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During our epic campaign the party arcane trickster repeatedly rolled in the mid-upper 60s on hide and move silently checks. Typically, it was only blindsense that ever thwarted it.

I've been allowing players to run more than one PC for the last couple years. It started in our epic campaign, when I started handing off NPC cohorts and letting the players run them, letting me focus more on the module. It continues in the Age of Worms campaign. The players roll up their...

I haven't read all the posts, but I've read some... I feel I can respond now. ;) Others have said that metagaming is the wrong word to use, and I agree. I don't necessarily see metagaming happening here, but I do see a player annoying the DM and other players. I think the player in question...

I see your point. There's the mini, and there's that awesome pic in Complete Warrior of the orcish duo messin' up a hag, the one with the axe, the other with the chains. It's there. One of my players runs a half-orc chainfighter, currently a fighter 6 I believe. He makes great use of combat...

I started this box back in '98 with my high-level 2E group. We had already enjoyed the Eye Tyrant series, a lengthy Ravenloft sojourn, followed by The Rod of Seven Parts box. We played through the hill giants, the vampires (who almost turned one PC into a vampire), right up to the Black...

Yugoloths are huge in Forgotten Realms. A trio of nycaloths caused the destruction of Myth Drannor. It would be incredible if they were statted out (slim chance of that... I'd be interested in the author's ideas). Scott Ciencen did a great job covering The Trio Nefarious as the...

...and no doors that can't simply be broken through, no locks that, somehow, require a key to be opened (drives me NUTS with NWN2... It's OPEN LOCK! No key required... Oh, the DC is 99... how typically ridiculous), no forced conversations, no invisible walls, no respawning monsters, and on and...

I wouldn't necessarily assign penalties across the board to the rakshasa. The game designers didn't include penalties (whether because of a desire to save paper, a desire to avoid thinking about it too deeply, or to make a reference to some literary monster/figure), so why make things more...

For the same reason that we have left-handed scissors.

You know, I'd love to use rakshasa in my campaign, but the simple fact that their hands are reversed just irks me, and I'd rather not listen to my players constantly point out the ridiculousness of those hands (which has happened before), so I leave them out. Tiger-headed humanoids are awesome...

No one pointing the finger at Salvatore? He certainly helped engrain the Scottish dwarf, and he's probably the reason that BG dwarves talk the way they do.

There's a lot of cutting up at my table. Lots of jokes and dumb comparisons. Nothing that's written in. It's all out-of-game. I often slip into an out-of-game joke in the midst of narration. For example, I might narrate as follows: "You learn that the orc citadel of Xul-Jarak (Sons of...

Mounted combat works in a campaign that makes mounted combat available on a relatively regular basis. If only 20% or so of the campaign is spent on horseback, there's really no reason for PCs to pursue mounted feats. I've never had a PC take any kind of mounted combat feats. I've had plenty...

I don't think it's appropriate in any situation. At my table, if the player isn't there, the character isn't there. If the character needs to be there, and the player can't be there, we don't play.

I love Dungeon. Endless modules. Less work for me. 'Tis good. I'd like to run Savage Tide using the Hyborian setting. Seems like a good fit.

I didn't vote, as I don't necessarily agree with any of the choices. I think disjunctions are ok only so long as the PCs or the opponent(s) of the PCs have access to the spell and the DM understands the consequences. I think that a DM should consider the repercussions of such a game-altering...

Kae'Yoss, your sentence-by-sentence response is insulting to me. Whether you realize it or not, you're flaming, and it adds nothing to the discussion. I have no desire to go back and forth or adopt the classic sentence-by-sentence, point-by-agonizing point duel with you or anyone else. My...

Is it wiser to assume there won't be a 4E? Judging from the past, each edition lasts about 10 years. 3E/3.5 doesn't have much time left (about three years). And the rumor of a 2008 release of 4E makes me sick. Way too soon. :mad: I'd would definitely rather see 3.5 around for another ten...

My first experience with drow was at the gaming table AND in front of the computer (Eye of the Beholder I). They've always been mysterious, sleek, stealthy, ruthless, and utterly cool. I read the RAS novels, and a certain magic was dispelled. They're not bad books, but I didn't quite buy into...

:lol: This is already happening.