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People on Enworld convinced me the system hosed fighters and helped wizards. I took that as a criticism even though the only effective wizard spell in my personal experience is fireball. I also encountered CMD when it was 15 + modifiers and I didn't like that since I thought it was escaping...

The problem is that General is followed by four forums with very little participation, making it look like nothing else is going on on the site. Sort the forums by popularity, or make the forums like Board Games with 0.3% the posts of General into subforums. Right now Board Games is getting...

It's really hard for me to read the first post in this thread as anything other than a declaration of emergency, even now that I know what you really feel. Although I never really thought the place would go under.

I guess I'm one of the people Morrus is talking about with misconceptions about things that he understands well. I guess when I asked about it near the end of...

I'm going off Robert Cialdini's book Influence and how much you can wrangle out of people by getting them to accept anything from you, even a flower. That's why I don't believe offering people the back catalogue of WotBS for subscribing is the same as offering it to them for $3. Maybe I'm the...

Can I come watch what your GMing style is like, or would you be uncomfortable with an audience?

You're right, Paypal should be workable for recurring subscribers, if not new ones. I ended up never downloading any War of the Burning Sky once I found out my subscription only entitled me to one month at a time (not even sure if you can save up and download the whole thing after a year)...

It's on an epic quest to be borne around the world, and now it has fallen to you to do your part. Then pass it off to the next hero...

Actually, I was kind of happy for the limit because I couldn't stop my eye from making me read the XP box even when I knew what it was going to say for the tenth time. XP is supposed to make you feel good about your better posts, so I don't think it means as much if everybody gets it. I have...

Page 58 of the PHB just says that all the ranks you buy that level have to be in the class skills for your new class. So could you "catch up" by putting all your skill points into one class skill from the new class, so that at level 19 you had no concentration and then you take one wizard level...

I like that -- how can I stall combat? Think of excuses to roleplay instead! I could even try to have some handy -- "switch to my side," "let me explain my evil plan, now that you're doomed," hmm, what else. By the way, I wrote my players and got this: One of the sneaky players is the kind...

blargney, you are the "insanely efficient players" he was referring to -- at least that's the impression I've gotten from this thread.

I like allips. A change of pace from physical monsters tend to have backstory make an location all haunting and ghostly hypnotism is like suggestion only it puts you in a cool trancelike state while you march to your doom PCs with Wisdom drain get to roleplay doing extremely silly things...

I like mephits because they have a million little abilities, kind of like a 4E monster.

Oh, with regard to replacing the races: I don't love it. I mean, when I play a campaign in the underdark I don't have to play a drow or a duergar. And even if I win I'll never be able to go above water and lead a normal life. Basically when you say "fight krakens and jellyfish, see merfolk...

I agree with knightofround, mostly -- I might like running Castle Whiterock for people, but I don't need there to always be a thread about Castle Whiterock on the front page. I can still play it without there being one. Now, let's say I want to generate stuff about Castle Whiterock in a...

I really like that -- it will get people attached to their characters. Also, before I joined the group it was often a problem that characters who died offered more treasure than killing monsters and came back with more treasure than their earlier character (due to below standard treasure awards...

I have a PC who wants to be a shadowdancer in several levels! What if he could get trained to be one by an actual recurring character who's a shadow? The party didn't kill the undertaker -- the lone character who confronted him made a deal to get back the countess he'd abducted by mistake --...

You are thinking "reskin the shadow as a corporeal creature that can blend into shadows"? That's a pretty good idea -- the victims could be like "and then he'll cast you into the DARKNESS!" Another idea I got from looking at the entry is to reskin the shadow as the shadow of something specific...

I was making up encounters on the fly last week and thinking "wouldn't it be cool if the undertaker who is collecting 'corpses' that are not actually dead was in league with a shadow that he used to steal their strength so they couldn't move?" But, a shadow is not the sort of thing that hangs...