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It all depends on the GM. If your GM doesn't care about material components, doesn't require you to track them, spend money on them, etc. Then it's utterly worthless. But if your GM is a prick who is going to deny you a spell because you don't happen to have material X on you at some...

Reading some of that last bit, I'm thinking that maybe, if one of the students has to die, that it will be Draco Malfoy. Think about what a disappointment he's got to be to his father. A failure and a weakling to Dad and the Dark Lord. No turn to the good side possible in his eyes, because...

Too young. 17 in the movie, so no go. But in reading your post, I had the bizarre recall that Harry is a parseltongue. Not that that has any relevance... ;)

True enough. One of those three, his 'normal mode of operation' was a whole pile of neuroses and odd personal behavior wrapped in a blanket of Can't Pay Attention. He would regularly argue at great length about things that never would have been an issue if he'd actually been paying attention...

If you're going to go for a Ray caster, then really go for it. Feats: Eschew Materials, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot. High Dex. Then work spells with Ranged Touch Attacks (no saves) such as Ray of Enfeeblement and Scorching Ray. If you're allowed the Spell Compendium, add in: Lesser Orb...

If the whole HP story ended with a huge hugfest and forgiveness for Voldemort, who suddenly becomes a repentant good guy... The world isn't big enough for JKR to hide. The British SAS would get her very quickly. If only to stop the flow of assassins looking for her. That being said, I think...

I agree with the first part. But I've ended three friendships over people being extremely unpleasant at the game table, blatantly ignoring "hey dude, you're being a jerk" and trying to deal with it/tolerate it/find solutions up to the point where I had to say "You know, if this is how you...

Oh yeah. As Player and as GM. It's tough when you're a player and the other person has spent more time in the group, or is personal friends with people who, even though they know and admit how much of a (insert expletive here) the person is, they are too uncomfortable with the idea of not...

Been there, done that, ended gaming groups over it. My last campaign, I told people that I would be sending an important e-mail and that I wanted everyone to read it and think about it before the next session. Then I sent the e-mail and in it, said that we would spend the first part of the...

He should definitely get more class. Um...what?

In my last campaign, I named a cornerstone NPC in the MBEG (Middle BBEG)'s campaign "Muuk" (mook). It hinged on an inside joke from a previous campaign that three of my players should have gotten. It should also have been obvious that he was more than just a simple mook, as he had a fairly...

Played a campaign where you could chose (in advance) either to roll the die or take 'low average' (ie, 3 on d6, 4 on d8). Very few people ever took the GM up on that one. Next game, different GM, option to roll or take 'high average' (4 on d6, 5 on d8). Lots more people took him up on that...

Expenses! One of the things that really, really, really helped when I was the party Wizard was that we all agreed to add an extra share to the division of treasure just for party expenses. That group was six players, plus the group kitty, or seven total shares. As the party Wizard and group...

The last Wizard I played was extremely effective, but I chose a path just for that purpose. Point Blank Shot and Precise Shot at 1st level (Human). This allowed me to be effective with my Light Crossbow in melee. I also needed those feats for later because I fully intended to make use of Ray...

Something you need to talk about. But hey, parents of small children tend to be a bit freaky and self-centered. Their entire world revolves around their children, which is great for the kids, but terrible for the world that isn't their kids. You will need to cut him some slack on that front...

I am not a Psychologist, just an arm-chair student of Humanity. I've been forced to study psychology in order to understand what the hell goes on around me. Here, it's like Warbringer says. It's about Investment Level. You probably wouldn't have been hurt by a casual gaming friend because...

Robot Chicken did a great segment on this, where the two try to screw the studio by getting funding for a remake of the remake of Godzilla. The remake2 has the baby Godzillas doing synchronized roller skating while chasing the protagonist. It sucks (expletive) bad and the studio is furious...

I'm going to ignore the in-between, 90% of which I have read, and go back to the OP. Hoarfrost. In other words, this has been building for some time. I think this is perhaps the basis of the issue. You perhaps feel that you have been entirely giving on your end by always going over to...

In my last setting, there was an item called The Worm Sigil. It was a non-euclidian statuette of a worm like thing. Owned by Marian Applegate. Outwardly the mom-and-apple pie owner of a very nice Inn in a major city, secretly the nasty vicious ruler of a Thieve's Guild (one of many competing...

(drool!) I may seriously have to check these out. Sanity checks can always be installed.