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Well, how do you categorize Amon Amarth? Given that one of their albums is called "With Oden on our Side" and most of their lyrical content revolves around dying gloriously in battle and sailing the seas with their bands of men, what better to call them than Viking Metal? I realize they don't...

Chocolate, as far as I know, has a negligble amount of caffeine, so if you're trying for caffeine-free then I'd say you're succeeding. I recall hearing that you'd have to eat something along the lines of 10lbs of chocolate to even approach the amount of caffeine in one cup of coffee.

You're looking for something instrumental and "un-modern" but you play Rammstein? ;) Try Joe Satriani for some cool instrumental electric guitar tunes. It's not necessarily "battle music" but it does tend to be upbeat and get the blood pumping. Anything by Ensiferum makes great battle music...

I know what you mean about spellcasters in 3.xe games. Why everyone thinks they are so "broken" at higher levels is beyond me. Most CR appropriate monsters have enough resistences to energy types and SR that there's a decent chance the wizard or cleric isn't going to effect them with many...

I don't think a Wizard 10/Cleric 10 is unplayable at all. It just requires a different approach than a purely divine/arcane spellcaster of equal level on both the part of the player and the DM. If your DM is truly collaborating with you and your party, a cleric/wizard should still be an...

That reminds me of my brother's insane half-elf, Tyrus Onesimus. He was the defacto party leader (disagree with him and his alter ego will humiliate/destroy you), and managed to get petrified by a basilisk despite needing to roll not-a-1. Then, when the party tried to revive him with a Stone to...

LOL. We had a low level game once where the half-orc barbarian got skewered by a spear trap and the first thing out of another player's mouth was, "I've got dibs on his axe!" They then proceeded to use the half-orc's corpse as a shield and then jammed it in the gears powering the spear trap...

True, but it is magic. So I'd let the magical enhancement stay the same.

Well, this is where my idea of HP and yours may differ. If you prefer to think of HP as some representation of the amount of physical punishment a character can absorb, then go for it. I tend to think of HP more as a character's ability to dodge, weave, and generally turn what would otherwise...

The only conceiveable reason I can think of for halving the armor value as it gets smaller is to prevent people from gaining a good AC bonus from armor and then shrinking themselves down to size Tiny to gain further AC bonuses for being small. There's also no reason to reduce the enhancement...

In my games we've basically always houseruled that Power Attack can work with any muscle powered weapon, which obviously would include thrown weapons. It just made sense. However, the closest I would get to allowing a similar thing with other ranged weapons like bows and crossbows is just...

I don't know of any published classes that do what you seem to be looking for, but I'd consider folding the bard class into the Noble class from SWd20. I'm not quite sure how you want to do that, but consider allowing the inspire____ ability for the Noble. Things along those lines, just to make...

Ah! Someone has managed to articulate some of the things I've been thinking (finally)! Anyone who says powers are new to 4e is fooling themselves. However, I feel that the powers presented in 4e are somehow not the same as in 4e. In 3.x, class abilities like Rage or feats like Power Attack...

I guess the point though, Jack, is that while you may not technically be depopulating Heaven in a meaningful way, to the mortal mind who must comprehend the ever growing pile of planetars (good name for a band, "We are...Pile of Planetars!") the number will soon be so big that s/he wouldn't be...

I understand perfectly well. No matter how high tech and amazing the internet is, there's still a certain inability to communicate a lot of subtlety or a really quick way to correct ourselves when someone doesn't quite get what we're saying. It makes what was already an extended conversation...

I saw it was made by Baker and I wondered. I really can't stand those plastic cards. They slip and slide all over each other so easily. Gloom seems to suffer from a lack of strategery, in my mind. There are possibilities for clever card combos and saving ones that do special effects, but they...

You've captured a big part of what I feel is missing from 4e. It feels too much like there's a "correct" build for a given class. Part of this is, I think, due to the increasing focus on combat related powers and abilities. When so much of the rules system seems to be obsessing over how many...

Sorry. It's been a long time since I last played that game, so I don't recall who's in it and not. I'm pretty sure "Cuddly" fits Hitler to a tee.

Most of these aren't really 'new' bands but I thought they'd be stuff that any fan of fantasy and RPGs might enjoy. There's a brief explanation of the band and their style as well. Tool- if you haven't heard of them you're probably living under a rock or in the depths of the Underdark. Suitably...

Something that has been mentioned in other threads is the feeling of "pounding away at hotkeys to activate powers" in 4e. I feel that the boundary between video game and table-top RPG is starting to deteriorate with 4e, and I miss that boundary. To me, 4e essentially feels like a group of people...