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I accomplish the work of two people in half the time, which leaves me a lot of free time on my hands. So when I have nothing to do, I go to my boss, and sales manager, and the business manager and ask if they need help with anything. If they all say no, then that's my cue that I can chat at...

I thought all satanic tomes were written in latin? How is she suppose to participate in the rituals if she's speaking French instead of latin!? Great, now I have to go talk to the imps again and find out how they are getting their speaking in tongues crossed.

I learned by watching a very, very bad DM and learned all the things NOT to do. I caught on to the rules pretty quickly, and I'm naturally good at making up things off the top of my head,so it was just a natural progression. One day the DM got tired of me questioning things ("Um, exactly why...

I would totally have accepted this, as he surely would have become an admiral in Pirate Queen Honey's army. (In one of my games, two of the characters were married. The husband never actually introduced his wife to the other PCs or any NPCs, but just always referred to her as "Honey". Her...

I can't see how you can run an effective game WITHOUT placing restrictions. It's not even about flavor per se. It's about holding onto some semblence of believeability and keeping your sanity. Just because something can be found in print, does not mean you must allow it or that you even...

There is no unauthorized cheating at my table. I have on occassion "authorized" cheating. For example, after watching a player suffer a series of terrible rolls and having them faced with a Save or die scenario, I've been known to say. "You made your saving throw, right?" and nod my head up...

The key is to know what scares them in real life. For example, I have a friend with arachnophobia. So simply introducing spiders to the game gets his skin crawling. One friend is easily creeped out by squishing sounds, like the sound of something dragging itself out of muck. I happen to...

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Familiars have always been a non-issue in the games I run. Most wizards/sorcerers don't bother to take one, as they are too terrified of what happens if it dies. The benefit of a familiar just doesn't justify the risk.

Being poor doesn't alway mean you are poorly equipped. My current group are escaped slaves from the underdark. They started the game with ZERO gear except for the clothes on their back and their craft tools. But as slaves they all had good craft skills, so they made a lot of the stuff they...

Can I play? You can create a new skill "Use Core Books." Then have to make a skill check to identify monsters in the Monster Manual. of course, the core rule books could themselves be magical tomes. "Look! A bunch of skeletons! My sword isn't doing enough damage!" "Hold on (make skill...

Remember the primary problem with the "bitten by a vampire" turning process: If all it took to become a vampire was being bitten by one, the world would be nothing but vampires. D&D really isn't suited for a good vampire style play. If you want them to play vampires with no idea of who or...

No, this is not something the leadership feat can do. Leadership allows you to gather loyal followers, not stupid, suicidal ones! A mindbender could probably pull it off given enough time, but unless you are an evil character, your DM probably wouldn't (or shouldn't) allow it. And how...

It depends on the character concept. My Red Wizard had a lot of spells designed to help her escape in a hurry, and took spell mastery and still spell feats to make sure that even if she was captured she could take gaseous form and sneak out. If I'm multiclassing rogue/wizard, then I'm focusing...

At character creation, so long as it is a standard feat or skill, I usually don't say anything. Once gameplay begins, I reserve the right to veto a feat or skill that doesn't make sense. For example, if the party levels in the middle of a dungeon and someone suddenly decides to take a feat or...

Looting is not breathing or getting dressed in the morning. it is not an automatic thing. If they didn't say it, they didn't do it. The only place you messed up is telling them the amount. Loot can be cursed. Loot can be trapped. Loot can do a lot of nasty things to people. You don't...

Aeric, I have two traditional one-shot games I run every year: Halloween and New Year's Eve. (gaming New Year's Eve gets progressively more hilarious as the alcohol consumption goes up...but everyone stays overnite and nobody is driving :) ). Halloween one-shots should be a traditon with...

It's not that disturbing, or hypcritical. The above mentioned quote refers ONLY to Wizards own direct sales program. This is simply a matter of selective quoting. Also from the same page: Note the word "primarily." A different word than "exclusively." Again, note that there are...

Considering all the skill points and other abilities of a rogue, if you consider your character that handicapped just because you can't backstab undead, you aren't optimizing correctly. I run a lot of games that include plenty of undead and constructs, and it's never handicapped my rogue...