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If I hadn't been playing D&D since the White Box set, I'd be intimidated by the PHB too. It's futile and/or a bit harsh to expect newbies to master it before play. I think the best bet is to ask them what they want to play (which involves discussion and options), then create a character for...

I agreed to play a Bard in a War of the Burning Sky game because the GM asked me to, saying that it would make certain things easier on him. This when he was just starting to recruit. My comment (cut/pasted from e-mail) was; "I just hope that we end up with a larger group, because a Bard in a...

Part of the problem (or the solution) may lie in the fact that, unlike many (but not all) other animals, Horses lack any Advancement. That being said, my last D&D horse was named "Emergency Rations".

And Moses....er, Admiral Adama will never see the Promised Land...

I am not a Bard, but I play one in D&D... Bards are very limited spellcasters. They have to be Spontaneous with what little they have. If that was removed, I could see making them like Wizards, with the +2 spells per level and no cap on how many they could know, and more spells per day. But...

This is your key, right here. You need to communicate this. You need to let them know that you aren't having fun anymore, that you've considered dumping the campaign. That their harsh adversarial tone and constant complaining are the root cause of all this. Maybe they don't realize how...

Railroading, GM Fiat, openly cheering for the Monsters, laughing at player failure, bad adventures that you won't give up when the players make it known they're unhappy, monsters clearly designed to exploit PC defects (when it happens too often anyways), bad decisions, crappy treasure, constant...

Whereas that just sounds like a personal mistake to me. "Oops, I just wasted hours of my own time because I forgot about a simple spell that would walk right through my overly complicated plot device."

Was absolutely shocked, shocked I say! to find that a gamer, scifi/fantasy reading co-worker had never read any of the Discworld books, nor apparently even knew about them. The two I loaned him to read were Mort and Moving Pictures.

I'm sure that this is entirely unhelpful, but... I just couldn't help but think of the Underpants Gnomes on South Park. Step 1: Gather Souls Step 2: ? (shrug shoulders and raise hands. Don't know!) Step 3: Make Money! Maybe this being is absolutely certain that there will be a market for...

Good. Thanks. With 5 players in session 1 and possibly 7 in the second session (after being worried that we may be running with only 3 to start), my GM has already been speculating about minimizing Torrent (who hasn't really contributed anyways). I may just suggest that my Bard character take...

The part I liked best in our one and only session so far (we're once-a-month) was when I (playing the Bard) suggested that someone check the door to outside, wondering whether or not someone was coming from that direction or whether or not it would be wise to retreat out to the street once we...

One of the problems with the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul), and I wouldn't at all be surprised if it is similar in other parts of the country, is that it is the Land of 10,000 Cliques. It's really difficult to get to know people. People who move here from other areas often have trouble...

The last single classed Wizard I played only started with a 16 Int despite a 32 point build. Because I wanted some decent other stats (Dex for starters) and was more focused on ranged-touch spells (starting feats: Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot) than save spells. Given how much I used my...

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I'd think that an Artifact is more than just a rogue surplus nuke. It is a Bad Attention Magnet. Just possessing one is enough to draw the attention of every power figure and ambitious wannabe in the world, plus a few related planes. It's not so much that you can sell it, it's more of a...

We had this 17 year old player who was...trouble. After I hosted a session, I permanently banned him from my house because he trashed the area he was in, despite being less than 5' from a garbage can that was repeatedly pointed out to him. Anyway... As a first or second level Rogue, in a...

Both. At the same time. They are treated as one individual, completely unacknowledged as being two people.

"Well you know, dude.... Your character was pretty powerful and some of the other guys kind of felt that it was overshadowing their characters and making things less fun for them. So if you want to drop the character just because he's less powerful, that's ok. But please don't think that this...

My problem with CN is that it is the default choice of people who lack any kind of social skills and just want an excuse to screw with everyone and everything at any time. "But I'm just playing my alignment!" as an excuse to be a serious expletive at the game table.