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To be fair, preorder drops them to $17.99 and $37.96, respectively. Seems like less margin in the Starter Set (consistent with it being designed for mass marketing) and much more for the PHB (consistent with the traditional niche market game store markups). Someone mentioned 3e at $19,95 and...

So, was the familiar in the area to be subjected to damage that affected everyone in the course of the skill challenge (assuming such damage occurred, as it was noted as possible, but never stated whether it happened)? If so, it should not have been able to activate itself to redirect soul...

I can’t speak for other posters. For me, the issue is not whether the character is the sole arbiter, but whether the player is the sole arbiter. The two often get used interchangeably. Returning to my “murder for the Raven Queen” example, I had suggested a character who truly believes he...

Do you not have to exercise judgment in setting the DCs required to succeed in the climb? GM’s do seem to differ markedly as to the DC of various tasks, often with the view that it should be “a challenge” to the skilled character conflicting with the view that the character is so skilled as to...

So all villains in your game are either irrational or misunderstood? Which one do Demon Lords and Acrh Devils fall into? You have previously noted, I believe, that the Duergar pay homage to Devils, and that they are Evil. Does that mean the object of their worship is irrational? Does that not...

Again, as @Imaro noted, if the player was told, before taking that action, that in your game world, this was an evil act, and would result in loss of his Paladinhood, the player would have the choice of: (a) deciding his character will not take an action which, in your game world, he knows...

While I am not as convinced as pemerton that everything is determined in play, could this character not have started off as lacking any real religious beliefs, and develop through the course of the game, having unplanned occurrences that lead to the character becoming more religious, then...

@Imaro has provided a great response I agree with, so I will try to reduce the point by point issue. @Imaro has already noted that a deity lacking the power to take away powers that he granted in the first place seems pretty low powered too. How can that GOD determine whether the Familiar’s...

May I add a rider: "Consent" means explicitly asking the player to activate the familiar, not implied consent such as: - not arguing his familiar was not activated; - arguing or negotiating over the loss of his familiar (in game or out of game); - sitting at the game table to begin with...

Now, what I see here is that Imaro reads the rules for familiars and skill challenges, and concludes they were not followed. pemerton reads the same rules, and concludes that they were followed. Apparently, two different users of the rules come to entirely opposite conclusions on how they...

In fairness, pemerton is following “the rules” in that the GM must adjudicate issues that may not fit squarely into the rules, and should sometimes modify the rules in the interests of the fun and the game. But he seems quite defensive when anyone suggests his claims to be following the...

High praise indeed! This actually alludes to an issue I was considering. The trope that many of the alleged “Paladin examples” conjure is the Divine Right of Kings, but nothing in Paladinhood indicates that this is part of the concept. Arthur and Aragorn both reflect this trope. I don’t...

So, was there any prior discussion with the players that the activities they were undertaking seemed much more frequently Evil than Good, and perhaps their alignments were shifting, or at risk of shifting? Or did you just spring it on them one day, without their having had any warning? The...

I second Haunting of Harrowstone...as an added bonus, it's a starting module (to an AP, but you can ignore the rest of the AP), so L1.

Hussar – I’m writing ot and I find its length daunting, so to some extent I feel your pain… Without digging through many pages of back posts, my recollection is that you expressed a dislike for a system where the character’s ability to impact the fiction could be reduced as a consequence of...

I believe that you would be surprised, then. Most of the areas you cite above have primarily civil, not criminal, penalties. The differentiation I am most familiar with and I'm Canadian, so that is the legal structure I have at least some familiarity with) is in the income tax system. There...

So, again, you are not opposed to the removal of abilities in principal, only on the degree of the impairment (its duration, anyway - I had also thought breadth of abilities removed, but that's not clear from the above). So it's OK to deny access to one or more class features for some period of...

So, wait, a 25+ INT and WIS Good or Neutral (or Unaligned) deity has unquestionable judgment, but the same scores possessed by an Evil deity leaves them inherently flawed with an erroneous understanding? I'm not seeing the mechanic. Did the player fail a skill check to cause the familiar to...

On gross conduct, I agree. A rephrase, to me, could be an act the Paladin knew, or should have known, to be evil. Burying his head in the sand does not absolve him of responsibility (the old chestnut of the Paladin conveniently leaving the room while his colleagues torture the prisoners comes...

Can we give the Dragon a feat to make the human his familiar? Then they can share spells :)