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The problem when you say "I ban this class/race/whatever because it's meant only for silliness and disruption" is that you're in a situation with a player who planned (in your POW) to inject silliness and disruption in your campaign. That same player, with a straight-up, premade by you, human...

#31. Use the Big List of RPG Plots, both for adventures and for side-treks. #32. Have always prepared 2-3 fast generic encounters to throw at your PCs if things begin to drag.

I prefer outright banning concepts I don't like to allowing them just to keep harassing that character. I think it's better for everyone's fun if I'm a big jerk once than if I'm a regular-sized jerk every time that character shows up. As a player, I feel less cheated if the DM tells me "no, you...

So, your players want to finish the war. Give that to them, then. If they want to continue the campaign afterwards, you can always have the BBEG escape or be just the minion of another bigger, badder and eviler guy, or they could have to deal with the aftermath, or whatever. Or just end the...

Speaking of completionism, I just found the last Paizo book I didin't have, "Classic Monsters Revisited". Now I have a complete collection and, thanks to my subscription, plan to keep having it :)

Except that I can install adobe acrobat reader (or any other pdf reader) in my ubuntu-running computer :( That fact alone is what prevented me from getting a DDI subscription.

The main differences are: * You have a new bonus called "Combat Maneuver Bonus" (CMB), which is used for every non-attack combat maneuver (trip, grapple, sunder, disarm, bull rush, etc). Instead of opposed checks, you make a CMB check against a DC of 15 + opponent's CMB. * One skill rank = +1 to...

I know you already have them, but I have to say that one of my most satisfying campaigns was a sandbox-like one I ran using Crucible of Freya as start point, with Tomb of Abysthor and the ToEE placed in the general area. It ended with a TPK when they played Expedition to Castle Ravenloft but...

I for one can't imagine my life running 3.x without CMB or Pathfinder skills. When the Beta came out, we fully converted to it and never looked back. It's like playing the game we knew and loved (D&D 3.5), with some clarifications here and some added options there. And Golarion is just...

I bought a bunch of tiny d6's of different colors, and use them to indicate several conditions (negative hps, flight, etc). The pips on the sides are useful when you need some measurement (flight at x10 feet above the ground, buff lasting x rounds, and so on). The pizza thingie option seems...

And now, for the serious answer: I understand that you are planning for a sort of introduction kit. If that's the case, you'd want the higher end monsters out of the frame, since for beginners a Balor is not as likely to be encountered as a kobold. That being the case, I'd choose: * Goblin /...

I've liked what I've read so far about 4e familiars (I don't have a DDI subscription, so "what I've read" means "what people posted here on ENWorld), and they don't seem too difficult to export to my PFRPG/3.x games. I particularly like the options of having weird familiars as the chopped hand...

That'd be freakin' awesome, if you ask me ;)

That's one of the (many) things I like about Pathfinder: the CMB is, essentially, a "Do Something Cool Bonus". I've seen my players try innovative things a lot more since they have a bonus for it written down on their sheets. In some games I use the "Flashback Bonus", adapted from the Marvel...

I've been using Dungeon Tiles for months, but eventually left them in favor of the GameMastery Flip-Mat. It's really handy and quickened my set-up time for encounters by 10-15 minutes (the same amount of time I wasted trying to find the right set and disposition of tiles). I also use some of...

Captain Obvious to the rescue!!! ;) It's no longer role playing when you stop playing a role. Rules can help or hinder your ability to relate to your character, but they can't force nor stop you from doing it. When, then, can we say that some people aren't role playing? When they don't say "my...

I don't hide that I game (or any of my other hobbies, likes or dislikes), but I generally find it rude to talk about things when there's people who don't know what I'm talking about. I don't like anyone to feel excluded from the conversation. So, I can mention it, but I won't go further than...

If somebody creates something I enjoy, and I can afford it, I like supporting them. It's not an ethics issue for me, because I'm more on the side of "free culture for everyone". I'm an author myself, and I offer my content for free with the option of "tipping" if somebody likes what they read...

No, I wouldn't, because I honestly can't trust WotC to not change the conditions or pull out the plug from one day to the next. They've done it far too many times now (d20 license, OGL/GSL, Dungeon/Dragon, Ravenloft, HackMaster, Drivethru/RPGnow, Virtual Gametable, free or nominal-fee pdfs with...

Half-dragons have, by the rules, the same alignment as their dragon parent. So if you think that killing every black dragon is not evil, therefore killing every half-black dragon wouldn't be evil, either.