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IMG artifacts are basically plot devices. The party have come across a few but only two were investigated - a Deck of Many Things and a Wightblade (turned wielder into a Wight). They are currently beginning what I hope will be an epic (possibly Epic) adventure to retrieve a long-lost powerful...

I'd look at other words with the same ending: Operability, manageability, etc.

My main reservation is with your character creation. As it stands, someone rolling 15 is 'worse off' than someone rolling 14, 10 or even 6. Most rolls will end up being 13-16 so why not just roll 1d6+12? Otherwise, I think that your Called Shots rules could actually slow combat as players...

We've never used 2x power attack damage for 2-handers. In fact, until we had a couple of teenagers join our group, I didn't realise this rule existed. Just unobservant, I guess.

I can appreciate your point of view but I don't share it. Within my group we have had evil characters/campaigns on and off for the past 30 years with little trouble. Many people seem to have a problem playing evil characters as anything other than total sociopaths. If these include your players...

I love my players to come up with interesting ideas for their characters but it really pisses me off when someone is obviously just trying to get around a rule they don't like or trawling for an extra powerup. As DM, I bend a few rules, and houserule a few more, but things like LA I take as...

Hang on, must have missed this earlier. Players preparing? Granted some do, but IME most don't look at their character sheet from session to session and the ones who do don't know what their spells/feats do.

That's a good point. I prepare for my games but, every time, I have to look something up/choose a spell for an NPC/etc., which brings the game pretty much to a halt for a few seconds. Then again, the players each do this several times a session, so I think I'm on the high ground here. The...

Easier to just remove the multiplier from Power Attack.

Tell him to suck it up and get on with the game. Unless you want to be the DM who gets walked over by his players, that is. Seriously though, once you start giving in to this sort of pressure from players you might as well let them run the game. There will always be something else they want you...

I'm with SoA on this - the idea of a Mage Hunter being a spellcaster is dubious. Some of the ideas are good but at first glance it looks too much like an "I want all these features in a class, what should I call it?" class. My thoughts: Remove the spellcasting, give it d8 for hit points, 4...

Package it with a cheap projector deal and I'd seriously consider it.

ENWorld will be here whatever the current D&D incarnation. Let's face it, minutes after 4e hits the shelves there will be posts from people house ruling it, posts from people who don't understand what they are reading and posts from people who want to know what everyone else thinks. Then there...

Nah, doubt I'll buy it. We'd only houserule it anyway so might as well stay with 3.5. Might wait and download a copy though.

Damn, must get my lenses checked out. I thought I read Pole Dancer. Not a bad feat for a monk who wants to make some GP on the side, though. Shake it, baby.

If you trust your players (or you aren't concerned if some of them take liberties) you could have them roll their attacks before the spotlight gets to them. I don't do this myself, mainly because I make my rolls in the open when called for so I think they should, but it's an option. Don't...

In our group we have Powergamers (optimisers) and Flavourgamers (make sub-optimal choices for characterisation). The Optimisers aren't always the worst role-players (sometimes they are the best) and the Flavourgamers aren't always the best (sometimes they come up with off-the-wall ideas with no...

Nah, it's because players want the powerups without the cost. Cake and eat it.

My 'world' has each country with a native tongue, which may be shared with some of its neighbours. There are 'modern' and 'archaic' versions of most racial languages, including Human. There are also distinct alphabets used and some languages may share words and meanings but use different...

Bears aren't bears. It is a familiar name used to describe a bear-like creature. This trick was used to good effect in Runequest. The writers explained that they could have called Bronze and Iron 'Ze-metal' and 'Ga-metal' but it was an unnecessary complication (can't remember the exact words).