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I use them when they're called for, and prefer them at lower levels to 'fantasy monsters.' I tend to give 'mindless vermin' an Int score of 1 (since bugs can be trained, and it solves the weird corner cases of how Drow / Duergar etc. training 'riding spiders' and the like), and get rid of the...

My number one problem is that I get bored *very* quickly. I write up a four page novella for my character, and the DM-of-the-minute says, 'Whatever. You meet some guys in a bar...' This frustrates me, and it's entirely my fault. I usually can roll with it, and toss aside whatever...

Ah, that changes things. Since 99.9% of people in general have no idea what a 3PP is, I'd have to go with 'underrated' then. I think the whole 'Open Gaming Content' idea is fairly amazing, and wouldn't mind seeing the model expand to various other media. Creative Commons takes a similar view...

To whom in this thread are you responding? I see a bunch of posts talking about anecdotal sales figures, best-seller lists and the success/non-success of the DDI and GSL. Not one post has accused 4E of being a 'bad game,' as you say (although there was a veiled implication that it wasn't...

Which 3rd party publishers? Green Ronin? Kenzer & Co? Paizo? Mongoose? Bastion? ENPublishing? White Wolf/Sword & Sorcery? Malhavoc? Some might be over-rated, some might be under-rated, some might have a mixture of great and good and 'eh' products. and, more importantly, which...

I voted 'other.' In 3.5, Sorcerers and Wizards can't *normally* cast spells effectively in armor, barring the use of the Still Spell feat and / or special armor (mithral, twilight special property, etc.), and often a class or feat to give them proficiency in whatever armor types they want to...

I kind of miss the dog-people (in EverQuest they are portrayed as dog-ape-humanoids), but I've grown to love the dragon-blooded kobolds. So I use both. 'Kobolds' are small hirsute primitive looking humanoids with some canine characteristics who can run on all fours for short distances, and...

I was torn looking for a 'both' option but decided to break it down. All story would be like reading a novel or hanging out with friends. All combat would be like playing a 'shooter' (or playing chess, or team sports, for that matter). I do read novels. I don't play shooters. So I guess...

Slow Pete is a sailor, who thinks his name comes from his laconic nature, but actually was given it by his fellow sailors, who love to beat him and cards, year after year, by taking advantage of his lack of smarts. He headed into the Chum House after his latest voyage as a swabbie on the Sea...

Which leads us to the 'rules as written' vs. 'rules as intended' foodfight. I think your real problem here is that you've started a thread asking for opinions, but don't want any that don't make your character more powerful. Change the thread to 'agree with me on this topic or don't post...

I'm not aware of such a thing, but writing up dream-critters-turned-manifest using the MM guidelines for Ghosts using Manifestation / Materialization seems like the best way to go. Add in the feature where they can't be permanantly killed, like a Ghost, as the dream-manifest is just dispersed...

Where this interpretation can get wonky is dealing with other means of affecting casting level, such as Death Knell or a Bead of Karma. IMO, it's not the intent of the caster level increases, and I wouldn't allow it as a DM. As a player, any DM that disagreed and liked that intrepretation...

I have one of those All the World's Monsters packed up somewhere (some whacky critters in there!), but I believe the Red Slime might also be in one of the first three Arduin Grimoire books as well. Phraint were totally Thri-Kreen before there were Thri-Kreen. :) The Thoul I've seen in a...

There's the fun story of Shibboleth as well. Definitely don't want to fail that particular 'citizenship test.'

Why did the daimyo adopt him? 1) Was the lord having an affair with the characters mother? 2) Was he indebted to your characters father, or otherwise bound to him? 3) Was there a wise woman who appeared to the daimyo when he was a boy and prophecied three improbable things that would occur...

Given the scale differences between Goblins, Hobgoblins and Bugbears, a 'fourth' could continue in that vein and be Huge or larger, a lumbering Giant-goblinoid, *or* it could go in the reverse direction, and be a horde of chittering diminutive fey-goblins riding oversized wasps using Swarm...

The 'hidden fourth' notion leaves me wondering who the hidden fourth human mage is. :) Strange monsters as in chimera and owlbears and gibbering mouthers and vulture hounds? Or could these mages be responsible for modifying goblins into hobgoblins (perhaps by adding some elven traits, which...

Finding prickly pear type fruit to use with the Goodberry spell might be an issue, but nothing that a Survival check wouldn't be able to handle. Arbitrarily making create water / food spells not work in any environment where you might actually *use them* seems to be counter-intuitive...

The version I've seen and gone with is to have goblins, hobgoblins and bugbears be the unseelie counterparts to elves and gnomes, born of the fey realms, but so long ago transplanted into the material world that they've lost their fey type and become humanoids (again, like the gnomes and elves)...

You said 'Running a Superfriends game!' and he signed up and then handed over the Punisher as his character? It's what, 10 seconds into the game and he's already making it less fun by trying to mess up the introductory scenario? You surely don't owe any antisocial troublemaker who wants to...