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I let the dominated player(s) roll his own attacks. I've never seen a player on a hot streak curse at his own dice that much. muhahhaha But yeah, stun or dominate locking a single PC is very unfun. I always try to spread the love around.

Sometimes, you just need to know what your players want out of your game. Are your sessions hours long weekend sessions where players want to be fully immerse in the setting, or are the sessions weekday, after work sessions where they just want to drink beer and roll dice.

And then you realize that by RAW, being dead doesn't prevent you from taking actions either...:p

And hence Balance by DM Fiat is perfectly described. I don't have much to contribute, but I do feel that a part of changes in how balance is achieved in early vs later D&D editions is due to changes in the expected rate of character turnover in early vs later editions. The older editions...

Nitpick: What TS is quoting is the square-cube law. If an object retains its shape and you double its length (or any other one dimensional measurement), you will get 4x (2 squared) the surface area and 8x (2 cubed) the mass. Of course, objects of vastly different sizes also tends to have very...

Well, I guess I wasn't thinking specifically about TTRPGs but more about games in general, including CCGs, boardgames, and even videogames. It seems that single player games or multiplayer games expected to be played in a living room (ie. mario party games) can be more forgiving of game breaking...

As an aside, do people find that a large part a game's focus on balance has to do with a game's focus on organized play (ie. ppl showing up at a venue with their own characters and playing with a bunch of strangers). A game for a bunch of friends playing together every week can have a much...

I find that some of the talk about balance is simply arguements about genre appropriateness and disagreement about which genre D&D should fit into. Let's talk about Buffy. In a show about the supernatural and fighting vampires, it would simply be a bad idea to introduce a main character who...

I have a question for those who uses a lot of random encounters. Do you give XP and loot for the encounter? I keep worrying that my PCs would just wander around and keep level grinding or something. Yes, yes, time sensitive missions can negate this but I can't put my PCs on such adventures...

How many level I want? 9999. And after reaching that level, WotC sends me an achievement trophy.

Maybe we should restrict the definition to creatures in their "natural form" ...although, maybe dragons do have sex with everything while in their natural form...:eek:

Biologically speaking? No. The definition of two species is that the two cannot breed and produce viable (fertille) offsprings. At best, you could call elves (and orcs) subspecies of human or maybe ring species.

Put down the game, watch the DVDs. I know this advice has nothing to do with your gaming, but seriously, Watch. The. DVDs.

Ever try arguing with flat earthers? :D

Vancian magic. Speaking as someone who had never read any of Jack Vance's stuff, the system made no sense to me when I first picked up D&D during 2nd ed.

+1 I don't want to carry around and reference a book filled with stats of useless stuff. For things that have little to no effect in game, I prefer to just make it up on the spot.

Or plot armor, which is the way I like to think of hp.

They name things in latin partly because it's the language used by educated people of that time and partly because it's a dead language, nobody uses it in everyday life so it won't change over time. T. rex means the same thing 200 years ago as it will 200 years from now. They didn't name things...

Actually, scientific names of organisms are almost always either descriptive or named after somebody. They make perfect sense if you speak latin. Tyrannosaurus rex means "tyrant lizard king". Triceratops means "three-horned face" If I see an arrow shooting demon called "Arcanlothzerra", I...

That brings back memory of an Iron Kingdoms game I played. I played a gunmage and carried around 3 or 4 loaded guns to get around the reload in combat problem but each shot costs like 10 gp. Like Chris Rock said, I must really hate you to pop a cap on your ass. Most of the time I just threw...