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Death by massive damage. Keeps creatures with lousy fortitude saves around, and avoids the rolled 1s and 2s from ending a good battle in a cheesy way.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20050407b&page=6 Dread commando. Looks like a natural fighter/rogue class.

For the first few levels you can get whipped by a lot of things. Nearly every monster in the bestiary for starters. Fights against equals can lead to gimping things like limb loss at early levels. The Dwarf warrior without arms kinda sucks, natch. Watch your backside in the early stages and most...

I'm just wondering what everybody's weak spots are when it comes to roleplaying. I'm a gamist and as such I have mechanically strong characters. The problem is that I love combat too much and am totally gung ho. I put myself and the party in risk needlessly because I want to do something cool or...

By the Hero system do you mean HERO? Because how the hell isn't this game going gangbusters? I loves me my FRed. I'm going to toss Murphy's World out here but that is much more of a setting thing than a system thing. Some games have awesome systems with lousy settings, Murphy's World had an...

I'm thinking you're totally out to lunch on this one. Find another form of foreplay that doesn't involve 3 hours of explanation and a pocket calculator.

It just seems like a real cheap way to go. A monk, with the best saves in the game, with save boosting materials, and a rolled 19 is vaporized at the end of the campaign. I don't know if its fair or not but I'd be filled with rage if that happened to my monk. Stop thinking about fair or not and...

The first post of the actual play thread at www.rpg.net is confirming all of my worst fears. I'm not afraid of a complex game, in fact my two favorites are HERO and Hackmaster which nobody would say are rules light or beginner friendly. But 6 hours just on character creation? Sweet fancy Moses!

I've read several reviews of this product, and they've all been solid endorsements or fanboyish raves. I've yet to see the product get slagged, which is always a good sign, and I'm so intrigued by its system that I'm just this close to buying it. Add in the fact that I found a place where I can...

My character's cohort is Bill Brasky.

Fusanite. Funny image just popped in my head, a bunch of dwarves gettin' aboard the NIGHT TRAIN.

What was your favorite system that never caught on? Mine is Waste World. Lightning fast task resolution, gritty and hyper deadly combat system, and I loved the setting as being gleefully, unabashedly over the top.

I'm very much an outlier on this. I will not accept fudging, and if my character was saved I'll ask for the original result or go out of my way to make rash, reckless decisions that endanger him for a while in penance. If the characters couldn't die at any second its not fun.

Have him scry and gather info and have lookouts. Before he fights he'll have Mirror Image and Displacement up or Improved Invisibility. Point is, he will try to make himself hard to hit. Next, those racial hit dice are treated as levels so use it! Next, 15+1 level+2 racial+6 Charisma from a...

Cover all the bases. One of them is a fighting bard(with the right buffs like Alter Self and Improved Invisibility it can happen, easily), one of them is the buff bard with Extend Spell(Elation, Twinked out Inspire Courage, Displacement Haste and the like), the other is the Magic-Blooded...

What he said. Go forth and find untyped and bizarre bonuses and cheese out your character! I don't think that this really solves anything, it just makes everything more complicated, but those are the rules.

Buff cards. Sometimes its the only way to make some of the thicker people, I mean deeply immersed people, to remember Inspire Courage or Spikes or Elation. I really love buffing people but I got sick of saying over and over and over "Dude! Don't forget X" that I started writing the major ones...

My character's hobbies include needlepoint, extreme bocce ball, and Mindraping Elder Brains.

Sovereign Stone, 2002 edition. Serious, check this out. There is no way in hell that a 200+ page hardcover of this quality should go for under 10 bucks shipping and handling at Amazon. There is no reason for the magic book being sold for under 10 bucks from just about everywhere. The fact that...

Dwarf. They're mechanically stronger, easier to empathize with, and a lot more fun to play. Elves listen to Enya, Dwarves listen to Tankard. No contest. /Dwarven Battle Mug for the win.