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  1. Ralts Bloodthorne

    MM 4: Ask away, I have it

    WotC doesn't come to thier house and hold a gun against thier head. Frostburn had some useful stuff, but most of the book was useless to me. I didn't buy it. WotC thugs didn't barge in and demand I purchase it though. They don't HAVE to do anything. Sharing isn't. Copying is. "No part of...
  2. Ralts Bloodthorne

    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    My minions thus far: Big Blue: The skeleton of an ogre we defeated, brought back with a staff of animate dead that we lifted from a shrine of Hextor that we looted before we pushed the clerics and holy men into and burned it down for supplying aid and comfort to soldiers from the Kingdom of...
  3. Ralts Bloodthorne

    Any advice on running a low-magic-item campaign?

    OK, so what EXACTLY are you after? If you're after a way to help the party buff like is normally assumed, you can always use the tattoo/paint magic system. If the party wants items, they have to make them. OR, if the fighter uses the same sword the whole time, it could start gaining...
  4. Ralts Bloodthorne

    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    So, we're staring at this ceremony, like something out of the Mezo-American version of the Ten Commandments, and we know... We've gotta bust this up. The fighter has counted at LEAST a dozen different clan sigils, there's several crude human effigies burning here and there around the pyramid...
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    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    So we had our little discussion on the front porch, smoking cigarettes and drinking Pepsi Lime, watching the kids play in the evening sunshine. We pick back up with the Ranger, the Rogue, and the Fighter tromping out of the jungle, having been communicating with the natives. They're walking up...
  6. Ralts Bloodthorne

    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    Three levels below the lowest. What, he should be equal with the party average? Same rule for new characters across the board. New characters == 3 levels below lowest. That counts for me, or anyone else. And whose fault is that? Mine? Would you have attacked the same person, THREE TIMES, for...
  7. Ralts Bloodthorne

    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    Wow, coming in and targeting the wizard for no good reason. What a feat of glory and heroics. As for coming in THREE levels lower than the lowest person, he was warned about that in the beginning, before he ever even showed up. Gotta love it, I'm so horrible and mean. I was so mean to him...
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    What does a DM owe his players?/ Are the rules written in stone?

    Naw, you didn't come across as a braying jackass or anything, I just figured I'd clarify the way I do it. :D That's the line too many people can't seem to find.
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    What does a DM owe his players?/ Are the rules written in stone?

    Someone mentioned that the level of control I show over character creation means that I keep that kind of control during the whole game, and they prefer freedom. Well, a GM has to keep control. It's part of it. Otherwise, a random roll on an encounter table could result in the 3rd level group...
  10. Ralts Bloodthorne

    DM Schticks That Grind Your Gears

    My biggest pet peeve's from GM's also include... Changing how spell durations work in mid battle, or right BEFORE the big battle. but the big one is.... "OK, I've tallied up your XP award for the last 3 months. Everyone, you get 150 XP, Honey buns..." "Yes squishy poo?" "You get 25,000 XP...
  11. Ralts Bloodthorne

    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    That's what you got out of it? How did you come to that? The GM is good, knows what he's doing. Coconuts, parrots, monkey's. Those are targets. Want us to quote the SRD for you? Fly can be dispelled, and the character slowly drops toward the ground at the rate of 60 feet per round for 1d6...
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    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    Naw, it's cool. Plus, it enticed me into uploading the back of Good Ol' Saduul's PC sheet! I don't know what point it would prove? That Ellis made people explode in flames? The undead can be made to juggle coconuts? That parrots have only 2 hp? :D
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    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    :D That's what he was told, but he insisted, talking about he could me it his holy quest to return our potential to the side of good. I guess that started with killing the wizard? He got fixated on me. We'll know more, if he shows up, on Saturday. Friday is my new group! HUZZAH!
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    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    Huh? Here you go. TA-DAH! Fun fun fun, the back of Saduul's PC sheet! Back when he was blaming things on Ellis! Oh, and the Mike chick, yeah, she's gotta go. I hear elves are prone to spontaneous combustion. "ELLIS DID IT!" I don't have the recent full sheet, seeing as the GM keeps...
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    What does a DM owe his players?/ Are the rules written in stone?

    If it wasn't for the disparity between the Paladin and the Monk and the rest of the party, I'd say: "Suck it up and drive on." So the following has nothing to do really with the arguement between the OP and his player... See, one thing I've noticed, is when told to write up PC's, a lot of...
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    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    Everyone in the party has secrets. We have a 12th level cleric who turns into a woman whenever he uses his (her?) divine magic. Oh, yeah, and if the spell is above 4th level, he (she?) is surrounded by the crying and moaning of some God. The rest of the party knows, I'm usually staring off into...
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    Playing the crazed wizard of the party

    OK, little back story... Our PC's were on the side of a nation that was losing a war. By the time we were 5th level it was obvious our side was losing. I'm playing a human wizard that specializes in fire spells, who went crazy early in the beginning. He's cruel, vindictive, fast to react with...
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    DM Schticks That Grind Your Gears

    GM's who take petty little glee in figuring out ways to kill your PC that has gained any type of power, and forces you to rebuild at 3-15 levels lower than the rest of the party. Then takes pleasure in killing your new PC at least twice a session. My biggest pet peeve, however, is one that I...
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    Attacked on introduction?

    You could always try taking him under your wing... "Forsooth, good wizard, thine temper and willingness to believe in the strange, even though thou art a spell caster, one who regularly indulges in the strange, indeed, even slaves it to your will, are sorely lacking. Doest thou know how I beat...
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