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  1. Norfleet

    Output of an adamantine mine?

    I find it useful to make the mine haunted, or contain radioactive materials that cause the miners to contract radiation sickness and die. All of these will guarantee that the players have mysteries on their hands while absolutely nothing productive comes out out of those mines. If you feel...
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    When should players challenge the DM and when should they be quiet?

    I prefer it when players attempt to argue with me. It means that I don't have to do as much work. If we can sidetrack the session for 30 minutes over a pointless rule argument that I eventually win anyway, I can make the player look stupid, and save myself a lot of work. I can further drag the...
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    Which D&D "cow" is least sacred?

    You know, I'm pretty sure the massive damage rule has been around since at LEAST 2nd, if not 1st, edition. I've personally consistently operated a house rule where hitpoints only determine whether you die, not how horribly maimed you can get. You can even survive decapitation, albeit briefly...
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    Which D&D "cow" is least sacred?

    What, AC didn't make the list? I'd say AC has to go. It's probably the worst, most clumsy, awful hack ever made in D&D, and as the combat system becomes increasingly complex, the entire AC system gradually begins to come apart more and more apparently.
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    Your least-favorite pre-3e D&D/AD&D books

    Elves *ARE* the best. They're simply the greatest! Especially drow. Those are the best of the best. I've never tasted anything better. I recommend you try them, fried in butter.
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    RPGs "reduce accountability and substite raw power for legitimate authority"

    Something to keep in mind is that cable TV isn't granted to the prisoners as some sort of award: It's granted as an inexpensive means of keeping them from rioting. Considering the amount of violence one is subjected to on television, I hardly think that gaming is going to make them any worse...
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    The "I'm going to get hit no matter what my AC is" philosphy

    The philosophy of "you're going to get hit no matter what your AC is" is fairly dominant: Attack bonusses increase linearly with character level, and gains magic bonusses. With the exception of magic bonusses, which attack bonusses ALSO get, AC pretty much never increases. As such, AB increases...
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    How FAST should he turn evil? (Updated 2/9)

    The bigger question is one that people are missing out on: Let's suppose that you've picked an arbitrary point at which you're going to declare him to be evil. What does that *MEAN* for him? So he's evil now....is some dramatic transformation supposed to overtake him? Has he dramatically...
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    Campaign ends in 4 sessions what do you do?

    Might I suggest an idea I saw in Crothian's sig, and end the game with everyone naked and on fire?
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    Help with player with Foot in Mouth disease

    I recommend your party make use of the subdual sneak attack rules. Have the party rogue stand behind him with a blackjack.
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    good and evil, what is greater?

    The quote is "Now you see, that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
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    Playing two characters

    Yes, Joe is obviously attempting to challenge Altalazar for the title of ENworld Necromancer.
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    RPG/D&D terms and phrases that are no longer clever or amusing.

    I prefer to turn political correctness on its end and run the game in a manner which is guaranteed to be offensive to somebody. If anybody is offended, the rest of the group then belittles him for being a pathetic weakling. It's much more effective to reverse the blame that way, since people...
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    What are your party's combat tactics?

    Wow. No Altalazar. I'm disappointed in you, Altalazar. Somebody's trying to lay claim to your necromantic throne, and you have nothing to say?
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    RPG/D&D terms and phrases that are no longer clever or amusing.

    I do believe that this is, in fact, where the term "nerf" comes from: To reduce something from an actually useful skill/ability/weapon into a squishy, harmless foam toy. It came into being when patches for computer games became commonplace and often had this effect on previously existing items...
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    Character Death from DM perspective

    I'm a fan of the all dead/mostly dead resurrection system, and reverse the "death spells result in no raising" rule: A character can be raised or resurrected as long as his condition is "mostly dead", which means that all of his important bodyparts are present and physically attached. He's...
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    What to do when the character's ability scores exceeds the limit?

    You don't. Consider the concept a write-off: If you're stuck with point-buy, you're not going to have good anythings in more than one or two stats, tops. Just scratch the entire concept and prioritize. Point-buy characters don't have character, they're just clones from a character factory. If...
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    Benefit of clothes

    You can get some pretty nasty sunburns. And what about things like frostbite and hypothermia? I don't think that "not having a great impact" tends to include walking around in the arctic tundra naked, and having your fingers and toes freeze off. The hitpoint system doesn't really cover...
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    Using Detect Evil/Good

    What, exactly, is the argument here? From my reading of this thread, there doesn't seem to be a consistent line of argument here. Are we arguing about the mechanistic legalities of exactly what, by the book, pings and does not ping on Detect Evil? That seems to be what some of these posts...
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    Have You Improved Your D&D Miniatures?

    I considered the idea, but at the cost of one feat, "Improved D&D Miniatures" doesn't really do it for me. I'd rather just save the feat, and stick with the basic D&D Miniatures in spite of the penalties. I don't even really use regular D&D Miniatures enough to justify the improved feat, anyway.
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