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  1. cougent

    Undead, as monsters or as templates?

    I voted don't care as long as they work, but I do sort of care. I want them to be simple to throw together, so monster types are an obvious choice. If I want a complex vampire, or a master vampire I can do that with a template or by beefing up a monster type, so again just make sure it works...
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    How to make a maze work?

    You have to know your players and their play style preferences, but I will go against the naysayers and say "DO IT", if your players like challenges and a thinking game. If they simply want to hack and slash and gather loot, then avoid the maze as others have suggested. It really depends on...
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    What are you going to do with all your 3.x stuff?

    I could not find the "Buy even more" option in the poll, so just selected keep it and reference it. However, for those who do wish to dispose of their "3.5 material", PM me and I will be happy to provide a disposal option for you. ;)
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    D&D 4E Is it DMs or players that are more apprehensive about 4e.

    Mostly DM Apprehensive about 4E, dedicated fence sitter for the moment. I find I like many of the concepts of 4E. It is usually the implementation that I find disturbing.
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    Top 10 iconic D&D humanoid monsters

    01 Vampires 02 Dopplegangers 03 Fire Giants 04 Demons / Devils 05 Trolls 06 Zombies 07 Wights 08 Skeletons 09 Frost Giants 10 Hill Giants
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    Did you look at Ghostwalk? What did you think?

    I liked the setting but never got it introduced into my game.
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    Please call female deities 'goddesses.'

    I actually like Barbariatrix, I may just have to put one of those in my next campaign! :p If gender neutrality is Sooooooooo important, then by all means use Diety / Dieties instead. Name the book Deities: Greater and Lesser instead of the old title and be done with it.
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    How do you pronounce "Asmodeus"

    I believe either one of these could pass for a Texas drawl version as well. :D The second does sound more deep south though. :)
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    THREE elven races, plus half-elves ... but they say gnomes have no niche?!

    Hey it is after all the 4E edition: Elves Eladrin dark Elves half-Elves
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    Your preference for how "fragile" 1st-level character should be

    Perhaps another poll? J/K, but I often wonder whether the demo here is mostly DM's to players. I bucked the trend though and went with mostly DM, and fragile players. I am rather OCD about balance and if my players got double HP or started at 3rd lvl or some other type of toughening mechanic...
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    How do you pronounce "Eladrin"?

    One more for this one. There is probably a redneck variant as well though: uh as in up LA as in laugh dren as in children
  12. cougent

    Incompetent DM seeks help with powerful PC

    I personally love stories, and like to use story elements rather than mechanics to settle issues when possible; and I think it may be possible here. Surely this "striving against his evil ancestry" would piss off some of his ancestors, family, or masters from which the fiend side came? Would...
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    Using cards to replace dice

    There is only a minor technical fallacy in your idea, and it is in bold above. What you have actually done is create a system and removed randomness from the possible outcomes. true randomness is not an equal spread of numbers in a designated set of roles, true randomness is just the same...
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    Why I hate puzzles

    I love puzzles, and freely admit to being a puzzling DM. I actively discourage "hack and slash" players from even joining my games because they will be frustrated and bored. Now having prefaced with that, I also agree that a dead end puzzle is absolutely horrid. As someone mentioned above, I...
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    D&D 3.x Will 4e last longer than 3e?

    And honestly that is what we are all doing, placing a bet... I will put $50 on "4-6 years" to win, place, or show and another $50 on "5 years" to win.
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    I can't access my subscribed threads page!

    My question also. If they are just "unavailable for now" then I am not thrilled, but not distressed either. If they are lost and gone forever, then I will need to conference with my friend Jack Daniels for a while! I understand either way, been playing this IT game WAY too long to get upset...
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    Teaching New Players

    To follow the poll I had to vote 0 But, since 3E came out I have brought in about a dozen and all were teens or 20's so hopefully they will be around for a while.
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    I hope 4.5 isn't called "4.5"

    I don't have a link, but I could swear I remember reading someone from WotC (Scott Rouse I think) saying (paraphrased) 'We learned our lesson with 3.5 and we will never do that again.' Whether that means we get 5E faster, or they just do more "alternate rules" books or whatever, but I don't...
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    What's happened to your scrapped projects?

    I would still have boxes full of old notebooks like many others, but an EX-girlfriend decided for me that I didn't need them anymore, so I don't. Anything else from the mid 90's onward is in several word documents spread throughout the cyberverse. I was actually working quite diligently on...
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    Where to get stuff?

    Back in the 90's an EX-girlfriend of mine decided to clean out the garage [read: throw away MY stuff] and my AD&D stuff went the way of the Gnome in 4E. I did not have the time or resources to re-collect it until now (well, some resources anyway) and I was wondering if there are any good places...
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