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The outer shell is made of iron, laced with other metals. Copper, silver, gold, lead, even cobolt could possibly be used depending on what your intentions are. The "skeleton" is made of granite or other hard stone. Fibrous bundles made of livewood connect the skeleton and exoskeleton and serve...

Hrm...well, nice advice, but I still havn't seen the show. Can you make it clearer for someone who's never seen it? (I'm gonna go get it from blockbuster, possibly carnivale as well if they have it, but some help for tonight would be good.)

Hrm...so, could you give me an example of how to run, say, the Feral Dog gang in a Deadwood style? How about Balabar Smenk? Filge?

I'm going to start running this campaign tonight, and I'm debating on what kind of tone to give it. Obviously, the city is thoroughly corrupt, possibly irredeemably so. Such a corrupt city can be treated several ways: 1) Ankh-Morpork: It is a city that is so comedicly corrupt crime has been...

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Err....re: The sherman tank comment, sure they might not be able to disable it by punching it, but 50 people working in concert could easily dismantle one.

When a mob mentality takes over, people DO become a lot more dangerous than they should logically be. Once the mob starts to form, people stop acting as individuals, surrendering their concious thought to a collective rage. People will do things they wouldn't normally do once caught up in the...

By my understanding, a mob can occur any time there's a sufficient number of creatures of the same type and inclination to form the mob. A troupe of gorillas, for instance, or a horde of zombies could form a mob just as easily as a bunch of angry peasants. I've been reading about the...

Considering the way the players were behaving, I think the addiction thing's covered.

LG. He's probably a paladin.

Ahem, I happen to enjoy Downer. In fact, I seek out back issues I'm missing JUST for downer. I can't say why, but I do. Something about the mix of IC and OOCness, the hidden sight gags, the offbeat art style, and the unique translation of game rules to IC play (Coolest. Rebuke undead. Ever.) I...

Assuming the other guy gets an AoO on him, he is engaged in melee combat. Otherwise, by your logic, if he had improved unarmed strike he'd get the penalty when otherwise he wouldn't. Let's apply just a little logic here. Now, if the other target was using a bow as well, then you're right, he...

Hate to end the silliness, but... DDDD DDDC DDDD DDDD D being squares occupied by dragon, C being the one square that has both cat and dragon. If you attack the bolded squares, you take the -4. If you aim at any other square, you don't.

Yes. By the RAW, he is firing into a melee that he himself is a part of. By logic it makes sense too, since in close quarters it is easier for someone to anticipate the shot or even bat his weapon aside (not to disarm, just disrupt its accuracy). The mechanical effect being a -4 penalty to the...

I really like the Eberron gnomes. They're a friendly, welcoming, industrious people who are quick to laugh, philosophical, publish the newspaper, and love to get to know people. ...their society is also run by a secret police that makes East Germany look like happy hippie town, they live in...

Then you should definately pick up their guide to Earth. Who would've guessed that, even in the future, Colombians were short hairy dwarves who live in caves to escape the marauding drug armies?

Personally, I try to make liberal use of the DM's Friend whenever my players request it: the +2/-2 circumstance bonus. I wish they would think of reasons to use it more often though. I notice a lot of people sounding like grumpy old men who wish things were as good as they were "back in my...

Undead are a notable exception to the rule that mindless creatures do not have an alignment. While a giant scorpion may seem destructive and cruel, it's just following its instinct. A zombie or skeleton cannot make moral decisions, and yet it is evil. Its actions when not commanded would...

Because the sad truth of any geek activity is that if you no longer derive enjoyment from it, you must personally see to it no one else does either.

Uhh...you do realize that it's the same kind of upgrade that Flaming Burst is, right? So it probably costs about as much more. That preview sounds cool! I've always hated having to make up descriptions of magic items that wouldn't give too much away. This seems like a very useful resource for...