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I've not had a problem with the DCs... but I've seen casters get frustrated. IME, the big problem is with evocations - some people feel that area of effect direct damage stuff can completely fry anything. Seen a couple of (generally inexperienced) casters load up with that and throw it around...

I went for a low magic feel by having lots less magic around: NPC spellcasters were very rare, there were less than 30 wizards in the kingdom, clerics were divinely blessed miracle workers - most priests were experts. Most people had never even seen a magic item or spell in action. The PCs were...

Cool! Good luck with it! I'd pop over for a day trip, but it's probably a good 14 hours on the plane. :D

There is definitely a shock value to watching a character like that tear up the opposition, but like others have said, it's not as scary as it might look. A good answer might be a skilled fighter with a bunch of single combat feats - disarms/trips and the weapons to use them... could prove...

Happened once 10 years ago (I was 17 at the time)... after a party in a local and rather sleepy village. Two of the local hard nuts liked going out and beating up kids. I was unfortunate enough to be walking down the same road. Ah well. Police knew exactly who they were. Their other hobby was...

It's the UK I live in, by the way. Yeah, it's crappy! Been about 10 years since the last time this happened. But what can you do?

That's the one... and the weird bit was the doctor. Guy I went to school with and havn't seen for about 5-6 years. Small world weirdness, I guess?

Heh. :D Think I might have to print a copy of that off and leave it lying around at work! Thanks for the thoughts guys. It's one of those things - happens now and again and really isn't pleasant! Ah well.

Bah! Last night I went out for a few after work beers with my coworkers. Last thing I recall is walking back towards the station to get a train home... about 9:30 ish. Next thing I know I'm waking up in A&E. Had gotten a vicious beating, been knocked out. Some kindly students had got me to...

Go fate points! This is my preferred method. No raising but plenty of fate points works for me. I'll award full XP for a missed session, the trade off for not turning up is that their plot hooks don't get developed... Don't particularly like people to fall too far behind. We slotted this in...

You smell like a gerbil. Feel more at home now? :D Thought that was a rather good description. Short, sharp and evocative. Perhaps a career in module writing beckons?

That's very unlikely. We'd all commit seppuku first. Mmmm, bring me my moonie juice.

There's always the good old fashioned Soul Trap gem - got something in it... can lead to some interesting situations, I reckon? Quite a fan of huge numbers of semi precious stones - find it's less hassle for the party to divide them.

One I played: A lich queens stronghold inside of a giant enchanted clocktower... fight took place in the midst of the workings of it. Plenty of nasty stuff to jump/push into or fall off. The nastier suprises were: The chimes - switched some mechanism at the start of the fight. Random...

I voted for some concern... It's not the fact that PCs might die, it's the volume in which they do so. In the games I run, I don't try to kill characters and I do expect some to die from time to time. They don't particularly like the stratospheric bodycount type of games, if one seems to be...

Wipe the prints off the bottle and then throw it in a river? Or for bonus points, get that player you don't quite like's prints on it and hide it in their car.

Mass suggestion? Major image is a strong illusion - should cover plenty of eventualities. Lesser Planar Binding is a possible - even minor outsiders could be extremely useful in a magicless kingdom. Don't forget the magic circle to go with that. :D Perhaps a fireball to express displeasure in...

I'd say the biggest impact of the net has been on my DMing: A small part of this is being able to gather/research information very easily... but the more important part is the GMing tips I've learned, mostly from here. Changed my game substantially and much for the better! :D

A while ago, I worked a student summer job for Equifax Europe - that company was an absolute joke. If nothing much has changed (and why should it?) and their canadian systems are anything like the Euro ones, I'm not suprised people have found holes in it. My least favorite was where people got...

I'd make the vast bulk of the armies much like their Prime counterparts: Warrior 1's. Although I'd template up some of the champions and leaders - fiendish, axiomatic or chaotic would probably suit. Especially if the PCs have to fight them... They could simply reform each day, or more just...