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Just off the top of my head.... Make the colossus reeeeeaaaalllllyyyy slow--while it can move every round, it's movement rate isn't all that great (20'-30') and it only gets a standard (attack) every 2-4 rounds. But those attacks are almost guaranteed to hit and do a ridiculous amount of...

I think halflings should have phenomenal Will saves. After all, hobbits were the only creatures able to resist the lure of the One Ring for any length of time. Everyone else went into a frenzy merely upon seeing the ring. I would make the halfling's stat modifiers -2 Str, +2 Wis. I never...

For me, well-developed settings are the hook. All too often, however, the game has failed to live up to the expectations created by that hook. On the other hand, a great story, engaging characters, and clever, enthusiastic DM can turn even the most bland and generic of settings into a...

Or take a level in a class such as fighter.

My best friend had a copy of Wares Blade about fifteen years ago. There were mecha in it, right?

My friend and I are constantly sending strips back and forth to each other. It's funny because it's true.

I checked both Forest--hard to spot/wannabe fey and Other. The Other being that they really are fey, and are tiny creatures living under logs and stones deep in the forest. And in no way available or appropriate as a player-character race.

No, they're called Milk Duds. You bought the wrong candy. :p On the subject of Gappers.... The ones that really get me don't have anyone in front of them. They feel the need to stop a car length behind the line because somehow that is going to fool the sensors in the road into thinking...

I once read a news article about a man who had the top of his skull removed in an accident. Below the article was an ad for the United Negro College Fund. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." :confused:

If you don't mind waiting a bit longer, Force Unleashed looks to be a worthy heir to the SW game franchise.

Still playing WoW. Almost finished with Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker. I can't wait to get Twilight Princess, but I don't really want to invest in an entire game system (the Wii) for a single game. Hopefully I can find a copy of the GC version somewhere out there.

Other: nonexistent. If I wanted to play MERP, I'd play MERP.

In your defense, if we're throwing out monks as non-medieval, then Chinese crossbows should go with them. I've found this thread very entertaining and thought-provoking. The best DMs I've ever played with were history buffs, and while none of their worlds even came close to emulating our...

The only thing I don't like about the GH setting are some of the names. I mean, Furyondy? Ivid? The Duchy of Jeff? Whenever I run or play in GH, the game stumbles a bit when we get to one of these silly names. Which is not to say other settings don't suffer from similar bad choices in...

Normally I am ready for a change in scenery, if not in genre and game mechanics, by the end of a campaign. Running a sequel or "the next generation" campaign for the same group of players is fun, especially when there were some major changes to the world as brought about by the PCs, but I would...

I went on Friday and am going again today. The RPG was not for sale, but the WOTC rep we talked to said they were giving away 30 copies a day to people who had a password from the website. I also think he said the giveaways were happening really early in the day, around 7-8am each day. The...

Let's see.... Red Box D&D Stall Lightfoot, elf Charity, cleric AD&D 1st edition Vallendor Stallandria, high elf cavalier (1st-edition) AD&D 2nd edition Galen Brightblade, human paladin cavalier (not DL, despite the name) Kai Ironwolf, human fighter/thief swashbuckler Maeglin Brightblade...

That's ridiculous. They established in this movie that Davy Jones wasn't cursed so much as burdened with a responsibility. He was supposed to ferry the dead to the afterlife. If the "curse" is broken, then who's going to do that job? Also, the green flash was said to indicate a soul's return...

My group uses a plain battlemat and miniatures; terrain is drawn in pen. Even with such a simple setup, our group gets bored and distracted while waiting for the DM to draw the encounter. How do you have such elaborate setups without it detracting from the game? Do you set them up beforehand?

At least half of the enjoyment I get out of DMing is building plots, NPCs, and worlds/settings. Sometimes I use existing settings and/or adventures as jumping-off points, but after that I write my own material. I get bored quickly running modules, no matter how well written they are; my AoW...