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As long as the grapple only allows you to pull and allows them to come towards you, that is fine. It basically makes it a handy tanking tool, I'd allow it as a DM. What I do not want to see is grappling somebody 10' away then making it so they cannot melee attack you. That is vastly more...

A vampire that accidentally bites a reverent gets incredibly sick, starts throwing up uncontrollably and loses their magical powers for a while. Drinking a dead mans blood has been a long standing no-no for vampires from a lot of sources for a lot of time. It has to be the case, otherwise a...

Slit518 I think that your suggestion about stat upgrades is just punishing the PC for not doing silly stuff largely. As a Barbarian, he cares about Str and Con mostly, so if he does something clever as opposed to just attacking the spider, does it feel right to 'punish' him by giving him +Int...

I've used a blowtorch on a solid block of dry ice before. In the short term, ice just shrugs if off to a surprising degree. I have also made a camp fire on a frozen lake while fishing (beer make me think good) and it took a surprisingly long time to become a deathtrap of idiocy. So no, a flash...

Let's just say that in my campaign vampires can feed off any vital fluids. It leads to some very creepy interactions once PCs work out what is going on. Ever woke up in the morning and considered coyote-gnawing your arm off to avoid waking somebody? Times that by 100

If UA is OK, can you use Changelings? If so, that is hands down the best social guy I think and shockingly OP IMO. A Changeling Mastermind is the way to go I think. You can be as great at communication as you want, if you look like a target, the orcs are going to kill you before you open your...

Set up a sewer and midden system for a city. All of the waste from the city just washes down a particular sewer line into a narrow section with the orb in it. All the cities waste disappears and keeps everybody free of disease and waterborne parasites. A city with a river where you can actually...

Hahaha. I think "Edition wars aside...." is the new "I'm not racist but..."

I would define 5 virtues of the god in question, make them appropriately dwarfy. Then put him to the challenge. I would not tell him what the virtues are, but if he makes a religion roll he could work them out eventually. For instance, off the top of my head: Resolve (Iron Within, Iron...

That idea sounds good. Looking at utility spells at the upper end of what a druid could cast, then giving them as short rest abilities seems about right. They lose out on flexibility, but can do the cool shifting stuff more often.

It's ghosts for me. Every damn place has a ghost or two. They allow you to show plot points, bits of history and exposition in a really interesting way. The can also be approached as either combat or social challenges.

I have actually played two characters with bunny as their totem, one barbarian/ranger in D&D and a shaman in Shadowrun. They were both from areas of the world with such terrible predators that learning how to run, hide and burrow like a bunny was the only real hope people had. It was fun playing...

I take back my earlier soft comment about letting them flee easily enough and regroup and then go after the macguffin. Let them die. In the end it makes for a far more memorable game and end of a campaign. Most stories end with the heroes saving the day, you will remember the game where you fell...

OP I would say that you should not have any preconceived idea about whether they live or die, don't play towards either goal. Just have the guy be immortal, they might realise that early and run away, that is fine. Heroes getting their butts kicked, losing a few of their members in the fight...

If an acidic creature that feeds through osmosis offers to give you a piggy-back, you are sorely mistaken if you think it is your friend. It just thinks you are an idiot and that you just might fall for it :) It figures it is worth a try at least. That being said, I see riding one more like...

I would give them a chance to kill the lord, but no chance of taking over. They don't have the allies, years of planning, political skill or even basic understanding of the politics of the city, let alone the region. People have Lord Neverember in power because he is the best of the options...

From what I remember, isn't parry basically a 1d8+Dex heal as a reaction? That's like getting a healing word put on you. I have used it to good effect just using it to tank an over-powered bad guy while everybody ran away. Early on, you only have 28HP or so, getting an extra 4 x 7HP per short...

I would say that anybody who is trained in Martial Weapons has put in the practice to be effective with their off-hand. Even re-enactors and euro-martial-arts folks seem to practice with off-hand a lot. Sure I might cop a -2 penalty if I did it, but I am not a hero, a hero would be fine. The guy...

The last time I had a PC as a vampire, it was just because I wanted to hide his monstrous nature from the other PCs. He got turned, they all liked to think that he was still on their side and could be trusted and he acted the part. At the appropriate dramatic moment I NPC'd the character and...

Since the players are enjoying themselves, I would say the OP is kind of stuck. They have done the right things to encourage RP already. I would suggest a system like PDQ or Fate to encourage RP and to a lesser extent The One Ring. The thing is, if they are enjoying this game, its a bit mean to...