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Talk about extreme sports. :confused:

My characters can buy whatever they can find for sale. And no, there is no way that you can find 30 wands of anything in a shop. It would be implausible even in all but the most extremely magic-rich world.

I'd let the party recover his old equipment with relative ease, due to some circumstances. Maybe it is being transported between two settlements and is poorly guarded, or someone is willing to help the party recover it, or whatever. Just let him get his stuff back in a few hours.

You summed up my beefs with simple rulesets perfectly. They turn everything to DM fiat, so either the DM slowly turns them into complex rulesets, or you end up having every weapon be the same, every character of the same class be very similar, and so on.

It isn't a matter of how many house rules. It isn't even a matter of what these house rules are. The points are different. 1) Why did the DM introduce the house rule? Good reasons include: it reinforces a specific flavor; it streamlines gameplay; it makes gameplay more realistic; it makes...

No intimidation of PCs in-character. (Luckily, there's no need to make a rule about out-of-character intimidation). During combat, you have 10 seconds to declare your action.

The sorceress picture is plainly bad. I could do that "special FX" in two minutes of paint shop, it's just a ball of white pixels. It isn't even affecting the shadows around it! The dragon looks cool (heh), but everyone can make a cool-looking still nowadays. It's the movement that makes for a...

The monk took a risk and failed. Hopefully, the next character will be wiser. As for raise dead - since it's such an important spell, I think that most people would know that it's possible, although the vast majority wouldn't consider it as something that could happen to them and certainly...

I've only got 2 "house rules" though they have nothing to do with game mechanics, and we only use them in one of my two campaigns for now, where I had to address specific issues. First, your PC will not threaten another PC without an extremely good reason. IOW, you won't make a character so...

Davis, I think. I'm sorry, I can't remember who did what; the fact that the guy who invented the sensei left is very clear in my mind, though. I liked that stuff. Yeah, I reckon that most of those suppositions were jokes. I know that at a certain point, me and my friends were answering all of...

Yep. The designer that came up with them left GW. I think that the official line is now that the sensai and illuminate either were all killed by the Inquisition, or they were wrong/insane all along. Now we get such high-quality background as, uhm, the Tau. Blargh. :\ At least, the Necron...

I don't think it's a matter of desire or witnesses. He can't use his powers unless directly facing a superior foe. Witnesses are irrelevant. Desire is irrelevant. Maybe his powers are literally deactivated when he doesn't have a Balrog in front of him, but that's silly; I think it's more likely...

I don't think that the LotR characters can't be represented in D&D. I think that the issue with Gandalf is that we just don't know enough about him. We know that he can definitely cast weak (in D&D terms) spells, that he is definitely pretty good with a sword, and that he's much more resistant...

I killed a PC with a coup de grace last week. The party followed a monster to a place which they knew was swarming with hostiles. Since they were tired from a forced march, they searched for a somewhat hidden place. And then they didn't set up guard turns. They all went to sleep instead. They...

True Seeing doesn't do anything to spot things that are hiding by mundane means (ie through a Hide check). :p I don't have very high expectations for this movie, but I think it'd be fairly hard to make it worse than the first.

No. If I had to suggest a shift in D&D's design goals, I'd make it adhere more to the literary fantasy genre. Right now, D&D is its own subgenre - an enjoyable one, though.

Aha! Finally we know something about 4th edition! ;)

Odd enough, these are the two classes I picked, for that precise reason. If the mystic theurge had a built-in flavor, I'd be unable to make a viable wizard/cleric unless it fitted that exact concept.

He doesn't seem to be learning much. I've thrown "philosophy" at him like 30 times but he still isn't guessing it, not even in the feedback list, despite the fact that the questions are getting repetitive. He sometimes says "existentialism", though.

I hope that this is not the case, but very often it isn't so easy. Every single time I've played with a DM that announced house rules right when they would screw the PCs the greatest, and then dodged fairness issues by saying that the PCs could do that too, the campaign exploded soon afterwards...