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I've used weapon groups extensively, though with a slightly different implementation. I've used Cloistered Clerics (but no other variants). One campaign I was in was theoretically going to allow me to get a transmuter variant ability in place of my familiar, but I had to drop out of the...

I realize that I'm already one of the more obsequious singers of praises, but... well. This just makes me happy. Enkhidu, I'm in exactly the same position you are. =) I am at least getting to play in a Pendragon campaign - not exactly the same, but it's a step in the right direction and whole...

First thing to my mind is Mage: the Awakening. But then, I love that setting, and I've been reading Secrets of the Ruined Temple, a book about exploring Atlantean ruins. =) Haven

This is a really cool "journal" concept, and I'll definitely keep reading! Haven

I'm starting to wonder if this should be merged with the Meta-Troll thread. ;) And without tone of voice, it's impossible to know whether or not bento is snarking RPG.net. Well played. =) ...no, I have nothing of substance to contribute... why? Haven

I'm laughing my ass off about githyanki and githzerai coming from a "sunless" world. See, the names (and faint echoes of the concepts) were originally stolen from George R.R. Martin's Dying of the Light, which takes place on just such a world, in which the sun is nearly dead... Haven

"Lady Despina"/Nehael of Sepulchrave II's Tales of Wyre is a risen demon. Her rise was the linchpin of the SH's plot for quite awhile. Frickin' amazing. Haven

Nifft, I feel confident that my players would throw things at me if I even suggested this... but I totally love it! I do think that sorcerers and wizards need a comparable option, though. (Maybe something like Arcade Deltarrion's spell verbals in Piratecat's SH?) ;) Haven

All of my players are coworkers, actually, so we really do have unspoken rules against talking shop at the table. I'm pretty sure we all have roughly similar political views, because we discuss politics at work all the time. Religion is off-limits more as a common courtesy than as any sort of...

Keeping the necessary rules difference between light, one-handed, and two-handed weapons in the rules system is one problem. The other is that every character, no matter what his main character class is, should pick up a level of barbarian to set his damage die as high as possible. This also...

...ummm, what about his attack penalty for being Huge? Haven

I ran a campaign in college from 1st to 16th. That's the longest that any game I've ever been in has gone. By the end, only two of the founding members of the party were still around. The game I run now, and the game I play in, both show some signs of lasting a respectably long time - I'm...

The campaign I'm running has introduced a series of rules tweaks and new weapons to mix things up a bit. Spears and Longspears can be used with Weapon Finesse, to imitate the highly flexible and very, very fast spearfighting style seen in, say, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The monk in the...

I think the problem of power creep is brought into focus by comparison to another game a few of us may have played - World of Warcraft. When introducing a new bit of crunch, there are basically three possibilities. 1. The feat, spell, whatever, is a little too weak. 2. The f/s/w is spot-on in...

I'm going to have to completely disagree with you, Felix. I think that a well-designed moral dilemma can add a whole lot of depth to a game. If the player never needs to think about how he's going to uphold law and virtue in the face of a dilemma, then a whole dimension of internal conflict is...

My top five reasons for hanging around ENWorld: 1. Sepulchrave II's Tales of Wyre 2. Destan's Sins of the Fathers (Yes, I know I shouldn't hope for an update, but... hope's like that.) 3. Piratecat's Defenders of Daybreak SH 4. Rolzup's Chronicles of Burne 5. And several other SHes that I'm way...

10, in a decidedly bloated (but still fun) 2e campaign. 10 in the first session, after which several dropped out due to incompatible personalities. Then a few other people started joining up, and a few more, and suddenly I was back up to a completely different set of 10. Several were highly...

No, I'm pretty sure we have Weis, Hickman, and McCaffery to thank for that one. Haven

Well played, Shadowslayer. Well played. Haven

Two Eric(k)s diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. (With apologies to Robert Frost, Eric Noah, Erik Mona, the people of southern Bangladesh, the Templars, and Piratecat.) Haven