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For a long time my Freeport game was set in Freeport only (crazy, eh?) so I never had to worry about this. When it started to encompass the mainland, I ruled that rather than focing my players to buy ranks in lots of knowledge skills, they could apply their skill to places they had spent a...

Absolutely. Really, when you're putting a power as an extra onto another power, you're making a new power with both effects, and you can use whatever extras are appropriate. In other words, it may help you to think of the power like this: Radiation Power - Energy Control (radiation) - Flight...

This is about the only kind of paladin that would survive in Freeport, so for me...sure. Now on to respond to other posters: Sure. And write the story of a paladin visiting a mine where the miners are hard-working, well-fed, honest folk and you'll have a very different story than the story...

If you want a "ninja" without the ninja magic, it's on page 49 of the PHB.

AU had it as well, IIRC.

What are the one-day rates likely to be, roughly? J

Three classes to get in...holy macaroni, it's the 1e bard! I would hope that the BAB at the least should be medium. J

Well, like I said, if we're working off of implication, the fact that ki focus is specifically called out as being melee-only implies very strongly that only being on the melee table is not enough to make you melee-only - throwing and vicious have the same specific prohibition as well, and...

Actually, it doesn't seem to be specifically prohibited, you just won't find one randomly. At least, I can't find any text that says that the entries on the table are the only possibilities - and if you follow your reasoning a little farther, there are no uncommon magical ranged weapons because...

Clearly he's watched Princess Mononoke one too many times. Some outs: Vorpal is not on the ranged weapons table. Some people interpret this to mean that ranged weapons cannot be vorpal - although I for one could easily see a throwing axe or a Xena-style chakran decapitating someone, and...

He's probably denying involvement so he doesn't have to answer bizarre nitpicky fanboy questions, like "How can House Baenrae have two hundred solders to devote to this assault when it clearly stated on page 214 of Homeland that they had reduced their fighting forces..." J

True, although very different in tone from the typical "rah-rah, the military are great heroes!" tone that tends to be associated with the term today. It's more "anti-war SF". (Of course, I brought up the Chtorr books and Armor, so...) J

Blackbeard, so they say, used to carry six pistols. With that and quickdraw... J

Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers. David Gerrold's War Against the Chtorr series. John Steakley, Armor. I feel like the diaglo of military SF now, so I'll also say that John Ringo's Posleen Wars stuff is decent, if a little fannish in places. His "March to" series with Weber is better on...

Or Freeport. J Wait, you said not at each other's throats...

I think that the monk showed saintly patience in dealing with someone who had taken his shape, lied to his freinds, and tried to destroy his reputation. Heck, I think the entire party showed admirable restraint in knocking the dopplegangers unconscious rather than killing them outright, so I'd...

The question that comes to mind is: They're dopplegangers - how would anyone know to treat them differently? That said, I'd be terrified at the idea of shapeshifting mindreaders, and I imagine most people would share that feeling, so I can't picture them as being accepted.

Some interesting suggestions there. The germ of the idea came from a player's suggestion, but the more I thought about the possibility of not having to keep track of XP at all, the more I liked it. Unfortunately, that desire for simplicity makes it tough to do, because you're effectively...

I'm thinking about abandoning XP for my newly-started game, and instead granting my players levelups at certain points in the campaign - at the end of adventures or other major victories, for example. (This would remove a lot of headache from me keepign track of individual XP as well.) But...

Has anyone actually seena campaign broken by these things, or is it another falling sky problem? I mean, come on, 'a paladin's mount can't be effectively charmed or dominated' is not going to be a gamebreaker in 99.9% of the cases. J