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Very, very often. Not in literally every combat, but it happens in more than half of our combats. It is the standard procedure to prevent someone from escaping. Grapple him; in the following round, he'll try to escape. If he fails, he stays, if he succeeds, he'll move away, causing an attack...

That's why I qualified my issues as "a feeling". None of these features by itself make it a kiddy story, not even the badgers (or whatever) taking tea in the tree while saying that these kids are destined to save the world. And I know that I'll probably be pleasantly surprised (hey, that could...

I don't think the OotS has any guilt at all regarding the inn's destruction. The dwarf assassin had the explosives, set them, and was handling fire irresponsibly close to the fuse. In any modern court, there would hardly even be a case. I think that the OotS pretending to be the King and...

Last week I was seeing Harry Potter with some friends, and they showed the Narnia trailer. While we all like fantasy, none of us has read the Narnia books. One of my friends said that it didn't look very interesting: between hero-kids, talking animals, and apparently straightforward plot, he...

Ask and ye shall receive. http://mtgd20.blogspot.com/

I was thinking about "Da DemoGorgon", with the answer being "He eats it" regardless of the situation.

An old adventure I ran revolved around a very libertine male character who hired a psion to switch his mind with a woman, to see what it's like from the other side. Then he didn't want to come back. Does that count?

Sorry, rounser. Better luck next time. :lol: (personally, I'd go with 3.x; I can live without game balance, but not without character detail, not for a long campaign anyway)

I do different things for different campaigns, adapting my style to the players and the tone of the game. Currently, I'm DMing two campaigns: a Planescape campaign, and a Warcraft campaign. The Planescape campaign is meticulously planned; I have a certain plot and detailed locations and NPCs...

Correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm not an expert. Einstein's cosmological constant was required to make the universe static over time. It was rejected with the acceptance that the universe isn't static. This "new" cosmological constant is required to explain the acceleration of the universe's...

I always wear my watch. Even when sleeping, and no, it doesn't bother me in the least. Basically, it isn't a device, it's part of my body. I only realize I have it when the belt breaks (batteries seem to last about forever and a half, thankfully). I hope they make a cybernetic implant watch...

Not rude, if the phone didn't have a loud ringtone, if she was indeed talking at a normal volume, and if the conversation was brief. The other customers OTOH were definitely very rude! Personally, my mobile is always on vibration alone (I'll delete the ringtones to free up memory as soon as I...

What's the source for this idea? Ah, doesn't matter, I'm stealing it anyway.:D

Same here, though I take care not to put too much stuff in there.

World changing events? Hmm... I disagree with the notion that this is the main difference between novels and RPGs. IMO, the main differences are two. The first one is that RPGs are invariably about a party of characters that are roughly equally capable of dealing with challenges (I use this...

It never came up - shame on me - but if it did, I'd require a Wisdom check. Using a skill sounds quite pointless.

I'm the group DM. I haven't had the luxury of playing so many characters (as a PC) that I could discern a pattern. :( I'm positive that I dislike tanks, though.

Huh. I've got a wristwatch which will probably run for a couple years if I don't use the light. I could probably sell it for a good price. I've got my car key. It's got a LED; after ten years the battery must be close to dying but I think it could last for a good while more. I could sell it...

A good rule of thumb for evaluating class balance is to find the nearest class, and ask yourself if anyone would want to play that class now that the new class is available, and why. If the answer is "no", or "yes, but only in certain limited contexts", or "yes, but only or mostly for...

It sounds as if this is confined to D&D, or to fantasy, or to geeks. How many movies, in whatever genre, have an ugly female lead?