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Masterwork bow - ok, cost 375gp and adds +1 enhancement bonus on attack rolls. Masterwork arrows to go with your shiny bow are 7gp each. Masterwork studded leather armour - ok, cost 175gp and has an armour check penalty of zilch. Blessed Bandage - ok. Quite a nice low level magic item and...

Couldn't wait :) Shayuri... edit first bit: sorry, brain burp. The rest Re: starting gold+, at 2nd level I should award you an additional 900gp, given this is an Elf of Mirkwood and not your common or garden D&D ranger will the award be the same? I think so. Given she's mingling with...

Aha, (and with Afrodyte's grace) huge cogs and chugging black smoke 'bikes' made from forge and mine technology parts, perhaps? You can see 'em coming from a long way 'cos of the black smoke cloud and low roar/rumble of engines and stone wheels. Not into rock n' roll but rock n' rock! The fuel...

Shouldn't that be 'ugly elves'? Tolkien's orcs had a similar source. They originated from elves captured by Melkor in the Age of Stars and corrupted in the dungeons of Utumno into the twisted and hideous forms of the orc. I believe the trolls were also corrupted Ents. Better than 'Americans...

As I see it, RAW stipulates the value of points increases when the Ability rises above 14, not according to the number of points you apply, so I think in this case (adding racial modifiers first) you'd need to complicate things by including another house rule configuring new sliding scales of...

I've created a new thread for discussing the whole thing http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=224284 Please use that for further comments about this. As I said, I'm more than happy to dump the idea and go with the RAW to save controversy and so on. And anyway, it probably doesn't help you...

I'm setting up a D&D game (3.5ed) online using the standard points buy system (28 points to spend on Abilities). When I mentioned to another DM, whom I happen to consider something of a mentor when it comes to moderating D&D, that I intended to use the points-buy he advised me to use a different...

Please tell me the dwarfs are all Hell's Angel bikers, easy riding in their horned helmets and leather studded armour!

On a truly gargantuan world where the curvature was so subtle as to be effectively flat, I think you'd have a narrow band overhead, narrowing ever further toward the apex. It would probably look more like a gap between two hemispheres of sky than some spectacular upside down world hanging above...

Well, I think it's about the value of points, rather than the racial modifier itself. But I'm not going to labour the point, especially as it's somebody else's :) Let's just go with the RPGA points buy method of buying points and adding racial modifiers afterward. I'm more interested in playing...

Well, as I understand it: Elf starts at Dex 8, buy 8pts at a cost of 10 to go up to Dex 16. Add +2 Racial bonus to go up to Dex 18. Half-orc starts at Dex 8, buys 8pts at a cost of 10 to go up to Dex 16 and has no racial bonus (which is ok, because he's a clumsy half-orc). But if he then...

Ok. It seems I didn't *quite* understand what was being patiently explained to me (not for the first time, I hasten to add!), or rather I ommitted a very important detail. This is the first time I've used the points-buy system so please forgive me while I don my trusty brain crampons and climb...

Yuurs, this was also my thoughts. I think I will consider this and speak with him again. I get the distinct feeling, given his experience with D&D compared to mine, that he's probably come across something I haven't foreseen. Hold fire with the adjustments folks. Any further thoughts are welcome!

It seems points buy occur *after* abilities are adjusted for class/race (according to what I've been told by a mentor GM of mine who has used this system a lot more than me, so if anyone has just reason to suggest it's incorrect I'm open to discussion). Therefore points costs increase if you...

Hehe! That made my day :D Stupidest thing that every happened in a game of mine: back in the days of 2e, a wizard with a phobia of climbing and heights is in a very small jolly boat with a brutish fighter having just escaped a corsair ship. They make it to shore, but there are no beaches, just...

This reminds me of a theoretical artificial flat world model I read about a few years back; theoretically (in a very theoretically improbable kind of way), you can have a flat world using science. The model involves a Dyson Sphere (itself theoretically improbable) which surrounds a sun. At a...

All the more ironic since Middle-Earth is Europe Some other parts rarely specifically touched in the fantasy milieu: - Hawaiin (forget the flower necklaces and Hawaii Five-o music. Hawaii is a rich culture with intriguing history well worth a look if you're after inspiration) - Northern...

She'd know Westron (which passes for common round these 'ere parts). Sindarin is the Elven language most commonly spoken by Elves in the Third Age and especially by the Sindar, the 'sub-race' to which your character belongs. She probably uses a regional version particular to Mirkwood, though...

You'd see as far as the opacity of the atmosphere allowed, or the rise and fall of the terrain. Even if the world were flat, standing in front of the alps would severely limit what you could see. On the other hand, if you were in flat terrain you'd probably see teeny weeny mountains marching...

My only problem with low-level play out of an initial linear adventure surrounding the move from camp to wilderness is the context of our game: ie forum based not tabletop. I've played an awful lot of forum/email games and I know from bitter past experience that they take a loooooong time to...