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This is a new experience for me as well, and as Kid Charlemagne said this is mostly because I am traveling to someone else's house to run the game instead of hosting it at my house as I have done before. (I am really going to miss my big comfy DM chair) I am giving it a try to see if I can make...

There should be an Internet connection available. The location of the game has WiFi and I have a WiFi card but have yet to actually connect to make sure. I could always drag my 100' cat 5 cable along just in case :) Thanks for the above suggestions I will start with those for now. The DM...

I'm holding out for PHBx: Ghostwalk [and the room grows quiet again]

I am preparing an old laptop to use as a DM resource for a new game I am starting. I have used a computer as an OOG resource for years but have never brought it to the table before. So I am looking for some insights from those who have done this already. What are the best resources to have...

Bordering on being totally off topic here, but I have always felt that the "Fighter" should be a weak-strong class. Barbarians, Paladins, Rangers, any specialized type of fighter should be strong, but plain Jim fighters not so much, and to get back closer to topic a "divine" fighter type (yes...

I am inspired, I have done similar to this but not quite this creative (especially the Daddy one, :D ) I had a whole group that once did not want to "bother" with back stories so I did the old "you meet at a tavern" opening: "You walk into the local tavern which is rather bustling with activity...

I grabbed almost everything yesterday, then today just said WTH and got it all! To all the "evil" publishers out there offering tasty little tidbits for free in order to get me hooked for the long run... THANK YOU! Because that is exactly the way to get me hooked. I am OCD enough that once I...

Just slightly different in my games, I run an NPC cleric whose primary function (and build) is for healing, but even he occasionally gets to Flame Strike something. I also use ideas similar to Hobo's about differing methods to heal, and like him have run parties cleric-less (not even my trusted...

Actually I was answering Gort, but I should have been clearer. However, you did come pretty close to saying that: Anyway, regardless of your position on clerics I still maintain that: 1) They are fun to play 2) They do not have to be heal-bots You are of course free to dissagree with that...

Your not thinking like a marketing guy, you don't go behind the other guy, you go in front... Arcana Evolved 4.1 or maybe Arcana Evolved 2008 or even Arcana Unearthed, Evolved, and Transformed

OK, I will give you that, and my personal solution to that some many posts back is the DM should run an NPC heal-bot to handle that, but even putting that aside. Are you saying that 1 cleric in a party can handle this load? I would still say no because the demands would be just too great. In...

Nothing passive / aggressive about it, in fact substitute any class name into the statement and it is still just as true. However I will rephrase since you were nice enough to not be too condescending this time; IMO, any DM (you, me, others, anyone) who tells a player "You must do X because...

You have consistently reflected the same very narrow viewpoint in several posts, I just pulled the one quote that was the most narrow. I get it, your games are structured and disciplined and everybody better play their assigned roles, or else. Fine for you, just not for me. Hey the devil is...

Exactly! Hey, wait a minute, am I the only one who liked Ghostwalk? Hello? Anybody here? Where did everybody go? The best justification and selling point for DI and the Ezines yet. Digital production, while not free, is so much cheaper than printed production that this is such a no brainer...

I will just say this, from reading all of your posts here it is obvious that you and I have vastly different interpretations of cleric abilities and values. [long argument deleted] We are never going to agree on this, way too far apart. This was the one that really made me go "Wow!", in your...

That pretty much covers it for me, which is why I keep referring to 4E as a "whole new game" that I will evaluate just like any other "whole new game" that comes out. It may be great, it may suck, but D&D it is not.

Guilty. Maybe I should try that Wizard blasting bot and see how well it works :D It seems like there are two schools of thought: Players who play clerics and like to do so and how they think clerics should be played. AND Everyone else who thinks they know how clerics should be played. Yet...

If you add my additions in bold, I agree with you completely. It is that second perception that I rail against as it is simply not true. I also find the argument funny that the cleric must run around healing even scratches after every round because the monster has the capability to "drop the...

PC: I rolled a 27 DM: DAMMIT! PC: I'll rool damage now PC: I rolled a 23 DM: Ha HA (Simpson's laugh) PC: [expletive]

Just for the record, I would frown on that as well. However I have seen it in similar ways from others as well. Rogue "OK, I will defuse the trap on this chest, but I get 90% of whatever is inside". Tank Fighter with best magic sword in group "OK I will charge in, but when this is over I get...