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Ha! No kidding. One of the big villains in one of my old campaigns was a half-fiend troll with a single level of Barbarian. The PCs wouldn't go near him, despite my half-mocking admonishment, "He's *only* CR 8!" They were trying to figure out a way to pin him underwater so he'd drown, but...

Labyrinth of Lost Souls was waaay better. And having the acronym be LOLS was harmless amusement.

I do begin to tire of the [word+word]SPACE[Creature type] naming scheme. I realize it's probably tough to come up with names for this many weird critters, but it still feels kinda hokey after a while.

Spreading a creature's damage-dealing capacity out over three lesser attacks rather than one big one tends to make it more predictable in combat - exactly the kind of thing you want to do if you're after game balance.

See, now if they just fix Vampires I'll be happy. I would like vampires that are, y'know, bloodsucking fiends. Get rid of the level-draining slam attack and put the fangs back in there.

I didn't start seriously playing until the early-to-mid nineties. I ran into the Keep much later. I've DMed it a couple times since then, and never played it. I still use it as inspiration. The HackMaster version, btw, is Brilliant.

I didn't start seriously playing until the early-to-mid nineties. I ran into the Keep much later. I've DMed it a couple times since then, and never played it. I still use it as inspiration. The HackMaster version, btw, is Brilliant.

I'm a Wizard man, tried and true. But I would like to give running a Paladin a shot, if the rules for them are good, and I had the right GM and players around...

IIRC, you're only dead at zero if the hit that took you there was ALSO higher than your damage threshhold. And I believe WotC already confirmed death is at -10, so it's a non-issue anyway.

I suppose, with the new edition, they have a chance to finally clean up the entire CR spectrum. I know that CR is no longer really a part of the game, but there's something similar replacing it. I would really like them to plan this out better beforehand this time. Eliminating extra-core Epic...

They work pretty well in SWSE. I'm sort of suspecting that Bloodied takes the place of the Track, since they might be going too fast-play to have two separate condition measures like that. This will make me Very Sad.

Gah! Watch the red text, I thought you'd modded out on me for a split second.

I've never really thrown enough Dragons around to warrant meddling much with their stats. I try to keep them so rare that they're exceptional anyway. Still, I would have done it in a heartbeat if I thought it was warranted, so I don't mind WotC doing it. It is, again, a rule that's childishly...

Is 'make the party crap themselves' a viable answer? Because that's what I'd use him for. Seriously, though, I'm guessing him and the pit fiend are both tri-athletes, the pit fiend maybe being a mastermind type as well.

Good for you! That's pretty badass.

Well, the plan is for the game I'm currently playing in to stop next summer, so the GM can take a break if not end it on some big climax. He's been running for a couple years now, he deserves a break. I've agreed to run 4E and put it through its paces, so we can decide whether to continue 3.x...

Well, I think that you could fit a wordcount comparable to the 3E adventure game into a book the size of a monthly issue of KoDT, but I might be wrong. Even if I am mistaken, a pamphlet-sized adventure module + pregens + town, handed out gratis in gaming stores with the PHB , would be both...

You know, I thought about this for a while last night. I think WotC needs to go farther. Anybody remember the little starter-package WW put out for the new version of Mage? It was a little saddle-stitched pamphlet, on paper that was better than newsprint but not amazing. You could pick it up...

That sounds pretty damn sweet. I may have to look into this.

Don't get me wrong, I love original Conan. And those rules are a great place to start if you want to emulate the fiction. The stuff I'm talking about is for building keeps/raising armies...big stuff like that. A lot of people aren't too big a fan of that, but I hired a score of mercenaries...