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It's about disruption of play. Rules lawyers are like basketball coaches who stop the game to call a personal foul every time an opposing player brushes up against one of his guys. It's supposed to be called when the contact affects play, but it's up to interpretation to some degree. Playing by...

Sinistar, evil priest of the god of hunger. Run, coward!

To be clear, there are now two globes visible. One is in the room the characters currently stand in, hanging from the ceiling. Another one is in the larger, domed room, and that's the pulsating globe Vorrin is chatting with. Since Shayuri didn't mention going into the other room, I'm going to...

"Looks as though we'll need some form of remote legerdemain--one of Talhia's many talents," says Renard. "Talhia, dear, would you do the honors?"

What stories can't D&D do well? Any story that isn't explicitly about being awesome. You could never reproduce When Harry Met Sally with D&D. You couldn't do Animal Farm, or Maus, or The Metamorphosis. It has a lot of bells and whistles and lever to pull, and you can mod it out in a number of...

Voda Vosa: Spot is meant to oppose Hide, so it's really about finding hidden people and monsters. Search could work, though. Which room do you want Feleghost to search?

Khalil looked into the globe. As its light ebbed, he was able to discern the shape within: a brain, suspended in a gray-green fluid. The fluid reminded him at once of the fluids employed in preserving corpses for necromantic research. He felt the brain look back at him, and weave words into the...

Every Githzerai boy and girl...

Khalil recalled a set of scrolls he had read some time ago, written by a sorcerer of great power and faith. One passage held fast in his mind: Etrigan's hair slowly stood on end, and the coins in his pockets flew upward toward the ceiling. He lifted off the floor, appearing weightless, then...

Since the dice roller was just added, I feel I'm obligated to make some kind of statement about it as it applies to this game. So, uh, if you like it, use it. Or don't. :p Baronsquee: Vorrin succeeds on his Knowledge (Planes) check; I imagine you know where the characters are now. ;)

Looking through the partly opened door, Vorrin saw a large, semi-rectangular room capped with a bronze dome. Like the bedroom they stood in, this room appeared very thoroughly gone-through, with chairs torn apart, paintings torn down, and holes gouged in the walls. It was lit, dimly and...

I was expecting ceramic, but got cardboard instead. Now how am I going to re-tile my guest dungeon? I was sold a bill of goods, sir!

I thought there was one...? I really don't care about these kinds of decisions, so whatever you guys like is fine. I'm here for the story more than the tactics.

Well, I rolled a Knowledge (Religion) check to identify the sarcophagus, so I'm waiting on the results of that.

Looks like Feleghost got caught! Voda Vosa, I'll let you describe what Vorrin sees. Baronsquee, Spot opposes Hide, so Vorrin both saw and heard him. Oh, and hey, here's a Planescape comic that does know it's a Planescape comic!

Can I see?

From the other side of the doorway, Vorrin heard crackling, snapping sounds, like ice splitting apart in warm tea.

I don't really like either of those scenes for a roleplaying game, because the players aren't doing anything in either case. The first one is a little better, because the players can immediately say, "We decline to fight the orcs," whereas they can't really decline to be imprisoned. It's not...

May I make a radical suggestion? Rather than dicker about with turning left here or turning right there, why don't we abstract that whole business down a bit, and just go from one interesting place to the next? "You navigate through a series of twisting caverns for a few minutes and come upon a...

I can see a problem: it doesn't involve the players making interesting decisions or pursuing their characters' goals. It's a good story element in passive media, but it doesn't play to the strengths of roleplaying games. Roleplaying games allow players to be engaged in the story and alter the...