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I've spent $3000 over the years on Magic -- boxes, tournaments, singles, Magic Online. It's basically been a $14/month subscription for the last eighteen years. My D&D spending is $800 to date, but Hasbro got barely any of that money -- I spent $79.76 on 4E books, and all the rest went to...

Perhaps he subscribes to the literal sense of "disarm" in which case two more disarmings will be necessary (more in the case of girallons).

It was just a gut reaction. After pouring my tea in the saucer to cool it for a couple days, CaW is just a handy way to explain why people in the world are behaving differently from me. I probably do still think your way of having fun is not really fun, just like I think about people who like...

The part I'm not getting here is how the players do things. It's easy for me to imagine preparing a big old campaign world and a dream continent called Joyant and no specific railroad for the PCs to be on. It's not easy for me to imagine being a player, let's say we just cleared a dungeon and...

I'm just skipping ahead from page 3 to say I hate combat-as-war and I can't finish reading the thread because I'm getting so mad at people talking about it like it's fun. I think I'm learning something about myself today...

I've never seen either the torch or flaming weapon rule come into play against a swarm, so maybe it's just empty baggage. Where are you getting this? I don't see "sitting" in the list of conditions.

Jameson, XP is not working for me again (it goes on and off, not browser-dependent) but thanks for explaining how you play trying to bridge the gap.

With a human DM, you either pick between a list of adventure hooks or you delve into a bunch of random tables. You could theoretically pack up and go to the elven kingdom, but since you know it doesn't actually exist yet, there's nothing there to entice you. Also, you know that the DM's interest...

I've seen game designers define "core mechanic" like this before: That's how I took it -- that Monte meant saying "I want to X" and waiting for the DM to respond was what you're supposed to do in D&D. It's D&D's equivalent of Halo's "30 seconds of fun." Situation 1: "You can't jump 30 feet...

Perhaps I am Asperger's or something; I don't feel like it's about interacting with the DM the way I do it. The DM is basically playing the role of the X-box in Dragon Age: Origins -- it would feel weird to say the core mechanic there is about "interacting" with the computer. It's about the...

Monte Cook quotation from here: I think I might want it to be a little different. I want to say "I do X" and the DM responds. That is, I want the rules to be so clear on what I can do that I don't need the DM to tell me what happens when I try; my character sheet and the dice do that. Any big...

However, I don't think the spell should be just a better version of shadow conjuration either. A lot of the wishes I described (like "I wish I could be at the portal opening ceremony instead of here") could be implemented in terms of the legal restrictions on the spell (in this case, teleport)...

This attitude is leading everyone down the wrong path. You're thinking "If I were playing a PC who was an evil cultist, what would I wish for?" But what really makes this wish unique is that it's a DM's wish. A DM doesn't need to wish for a half-fiend, some demons, or a horrid wilting. A DM gets...

You phrased this poorly; it sounds like he needs to roll a 10 to hit, which isn't good. He's gonna need to roll like a 3.

Two three-digit numbers? Are you having people roll 3d100 +150 or something?

I guess for non-finishing crits I should go look up a pro wrestling video. My DM has been using a lot of mooks lately, the crit and finishing move are one and the same. (My last crit the DM narrated, I picked up the kobold I was fighting in a treetop elf village and threw him across the...

We can sort of balance out the anti-realistic forces: 13 slashes with a sword won't kill you, but that finishing crit will turn you into confetti. I've also got a demon bloodline with two claws and Arcane Strike going for me (thank you Pathfinder), so I'm not just ripping people's torsos in...

This list was compiled from this video, might make your game more cinematic. Ways to execute a critical hit: Unarmed: • Take him prone, then with a knee on his back force his head back and twist till his neck snaps off. • Make him drop his weapon, then finish him with it. • Grab a guy...

You do know Drizz't and Elminster. I've been playing D&D for four years and I only just learned the reason there are spells called Mordenkainen's X. This is despite having read about a hundred back issues of Dragon magazine and having 30 D&D blogs in my RSS feed. (I finally learned it from...

Another problem I've thought of with flying insects is that you are going to be able to see other flying insects right through the body of the invisible person, making it hard to pick out where the empty space is.