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Dear folks: I am writing to seek your collective wisdom on a number of rules moves in my current game. I'm perfectly capable of using similar moves to keep the game on par, but I do want to make sure that my players are doing legit stuff before I equip every evil cleric with knight's move and...

Hi all: We have a good group going in Harrisonburg. Experienced gamemaster, players are mature (mid-20s plus), educated, and into it. We have room for one or two more. You can check out the world at www.arva.wetpaint.com. Send email inquiries to fairfieldj-at-wlu-dot-edu. Carpe

I'm not running RotRL, but I have the magazines and use the encounters in my own campaign. Despite what's said above, you're going to need a fighter, preferably one with some ability to keep the bad guys off other members of the party. (Knight goes a *long* way, especially a Knight with a...

Well, the current campaign that I'm running used a TPK as the starting point. We played a regular D&D campaign until a TPK occurred. Then the real plot began -- the PCs woke up on a mass-grave barge, moored in the river of the largest and most corrupt city in the world, naked. Each one had a...

Carpe's Law: the chance of anyone reading a post 200 posts down in a list is infinitesimal compared to any effort expended in writing it. That said, I'd like to chime in to support the OP. I'm a huge proponent of Open Rolling, for exactly this reason. The game is made up of the DM, the...

In your usual campaign, yes. This is an antihero campaign -- an experiment. The players are not the good guys. But they are indubitably the heroes. A werewolf barbarian is going to fit right in, theme-wise. (I mean, the rest of the party have "Tomb-Tainted Soul" as a feat, if that tells you...

I should be constructive, so I will be: The solution is for Wizards to state, as MySpace and many other Web 2.0 providers now do, that it reserves a limited license purely for the purpose of being able to maintain its boards and that it will not repackage the intellectual property for profit...

If MySpace backed down over this, Wizards will, if they have sense. *shrug* This kind of IP clause kills Web 2.0 applications. And courts won't find it enforceable -- not remotely. This was a huge mistake by Wizards' lawyers.

A pc in my game recently contracted lycanthropy, the wolfy kind. In figuring out the rules, I've come to the conclusion that being a werewolf is *terrible* from a game perspective. You lose four levels (+2 char level adjustment, 2 baloney "wolf" levels) and gain very little in return. My...

1. Gather information. How appropriate is it for you to just leave? Are there many gaming groups, and you just started with this one? Or is this a close group of your friends that have been together since grade school, and you really do not know any other gaming groups in town? 2. Develop...

Today I woke up, worried. I needed something great for my game this evening. I ran to the basement, broke open the box, and spent a great time thumbing through old Dungeon mags. Indeed, as I remembered, one of my old Dungeons had a list of 100 cool shop names that I just spent a happy morning...

MySpace tried stealing intellectual property of its users through an identical phrasing, and there was a riot. MySpace backed down. Wizards' lawyers should have known better. Here's a link. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/08/blly_bragg_myspace/

Do you really get to take one level of swordsage, but take higher level abilities? Your initiator level *for purposes of what abilities you can select* is listed as being your Martial Adept level plus half your other class levels. So, an 8th level Paladin, 1st level Swordage could take 5th...

There is only one time you can capture your PCs: Before the campaign begins. Don't do it, other than that. There are two reasons. First, because your players will be pissed that they could do nothing to win the fight in which they were captured. Second, because capture limits player choice...

I'm afraid I'm slightly behind the times, since I'm not really up on Mystic. Radiant Servant has been the healer stock-in-trade since the game came out. With the PHB domain spontaneity variant from PHB2, you can channel your heals into domain spells, and benefit from the free empower. It's...

*So* disappointed. Not one snarky comment about the name of this feat?

yeah -- if I ever run that module, I'm going to run the ghouls as soulless farm kids.

Howdy, Rechan -- The creepiest segments of Pathfinder 2 were, to me, the cornfield stuff. The ghouls took over a village, then, as people came in, caught them, infected them, and then strapped them to the posts as scarecrows out in the cornfield. Can you imagine, at night, through the rows...

Cool ideas. I especially liked the meat-eating orcish Nietzscheans, and the gnolls with too much respect for life to eat anything that isn't carrion or can't fight back.

I have also been able to get some traction out of the Fey races, which are under-used because fey have been cast as "good guys" by the monster manual for some reason I cannot fathom. A Blair Witch style dryad would be just plain cool. I have also done some cultural equivalences, for player...