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It's only when it's a levitating platform of healing / protection from evil / globe of invulnerability that the party rides around on that it becomes a problem. :)

"With a name like 10,000 nuns and orphans, it's got to be good!" "What's so bad about that?" "They all got eaten by rats!" Dire rat would probably be less likely to give you a disease than pork, come to think of it, but most villagers aren't going to accept that logic. Better to just make it...

Less of a combo and more of a situational thing, but Wall of Force (or Forcecage) is a great way to stop a charging beastie. I've seen it used to kill a dragon that was doing Flyby Attacks (although the dragon's SR might have saved it, had it rolled better), and it's pretty darn devastating in...

My favorite bit of wonkery was that, back in 1e, Liches were specifically said to be immune to effects that cause insanity, and then it seemed like every Lich introduced in an adventure was completely nuts...

I like them all. Vampires come from people, and people come in all different flavors. Some will be Euro-trash with clove cigarettes and eye-shadow, some will be 30 Days of Night psychos (or Lost Boys / Near Dark style gangs) and some will continue to work the stock market, with a somewhat...

Some of the 2e stuff got pretty crazy about it too. Every single city had to have a few high level wizards, and the high priest of every temple had to be 12th to 20th level, even if it was a smallish city / faith and an 8th level Cleric could easily have handled things (and created the...

The promise of new life. One who is not yet a man. Potential aborning. The morning of man. The unfettered, the unchained. Those who run free. The untamed. A halo of light, yellow as the sun, with stars that sparkle like crystal. His head wreathed in fire, frozen in form. At the...

We used to see a lot of this, a few decades back, and even saw a few DMs who chortled along, loving it, because it meant that they didn't have to really do any work, just put the PCs in a situation and watch them kill each other over some doctrinal interpretation of what their alignment meant...

My top choices would be; Pugilist Brawler Bruiser Mestre Primal

GURPS seems to make do with four stats, ST / Strength, DX / Dexterity, HT / Health and IQ / Intelligence. IQ pretty much covers all skills and uses of intellect, perception and socialization, making it the Int, Wis and Cha for that system (although one can buy Keen Senses or Charisma as...

I had one of the evil fiend types DR overcome by weapons of wood and bone (or other organic materials, such as claws, teeth and a Monk's spinning backfist). I vaguely recall seeing weapons of obsidian as one DR penetrating material and weapons of jade as another DR penetrating material. Or...

In my last long-running campaign elves had a fey cast to them, and were chaotic neutral in temperament. They had a huge racial focus towards magics of enchantment and illusion, and while a human visitor might remember an elven city as some glorious glowing tree-city like something out of Lord...

I think that the idea of a lawful race based on mathematical concepts, or the various 'platonic solids,' could be very, very cool. The modrons as presented though just look too silly for me to take seriously (and don't really seem to delve into the platonic solid lore anyway, they just seem to...

I'd love to see a revamp of the Aberrant, Trinity and Adventure! games, from White Wolf.

Other ways to do this are to have telepaths do battle in a psychic space, which removes them from the encounter temporarily, or to have dream-quests, or for shaman to use either option, having spiritual battles in separate spaces, all systems I've seen used or encouraged in supplements for...

Another way to do this in D&D is to take advantage of the level drain mechanic. My character was a dedicated vampire hunter, until my ageless adversary chose not to kill me, because that would be too easy, but to take away everything I'd ever done, leaving me only with the memories of skills I...

While I've got zero problem playing characters of either gender (and various races, species and inorganic states), I avoid sexual situations in all of them. I don't care if it has bumpy stuff on it's chest or down it's trousers, that's not a part of the character that I'm gonna be graphically...

Which leaves other people's role-playing options limited to what *you* feel is believable female behavior. Sarah Conner is a (fictional) woman. So is Lt. Ellen Ripley. So is Aeryn Sun, of Farscape. So is Faith, the Vampire Slayer. So is Zoe, from Firefly. So was Vasquez, from Aliens. None...

If the Vrock went on to take a AoO from everybody in the party, you just effectively sacrificed your 1 remaining hit point to cast Mass Snake's Swiftness on the group, spending your single (and likely to be ineffectual) action to give everyone else an action. Seems clever enough to me...

This is offensive! 4E is nothing like WoW, because WoW has Gnomes as a player race!