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I think mechanical balance in a RP game is a mirage. We think we need it, but actually, we do not. The only thing we really need is engaged players whom all contribute to the story in a meaningful way. Whether their characters are a crippled, toothless emigrant with one eye and a bent dildo, or...

Isn't that sort of what the banks said by hiding their bad loans in other "securities" and selling them offshore? Exactly what did that manage to produce? Worldwide recession? Which so far has cost the taxpayers around the world a staggering 10 trillion USD?!? Imagine the effect when, on a...

Aren't all Call of Cthulhu scenarios one-shots?!? :confused:

These days I try to focus on a couple of things: I explain my expectations as a DM for the campaign I'm running. I list the house rules, and motivate them. I describe the campaign world in a two to three page blurb. I ask the players to provide a description of the character they want to...

There you go, being reasonable again. Strewth. Whats a guy got to do around here to have a good, completely pointless flamewar? Things have become so tame around here since ´05

I would love to have such an engaged player at my table. It would be interesting to challenged intellectually, at least for a while. How many players just accept oddities and keep chasing Orc-Pie? Its only when you have to stop and think about things like this that the world truly progresses...

You are only flat-footed if you are incapable of acting. By Delaying, you're "in the game". To rule otherwise, while I might understand the viewpoint from a strict interpretation, is, IMO, unreasonable.

Wow! Thanks guys for all the great responses. I should mention I'm a Kiwi from the dim and distant past, but have been living an expat life for far too long. I have been to Auckland before, but never really done much touristy things, mostly visited relatives. One the trouble is most gaming shops...

14th-20th August. Anything to see, do, or avoid? People, places and events? Any gaming / conventions going on? What's the story, on the right side of downunder?

The reason is KISS: keep it simple If you were designing a computer game, of course you could implement a method which utilized decimal numbers and was based on a curve. But for us simpletons merely making believe, it is just enough complication to get by. If it is a big problem, you could...

Veril, I think most swords would be made from steel, not iron. Steel is an alloy of Iron, Carbon and other metals. What exactly 'cold iron' is, I have no idea.

Well aboyd, the solution is to actually require the player to play through the consequences of all his actions, if he is so determined to do so. From the SRD So, 1) You need "the same material" (DM definition). Assuming he can purchase a vat to contain the liquid (or fabricate one from wood...

Using the WoT supplement, you don't really have to worry about armour. The Wheel of Time D20 system has a Defensive bonus system to make up for the lack of magical armours. Your primary class, the algai'd'siswai, has the best defensive bonus in the game. My suggestion, is that you then do not...

Well, for the returning "nemesis", IMC, it depends on the amount of time that has lapsed. Turning undead is the most common cause of "recurring" enemies, but there are many other causes that can have similar effects (for instance greater command, and the like). The key to the issue is whether it...

Yes, it is broken. But there is a safety feature. In most medieval, (preindustrial) fantasy worlds, someone will be hard put to dump 5,000 flasks of alchemist's fire on the market. Not only will there be no single buyer (no shop on earth has 5,000 examples of any single item), where does he...

Akbear, when someone has gone to the bother to actually do the math for an empowered maximised magic missile, how do you then still figure to go on missmanaging figures? Trying to undermine your own argument even further? Other than that, I don't see much in reference to the OP's query about...

Strikes me, that with magic missile being so popular, it is a waste to spend so many feats to enhance it. The popularity of magic missile ensures the commanality of shield, brooches of shielding, and the like. Metamagic feats increases the damage per missile, but not the number of missiles. IMX...

I have no problem with it. Except I have the following conditions: I only allow the caster to reduce the cost of the metamagical additions once per metamagical feat (as I also allow multiple additions of the same metamagical feat to a single spell). You can't ever cast a spell of a higher...

The Corpsecrafter feat from the same book provides almost the same effect: +4 Str bonus and +2 hp / HD for each created undead. They probably wanted to differentiate them a bit more.

I think you are meant to spend more time exploring Hommlet and its folk, rather than immediately setting off into the wilderness. Otherwise I think the Co8 have done an amazing effort. Anyone else tried their new module, Keep on the Borderlands?