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1- Subjective opinion Auld Grump - the players may like the house rules... we don't know. 2- The house rule doesn't stop you playing your character - it just points you toward a 'likely' response your player should have if you're roleplaying both strengths and weaknesses. If you respond to...

Guys - I think there's a lot of people jumping on Quasequeton for his (I'm making an assumption her Q- sorry if I'm wrong) use of some HOUSE RULES. Q has a system in which he can roll his NPC skill checks against the PCs. They then get the chance to role-play their character. As long as Q...

Too right - as a DM I'm blessed with a group of very gracious and friendly players - they realise the amount of work that I put in and appreciate it. If your players aren't doing that then you need to make it clear to them exactly how much effort you put in for them to have their fun. All they...

Sorry to hear you're having problems and hope the stress eases down soon. In the meantime the only advice I will offer you is exercise - preferably involving fresh air. Go for a gentle jog around a couple of blocks, or a nice long walk, or a bike ride, or a swim. Nothing too strenuous, just...

There's nothing inherently wrong with relying on the players metagaming enough to say "yes I'll join the party", the only problem with it is that depending on how much they are into their characters they may feel that it runs counter to what they think the character would do. Any decent gamer...

It sounds like it could be great - but I predict a couple of problems: Your Indiana - why is he interested in volunteering any information... and why would the police question him at all if he only turned up after the events? He's got a very simple "Hey I just found everything like this and...

Correct - but how is that focus different from the entirely normal 'freeze' reaction when they first spot you. I've seen many squirrels go completely motionless in an attempt to not be spotted themselves. OK maybe some whisker movement/ear-twitching, but how easy is it going to be to notice...

If you don't want to get rid of the knowledge of the gods existing but still want more religions then you can get rid of the knowledge that any one cleric's interpretation is right. I have taken alignment away from my gods, so that a cleric of any alignment can worship a particular god. And...

Sigil - I like this... personally I don't use as strict a form of defined morality in my homebrew (my gods don't have alignments), so some of your starting points about culture vs alignment don't quite fit... means I'm going to have to take into account a magic item's culture as and when that...

I think his point was that there's also plenty of good sex that doesn't bring about bad influences... the good sex between Arthur and Guenevere is never a problem. And the Lancelot Guenevere thing is the main story arc in so many of the more basic retellings of the Arthurian legends - there are...

... when the party are hanging around in the back of the crematorium where they bribed the resident necrophiliac to let them have the body of the baby about to come through so they can fake the death of another baby in order to enable the single mother to get away from the evil bar-steward that...

I've had one SO get into gaming because of me gaming with some mates at uni. We broke up soon after but still did a lot of gaming together. Nowadays she games much more than me having married another gamer. Whenever I'm back in L'pool I hook up with them and normally can get a one-off out of...

As a DM I would positively encourage this. First of all it gives the player an option to make a real difference in the story and second of all it gives me a nice and easy way of writing them in to the story as they have a good reason to be here. The player would have to deal with the fact that...

The wonderful thing about being a genius to the level of Einstein is that they do wierd things with you after you die... like preserve your brain for posterity. And then after they figure out some other things about your brain... like which areas are being used to do the maths (don't ask my...

I've always felt this should depend on the PrC. There are some that are more or less just learning a certain set of traits - particularly the shorter 3 or 5 level ones. Others have a feel that they are a goal in and of themselves. If the PrC is very much part of an organisation - Mage of the...

Booting a player is going to have to be hard for the reasons Teflon said. Never actually had to do it. However I have dropped a player from a gaming group. There were 4 of us, and we weren't playing anything consistently. Had a few one-offs going with Vampire, Mage and Werewolf (this was pre...

Because neither of the clauses actual state anything about the amount of damage - just about the type of damage. Nothing here states nor refutes the fact that a certain minimum amount of damage is produced. Basically I'm saying the same as Patryn... the fact is that the unarmed strike always...

It's certainly an option - but I can see two problems the party may face. The most obvious is actually finding someway of imprisoning it. Not impossible, and if they come up with something, it's certainly an option. May also not solve the crisis (My goddess still wants me to kill that child)...

Nope - Fera is the Goddess of Life so she cares about the living and hates the undead. The use of the innocent is to make the paladin care because he is human. Fera doesn't care about innocence (she's also the godess of lust afterall) - her concern is the death of the undead creature, while...

I have to point out that there is nothing in the given sentences that indicates either way as to whether or not an attack always does damage. The point that an unarmed attack does deal some sort of damage in every attack whilst correct according to the RAW. are not part of these clauses. That...