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Anyone here use it? Quickie reviews? I can't seem to find much online.

Merric, Thanks for the counterpoint. However, Runebound may still be better for me for a number of reasons: 1) solitaire playability is a big point. If I can get enough players together for a big board game, we'd just role-play instead. 2) for small groups, we don't mind the downtime. Some...

That's not a hijack, Xyanthon. That's a relevant question. To everyone who has posted so far, thanks! This has been extremely helpful. Based on everything everyone has said, Runebound is the game I'm looking for. C

I realize this is a little off-topic, but I know both of these games have been discussed here before... I'm interested in trying out one of these two FFG games (they're too expensive for me to try both!). I was wondering who here has played both of them. Which is the better game? How long is...

I can't make sense of one part of this class (one of my players is interested in it). It's a 10-level PrC, but it seems to me that you couldn't take level 1 in the class until character level 13. Sanctify Ki Strike requires Ki Strike Lawful, which a monk gets at 10th level. Then, the next...

Thanks, ragboy. But most of those aren't what I asked for (an Eastern monastery). I sincerely appreciate the assist, though. Conan, the sketch you linked was very helpful.

In my Spycraft game, the team is about to begin a tactical assault on a Chinese monastery in the mountains. It is supposed to be an old monastery, and has no real "modern" elements to it (i.e., no high-tech security of any kind). There are about 75 people present at it, living and training...

The player who actually suggested this was in favor of specifically random encounters because he thought that a random encounter could potentially generate a little story hook on its own.

Not a poll, but a poll-like question: In your campaign, do you use random encounters in the wilderness? Regularly or only sometimes? In what circumstances do you choose to use or not use them? Do you find that, given the time, danger, and lack of treasure implied by them, that they increase the...

Thanks for the help, everyone! After much consideration, I decided that the winner would be Players Guide to Faerun. However, as circumstances turned out, I was able to pick up the Players Guide and nine other FR books really cheap in one fell swoop. So instead of one, I've kinda committed to...

The situation: A 5' wide corridor. At the end of the hallway is a medium humanoid. In front of him is a medium PC, engaged in melee combat with the humanoid. 30' back down the hallway is the PC's friend, a PC archer. The archer wants to shoot at the humanoid. It's -4 to hit because his...

OK. I'm looking to add still more kitchen sinks to my homebrew. I'm pretty much addicted to crunch (even as a DM) because I find that crunch inspires new ideas for my world. So, toward that end, I had started a thread asking for the ONE FR book that provided the most crunch. I got a lot of...

Thank you! Since I just started a sub, and these two features were major motivators for that sub, I just wanted to try to pick up the issues I missed.

Could anyone kindly post an index of which issues thus far have had these two columns in them? I'm imagining that they haven't been going on THAT long, yes? C

For anyone that cares, I've had a chance to get into the book. While it is true that a lot of the worthwhile crunch has been reproduced elsewhere, the stuff that remains is interesting and useable to me. Furthermore, the Rokugan stuff is interesting reading if nothing else, and the book itself...

I love 'em! I'm really pretty shocked at how frequent bad experiences with GMPCs are. We've used them with regularity and have had no problems at all, other than the fact that, as "quasi-NPCs," they rarely get to reach their RP potential. In one of our games, the GMPC is kept a tad weaker...

Shemeska, I understand that idea of the Far Realm as the easiest way to attach it to the Great Wheel cosmology, but my intention in asking for advice was that that version of the Far Realm can't fly with the critical mods I've made for my homebrew. Basically, the problem is that there can't BE...

Hey, amethal, that's pretty good! That was pretty helpful. I like the musical analogy, but I most like the way that the amorality fits into the good-evil paradigm. I also appreciate that Nerull can remain "the big bad."

So... I'm reading the Lords of Madness and I'm getting a kick out of it. I like the Lovecraftian horror elements and overall it's a better read than I expected. However, I'm confused about the cosmological changes. I thought that, officially, the Far Realm was NOT a part of the core...

I am not running my game in the FR, nor do I have any desire to. However, I AM one of those DMs who loves crunch, and has no problem offering my players thousands of options. Is there a SINGLE FR book that provides heavy crunch that would be usable in a non-FR game? If so, what would it be...