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    Game rules are not the physics of the game world

    Professor Phobos, I understand much of where you are coming from and I can appreciate it. But I can certainly understand where KM is coming from with a great deal of his complaints. I have fallen upon narrative convenience when I've run, but even then a level of reasonability or explantion is...
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    NC Game Day XV - January 26

    It would certainly seem that we could use more games. I will certainly need to look into running something myself as well..... I have an idea for a Feng Shui game and a Godlike game. Any idea which?
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    NC Game Day XV - January 26

    Four hour slots could work, but I suspect that people would run over significantly, as four hours is a short amount of time to try and slip a game in a system that not everyone is familar with and provide a satisfactory conclusion. Regardless, I am looking forward to this. Trying to decided...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour (Updated 29 Jan 2014)

    I think it was in the Manual of the Planes. The problem you are going to run into using amnesia to strip abilities from your Rakasha is that you have a number of abilities are inherent. The most obvious and the most troublesome you are going to deal with is the overwhelming spell resistance...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour (Updated 29 Jan 2014)

    Before then, the cleric always had one Revive Outsider prepared. Bodies stick around, but Outsiders fade pretty rapidly.
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    NC Game Day XIV (September 22): Cuz' GenCon Just Wasn't Enough!

    Jermayan Velenor would be my selection for Pregen. Jacob my second.
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    The Trouble With Union

    This not the first time I've prefaced this, but I could see Union as written working in one way. If the "Epic" gate guards and their ilk are not in fact employees but rather are symptoms. Say the Union is an experiment by a group of dieties of Strength, Self-Improvement, Growth into the upper...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour (Updated 29 Jan 2014)

    Vaction = PC code for getting out of town while the next round of assassins try to kill us so they don't break our nice things or injury our good help. (Trick is to keep a protective ring of people trying to kill you around at all times to block sneak attacks by unexpected foes). The waste the...
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    Help me defend (or attack) this kingdom (long)

    Given that they are likely to outnumbered, and yet have managed to survive this long I think that an excellent Command and Control capabilities would not only be warranted but essential. If you can get improved transportation into their arsenal that would also be a good way of explaining it...
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    ENW Short Story Smackdown Summer 07 (Winner Announced)

    The tense thing has always been a problem of mine. If I could tell you why, I'd know. The thing that will probably bother me, is that this was the one I went with rather than the Dreaming narrative that first occured to me. I suspect that the format does take some getting used to. And I...
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    ENW Short Story Smackdown Summer 07 (Winner Announced)

    Thanks for the comments, it will help though I suspect that part of it is the time frame. (Usually write something, leave it for a few days and the go back with corrections.)
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    Shemmy's Planescape Storyhour #2 (Updated x3 10-17-07)

    You said the Dragon was huge. What you failed to describe was the fact that the scale of its eye would render us Lilliputan by comparison. That is an order of magnitude difference. And I'd have still gotten the bastard if he hadn't had that torc of fortification. Or spent an hour hiding on...
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    Shemmy's Planescape Storyhour #2 (Updated x3 10-17-07)

    He wins my too like-able to quietly murder, yet have motives to do so award.
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    Coolest Low-budget Items

    Decanters of Endless Water. With sufficient patience and a wand of Water Breathing, they can do your half your work for you. And if you are in Athas, you are god. Force Beads. (Nothing Says I hate you like an Illussory Terrain and well planted force beads. ) Oils of Slipperiness...
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    ENW Short Story Smackdown Summer 07 (Winner Announced)

    Twilight Skye – Silicon Dreams Malcolm shuddered as his reality melts away, the sharp acid edged kick from the information spike slamming home into his central nervous system. For a moment there is darkness, as the Net is loaded around him. Selecting his form from a list of constructs, he is...
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    Is Power Creep Real? If so, how do you fight it?

    Fire or an Axe. But seriously, it really depends on if your characters (power gamed, creation method, equipment) and your players. We find that we can occassionally blow through things out of our CR by using tactics (not the lead scry-fry or anything like that) But explosive ruins hidden in...
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    ENW Short Story Smackdown Summer 07 (Winner Announced)

    In the words of many a smart mouthed rookie, Bring it Old Man.
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    Funny "victory" lines?

    "That's it. I'm making boots out of him. " Dragon managed die on top of character who had slain him and thus had be pryed out by his allies. Finally catching up with the little bastard who sent you off on the whole revenge/quest ordeal. "I told you run." For those that immediately...
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