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CoC was the staple of our college gaming experience, and I still think it's one of the best games I've ever played. It has such simple, elegant mechanics that match up so well with the tasks expected of PCs, and good lord, their published adventures are so damn good. We did pretty much all of...

If we tried anything like that in our group, it would take about fifteen minutes before two of our players lost half of their gold pieces and 90% of their magic items. Four weeks later, we'd find one of the previously-lost magic items under a couch cushion, and three years from now people would...

Well, if several members of your group have expressed to him that they'd rather he not run a character, then I don't think his "I'm leaving the group and it's all his fault!" schtick will carry him very far. We've never had a problem with GMPCs, but we have had problems with GMs who would...

Um...no, you don't recall correctly. My DMG (3.0) says: "A character with negative levels at least equal to her current level, or drained below 1st level, is instantly slain. Depending on the creature that killed her, she may rise the next night as a monster of that kind. If not, she rises as...

As a GM, I've played both female and male NPCs, in approximately equal proportions. Judging from GMs in games I've played in, this is pretty much standard. As a player, I tend to strongly prefer playing male characters. I'm already used to the pronoun, my normal vocal and physical mannerisms...

Same here. The first time we started off a game with all the characters knowing each other, the game was so much better so much faster that the next time we sat down to make characters for a new game everyone just started trading ideas back and forth and putting together a collaborative...

I have the same answer, for exactly the same reason. We also don't care if a component's description makes it sound obscure or difficult to get; if it doesn't have a listed price, it's covered by a spell component pouch and players don't have to keep track of it. That's why the spell component...

Neat! Of course, another way of addressing it would have been to tell your GM: "Chaotic Good? The hell I am; if I limp back into town the sole survivor of the party and I'm not even carrying any of their stuff, the first word that will run through everyone's head is LOSER. That's a hell of a...

Funny that you'd pick Cobain as an example, since I was just about to say that I played my CN rogue in our hack-and-slash FR game like a rock star. Not of the self-loathing Kurt Cobain variety, more like the classically arrogant and self-indulgent kind. He was a showoff and naturally assumed...

I'd say the rules handle it with Death by Massive Damage. Hey, if the big, strong beastie can pick up and try to tear some guy in half and can manage to do at least 50 points of damage, and if the hapless guy taking that damage blows his save, then you may as well say he was ripped in half...

...and if your heart is set on doing it in d20, you could always swipe the rules from Mutants and Masterminds. -- nobilis is a very pretty book but i have no idea how it's supposed to be played ;) ryan

Yeah, but do you have absolutely nothing happening in the game world that isn't initiated solely by the PCs? As in, a PC who has no particular goal in mind at this point asks what's going on, and you just shrug and say "Uh...lots of stuff...what do you want to do?" Being reactive isn't...

What bugs me: * When the GM just sits there and says "So what do you do?", as though the entire game world has absolutely nothing interesting happening in it that should be called to our attention. Encouraging PCs to pursue their own goals and be proactive is fine, I'm just irritated when a GM...

Well, the description for antimagic field specifically notes that the effect cannot be removed by dispel magic, so already there's a problem. I also seem to remember that when you dispel a monster's magical ability that either operates continuously or can be raised at will, it only buys you 1d4...

Our GM is taking a kind of median approach to magic items in the Scarred Lands; if we're doing things in "civilization" (in cities and against modern-day organizations), the amount of magic items is reduced significantly. If we're out rummaging through ancient cities or people who've just...

Just from a cursory reading of the fight, it sounds like the party was very successfully ambushed by a group which could have done some serious damage to them even if it had been a fair fight. I mean, before the rest of the party had a chance to do anything, two of them were out of the fight...

That's how I've usually seen GMs handle it, generally prefaced with a grin and a "That's a very good question, isn't it?" It's the usual way of hinting that there is an actual in-game reason why this apparently nonsensical thing really does make sense, and that the GM is all in favor of our...

Well, it says the first attack of the round from the designated character, which strongly suggests that it means the first time that particular guy attacks you, since you're the guy with the feat and we're only interested in attacks against you. That would be how I'd read it, anyway. That...

All magical items should have a market price listed; if you run into an item that doesn't, you'll have to work one out for it with the GM (or just make one up if you're the GM ;) ). But the whole point is that there's a market price for everything, even if the only purpose that price has is to...

Oh man, sometimes I forget just how cruel the Temple of Inexplicable Evil really was. :lol: I guess the moral of this story is, if you aren't sure whether it'll blow up, make someone else pick it up first. Or at least give it a good poke with a long stick. Your cleric should do a public...