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Hubris & A Degree of Separation No, a paladin will NOT always win the day... :eek: And they'll often die trying :\ Some people have mentioned the "character is not the player" (several posts back). Keep in mind that few players can / will play an Int of 6-9 (except occasionally and...

Your Lipstick Is Really a ROGUE RO-GUE ROG-U-E Where you put the U is really important. Same as so many other words. Not trolling you... Just on the verge of screaming from all the lipstick ("rouge"). Rogue: "u" makes it "hard" g in front of the "e".... <sigh>

AD&D Strength 1) It was a slash (though you can use whatever you want as long as you understand yourself) 2) "Add 2 to STR" ??? None of the original races add a +2 mod. Technically, to get to Str 19 using a +2 mod, you would need to have 18/91-99 to start with... 3) Some people seem to be...

Several Factors of Influence... Yesterday, I packed my laptop and counters and we played a solid 11 hour session over at a friend's. The ongoing now "edge of 15th level" campaign. At some point, I had the following open in PDF, stacked in the same window: - 3.5 PHB - 3E PHB (because...

Is it just me or is the Violet Dawn webpage down ? Another publisher troubled by less than palatable numbers ?

Finally happened... Got on ENWorld and blam ! Overload ! I have enough material to last me a long, long time, or feed my musings. Am I alone ?

Shc ...stands for Spontaneous Halfling Combustion ; the hobbit belons to LotR... Period. Halflings in my campaign are immediate ash.

Urbanus Did someone say Urb-anus ? ;)

Dungeons ? The principal hurdles to ENJOYABLE dungeons have been... 1) MAPPING: resolved by just throwing the map on the table ; mature players will not metagame the contents, and it avoids endless descriptions of length, width, etc 2) GOAL ORIENTATION: you need a precise reason or a...

Asimov's Foundation IS a Trilogy First three books were great ; anything after that is a cash-grabbing nuisance.

Not Trolling Not to offend anyone, but we could ask the question in a quite different form: do people like to think ? political comment removed by admin In general, few people read. Many of the books sold at B&N or Amazon never get opened. They just lie there. A super-hot bestseller (not...

Offense / Defense Given the age-old statement about the best defense being a strong offense, the two-handed weapon approach defends very well by reducing the amount of time you spend in harm's way.

Sneaky Should the DM allow Sneak Attack with spells (an option, but certainly not compulsory), the multiple attacks would be resolved separately and ONLY the 1st one would be a sneak attack possibility (provided it hit). "Thar goes the unbalanz"

"More Rules Consultations" The problem for 3E & 3.5 is since the DMG is less than appetizing fare, and not very conducive to a sit down (no entertainment value whatsoever, and oh so little flair) that the DM is then stuck "reading" or making hsi first approach at the gaming table. In some...

Bottom Line I guess we can sum it up in one sentence. Given that our 1E DMG is a utilitarian book written 25 years ago, it is simply amazing that we can still profit immensely from the contents and for some, enjoy reading the contents of that Efreet-dominated tome.

1E Touch Spells Those were indeed "do or die" (charge wise, anyway). Either you managed to deliver or the spell was effectively gone. 1E did not even have a Touch AC, although most campaigns eventually "house ruled" a variant... Having to hit in the same way as a weapon was an incredible...

1E DMG ? The Best ! Simply put, that book held more information than today's DMG. It was denser and Gygax's style, purposefully archaic or anachronistic in tone, made it that much more interesting. The 1E DMG could be read without being a bore, which imho is far from the 3E or 3.5 DMG. The...

House rule to make crits effective My group(s) usually apply "a crit will have minimum damage of the weapon's max damage + bonuses". The opponents have the same benefit.

Skreyn's Register / Bonds of Magic SK Reynolds had a mere 1st level spell in there allowing a dragon (or half-dragon) to change its breath weapon energy type.... Surprise ! Most likely TPK too !

Including a dart thrown at the Calmed (presumably by his own allies) to pull him out from under the spell.