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Man that would have made me shoot milk from my nose! My daughter does stuff like this too. I love this age. Here's Isabel's version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: Tinkle, tinkle star! Whatchu are! Up up up up up! Diamond sky!

Its just my opinion, but I always thought this (and, worse, the system from Earthdawn) was kind of gimmicky. It felt like the designers dumped out their dice bag and thought, "ok how can I use all these dice". Which, come to think of it, is kind of what AD&D did. I feel the same way about the...

I'm going to have medusa ranger/rogues in my next adventure. Maybe a green hag druid. Definitely some lizardfolk druids.

What do people think about the difference of linear vs. normal distributions in resolution systems? I used to think linear was the best because it was the easiest to figure out what your actual chance of success is (the most obvious of these being the d% roll). But lately, after playing higher...

Dragon. My players seem to pronounce it a million different ways: Ahhhhsheeeeeeeeeit! Weirskrood! Faaaaaaaahhhhhk! Ruhnnaweigh! Crapponnastik! &c.

My two year old gets jealous when my buddies come over for our Thursday night game, eat dinner, and then head down into the basement to play. When her mom told here we were playing a game, she asked me later, "Play game, Daddy?" So I gathered up a bunch of dice, plastic D&D minis, and some...

I treat my game like any other social event--the only difference being that we play every week on Thursday night. There's only four of us, so one no-show can kill a session. But we are all good friends. Gaming is just an excuse to get together. We don't penalize someone for not showing up, even...

Lots of low-level humanoids led by one big bad tough guy or spell caster (or both). I like lizardfolk because our ranger has them as a favored enemy. My players love these encounters. They get to show off their power (area effect spells, multiple attacks, etc) while the villain taunts & buffs...

Many of the oldest modules were themed more as expeditions (think Louis & Clark) than action movies. This probably comes from D&D's heritage--wargames. The RPG forefathers probably went from scores of units down to about a dozen or so. Later, more emphasis was put on story and individual PCs...

Seriously. I use a lot of old Dungeon adventures from 3.0. Every time I read one I glance over the differences. Here's the latest one: 3.0 Githyanki have the following at will spell like abilities: clair*, dimension door, and telekinesis. Pretty cool, eh? In 3.5 they get dimension door and...

I'm one of those long in the tooth (heheh 32) to remember the days before Blockbuster. But you are forgetting about Neflix. Waaay cheaper than those old Mom & Pop stores (where IIRC you had to sign a contract to rent) with waaaay more titles to select from. And Netflix is eating Blockbuster's lunch.

I think Hollywood should stop doing remakes of old movies. As a stupid, red-state midwesterner my brain hurts from their complicated plots. They should remake recent remakes. That way, I already know the plot from seeing the movie 2 or 3 times before. They should definitely strip out any big...

This kills me. I suffer tons of guilt everytime I buy my game books on Amazon.com. Well not tons, the profit from a sale of Amazon stock paid for my mortgage down payment. But still, I'd like to keep my local gaming store in business. But my hobby allowance is limited. For every $10 bucks I...

Another thing to do to speed things up is make the players write out all those spell effects they have on them on index cards in front of them. Before we did this, we had problems with our ranger: 6 attacks two different weapons (+2 longsword, +1 keen longsword) bull's strength'd enlarged Now...

Thanks folks, I'll check out the Draconomicon next time I hit my game store. That stat block PDF sounds really useful--I try to print out stats for all major creatures for a given session so I can leave my MM on the shelf (or hand it to a summoning PC). After looking at the stats that dragon...

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This is probably a common question, but does anyone have a good place to get full dragon stats (3.5 SRD)? Something like a generator or spreadsheet or something? Google located a really good one (http://mwtools.thyle.net/d_gen.html) but its for 3.0 stats.

Cajole your DM into giving you a +2 circumstance bonus to Intimidate checks when backing up your threats with the sound of thunder! Bolster your bard's performance with the sounds of applause or laughter! Impede enemy orations with derisive boo's and hisses! Simple distractions could be...

I kind of have to agree--I don't really like the autofire rules in d20 either. But I can see why they did it the way they did. Its very hard to write rules that are, at the same time, fun, semi-realistic and easy to resolve. I have to admit: I haven't actually used them in play yet. So I'll...

I made a few stats for a campaign based on Halo after playing the first game. I haven't had a chance to run it so I can't say how they work out in a game. I used D20 Future as a foundation. See stuff here: http://chrischalfant.blogspot.com/2005/01/groundpounders-mini-campaign.html...