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:D That seems to be the consensus opinion. Now if I can only find a way to make the whapping of people upside the head an acknowledged pillar of the faith, I'll be in good shape - I can play that up for laughs and the PC will still have the more serious stuff to associate with the Mark if he...

You sometimes hold the button down too long? Or you sometimes need more creamer and more sugar before beginning?

Yeah, that's great! Not as much as I'll need, but what religion would be complete without some pithy sayings for the uninitiated to ponder. I see much clubbing over the head for nonlethal damage in this character's future. :p

That first post basically has everything I've been working with - I'm pretty much running this cleric on the fly, and I'd like some more official doctrine to kick around now that it's stepped up a notch. Unfortunately, my ignorance of D&D religion is profound (I hate playing clerics, among...

Here's the story. One of my PCs is a werewolf scout who has a bad habit of getting the snot kicked out of him in battle. To rectify this, he's been going to the only good-aligned cleric he can find for healing - a crotchety old acolyte of Saint Cuthbert. The problem is that he's a) chaotic...

Should be a multiple-choice poll. My players usually use them to perform daring acts of heroism to save their butts. :p Example from last night - a super-strong fishman (skum rogue with 18 starting strength) was mauling the werewolf scout with a silver short sword. The changeling rogue...

That was my first thought, but then I thought it'd be a good idea to play up the religious aspect. If almost everyone receives spells directly from a good, it'd be like those with low wisdom were lacking some fundamental faculty like eyesight in their inability to commune with the divine. They...

Would it be reasonable for you to make the copper mine city property? If the revenue from that flowed directly into your coffers instead of indirectly through taxes, you might be in much better shape, cash-flow wise. The dragon also intrigues me. There has to be a way to make use of that...

Well, the sheer awesomeosity of Roudi's post intimidates me, but I'll throw in my two cents. To my mind, there are two things that every dragon fight (and encounters with similar creatures) should have - it should be a set-piece battle, and it should devastate the surrounding terrain. I'll...

I have to agree with Ghoti here, I just don't see genocide as an inevitable result of widespread faith, especially since pretty much every published setting already assumes widespread faith in the deities. Giving everyone a little divine spellcasting wouldn't really exacerbate that, to my mind...

That depends, really. How ruthless/bastardly can you be? What's the precise party make-up? What kinds of people does the government employ? (I'm assuming you don't have a 25th-level wizard on the payroll, but you never know.)

Hmm, actually I quite like the Stronghold book as well. Don't get too much use out of it (alas, my planning skills are too poor to use something like that often), but I thought it was a fun read at the very least. And, like many others, I wouldn't ever buy a product due to the author. Other...

One of my bad habits as a DM is structuring a campaign around a quickly-moving plot by some villainous organization or other. So there tends to not be much down time, because the villains are always busy and if the bad guys are up to something, the good guys must perforce be...

Yes, though that's mainly a problem with spellcasters, I think. Although knocking-down-mountains attack rolls could be similarly abused. Unfortunately, not really. It's something I see, but then you're right that the game actually encourages the use of spread-out bonus types. It gets to be...

You know, this irks me on a conceptual level too. I don't ever actually play that high, but it's fun to think about. I might even try my hand at something if I were to drop off the face of the earth for a year or so. I think I would try to handle it with a system of enormously large penalties...

Thanks for the vote of confidence! I don't actually have much say in this, although, DMH, I do know that the book will be available PoD at RPGNow sooner or later - I want one too. (And sooner's better for me as well, of course.) :) I'll send an e-mail to RangerWickett if he doesn't comment...

Ah, I'd love to have one of my players try to train an owlbear. Here's what the Arms and Equipment Guide has to say on the subject: The book goes on to suggest that a DC 15 Handle Animal check be required to tell an owlbear not to attack something, and comments that repeated excessive...

You're welcome! But I'm not that eager to please - I just read the pdf you linked me to, checked out the newsletters and other materials on that site, read the introductory chapter (it's in a free pdf at the company's website), and flipped through the book at my FLGS to confirm my impressions...

Hnh. Good thing RW decided to poke his head in here - he's got a better idea of our schedule than I do. DMH - I finally got to look over all the Morningstar stuff. Sorry that took so long. As far as using The Fantastic Science with Morningstar goes, the first consideration is whether you...

I faced a unique challenge along these lines recently. I spent most of the summer writing a book for EN Publishing (see sig), with the result that I was unable to complete a paper rewrite I had promised my favorite philosophy professor/mentor at Baylor (from which I recently graduated with a...