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I'm puzzled about why your monks can never use feats to learn weapons. This is really extreme and massively limiting. What's your thinking?

My wife's playing a barbarian with a spiked chain in my current campaign. She's only 4th level and has gone Ambidex, ExWP:Spiked Chain & WF: Spiked Chain (she's got a 20 dex). Conceptually, she wanders around in leaf armour (which she got from her faerie bloodkin) with the chain wrapped around...

I'll tell you what I know, such as it is. Kung fu is generally divided along two main axes - northern/southern styles and internal/external styles. Northern - in the north of China are a lot of plains, deserts and similar open spaces. As such, the styles that developed here tend to focus on...

I guess I'm a little different to everyone else so far. I don't get to play all that often; mostly I'm the DM. When I do get to play I like to play a competent individual on his way to being a hero. I don't really go for the really low stat/strange foible/massive difficulty to overcome...

If you're already contemplating levels of fighter, then Shintao Monk is for you - not only do you get smite evil (as per paladin), divine grace and some other cool abilities, you also get a bonus feat at every second level - and it all combines with your monk levels for unarmed combat.

:( Alright tleilaxu, you can stop reading my mind now! I was planning only yesterday to post this exact question. Personally, we don't use alternate names in-game too much, but when I'm writing game based fiction I loathe game-speak so I'm constantly developing new names for spells - or new...

Getting into the underworld is one thing, but the way I see it, getting into the "guild" should be quite hard. Secret societies thrive on being just that, secret. One idea I've always wanted to run (and may yet one day) is a city where the guild is actually a very few members who know each...

Watch Donny Brasco (Al Pacino, Johnny Depp). It's all about an FBI agent trying to infiltrate the mafia. It's probably the best IRL film about a "thieve's guild" and how you join.

1. How many sessions deep are you into your story? (meaning- how many single game sessions have you written up for your SH so far?) Only two sessions - another in a few days. 2. Everyone seems to agree that a successful story hour can only come about as a result of passion on the writer's...

Buttercup! I just figured it out... We share the same source for our nom de plumes. Clearly you are an individual of superlative taste.;)

One of the best sources for scenario plots is, IMHO, films. For that reason, I ask everyone to name their favourite movies with plots which can, or have been, adapted to scenarios. To start us off: 1. The Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven 2. The Guns of Navarrone 3. Conan the Destroyer 4. Conan...

Just some of the party's possible enemies: The Spice Ghouls Dwarven Death Metal Bands - lots of metal, lots of death The Paladins of the Gender Neutral, Racially Tolerant, Differently Abled Aware, Culturally Sensitive, Non-denomonational Order of Political Correctness. The Belching Mages of...

I have a similar philosophy to PrCs - I like 'em organisation based as well. What I do is allow characters to take up a prestige class on invitation (by an npc) and then, if they haven't got the necessary pre-reqs, they have to obtain them before they do anything else developmentally. Frex -...

We use psionics in my campaign - so far it's been cleanly balanced with magic. The campaign is a Spelljammer campaign and the characters are only just discovering the existence of space travel, so psionics has been used to make off-worlders more exotic seeming. None of the planetary natives is...

Actually, it had a longer life than I expected. I've been pleased. The last time I was involved in this sort of thing it was on a fanfic board where people submitted daily and that one petered out in about six weeks. Maybe it would work better if there was a closer level of collaboration. Who...

I've always thought that pole arms get the shaft in roleplaying games because the majority of people in the rpg industry think in terms of military history, instead of martial history (yes, there is a difference). Frex, it's not widely known that the halberd was the second most popular duelling...

As Machiavelli said, if you trust your fate to mercenaries then the mercenaries will take your princedom from you. or, in D&D terms If your hirelings are higher level than you, they'll take your pay and then they'll take everything else. If you're a higher level than your hirelings then their...

I did (and will again) study Chow Gar kung fu and Buk Sing Choy Lay Fut kung fu. The instructors who teach at my school learnt from two wild brothers from Hong Kong - people from NW USA may know them, the Laceys. Anyway, my instructors learnt in a traditional school from guys who had to defend...

Edited in the interests of keeping on topic. Request: can we keep focussed on game related ideas, since subjects such as DV and rape are highly politicised and so far no one on the thread has effectively grappled with the genuine subtlety of the situation.

I've checked Guiness - no mention of D&D that I can find. I vaguely remember a reference to a record attempt from the early eighties - I think it was in a Dragon around issue #60, but I've got no solid leads. I just thought if someone knew, or knew where to look.