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They Sucked... ...as my players found out when they achieved 12th level and beyond... So we lifted them. And what's so great about equitable races anyway? What greatness did humans achieve in LotR ???? Why shouldn't or wouldn't elves be way better than humans? A little more ponderous...

The Wise... Foolish behavior is controlled by Wisdom, or its absence... Villains must be RPd by the DM, hence, their behavior must match their stats. This being said, plans to take over a country seem to succeed fairly often, as demonstrated by Adolf the German and George the rancher, so...

Painful When literature has a prisoner digging through a wall, aka Dantes digs out to become Monte Cristo, the wall and its cement are soft through years of exposure to a moist, humid and even wet environment... An adamantine spoon would likely do the job of digging through a harder wall...

Also, Back in the Old Days... The "Get the Drop on Someone" 1E tactic was (ab)used to slay a deity (or maybe two). And as some of you might have heard, the mythic 10' cube blocks of descending ceiling trap goodness flattened quite a few hapless adventurers, although I never perpetrated that...

No Such Thing as Terminal Velocity ...when dealing with the target of a falling object. When being the falling object, terminal velocity presumes that you ARE trying to slow yourself down. If unconscious (for instance) and given a long enough fall, the 20d6 cap should not apply. As to a...

Buy the Numbers Spencer Cooley's "Buy the Numbers" http://www.stcooleypublishing.com/ Provides an excellent basis for comparison when swapping bits and pieces, or creating whole classes.

Charisma We apply the negative bonus as a POSIITIVE for Intimidate alone... "So ugly he's scary" approach. Or speak elsewhere, the fetid breath is killing me <choke, tears> Did someone mention 1/2 Orc sorcerers and bards? Nahhhhhh ! Only play permissible for a half-orc is a starring role in...

Changing Demographics More adults, less kids... That's not RPGs, that's the occidental world as we know it... End result: less Dragon mags sold. Both the RPG and CRPG average player age are creeping upwards.

Not So Sensible There IS no afterwards! Once the game congeals, that's it!

Recipe Oriented Is there a point to explaining everything in 3e+ ? As in "Here's a new magic item so I must absolutely tell you how to make one" ? Or "here's a dungeon room, with blueprints, costs, and engineering review, as well as plotlines and overly long soon-to-die monster stats" ?

A Bit of Everything... Old age? Happens a lot... To older gamers... And their characters! Multiclassing? Not a problem. We have a Gestalt Rog/Sor and a Gestalt Ftr/Wiz as well as single class Sor, single Clr, single Rgr, and no single class would change for the Gestalts. If Gestalt is NOT a...

The Reason Why... ..It is so fantastic, is that yo ucan ONLY ever do Cult of Cthulhu and Elric of Melnibone in the Deities & Demigods ONCE ! And those were the best, anywhere anytime :)

Way Back When...

The List Isn't Even Complete... What happened to Pholtus ? No Theocracy of the Pale in your Greyhawk ? No "Oh Blinding Light" sung to the tune of Silent Night ? Or was that Oh Tannenbaum ? Aka the Xmas Tree Thingie ? :confused:

Marginal Hmmmmmm, are we feeling a little down on our rather narrow, underpopulated hobby? Given North American + European populations, and how few people are really into "our thing", even with WoW, EQ, and other suchgames, we are a strange bunch! Accept it ! Embrace it !

Did the DM say... "You step over the weapons lying on the floor..." "The armored corpses lie pell-mell on the floor..." "The beheaded dark knight's helm has rolled all the way to the end of the corridor, leaving a bloody trail stopping at the severed head midway to that distance..." Our...

Clean Up / Drop downs The EN World front page got seriously lighter (as of.... 2 months ago, was it?) and perhaps I misused "dropdown" but hovering on a topic on the Messageboards "cover" page used to open a small box where the full title (at least) was displayed, or the first sentence... Just...

Is it just me, or do others find that the recent clean-up left me visiting the boards far less often, and my opening Messageboards finds less "tempting" topics (the drop downs are gone) and thus, I partake less of D&D comments and the like....

Prepared versus Unprepared DO keep in mind that a dragon's CR presumes forewarning. If hunting for a dragon, then, the CR applies. Sean K Reynolds had a breath spell to change energy type in one of the Malhavoc books, for a mere 1st level spell (if memory serves). If using this or similar...

Laelith, as in Casus Belli Laelith ??? From the French mag ????