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I love stories about Raven. The other guys are cool too, but Raven's stories hold a special place in my heart. ♥ Raven, aside from being a trickster, is also a creator and a shape shifter. There's a lot of stories about how Raven created the first X or brought Y into the world. If your game...

My groups plays a complete homebrew setting in 3.5 and I very much wanted to play a half-dragon. We didn't really like the current half-dragon template (and the ECL+3 scared me) and we wanted something with some customization, so we turned it into a racial class type thing. The core concept is...

There also needs to be a tavern brawl if that hasn't happened yet. In fact, if your party didn't meet in a tavern, then you may have missed out on the biggest trope of them all... (o: The apprentice digs into his master's books while the master is away, and ends up summoning something rather...

I got really excited for a moment - but when I checked the SRD I saw them listed as "Small Humanoid (Reptilian)". True dragons are listed as Dragon. Well darn. My dream of a small tribe of alter-selfing-into-dragon kobolds had a very short life. :( Unless, of course, I'm misunderstanding...

Tell that to every DM I've played under in the past 5 years. :-S Personally, I don't use them except in specific circumstances.

I don't use nature as a force for good or evil; it just is, much like nature in our world. Nature is all about survival of the fittest - trying to find enough to eat while in turn trying to avoid being eaten. I like nature and the wilderness to be largely an unknown place, aside from secretive...

I can't recall of any native American tribes that developed anything like chariots. Remember, horses in general were a new creature to the Americas at this point in time: they didn't exist here until the Europeans brought them across the ocean. It also took them a while to adapt them to mounted...

Thank you very much for the quick reply!

Hello, I'm going to be playing a snake-like critter in an upcoming game, similar to a Yuan-Ti. In addition to a standard melee weapon, I'll also have access to two natural weapons: A bite (primary), and a tail slap (secondary). My question is about combining attacks. Can all three (melee...

Basically. Not a lot of processing power should be needed for this, but a good amount of memory would be helpful. Table data could be cached so constant database lookups (or whatever back end storage you use) aren't required. Even then, modern DBs are really good about caching requests, so...

Maybe I didn't communicate effectively enough. I didn't say that someone wouldn't get better - that one would is obvious. But someone wouldn't go from zero to epic hero, either. That is where I have a problem.

I remember old games which gave XP amounts for killing, for example, sheep. It was a minimal amount, but a player thought he was going to be clever and he spent all his accumulated wealth to buy a large herd of sheep, then slaughtered them, expecting an XP boost. He was very unhappy when that...

It's quite easy to have coherence in a campaign with round-robin DMs. Everyone agrees on a general story arc / goal for the party before hand. You can also discuss the general direction after each DM is finished with his piece of the story to keep things on track. All it takes is a little...

I am interested in this product, and will be heading over to support it after I post here. I own Campaign Cartographer / City Designer, but to be quite honest it's rather difficult to use well (on top of being buggy) and sometimes I just want something quick. This will fit my needs nicely. Out...

I'm more apt to get bored from a terrible story, poor character concepts, or cumbersome rules than limited classes. Yup. I suppose I'd rather ask the question, "Do we need classes at all?"

I have this issue with my current DM. It's a small game, with 2 PCs and one "DM" PC. Very often we'll get into social situations in particular that seem to run on forever. You know what I mean: You enter the tavern, the tavern keeper says hello, you sit down, waitress comes by, you order your...

Personally, I like magic in my games to be, well, magical. Special. Something reserved to a small segment of the population, be it because of danger, social accepted, or simply rarity. If it is an every day occurrence then it really loses that special feel. But still, fantasy gaming does assume...

The lowest allowable mechanically.

Hello, I'm looking for some help in selecting a pair of classes for a gestalt D&D 3.5 game. For now there's only 2 players. The other guy is playing a Rogue/Sorcerer combination (that is all he plays - ever) which forces me into the unfortunate dual role of front line meat grinder AND heal...