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As a DM, I had problems with this a couple of campaigns ago. Got really out of hand. I ended up bringing the game creaking to a halt before moving onto other things. Obviously not the best answer! In the post campaign retrospective phase, I think there were a number of factors at work: Some...

Players stay out! That means you Darminicus and (possibly) Eccles! Right. I'm plotting a new campaign arc. The main focus is an ancient evil thing buried under a large city. It was imprisoned thousands of years ago, not long after the dawn of human history. There are two groups...

With a little further thought, that high level/low item (now to be called HL/LI) fighter can be a lot more interesting if their party has spellcasters in it and some teamwork is used. Buff them up magically and they'll still 'work properly'... That was what was missing from the HL/LI game I got...

I think higher level DnD was designed/balanced with 'christmas tree' magic in mind. In this context I would consider balanced not to mean some abstract balance of power, but also a balance of fun between characters. I've had a good dose of 'not fun' in a low magic game playing a fighter type...

Another one for enlarge person here! 3 minutes of super tank is not to be sniffed at and is likely to do more damage than anything else I've seen. Sleep and mage armour are both good, for all the reasons everyones already said. Although mage armour is a total winner if you have a monk in the...

IMO, Wands tend to be a bit limited - with the 4th level spell cap and all - Staves a bit too expensive for consumable items... I prefer to buy/find as loot. Personally, I'm a big fan of Craft Wonderous Item - get a very wide variety of effects and item types available to you? Another PrC...

I guess one question is how he wants to use the shield: As a defensive item, or take the 2 weapon route and Improved Shield Bash? Guess dealing damage might be bit difficult... Good strength, +XD6 damage weapons and weapon specialisation should help. [Wandering into house rules] I think...

And one more thing! Feng Shui is good. Don't need to use the rules to use some of the ideas: IIRC, they suggest the GM leave descriptions of the scenery very vague. The players then fill in the details/objects during the fight - e.g. there's always a rope handy when you need to swing...

I got quite inspired by that article. Toyed around with the idea for a while... Was going to put together a level advancement scheme for the PCs. At various levels they'd get to choose abilities from lists - better lists becoming available at higher levels. Much like the abilities for astral...

Thanks Hypersmurf, that answer snuck under my radar and I nearly missed it. :o I hadn't seen the subtle difference between miss chance and the incorporeal 'attack misses'... Makes sense! Wonder how the incorporeality, 'normal' miss chance and mirror image all interact with one another. A...

I've got couple of former players who've gone over to the Dark Side of World of Warcraft. Both in full on addiction mode... One of them was a really sad loss... But who wants to say which is which? :D Biggest loss was 'crazy Paul', who moved up to London to learn a new career in Nursing. He was...

I liked the theory behind AU magic system... had a lot of funky ideas - particularly: Using a higher/lower level of spell slot to get different effects. Certain spells were recognised as more powerful and required a feat to learn, other groups just an expanded 'sphere' of magic. We played a...

CL pump + blasphemy?

With the right players and GM, I'd love to try a 'Mission Impossible' style game. A pointman (or at most two) breaks in places, has a team on the outside to back them up. Always thought it would make the best out of Shadowrun... I'd want to play one of those support goons. :) I'd love to play...

Sure I would... figure they won't be finding that much stuff for a while, but why not? If it's all tied to a plot that's even better? I'd place some limits on what they could buy - mostly restrict the 1 use items. IME, PCs with spell scrolls well above their level can cause all manner of problems.

What Crothian said! I'd agree, different dice systems work better with different types of games. They've all got their up and down side. Thanee - I was a big fan of Deadlands too - the dice system was pretty good... But the bit that really shone for me was the poker cards. Very likable magic...

If the printed stuff doesn't live up to expectations, then larping could be good. :D

I supose it blurs the line between metagaming and cheating. We were playing WFRP at school, when I was about 12-13. One player would buy whatever module we were playing... He used to use it to work out where all the best treasure was and get to it first. Been getting more and more obvious as...

Thanks very much! Thought I'd recalled something about taking the best of them. Must have been another one of my brain hiccups. :confused: Definitely with the miss chances multiplied together. Cutting down dice rolling is good!

I found an old pic to put there! Teflon Billy - great wedding photo. Congratulations! As I havn't said them before. :D