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A Bag of Devouring can quickly become a secret weapon in a PC's arsenal. One rogue so armed can easily sneak up on an unsuspecting humanoidish enemy, slip the bag over the victim's head, and voila. No more bad guy head.

The key part of running a game like this is patience and a little more DM direction. However, if your son is adding a lot of his own ideas, like the "I find treasure!" sorts of remarks, don't stifle him. It's basically his way of telling you what type of game he wants. My brother and I started...

It amazes me just how many people have been influenced, knowingly or otherwise, by EGG and his marvelous creation in the last 30+ years or so. There are the obvious people who play D&D or some variant, but then there's HORDES of computer and video game nerds who owe Gary a big debt. Basically...

Gah! The sheer amount of mace related punnery is absurd. However, you might call a mace-wielder "crowd control" or "riot police".

For me D&D 3.5 is my current #1, but the second would have to be Star Wars d20. I know, it's basically the same as D&D 3.5, but I found SWd20 thanks to the KOTOR games and haven't regretted the purchase.

I think the "leader" category gets so much neglect because you don't really do direct effects to the enemy as often as most of the other classes. Support characters tend to be less favored in just about any type of RPG that I've experienced. I too cried great salty tears of...teariness when I...

A player in my current campaign is playing a gnome barbarian who wields a human sized greataxe. He took a feat to be able to use the oversize ax properly, but it only applies to his axe, no others. I figured this was pretty good character concept and roleplaying so I let him take a few other...

Oi. It really depends on what you want the character's focus to be. Sneakiness? Combat effectiveness? What are you going for here?

The dragons' losing AC when they go from Gargantuan to Colossal makes sense to me. Bigger targets. Their scales get tougher, which is shown via natural armor, but they're so big that it doesn't matter. Someone will hit them more easily now. The confusion here can stem from the fact that I think...

Here's a tactic every psion should utilize: Death Urge on a low Will save baddie in round 1, then use Deja Vu in subsequent rounds to cause the bad guy to beat himself to death. It could result in a heavy expenditure of psi points if the baddie gets lucky and makes the save, but will utterly...

I too prefer to have the PCs earn their "hero" status over a few of the lower levels, which is partly why I'm not rushing out to buy 4e product. I do think that the 4e convention of starting characters at a slightly higher level of power appeals to many people who would otherwise not stay...

I second the vote for chaos. Rod/wand of Wonder and Deck of Many Things are my two favorite items ever. I even own a physical set of Deck of Many Things cards with neato artwork on them. I recently had an epic game where I cursed them with a daily draw from the deck. They broke the curse in...

Pelican is pretty good background type music for D&D and Evergrey are suitably epic. I haven't heard any of Boris' music yet though. Pelican deserve a D&D nod for the title of their album "The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw". It's not a reference to anything fantasy or whatnot, but it...

I'd rule that as long as the monster is trying to remain hidden, then the PCs have to make a Perception roll of some sort. If it's just chilling in the middle of the room though, unless the PCs have a negative modifier to their Perception skills I wouldn't require a roll.

First of all, what happened to Jump? It's not listed in the Athletics skill or anywhere else that I noticed. Second, why do you have some skills from the 3.5 list bunched into two of your new skills? Escape Artist is now a part of Athletics and Acrobatics? That makes no sense to me. Athletics...

Out of curiosity and a desire for clarification, what is "pun-pun" and why is it so broken?

Ah, Ropers. I used one of these guys once, just for giggles, and it turned into a headache. However, some advice for tracking tentacles and grapples: keep some kind of markers, poker chips or some such thing, and hand one to a player if a tentacle attaches itself. When they break loose they give...

Personally, I too prefer less T on my BLT. A little BBQ sauce or ranch goes a long way...*drool*

I would perhaps argue that Aragorn, Gimli, or Legolas from the LotR movies have eclipsed Conan in the minds of many modern fantasy fans. I know they have in my own mind. Conan is all well and good, but it's hard to separate the Governator from the image.

"Please Examine and Critique Honestly"? If you feel the need to add this to a post in an internet forum, I think I'll refer you to the Department of the Redundancy Bureau. I figure that if I'm posting on a forum, especially if I'm presenting some kind of game mechanics, I'll get some honest...