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This is a good tactic. The only other place I've seen published rules was in WEG's Star Wars book, but I'm not sure of the edition. Anyway, it was a rule that let you sacrifice some portion of your physical body to keep your life, or let you decide to maim someone instead of killing them. It...

I didn't intend for this to come off as a "whiny rant." I thought I was making a rational, well-constructed argument against mechanically buying everything WotC puts out. I apologize if it became a whine. But then, whining's what I'm known for :rolleyes: Smile when you say that :D Did I...

Yessiree, John Wayne Bobbit. Parents are cruel, aren't they? My first reaction is Eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww . My second reaction is "Quick! We need a union! We'll be forced out of business!" But then I realize that they can only replicate IT partially. And it's all about how you use...

And who's to say that their "kobolds" are meant to be the same sort as presented in the MM? D&D doesn't have exclusive rights to such names. A mythological kobold is some sort of gnome that lives in mines and has to be appeased or it'll do bad things to miners. Two hundred years ago they'd be...

Why must the rules change after 20th level? It seems to me that they must to justify WotC's calling level 21+ "epic levels." Who would buy a book that merely described the advancement of the classes from 21st to 40th level or higher, based on the information given in the PHB? WotC has to drum...

I think Umbran's got the gist of it. No one knows what really happened, but if I were trying to take Moria back from a foe that held several strong positions I'd try to draw their strength so I could assault those positions with some hope of success. I think the Balrog probably looked on the...

Is it hypocrisy if you've sworn not to harm the helpless? My character is a knight; they take oaths. One of the oaths Conor has taken is not to harm the helpless. It's a grey area. We assume the bugbears would try to harm us if they could (they didn't get a chance), so the party wanted to do...

In the last session I played, the group came around a corner and bumped into four or five albino bugbears. We didn't get to find out if being albino meant they were some special DM creation because our psion, a 10 year old boy named William, won initiative, moved into position, and mind...

I noticed something similar. Did your ad not have any body text? Mine had some, but various words were conjuncted or overlaid. It made it very hard to read the ad. I'm not going to buy XCrawl until they have a more legible ad. Surely their books won't be the same way, but the ad was not...

I, too, would talk with your group. Some people might not want to touch on it for various reasons. I know that I already live 9/11 every day for the past year, and it's driving me batty because everyone in the media has to weigh in on the topic. They might as well make a new calendar. Forget...

This is one of my current characters, an Elf fighter all his own.... Conor Birchbow, male Elf Ftr4 125 yrs, 5'2", 139 lbs, brown eyes, blond hair Chaotic Good, worships Kord Str 17, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 16, Wis 14, Cha 13. 4d10+8 HD, 47 hp. Init: +6 AC: 19 (F 17, T 12) Fort: +6 Ref: +3...

I wouldn't allow sleeping in anything other than padded armor. Leather has been boiled and is stiff; and studded leather, while technically flexible, has all these studs in it. It'd be like sleeping on a bed of nails -- sure, you could do it, but you couldn't turn very well. My characters...

So what was it that made the first 6 movies and not feature-length episodes? I think it was the feel that the universe is getting on. The Federation is growing, the Klingons are not as aggressive, and all the heroes of the Federation are getting older and older.... By contrast, in the TNG...

32. He tries to reduce the number of dice rolls he has to make so there will be less chance of him failing; and he does this by acquiring magic items that are better than he is at what he's supposed to do best; i.e., a 2ndEd thief desiring a Cloak of Elvenkind. 33. He goes on and on and on...

And let's not forget fairies/pixies. They have four limbs and wings (sometimes four!). Dragons have no IRL counterpart. The closest we come is the various large reptiles (and hardly any of them have the profusion of horns and spikes we see on dragons nowadays!). So who's to say they can't...

It sounds like the guy got what was coming to him. However, I don't think it helped Aldrin prove that he's been to the moon by punching the guy. Such folks take a refusal to interact or dispute their claims as proof that their claims are valid. So by refusing to swear on the Bible, Buzz has...

Yes, I'd say the Hobgoblin is an LA +0 creature. It doesn't have extra hit dice or any freaky special abilities aside from Darkvision (I think, maybe Lowlight Vision). What gets under my skin is that a Gnoll is a LA +2 creature. TWK

Things I've Never Played: GURPS Supers GURPS Prime Directive MERP Thieves' World Boxed Set Things I've Played Once or Twice: GURPS Discworld (once) LUG Star Trek (twice) D&D Basic Games I Used To Play: Palladium FRPG and the Book of Monsters AD&D 2ndEd Things I Haven't Used (Yet): DM's...

I ran in a game last weekend that was similar, in that there were plenty of items out there, but few in the PCs' possession. The DM played with his own item destruction rules in play. The items were supposed to have a better chance of survival than the DMG gives, but I didn't see that...

Maybe Peter Jackson was trying to show them as fairly naive? They are after all in the wide world for the first time. I'm sure they'll get more canny as the movies progress. Other than that, you're right, they should have had a cold camp if they know the Nazgul are after them. Maybe Elrond...