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Unless the material being attacked wouldn't take damage from that element then sure, they'd count. All energy types should work, unless the material indicates otherwise.

His last post on this was a year and a half ago. I guess something went wrong, somewhere.

I was wondering why this was bumped. Where the heck happened to SHARK, anyways? Where is he?

Hmmm. I coulda sworn that Undead was conpiciously absent from the Bane list, probably due to the existence of the Disrupting enchantment. If Undead doesn't actually have to be house-ruled onto the list, then that's even better.

I think not interfering is what a normal person would do, and so it's Neutral. Paladins or priests of most good-aligned dieties would catch some flak from the Boss for not interfering, though.

How boring fighters are depends on how they're run. Playing yet another "Hulk smash!" type with a two-hander can and will be boring. I rather liked my dwarf that did kung-fu in spiked full plate, though. OA has good feats for that sort of thing. Especially Improved Grapple. Armor spikes...

I don't see why not.. I'd assume the Implosion spell is broken when someone absorbs it. Though someone absorbing the same Implosion several times would be kinda funny.

Being mounted, and having something significant as the mount (such as a nightmare) could help. A solo fighter needing to battle a party is hosed unless he is significantly stronger than the individual PCs. I've been in the battle where it was a party vs a single enemy fighter, and it was...

I think I've seen more PCs with templates than baddies with templates. I'll usually just scale up the hit dice of a creature and/or give it class levels if I want it to be beefy. Templates are reserved for creatures with history. Well, except Fiendish. Fiendish can show up in the damnedest...

If the players were attached to their characters than no, I would not launch the party into the slaughterhouse that is the Tomb. If no one minded the possiblity of having to write up new characters, then sure, it's time to give the Tomb its pound(s) of flesh :D

We don't have critical failures in my group. Considering the frequency with which we roll 1's, actually implementing critical failures would probably result in a TPK.

FR has some interesting choices for a pally.. Torm and Tyr are classic ones to take; Kelemvor and Sune are among the odder options. Escpecially Sune. Which god you pick will both shape the nature of your paladin's duties, and also decides your multiclassing options. What sort of Pally do you...

I fully approve of the horribly over-the-top skill checks. If you ban those, then there's no point in pointing more than 20 or so ranks in skills that aren't opposed rolls. Most of my group was horrified by the ability to use Diplomacy to make fanatics out of people, though. Probably because...

I've still got Her Quest sitting my closet. I ran the whole thing with my big brothers; we rather annoyed about the two expansions being scaled to a party that apparently has no equipment at all beyond the Spirit Blade. What's this Advanced HeroQuest that everyone's talking about?

Gah. Speaking as a kid who grew up on gaming: Just leave your books lying around where the kids can get at them. They'll look through the things for the neat pictures, and eventually they'll be curious about what it actually means. Exposing them to actual game sessions or a game directly...

My group has an absentee award for people who have a good reason not to make the game. This was the direct result of some people going of to college before others in the group, and we not wanting to screw over the people who could only show up every other week or whatever. The absentee award...

Most boards make me feel old. This one makes me feel young :eek: I believe I saw THAC0 for the first time in '87 or '88, maybe a little later -- whenever the heck I noticed the Pool of Radiance game that my big brother was playing on the Tandy. All of the old SSI games that were based on...

Hmm. Congrats? Sounds like you have a combat-oriented player in a RP game. My own inclination is that if a PC does something suicidal, I might as well oblidge the PC by killing him or her. Dante did something reckless and paid for it. I'm much more inclined to be merciful if the PCs are...

Aside from my group's tradition of splatter radius, I usually only go into details of violence in order to a) disturb the players or b) when it's necessary to explain what's going on. My group tends run big, long combats, and trying to graphically describe everything would take too dang long.

Ones that kill lots of people? Aren't Spot and Listen barbarian class skills? I know one of them is, anyways. The gnolls seems to be winning there, but the barbarian class is just about the only area where a half-orc might beat a human, too. If it's about equal with a human in what just...