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It's obvious they did that on purpose, or they wouldn't specify that improved trip allows you to trip without provoking an AoO. It's of course fine if you deem that UAS prevents AoO's from all touch attacks at your table, but it is most definitely not RAW or RAI (rules as intended).

I'm surprised how some people define "marathon". When I was in school sometimes we'd start Friday night and finish Sunday night, that's a marathon session. 6-10 hours is just a normal session as far as I'm concerned. My current group plays for about 4 hours and I leave thirsty.

I'm confused, a barbarian variant focused on rage? Isn't that like a wizard focused on spellcasting?

Why wouldn't you simply assume they make their own? Advanced cultures are not a requirement for advanced weapons and armor, mongols and huns didn't have cities but they seemed to manage just fine.

Nice, I'll have to take a look at that. Thanks for the heads up.

No resurrection, combat should be scary. It should also carry a risk of serious wounds, not just hit point loss.

How do you run? Is it PbP or is it live? What software do you run on?

I will also have to search through the troll lord forums, as I'm thinking of trying to mix 2e with 3e feats. I'd love to see any work someone else has done to give me an idea on how to go about it.

OMG, that familiar's guild is a great idea. Now I want to build "The Severed Bond", it's a secret tavern in a major city for masterless familiars. I'm thinking a monkey bartender serving cat-nip whiskey, among other things. And the thought of throngs of familiars yelling "pick me, pick me!"...

Yikes, $20 for very limited use maps? No spank you! Not all inns, nor all roads, look the same. Unless of course every single one of your group's combats takes place in the same bar or on the same stretch of road.

I do this in paint: For the next round of combat I simply copy, cut, and paste the character into a new place on the grid. If a character wants to move to a specific square without going in a straight line they need to provide me with the coordinates they pass through.

It becomes work for me every time I realize that all my hours of work that went into developing my setting are for naught, because players refuse to see any setting as anything but generic D&D tropes. Gee, another perky elven female ranger with her cute fuzzy friend. Great. I swear, I could...

The +2 modifier for melee is a good idea, but I don't think there needs to be a difference between upper and lower guts. I'm thinking I'll make a 3d6 chart with the least likely areas on the two extremes.

1–2 Right leg 3–4 Left leg 5 Abdomen 6–7 Torso 8 Right arm 9 Left arm 10 Head I lifted it right from 2e combat and tactics, though I'm thinking of updating the table to take different forms of attack into account. For one I find being twice as likely in a knife fight to...

I much prefer 3d6 to d20 and I'm certainly not on that little bandwagon. Burn 4e, burn! Admin here. Your comment works perfectly well without the attempt at starting an edition war! We're happy if you love 1e, 2e, 3e, 4e, or Pathfinder. Doesn't matter to us at all. Just don't try to start...

I thought about doing that for the campaign I just started, but I decided against it. Players need baby steps.

The only chart I use is a location chart. The victim must then make a fortitude saved based upon the amount of damage he took. Failure means he takes a penalty to all actions that involve that location equal to the amount he failed by, this penalty lessens by 1 point per day. Failing by 10 is...

There is very little difference in the core mechanics, not two editions of DnD are as similar to each other as 1e and 2e. A couple of the classes were changed and a bunch of the overpowered wang from the later 1e books were dropped but that's about it. My father swears that 2e killed dnd for...

I've had the most luck at Pen & Paper Games: Campaign Invitations They're not as good as they used to be (you used to be able to weed out all the games you don't want from the list), but there are still a lot of posts. I used to run an AIM-based game and they have a built in dice roller, so...

I was also looking forward to Pathfinder, but I also find myself disappointed. They seemed to try to balance out the classes by powering them up. But they powered up all the classes, not just the weak ones. It's still semi-compatible (though not as much as they claimed, due to the power-up)...