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Most of our skill challenges are contests of seeing who can make what skill *possibly* useful. It's amazing how often the barbarian's flexing has somehow turned into something useful. Brad

If your party needs more healing, you'll want to encourage them to stock up on potions. They're not terribly expensive once you're up to mid-tier. At low levels, we made sure and carry them, even when my cleric was smacking people with his nice 2w encounter attack that allowed use of a healing...

The Amber GM I had back in sophomore year who couldn't even remember what rules that weren't GM Fiat was pretty bad. He was the reason I went and played M:tG instead. The same guy ran a Shadowrun game for us, and again, his rules mastery was such that we all died unnecessarily often. Other...

This doesn't seem terribly better than using a Mordenkrad or an Executioner's Axe. Both are already brutal, which removes the need for Avenging Resolution, making it feat-neutral. They also have better dice to roll; I loathe d4s with the fury of a thousand exploding suns. The primary reason...

I've noticed that most of the delays in my groups are from the people either (a) trying to always do the tactically optimal thing (this one guy fails spectacularly at that...it'd be funnier if he didn't take forever), or (b) having trouble with math. (a) players need to realize that the game...

And for an essentially altruistic group-focused LG community, it's really not a big stretch. It certainly downplays the greedy aspect, or at least redirects it to the community as opposed to the individual. It was certainly different, and I kinda liked the idea, though it's not like I put any...

Indeedily! The problem with that tack is it doesn't recognize what the miner's doing is a skill and craft in its own. It's not like any person can just go out to the backyard and come up with metal ore suitable for forging into a weapon of power*. You have to know where to look, how deep to...

It's funny where the line gets drawn. The crafter is, of course, useless without the gatherer. Brad

It's certainly an amusing view of property rights. Therefore, all the sewage in the world belongs to the farmers of the world, then. Or, to use a less smelly variant...do the goblins melt the metalwork down to slag and give it back to the miners? I read that, and really, it makes no sense...

Not seriously, no. I've picked the Pathfinder book up, but it doesn't look different enough from the pile of 3.5 stuff I already have to make it worth my time and effort. Hell, we're more likely to switch to a completely other system for next game. I've been lobbying for Shadowrun, as my...

I can say that after having DMs who really didn't know the rules either for the rules-heavy system or the rules-light system they were using, I'd really like them to at least have a decent grasp of it. Seriously, how the (BLEEP)ing hell do you forget the rules for Amber? Brad

But...that's 1 of the 4 reasons why I come to ENworld, to see the hyperventilating! Brad

By the end of that campaign, I'd multiclassed into fighter and cleric and wound up power attacking with a bastard sword, and being SHOCKED when the DM reminded me to roll Sneak Attack dice. (bleep)er liked giving things that weren't oozes, elementals, plants, undead, or constructs +1 Heavy...

Really, being size Large is now a disadvantage, rather than the advantage it was in 3e. Goliath and minotaurs, as well as anyone who takes the Eternal Offender* ED, can at least get most of the benefits of being Large without the penalties, and to me, that's good enough. Brad * - I really...

Add in bugbears (with something to replace the "lets your daggermaster roll actual dice instead of puny d4s" racial ability that was really the only reason I ever took it) and you're good to go. Brad

One of my fellow players refers to it as his "Go to the bathroom" spell. As in, "If my turn comes up when I'm in the john, I do 9 damage." Brad

Man, and I just started using those nice 50% off coupons, too. I do prefer B&N, mostly because they've got a location by my work and by my apartment, like they're stalking me or something. Brad

There's a lot of really useful stuff at fairly low level, such that for the cost of an item of around your level, you can get several utility items or slot-fillers for a relative pittance. Certainly, it's often worth having the party ritualist crank out an item or two before bed or after...

It'd be a tossup between a lightsaber and the Ashbringer from Warcraft. The former is the usual geek fantasy, and the latter just looks really, really cool. Sure, I could probably not actually lift it, let alone wield it, but it just looks awesome. Brad (who is still disappointed that he...

Bear in mind that, as Jeff Wilder alluded to earlier, previous SR material regarding assensing has used Auschwitz as an example of A Place You Do Not Want To Look At On The Astral Plane; the example observer sees the pastoral setting, looks astrally, and runs screaming. This really shouldn't be...