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In 2nd edition, we had a gnome come back as a satyr. That was obnoxious squared. Also in 2nd edition, we reincarnated an NPC assassin, either from human to half-elf or from half-elf to human (I forget). She was part of a group trying to kill us, and my paladin had her reincarnated in the...

Nadia's Mysterious Ocean. One of my all-time favorite animes, and the inspiration for Disney's Atlantis.

Three PCs touched a Sphere of Annihilation, one right after the other. We thought it was a teleportation device. In my defense, I was playing an INT 24 wizard who was the second to touch it (the half-orc barbarian being the first) and the DM didn't give me any kind of Spellcraft roll to...

I'm continually forgetting to use monster powers, much to the delight of my players. :) SR is something that often gets left out, simply because I'm not in the habit of running games whose level is high enough for SR to be an element.

In my last campaign, roughly three months of the game was revealed to have been a dream. It was my cheapass way of retconning the game when it had gone way off-track. One player thought it was cool, but the rest were confused and even a little angry. I won't be doing that again.

I voted no. It's been many many years since I've hosted a game at my house, and while it would be nice to convert my dad's old office into a game room, my gaming life simply isn't rich enough to warrant doing that. Plus, I've grown far too used to gaming in the living room, sitting on the...

In the WHFRP game I'm currently in, the PCs were brought to a certain site in the wilderness by a priest of Ulric who'd been having visions of us. Credibility was lent to his story in that he was blind, so he couldn't have simply seen us and made something up. We suspect that he might have...

Feat Compendium.

I did something similar to the monk's mid-air grapple once. We were fighting, among other things, a dragon. The party was out in the open, and had our Daern's Instant Fortress up (I think we may have just used it as a missile weapon on someone...good old 2nd edition!). My character, a...

As one of the two single players in my current Wednesday night group, I am rather bummed that the game was cancelled. Then again, the other single player in my group is a rather-attractive young lady....

Proboards is free and easy to use. It's also fairly easy to take the code and put it in your own webspace if you're HTML savvy. Me, I can't even get my players to answer email, much less post on a message board. :\

Funny you should mention this...we were just talking about copyrights and patents in class the other day, and the example used was orcs. According to my teacher, a patent protects the concept of an idea while a copyright protects the expression of that idea. That's why you can find orcs in...

Diablo and Final Fantasy VII (the origin of Materia, IIRC) were both released in the U.S. in 1997. Whether or not the devs at Blizzard saw an import version of VII and "borrowed" the concept is anybody's guess, but knowing that one of the primary philosophies in game design is "use existing...

I like this idea very much! I also like the idea of turning settings on their heads by revealing something that is the cornerstone of the setting at revealing it as false. I had originally planned on doing this in my last Eberron game by having the PCs arrive in Argonessen and find it as...

Especially if you are a good-aligned member of a usually evil race. There's got to be a reason why you left in the first place!

It seems to me that the reason Sylar's voice sounded weird as he was walking towards Mrs. Bennet was because that part of the scene was in slow-motion. The woman was just hurled into a glass cabinet. She had been knocked for a loop. That's why she was just lying there on the floor looking up...

As a DM, I mix published adventures with my own material. Sometimes I need a filler adventure, other times I need something to kick-start my imagination. I find published adventures work well in both scenarios. As a player, I prefer home-crafted adventures. Most published adventures are too...

Fixed it for you. I voted that I would want some kind of system in it, even if it wasn't the one I intended to use. If I'm going to stat out all the stuff in the book, I'd at least want a frame of reference to know how powerful stuff should be.

The only time I require PCs to learn from a trainer is when they dual-class and when they enter a PrC. And there are exceptions to both of those as well. Adventuring is on-the-job training.

This is a point I've heard before, but remember that in a zombie apocalypse scenario, the horror isn't from the helplessness of the mortals vs. the zombies, but the overwhelming number of the zombies. Wizards run out of spells, wands run out of charges, and fighters eventually succumb to...