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The rate of mining is immaterial. First, decide how much income you want them to make from the mine. Decide how much excavation you want them to accomplish per month, and divide it out to find out how much is in each cubic yard of material. Personally, I like the way Empire handles this kind...

Why not? The way I see it, it's the character showing his "true colors".

We recently went through a bankruptcy. It's not fun, but it can help you keep your house. Money, especially the money this community could put together, isn't going to change the situation, it's just going to delay it.

Uh, no. That would be a cavalry horse. Big difference. The breeds for this were generally very large, in order to be able to bear the rider and his armor and gear. Clydesdales, for example.

**sigh** If you want a science-based game, unfortunately, your caves are going to be inhabited by a few tiny cave fish and maybe some bats. Not too much room for adventure when there's no available nutrients. If you want a FANTASY game, however, you can set up the ecology any way you like...

The system in Dynasties and Demagogues is very useful for situations where you want to allow players to play characters who are far more politically able than they are.

Here's some fun... Have a pair of wizards in a duel. Each is chained by the foot to a stone pedestal, forty feet apart. In the middle of the room, a sphere of annihilation. They can cast spells at each other, or try to use the sphere...

Theological detail would be more useful than biological detail. The example you gave with the birds and the pouches is dandy.

No, it doesn't. However, a fatigued character who becomes fatigued again goes to (I believe) "exhausted" which is far worse. ToF is a great spell to hit the barbarian with, then go on the defensive until his rage is over.

Stealth is an excellent situation for using take ten. I usually roll for the sentries, and have the infiltrators take ten, but if the PC's are the infiltrators, I'll tell them the DC based on the sentry's bonuses and have them roll. Secret #43 of the Iron DM: Let the players roll the dice as...

Personally, I think there are better ways to handle "the alignment problem" than to just toss the whole alignment system. There are just too many places in fantasy literature where only someone who is "pure of heart" can pass the test.

Okay, let's say you have a system where only outsiders, and those who associate with them, are actually aligned. Does it make sense that a serial baby-eater should be able to handle a holy sword with no repercussions?

Why is the blocking of the teleporting such a big deal? In my view, blocking the SCRYING is the important part! Even if they can only just SEE into the enemy corridors of power, isn't that threat enough? The SBG has some magical enhancements that can block scrying, plus there are spells that...

Hear, hear. One of my usual preambles to any game is as follows: "Don't assume that any science developed after around the year 1200 on Earth is valid, even down to basic physics. My world is a magical world, and as such, things don't work the way they do on earth. On the other hand...

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Exactly. NO game that meets requirement number 1 is going to last long.

Comes from several experiences on PK MUD's. The ones that allowed unlimited PK's were always very sparsely attended, because newbies didn't last long. The phrase in that community is "People don't want to play food." That phrase originated from a Vampire MUSH that required that any new player...

I'd like to put in a complaint here about Malhavoc. They made the name of their magic weapon special abilities closed content, among them "Gold," "Silver," and "Platinum." WTF?

Of course, spells aren't the only things that can be cheesy: Gelatinous Cheese

So what you're asking for, basically, is a game where the first few people to start playing rule the whole game.. they are the only ones that are powerful enough to keep their characters for more than fifteen minutes, and have piles and piles of gold that they stripped from newbie corpses. The...