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Well, considering that the rapist didn't even get the courtesy of a Spot or a Listen check to notice the armored, armed paladin following him back to his room, I don't know that we can assume that the rapist wouldn't have carried through with his foul deed, or maybe even something fouler. I...

There should really be a poll option for "I have absolutely no idea what this poll is asking me about." ;) If you're asking me about a campaign world you're creating, my suggestion would be to make it as interesting and as flexible as possible, and don't skimp on providing suggestions for how...

I still think Feeblemind is overpowered and scary for a 5th level spell; if it could be dispelled or removed by anything short of a Heal or Limited Wish, or if it had a finite duration, it wouldn't be so bad. -- but it doesn't, so it is ryan

I think this line of argument falls apart when you stop to think that the only reason any character encountered the rapist in the first place was because the GM wanted the paladin to encounter a rapist, to see what he would do, and to slap him down if he didn't follow the unwritten, unspoken...

Hm. Maybe the GM should have given the rapist a Spot and a Listen roll to notice the clanking, armor-clad, sword-toting paladin following him. I bet the DC would have been something like 3. Even this 1st-level commoner NPC could have passed it with flying colors. ...oh, but then this whole...

I think you are--and please don't take this as an insult, because it isn't--instinctively applying modern, real-life standards of criminal justice and morality to a much less ambiguous and much harsher fantasy setting. It's not an insult, because it's says something nice about you when your gut...

Absolutely. The only part of the PH that actually discusses a paladin's code says that they respect legitimate authority, act with honor, help those who need help, and punish those who harm/threaten innocents. Here's a definitively, obviously evil guy caught in the act of harming an innocent...

Another way of looking at it is to say that, yeah, sure, all monks are lawful. Every last single one of 'em, and when they stop being lawful, they stop gaining further levels as monks. Vanilla D&D monks, in other words. But what those monks decide to meditate upon, what they devote their...

My experience, interestingly enough, has been the polar opposite of this. We switched over to having a more collaborative character creation process precisely because the "getting to know you" phase wasn't particularly enjoyable and felt painfully hollow to most of us, plus it tended to derail...

For me, it varies. Sometimes I feel like writing something that is entirely subjective, sometimes I don't. The issue of in-game GM revision doesn't really apply, because either way, I tend to have areas that are deliberately left unexplained and undetailed for just that kind of thing. That...

I'd say that for our games, the short answer would be something like "because we get sick to death of them." (Especially as a GM; yeesh, I'd hate to be running the same game for years and years and years.) Closure's a good thing, like others have already said; reaching a satisfying ending...

Unless Unseen Servants can breathe (which they can't), you'd have to get tricky in order to figure out a way to draw air through the pipe while lighting it so it'll actually catch. Maybe two Unseen Servants, one to hold the pipe and light it, while another uses a modified fireplace bellows as a...

I'd agree. I'd also go so far as to say that the plot should be brazenly stolen from whatever source strikes you as being cool and easy to file the names off of (so clever players don't immediately see what you're plagiarizing). For example, if I had to run our Saturday game on just two hours...

That sucks. :( I used to have a similar problem, and discovered it was because I was still using the old cyberstreet URL to get here. I switched to the correct URL (www.enworld.org/forums), and it's held the cookie correctly ever since. If you haven't tried that yet, you may want to give it a...

This is the part I keep wanting to hear about, too. Having high skill bonuses (even extremely high skill bonuses) is not in and of itself a problem. Even a character with high skills who knows how to use them to the best possible effect isn't necessarily a problem, provided that they're not...

The first game I played in back in high school (AD&D2), I played a smart, sneaky, scout-type thief in a party that had both a paladin and a priest of Tempus, the god of war. Everywhere we went, those two guys would kill the sh-t out of anything that jumped at us, fearlessly kick open any locked...

I was talking about this with some friends recently, one of whom invariably plays a complete gunbunny in any modern setting--the character who can, within six seconds or less, put every single bad guy into traction or a coffin. And her take on why she builds characters that can do this was kind...

I do not say this lightly, so I ask for everyone's polite attention: TAKYRIS WINS THIS THREAD. There is a place for min-maxing, and a place for books advising people on how to min-max. The reason there is a place for these things is because many RPGs have rules, and the full import of many of...

Mostly I crib from noir detective fiction, which is excellent for characters and plots. Hammett's The Maltese Falcon is a personal favorite of mine, and one of the best novels of the 20th century. I've also swiped things from Hammett's other work, Chandler's Philip Marlowe series, James...

I don't know if our game is typical...probably not, but hey, you asked: Our characters are nearly a standard-issue adventuring company based out of a largely homebrew version of Shelzar; basically, we take jobs like "go find this place out in the Mounds of Man and bring back this tablet for...