayup. It got better in 3.5 (they cut the cost in half, if I remember correctly), but it didn't really fix the problem. Also note that the CAr rules lets you *use* another's spellbook, not copy them into yours, which isn't quite the same thing. By the core, giving a PC Wizard a spellbook as...

Check out the "short adventure" collections; things like En Route (I-III), Raise the Dead, Book of Taverns, Demons and Devils, the WotC free adventures, etc. Oh, and before its said elsewhere: Dungeon is your friend. You'll get a more episodic campaign, with lots of wilderness adventures, and...