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On your most severe Bad Hair Day, I would give the character some form of Knowledge check to pull back/realize. Generally speaking, I would in all other situations just tell them it doesn't work. Part of your annoyance is that his use of metagame knowledge is leading to an unrealistic...

I ALWAYS think Egg Chen vs. Lo Pan, so any idea that brings us closer to that film is a good idea. Any battle of wills of course must include gesturing with crossed pinkies and a sort of Rock Em Sock Em Robots thumb twiddling. I look forward to your variant rules for this, and for your write...

My group is apparently a bunch of freaks... Balance is something I see discussed a LOT in forums, but it has never...honestly NEVER come up in any game I've run or played in, including some games with what are obviously huge balance issues. Extreme Example: Gamma World (pre d20, pre goofy...

Additional advice based on personal mishaps: 1) Any riddles, puzzles, etc. that are integrated into the adventure should consider WHEN they will be encountered...hitting them with a complex/difficult mental challenge in Hour 10+ is a bad idea. 2) Varied and well-spaced combats...nothing...

(sorry for my ignorance - if someone could PM me on proper 'forking' technique and etiquette I'd appreciate it, but I couldn't find a way to fork this into a different forum, and the fork wouldn't really be GSL/Legal - so it would seem to be in the wrong place when forked) I think that I could...

As the owner of four laptops of various generations (got rid of my Osbourne 1 many years ago or it'd be five), I can tell you that I still run into situations where the family is going on a long drive and my wife will be driving a leg or two of it....it's always great to just grab a magazine and...

I'm into math, and this idea of replacing each +20 with a new d20 instead is intriguing to me, because it keeps you rolling dice (which is one of the basic elements of traditional D&D). What I'm wondering, though, is related to the complaint that a +19 is better than a +21 under those rules...

Forgot to cover multiple specializations...I could see someone wanting to take bonuses in Insects, Echinoderms, and Gastropods...in those cases, since the sub-categories are soooo specific, I might be tempted to allow them to add 2 to each of these in return for a -2 to the general. Okay...one...

How I would handle it (and obviously this makes it the only correct way): I would definitely avoid adding knowledge skills, and I would tend to break the fairly strict rule in 3e that says "NPCs/Monsters work like PCs". For NPCs, other non-PC races, monsters, etc. I would just give them...

ah, yes...the joy of OSRIC...all the 'flavor' of 1st edition...the tradeoff between rules clarity and perceived freedom. Looking at my copy, I can find no instances of the word 'splash', no mention of oil in the missile weapons table, etc. Wondering at this point if it's my observation/search...

Here: Golem, Filthy Lucre; Filthy lucre golem: CR 6; Size L; HD 9d10; hp 75; Init -1; Spd 30 ft; AC 18, touch 8, FF 18; BAB +6/+1; Grapple +15; Atk: +10/+10 melee (2d8 + 4, slams); SA Berserk; SQ Construct traits, damage reduction 5/bludgeoning, darkvision 60 ft., immunity to magic, low-light...

I guess I'm not 100% clear on your intent.... Do you want to find a way to 'gift' them with magic items without a seemingly appropriate challenge, or are you looking for ways to 'overstock' encounters so they get more than they deserve? I'm not saying that well...I guess the question is "how...

Let's get weird....(warning, I have little experience running 4e - these are fairly 'general D&D' thoughts). Magic items in 4e can be intelligent, no? What if there is an intelligent/cunning item that doesn't LIKE to be sitting on the shelf in this shop, and is conspiring with the invaders...

Not sure if this thread has been completely forked (that doesn't sound right) yet, but more on the Necromancer/4E stuff: I'm interested in how you could do it - selfishly, concerned about how you could do it to the DEGREE I would need to embrace 4e. As a couple of examples, I'm not pleased...

Opinion: I don't like the idea of reactive counterspelling leading to any sort of looping stuff....and I'm not sure I like the idea of reactive counterspells at ALL. Actions ARE precious, and while I think that a fighter could Ready an action to fire a crossbow at a charging foe, short of...

Somewhat related: A true GENIUS once wrote the Revised Edition of Elements of Magic, which has a nice system for dispel magic that we use in our campaign. This thread, of course, reminds me why I love my laptop and its software for D&D (DMGenie)...the machine does the math for me. I DO...

I can definitely go along with the 'extreme casual' theory. I have a group that I've played with for approx. 30 years, and they've actually become more casual due to a couple of factors: 1 ) They have lives/wives/kids/etc. and perhaps more importantly: 2 ) because of #1, we only see each...

I worry that pulling a single 'lever' will subject you to the Rule of Unintended Consequences...whether or not it works well (or well for your particular game), it is a rules SYSTEM, which implies a great deal of internal dependencies. So I think it's great that you allow multiple choices in the...

In the interest of being incredibly lazy, let me give my response to this and the forked thread at the same time about DM effort/reward. I've been in parties with the following character names: Sir Anus of Colon Gowulf Khlobz DeMetrius Velveeta Thorndyke Randolph Lagenta Glitch (etc. - a...

Not sure if (as a non-lawyer) my comments will be that helpful, but: I think that 'Substantiality' might be viewable as not simply volume of text, but nature ...call it 'weight' of the text used - meaning, are the few words you use from the book very important words, like names of characters...