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That answers it just and fine was what I assumed you did, though a little reassurance is nice.

The only part I disagree in this whole thing is the fact that you hadn't decided what the gnomes would do. I know it is hard and I find it amazingly difficult to predict which way my PC (I DM a solo game) goes most of the time. Here is the deciding question for me and I know it might be...

Something that is being hit upon now and that I missed in my initial post is that the DM should not, as Pendragon pointed out, adjust his PC's actions/intents because you want to put the PCs in a bad situation. I realized you said you hadn't figured out what your NPCs would do, but I thought...

With what you've told us, I don't think it was mean. I think the PCs overtrusted a group whom they might not have known enough about. Truthfully, it was pretty foolish to seperate themselves thusly from the artifact and leave the artifact in the hands of others. On the other hand, did you...

Off-hand they sound find as general gifts. Though I'm no expert on Gond, I never really pictured him as a healing god, so I'm not sure how pertinent the scrolls might be (of course, he might have Healing in his domains for all I know...as mentioned, not an expert). As for the crossbow, it...

Thank you for the correction. I appreciate it.

Lay down the rules and the laws right at the outset. Do a little write up saying basically that characters will, most likely, die in this game. Is it personal? No. Is it you being mean? No. Is it the PCs being dumb? Not always. Let them know that this is a game that has to be played...

As mentioned, it really does matter what the DM's take on alignment is. There have been plenty of previous boards that I've seen that give their opinions on alignment. While a person might be Chaotic Good in terms of society, he might be Lawful Good in terms of following his own personal code...

I've read the Song of Ice and Fire series and loved how Martin uses them in that function and how they always seem to be important to things and established in the world. I had actually planned to install a similar system in my own homebrewed world. Now, concerning the history of such...

green slime, thanks. I knew it was a specific type. Sorry if that didn't come across clearly. As for the discretion of the DM, I am the DM, so that helps a lot. I'm not too worried at the moment with the price, though I know I should be since it'll be coming up soon enough. Off hand, I'd...

Howdy all, Questions about this armor. I know its 3.0, though I think it translates into 3.5 fairly well. However, one question I have is that in the listing it is listed as Full Plate +2 though it is listed as being one size category lighter (i.e., medium armor). While never saying why is...

Demon Cult, eh? What do demons want? Blood and souls and misery. I'd make these weapons simple weapons of Wounding that store the life force of mortals to be later transferred to the demons for whatever use they have. Its something that good heroes would have nothing to do with and would...

Weaving plot elements and even whole plots around characters is great. I truly do think its the only way to go. I was once in a campaign where the DM actually wove the campaign plot solely around the PC's. He had an idea for a setting and a flavor, informed the PCs, and they wrote up some...

The Dervish Dance explination says "the dervish must move a minimum of five feet between each attack when using this ability..." Even with two weapons she must move five feet. She'll have to move the whole 25'. Again, they cannot use ranged attacks. The description says that only melee...

Staffan, jody, thank you. I do agree that if someone tried that on me then I'd have to cut it short right then and there too. It does only seem logical. I appreciate it.

Well, the first option would be to split the population in terms of above ground and below ground. Dwarves, at least in the classical settings, are somewhat centered on their own kind in the sense they they know best ("The dwarven way is of course the best way!"). They won't turn away the...

I was glancing through the Eberron Game Setting after a friend of mine spoke to me about the Artificer. I took a little time and read over the Artificer and the Homunculus sections and noticed a difference. Namely, in the Artificer's Ability description for Craft Homunculus it says that to...

What I might try to do in order to balance this slightly is to do either one of two things: Only fighters get that ability to apply weapon focus to a group of weapons (staves, blades, etc.). I don't see clerics as generally weilding anything but their deity's weapon and rogues generally stick...

Sandain, what method are you using to determine his Skills? I had thought that perhaps you using the alternative Fighter that can choose six skills as class skills, but off a quick math count, I still don't think that is adding up. I noted the Superscripted 1...what does it mean? Not trying...

I just wanted to try to pick apart some theories and numbers concerning the topic listed above. Has anyone every really delved into the number crunching for such a fight? I can't recall every really going into a fight in a fairly unmagical, head-to-head combat between heavily armed/armored...