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Five years ago, I would have said science. However, given the recent mainstream fascination with Christian mysticism (The Da Vinci Code) and the supernatural (John Edward, etc), I'm not so sure. Compound this fascination with a seemingly widespread rejection of science (creationism vs...

Likely an urban legend, but still funny, are the "Dilbert Management Quotes Contest" winners: http://www.comedycorner.org/89.html My favorite: Spider

The rules seem to be a little unclear here, because they don't explicitly explain what order to impose the penalties. That's important, because one of these penalties (RoE) can't bring you down past 1. Another penalty (fatigue) can. I think it would be logical to apply the penalties in the...

Quoted for truth. If you do this, consider the following: 1) Fighting a bunch of bugs will get boring. Maybe you could have a type of mind-controlling bug that burrows into the brain of its victim. Gives the PC's to fight just about anything, from innocent villagers to beefed-up trolls. Yet...

Just to be clear--do I need to make Handle Animal (DC 10) checks to issue these commands? Or can I just shout, "DANCE!" and expect my magic wolverine to start boogieing? Spider

I'll buy you a beer the next time I see you. :) I don't think this is a game-breaker. I'm leaning towards saying that the Soulknife can create his Mindblade with no PP left. I hate this passage: It seems to suggest that if the SLK had power points otherwise, he wouldn't need this class...

Sure they can: Incidentally, I'm the player for whom this will matter. Spider

Talk about it with your players. Last week's session was pretty tedious at times, and we spent a good portion of this session discussion what went wrong. It was very useful. Spider

I enjoy both, but with caveats: No-win situations work best when they're a long time coming. They should be crucial to the story, and the stakes should be extremely high. The reason? Such situations force the PC to take some responsibility for making a painful sacrifice. When the PC...

Notepad.exe Each session, I copy the contents of last session's character into a new document using the following schema Character Name - Class/Level (Date).txt I then track HP, GP, equipment, etc in that document. I can literally tell my DM the date, villian, and circumstance under which...

You might want to start with some old Twilight Zone episodes. It sounds like they might provide some of the feel you're looking for: Isolated subtle anomalies that have tremendous impact on the protagonists. Nothing flashy or world-altering, but wondrous nonetheless. Spider

As the DM in question, here are my calculations on how this item should be priced without the intelligence: Magic circle against evil, continuous 3 (spell level)* 5 (caster level) * 2000 (use activated or continuous) * 1.5 (10 min/level) = 45000gp 3x/day bless 1 (spell level) * 1 (caster...

A lot of the stories I'm interested deal with the Drama created when Conviction is driven by Circumstance to produce unpredictable results. These situations really define and enrich characters. In one of the above examples: Sam (at first a rather unheroic character) has great love and respect...

The worst player I've ever encountered was a guy we found over the Net. He and his wife were in our area, looking for a game, so we gave it a shot. When he, his wife, and their 3-month-old baby showed up, we all knew it was a mistake. The child screamed the whole time. He and his wife were...

All cool ideas so far, thanks! The demi-plane idea could work well. Planar travel is almost entirely unknown to the continent, so it would be a nice way of demonstrating how unique this vault is. I've also toyed with the idea that the vault was built into an old maze-temple of Eshu (god of...

Some of these issues are addressed by Joss here. Spider

I'm interested in running my characters through an Ocean's Eleven type adventure. Basically, the party will need to retrieve an item that's locked in a vault, in a city, under heavy guard. The party is 13th level, with a barbarian (adamantine greataxe), a druid (very good problem-solver), and...

I agree. In fact, as I was watching the end of the film, I completely expected it to go down like this: All the secondary characters get offed one-by-one, until the last guy dies performing the action that will save the world. I was surprised that the whole cast didn't bite it. Spider

Congrats! Too bad it's in Cary. ;) My g/f and I bought a house last year. Pretty scary stuff...the stacks of paperwork we signed were unreal. But we're very happy with it. It feels great to stop throwing away our money on rent...now we throw it away on interest! :) Spider

Yeah, the Governor and Senator prestige classes are totally overpowered. Things like armor are way too expensive, but you can totally buy deadly poisons and alchemist's fire (bleach, gasoline) way too cheap. Oh, and the combat system in general sucks. I mean, a 15th level fighter can be...