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Heh. The typo in this thread title is fantastic. :D PS

Good lord pemerton, how can you have 10,000 posts with these sorts of essays?! Also, I wish I could play in your games. PS

@jaz0nj4ckal, there's a similar table in the 1e PHB for the basic weapons. Game balance was not a factor! This is one of those cool ideas that didn't work well in practice. Most of my D&D games were PCs vs monsters. Where's the "claw" and "bite" entries?! What kind of armor do I use for giant...

The attack tables aren't perfectly formulaic. Mostly they improve by 2 points when you move a column, but occasionally they move by one, and the pattern isn't precise. There's also the repeat 20 issue. That makes it hard to have a simple BAB vs AC conversion. Having a look up table instead of...

I like to link a bunch of normal adventures into my own mega adventure. I think that was pretty common in the 1e days. Also, this necro is for Morrus. :D PS

It's the "Similar Threads" links at the bottom of the page. This one, frex, throws up a thread from 2002. So really, it's all your fault. :D PS

I think Eberron works a heck of a lot better in 4e. It really sings. Can't argue with the wealth of 3.5 material available tho. Fortunately for me, most of it ports well. PS

I'd love to do a Xen'drik campaign. Sigh. So many games, so little time . . . PS

This. If you don't have it, get Sharn. PS

If you already have all the 3e material there isn't a lot that's new. There's a different take on Dragonmarks, which if you're using Pathfinder is probably not helpful except perhaps as an idea you can modify. There's an interesting take on how Eladrin fit into Eberron, which may or may not...

I tell people stories about my campaign. I've found that if I spend half an hour describing the characters and the story so far, I leave out enormous swathes of gaming history. I'm hard pressed to imagine the adventure author listening to me drone on FOREVER to grok the PCs enough to do a better...

I'd suggest limiting the number of such quests. Your game can get repetitive. Three is the max I would do. I'd also keep the basics in your mind. You want good NPCs/villains, good locations, interesting encounters, etc. The competing group is a good source of recurring NPCs. If your PCs don't...

Thanks for the posts guys! PS

I've turned off all thread notifications for now. When you figure it out can you quote this post so I get a notification? :D PS

Similarly, I've lost interest in a thread I posted to. How do I stop getting notifications for that thread? I don't want to turn off all thread notifications - just that one. How do I do that? Thanks, PS

Thanks all! If someone is interested in spelling out the magic system I'm interested in hearing about it! PS

I hear you. I wouldn't want to play like I used to. I'm just saying the system hangs together. Since you're making a lot of disposable characters it's ok for the system to make them for you. It doesn't matter that you've got a limited font of creativity because you aren't tapping it. The only...

I've never played L5R. What makes it tick? What are the coolest bits? PS

In 4e we ruled that if all the monsters go on the same initiative, each one still counts as having his own turn, so the fighter would get the OA against each one. I would probably treat 5e the same way. I think it would be more problematic if they all had ranged weapons and go all shoot down...

You can have the guild posing as two different guilds. One robs the rich - burglary, high end cons, fraud and smuggling expensive goods. The other guild runs protection rackets on the poor, brothels, street drugs, etc. That way the rich and powerful turn a blind eye to the street gang because...