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どんどん、今死んでいる。 ちょきちょき、今女の子だ。 I'm a helper! :lol: I like the new options a lot--too bad my crossbow bard died on Saturday.

I was hearing "kuchi", which is Japanese for mouth and written like a little box: 口. Which doesn't make any more sense, really, but now you know where the naughty euphemism came from. :p

The Eliminators! Dibs on playing "Fontana, the River Rat!"

Here's how I'd do it: Look on my table of basic stats (HP, saves, BAB, etc.) by level of monster, made a few years ago. One table for smarties (low HP and BAB, high will), one table for regular guys (average everything), one table for brutes (high HP and BAB, poor reflex and will). Add three...

The rules fairly specifically require a druid to worship a specific deity and ask its intercession to get spells each day. What sort of gods would be appropriate in Thandor? Really, I'd like to flavor my character's druidic powers to be more like the pantheism practiced by the natives of North...

Based on this, I believe that a player who moves within 20 feet of a rylkar harridan would roll a Fort save for each item of non-magical food or drink on his person using his own Fort save, and roll a Fort save for each of his magical potions or other magical "foodstuffs" at either his own Fort...

If you like the Feydark, you'll love Changeling: The Lost. Even if you don't run World of Darkness games, the books for Changeling are a fantastic source of inspiration on dark, weird fae stuff. I always like to present a mixture of danger, beauty, and wonder: the fae are heart-breakingly...

I've given out too much XP in the last 24 hours, so I'm cluttering up this thread to tell you that I like this idea. :) This would go really well with my favorite method for giving people a boost for playing well and being creative: blessed dice. I have a really pretty set of d4s that I hang...

You mean like How to Host a Murder? I think you're absolutely right about that.

I once ran a 3.5 D&D campaign set in a mythical Japan, in which Shinto was literally and visibly true--divine magic meant speaking directly to the kami of whatever you were affecting, the emperor was literally descended from Amaterasu the sun kami, etc. I reskinned every single thing in that...

Looks good, except... Alejandro is a man's name. :p Nice rolls on spells! And as for hp, well... welcome to the back row! We'll be serving cake. Remember that attack rolls with your staff will be at a whopping -5 for non-proficiency--MUs and Illusionists get the short end of the stick-swinging...

I actually think the next step for gaming will be entirely different from the perspectives in this thread so far. Tabletop gaming is currently competing with electronic entertainment for a share of our entertainment (dollars/pounds/yen/euros), and electronic entertainment is winning. Tabletop...

That's been my experience, too. I started with 3rd edition, and reading 1e a couple of years later, I was really struck with a sense that it's a less constrained sort of game experience, at least as far as treasures are concerned. 3rd edition had random treasure tables, too, and I used 'em, but...

No reason in particular, it's just that miracle connotes "goodness" to me. I'm specifically imagining someone exclaiming, "It's a miracle!" I just can't see that happening when an evil god blows up the shining castle of Goodman McRighteous. Purely a connotation thing, though, nothing objective.

I love randomized treasure (and rolling on random tables generally) as a source of inspiration and variety, but adhering to them really slavishly can produce some undesirable results. A DM should always try to finesse treasure rewards in such a way that they very closely hew to the challenge...

A miracle, no matter what setting, would have to be something so utterly inconceivably wonderful that it would be an utter impossibility. If the setting is 30 CE, creating a large amount of food from very little is a miracle. If the setting is Faerun, it's just a 3rd-level cleric spell, and it's...

I see divinations in D&D as a helpful source of player feedback. Sometimes it lets me know that I previously didn't make a piece of information clear enough, or that I didn't let them know where they could find information easily. It's also a way for players to send the message that they're sick...

The 1e cantrip Belch, which does what you expect it to do, provides hours of cheap entertainment, and should be the centerpiece of any serious undertaking involving cantrips.

It's... it's so old school! *sheds a single tear of joy*