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A few other things to consider: -Are all the guards Paladins, or is the guard headed by Paladins with NPCs as the rank and file guards (so, likely warriors and experts for a typical beat, with the officers as Paladins). Unless your world is one where nearly everyone has levels in a PC class, I...

The price on the belt is fine; the potion is grossly overpriced. We primarily play at lower levels, but I don't know if anyone has ever purchased a potion of Cure Serious Wounds in a game I've been in, assuming any other option (healing or otherwise) was available. You find one in a treasure...

A M4 Sherman.

If you're going to make jokes about someone dying, you better make them funny. They made them funny. :)

Do what I do... keep track of what the other players are doing, how much extra damage they're doing because of you, and claim it. You're giving everyone a +4 bonus on attacks and damage? Ok... when the fighter normally attacks with his greatsword for, say, 2d6+11, that's *his* damage. When...

Sounds like a fairly interesting campaign. A few ways for the players to 'win', in short order... Capturing the goblin king, breaking the charm on him, and getting him to switch sides (at best) or walk away (at worst) is good, as long as you can make sure the players do that, rather than kill...

Ok. Its a complicated plan, but... Step 1: Kill him. Step 2: Cast Speak with Dead Step 3a: If your party is generally Good, get him Raised. Step 3b: If your party is generally Evil, get his corpse Animated. If this is really, really important, explain it to him. He'll hear the...

Eh. Its a Friday, at the start of the month. Most people will have their paychecks. It doesn't compete with new video game day (Tuesday). And it gives folks the weekend to start looking at the rules. I'd say it makes perfect sense to launch it then, as long as they don't actively tie the...

I've actually played 3.5 a variety of ways - with lots and lots of miniatures on a battle mat when I was with a group that had a huge selection, with coins and bottle caps on graph paper when we didn't have minis (or appropriate minis), and with no map or mini at all (with the DM making the call...

All depends on the camp. Are the hobgoblins a group of sentries outside the hobgoblin village? A raiding force? An invasion force? Women and children and old men who are staying behind? Are they prepared for the attack? Do they have scouts and sentries making patrols? Or are they going to...

Personally... 1) I'll be picking up the 4th Edition books, and my group is going to give it a shot. Personally, I don't buy into judging a system as bad just because its new, or because of someone else's impressions... I'd rather take a look at it and play it myself before I dismiss it. From...

In a storeroom under a tavern, the flammability of alcohol was brought up, followed by: Fighter: I have a great idea! GM: Really? Make a Wisdom check. There was also a recent discussion with one of my friends... we've been talking about putting a new game together, with me DMing, but...

Our cleric got a bit confused over some of his spells: Cleric: I'm going to be casting Death Knell on you guys a lot... Party: Wait, what?! Cleric: Yeah, it lets me know what your hit points are low so I know when to heal you... Party: ... that's Deathwatch! Cleric: ... oh.

My personal advice: Don't overthink the rules. Follow the ones you know; look up stuff you don't quite remember... but if you don't know where to find something (and none of the players know), just make something up. Just be sure to check a bit more in dept after the game; if you find an...

While Rogues do have a few more skill points, if the Beguiler is serving the Rogue role in a party, he's going to (hopefully) max out Search and Disable Device. Yes, he's "limited" in skill points (fewer than a rogue, but as many or more than almost every other character in the game). However...

I'd take Constitution as well. Trust me, you're a gnome... people will want to hit you. When you consider everything that massive Con score is going to give you: -Another 3 hit points per level... this bumps your average up to 6.5 hit points per level. This is the same as a Cleric or Ranger...

Right. My players... shoo. So, working up the next adventure for my group, and I think its going to send them heading towards the *other* type of dungeon. The one where they keep prisoners. Basically, the airship that's the PCs primary mode of travel is going to be stolen by Karrnathi...

Amusingly enough, the DMG is way up there on my list... since I never expected to be DMing when I picked it up. Ditto for MM1. DMG II ended up being even more useful than I expected. Oh. And the Eberron Campaign Setting. Picked it up 'cause it looked sort of interesting... now its my...

Complete Mage's Unseen Seer is certainly on my list. A great rogue/wizard mix.

1632, and its sequels, are by Eric Flint. There's also S.M. Stirling's Island in the Sea of Time/Natucket series. Both could be useful for such a game.