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Situation A: While down by the docks, your party is attacked by a group of (15) rough looking sailors whom appear to be armed with clubs. Question 1: If the only weapons you have are swords and damage magic, how do you deal with them. LG: "Self defense is necessary, and any deaths...

Situation A: The group is attacked by a group of thieves right outside a city. The thieves are easily subdued. Some are unconscious and bleeding to death. Question 1: What should the healers do? LG = "Take them to the town guard and let the city do its justice." NG = "Loot the bodies! Loot...

Silver weapons??? Everyone knows you can only kill of lycanthropes with belladona-coated weapons. And wights and spectres? They have to be blessed, of course. Player: "I attack it the spectre with my silver weapon." GM: "It goes through its non-corpeal body with no effect." Player: "But...

Too bad you didn't x-post to RPG.net. One of the coordinators of the site, Allan Sugarbaker, lives in the SF Bay Area, and has run an "RPGnet games day", coordinating with local game companies and a FLGS. He'd probably be a good source of information to tap. In Los Altos (not exactly NorCal)...

My guess is that since Piazo only publishes periodicals, if they make a 3.5e error (read: 3.5e has any last-minute changes), their mistake is only important until the next issue. Meanwhile, for WotC, they don't want to publish a supplement in 3.5e until they have the final rules available...

* Give the dragon an unexpected magical goodie. Accompany it with a legend to give players a hint that the dragon has a secret weapon. How about a Ring of Dispel Magic? * Give the dragon some untrustworty allies. The dragon has told a troublesome band of gnolls that he'll attack a village. The...

Uh... What about from a roleplaying point of view? Would the party accept a paladin's behavior? Is the adventure more suitable for a monk? Which of the two would you prefer to play and are more comfortable playing? Cedric. aka. Washu! ^O^

With medieval economies being **local** economies, prices will vary. At the least, water is much more valuable in a mountainous area than forest. Likewise, it's entirely possible that one merchange will have cash flow problems and need to sell goods fast, while another can afford to wait. You...

Wrong board. See RPGnet (and probably The Forge). (; Cedric. aka. Washu! ^O^

Not a big fan of "teaching the **players** a lesson" camp, not that I haven't done that myself. (: Might want to pick up Johnn Four's NPC Essentials -- that goblin would have made a very good archenemy. The Hero's Snare PDF is a **very** good, but not TPK, method of telling players not to...

The search engine is down (or something), but you might want to look up running (non-RPGA) "games at conventions" on RPGnet: http://forum.rpg.net/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=3 Cedric. aka. Washu! ^O^

1) They give you adventures to run, right? No, unless it's an RPGA sorta thing. Modules are looked down upon, but if you run your own adventure, you should playtest it first. 2) Do you run the same adventure over and over, or do you run different ones? Or do you get to choose? You get to...

Now **there's** an idea. Tunnels & Trolls had this solo adventure, Arena of Kharzan, which was similar to what you described. It added, however, **betting**. That meant that, yes, it was funny when a player ran a character and the rest of "the people at the table" bet against him. Thus, if the...

Well, some asked for d20 stats for a chimp, so expand the scope to not just dogs, but **any** animal that might join the party and have its own personality: familiars, domesticated animals, semi-intelligent ones, etc. Add chrome so that players may customize the animals, allow them to gain...

My rule of thumb: NEVER remove free will from a PC, unless they're willing to roleplay it, or it's a combat situation. By their ability to gain levels, PCs are unique. Therefore, it's reasonable to expect them to be resistant to The Call. OTOH, Any d*mn NPC you please cannot resist it...

Pick up AEG's Evil. One interesting comment they have about Evil is that evil usually creates a scheme, Good usually foils it. So my issue with an Anti-Paladin isn't morality or playability as rules, it's whether or not the **player** is able to create these schemes, rather than wander from...

You could just use the thief class for the chimp! (: Make the obvious changes (1d4 HD, some skills not available), then let the players create a new character for him. Tumbling... pick pockets... stealth... plenty of thief skills overlap those of a chimp! (: And yes, the chimp can gain xp! Use...

'Cuz characters were made out of the same cookie-cutter stats, taking something like five minutes to create: If you didn't roll something like 16 in a stat, then it didn't matter! (: Also, some players just liked to dice. A dead character just meant another opportunity to keep rolling until you...

I'd like to see a skeleton template! Mebbe the problem is that D&D doesn't distinguish levels gained through experience and training vs. natural hit dice. Certainly human skeletons should pretty much be similar, but what if the GM has a Necromancer who's created an undead dragon? I need a...

The BBS system EnWorld uses should date the posts on the thread. The words look different, but I **swear** I read all this before. WotC is d*mned if they do, d*mned if they don't. With the internet, three years of feedback for **the** most popular RPG is an eternity. The number of players and...