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"Kjula, if you'd kindly step away from the door? The bats are probably just scared and might flee if you leave the way open." The deva reaches into his robes and pulls out a sunrod. "Besides," he says, breaking the seal with his thumb and flooding the room with sunlight, "The light really...

I don't know if it's the funniest thing ever, but our party Leader has a habit of calling out "Heal me!" when he gets low on HP, and then we have to remind him he's the only one with healing abilities.

Would it be possible for Noriaki to start in one of the trees, so he can jump out and go all Death From Above on these guys?

Update! It looks like I'll be able to spring orcish were-tigers on them after all! Also: A cursed temple haunted by a crazed ghost! This is gonna be a good Halloween game.

Haha, way to come through in the clutch, Dekana!

I'm pretty sure I get the point you're trying to make, and I feel I've tried to discuss it fairly. The thing is, though, it just isn't a fundamental difference to me. It is to you, I get that. You like HP as wounds and 3e works for you in that light and 4e does not. But I do not like HP as...

Yeah, I definitely see a huge disconnect in online forums and meatspace. In my experience, people online are more polite and somehow also more prone to vitriol. Yesterday, three friends and I were driving to the weekly game. One of them mentioned, in an entirely conversational tone, that he'd...

a lot of people are talking about railroading here, but I don't see it. I see a road, that is, expectations of how the game might go, and plans about how the game might go. But I'd expect those from any DM worth his salt. When you control all the scenery and 99.9% of the population, you have...

From his vantage point in the trees, Noriaki fiddles with his sash. Around the campsite, various Fitzpatricks take to bopping various grigs on the head to keep them from playing their music, and all around, the lookout squad simply isn't what it could be. Noriaki to aid Irregulars perception...

Canus looks over the twisted abominations and shrugs. "If there's life worth saving, it isn't in here."

I don't agree with that, no. I agree that there are true, superficial differences. But I don't think pre-4e D&D bore a higher standard of creativity. I don't think it was any less ridiculous to describe HP damage that doesn't kill as debilitating wounds in those games than it is in 4e, that...

I don't see how the mechanics are preventing this. Maybe it's a differing assumption on what the mechanics are doing? For example, a previous poster used the example of an orc cutting a player open. The mechanics of D&D, any edition, have never told me "The orc's blade slashes across your...

Approval ratings as in measured, numerically represented ideas of what the populace thinks seems more modern, to be sure. But the basic idea remains that the Baron who has his men openly walk the streets beating extra money out of the people just because he wants it is a lot more likely to face...

"You see anythin', Dove?"

RE: Party alignment in dungeon crawls. The way I see it, everyone has the right to live and try to kill folk.

I don't know the social mores in your area, but everywhere I've ever lived, the entry point to playing the game if you have some friends who are into it is zero dollars.

If you're looking for something quick and not very rules intensive, I'd look at zeitgeist. The rules would be for pathfinder, but should convert fairly painlessly. I haven't checked the pathfinder version, but I know in the 4e version the gun rules are listed in the player's guide, which is...

Thinking about them can be a feature, but arguing is a bug. Its value as a feature doesn't mean we shouldn't look for a way to fix the bugs within it.

Alright, as it happens, my players have come to a tower made entirely of Iron. Last session ended with them opening a service hatch/secret entrance that will lead to the basement levels of said tower. Here's the rub: I haven't fleshed out what's inside. Here's what the players know...

I need that jungle peryton on my desk by Friday, Johnson!