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Sure, but some of us enjoy metaplots that develop over the course of a campaign, as do some of our players. I know that if my players felt that all I was doing was throwing a random succession of adventures in front of them with no overarching story goal, they'd be unhappy.

If the intent is to run a campaign, I think that a metaplot is an important element to drive the adventure. It doesn't have to be terribly obvious to the players, but the DM should have an idea of the direction his campaign is headed.

A successful campaign is both.

Hazard of the hobby, and a welcome one at that. I have two shelves of books---the shelf I use, which sits on my desk, and the shelf I don't, which sits on the hutch in another room.

Sorry, I'm with the Colonel on the whole calling baloney thing.

I wouldn't. There are two feats in Complete Adventurer that allow a PC to substitute one stat for another for the purpose of resolving saving throw modifiers--Force of Personality (Cha instead of Wis for Will saves) and Insightful Reflexes (Int instead of Dex for Reflex saves). FoP has a Cha 13...

No. But again, the OP did not offer a constructive discussion about tinkering (which, incidentally, would belong in a different forum anyway). He just complained.

Yep. Best book WotC has published in ages, and worthy of being called a Player's Handbook.

Because reengineering a game from the ground up is time-consuming. It's a lot easier to just pick a system that better suits your personal tastes.

Yup.

Einar exhaled, blowing a plume of frosted nettles through his blond beard. Even under a gray sky twisting with thunderheads, he had to squint to discern the scimitar of ice that constituted Askjer Pass. The fissure meandered southeast from the lee side of the northern peak, and its many...

The field called Hjalprek’s Doom stood stark and white against the dingy gray sky. It lurched westward, leaning like a sodden drunkard against the darkened Rößnecht mountains as though at any moment it would right itself and stagger away. To the east, the white-capped lake of the Oski churned...

Stefano cowered against the blistering cold, acutely aware of the tenuous coil of his consciousness that threatened to devolve into panicked incoherency. The wind raged like a netherworld beast full of malice and spite, hungrily seeking to dethrone him from life and cast him into an eternal...

For those of you grousing about the name of the class, you do realize that you can just call it whatever you want, right? For instance, I'm not a fan of the name "duskblade," so in my campaign I'm calling the class spellsword (I don't use the PrC). I mean, seriously--what's in a name? A rose by...

Fantastic class, interesting and well-balanced. I have no problems with it.

Ditto. Any break in internal consistency within the framework of the setting does it for me as well.

Circvs Maximvs is a companion forum set up by Morrus for ENWorlders who are tired of living under Grandma's roof 24/7. If you like hanging out with ENWorlders, and you want to get to know them better without having to tiptoe around mentioning politics, religion, sex, or any other controversial...

Naw. It would just be fun to have even more ENWorlders posting in the off-off topic ENWorld forums, is all. :)

You must not get out much. :p A dialetic can be a healthy tool for personal growth, assuming it can be approached maturely.

CM is exactly where you want to have this discussion. Then you can give us all the frustrating details! :)