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One that probably mirrors the real world. Look at even some of the prices in the real world, let alone the costs of past nobles and aristocracy. Nobles spend money.* If you want to hob nob with them, let alone be one, you'll have to spend money also. Show up at a gambling hall to try and meet...

Some thoughts on this stuff, I don't think you can really get rid of the basic seven (because magic bags are just as much of a demanded item and more so than half those items to many players) unless you play low magic or low level and limit those things. Even then, if the PCs can get the feats...

Fire. Fire is the elemental of change.

Wow. You're like my "anti-ideal DM". Nothing says "wasted evening" like being told "all your effort in planning and preparation would have made the encounter too easy so I had to alter the encounter to make it tough again". Why not just tell the players that they and their actions don't matter...

No, you've got it all backwards. His ideas are controversial because his views and designs get bashed by many but not all people. We love to Mearlsbash because we really don't find any merit in his designs yet he is in a postion to force them down our throats. It's "speak now or forever hold...

99% of all those crashes were extension conflicts caused by 3rd party apps not playing well with each other. Trust me, troubleshooting and fixing them was way easier than troubleshooting Win95 interrupt problems let alone anything to do with the registry (which was synonimous for "format the...

A little of both, I've got a story planned out and am interested in if the players will change it in the play of the game. For the most part I don't worry about the players upsetting the story and usually they end up going along with it (usually without even knowing it), sometimes more than I...

I don't think anybody has said that. I think they have said that it is expected and that if you want to run a low magic game you'll have to rethink CRs, DRs, and maybe even higher level DCs. You can either provide lower CR challenges to match actual character ability or provide other bonus' to...

Because I think that's like offering Trump 10,000 pennies to drop what he's doing and become your personal accountant. "Excuse me all of you incredible powerful creature likened unto demi-gods, could you ingore the armies you're commanding and your plane invading schemes to come be my person...

And that these things have to be hand waved due to such metagame reasons rather than follow some sort of ingame consistancy, I find to be bad design or at least following different design criteria that I want in my D&D. So now you've got 15th levels and 15th level Elites wihtout every...

Ah, found that now. Thought 59k was too low. However I do consider different standards for equally leveled PCs and NPCs bad game design.

Decided to sit down and Check out how a 15th level fighter faired with and without magic agianst similar CR monsters from the Monster Manual. Without magic, he has a +15 BAB, another +3 to hit/dam from str, +2 to hit/+4 dam from feats. Total +20 to hit and +7 damage. AC for full plate, +1 dex...

It's the layer of evil two faced friends and water cooler gossip.

I'd get rid of spending XP to make stuff or cast spells. That's the one thing about the current mechanics that makes me grit my teeth.

Abyssal Layer 664 - Accounting, bureaucracy, records, and storage. Although the chaotic realms of the Abyss have no real need for paperwork, for every important demon who doesn't want it, there's another who does. Here are kept all the records of titles, heritages, deals, and grants are kept...

I think they'll put out 4E, probably killing a sacred cow or two, and breaking the OGL in the process. They won't put out a replacement to OGL for 4E. The system probably will go towards a simpler (initially), encoutner based system that will also be more minature reliant and closer to a...

Perhaps traps including spells he might have cast. Other than that, leave objects laying around such as mislabled bottles of poison or cursed items. Such would be out of the way of friends of the wizard but easily findable by those searching for loot. Then there could be a semi-trap of treasure...

I agree. There should be some basic tactics for cities to defend themselves against high level charactrers or monsters with low level troops. What they really need is an alchemical weapon with substantial splash damage. A super alchemical fire with 3d6 on direct hit and 1d6 splash, or just a 1d6...

Really makes you wonder why all the guards one runs into in a dungeon or castle are always Fighters instead of Rogues.

Just as there are no moral rules in RAW, shooting though your own people does not block line of sight and is only +4 AC for cover (and a -4 for the attacker if in melee). Since we are already assuming a hit only on natural 20's, it's a non-issue. Besides, I specifically put them at the top of...