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I've always gone the other way. Trackless Step means you don't leave tracks, not having a scent is a different ability. (IMHO, natch.)

I find anytime I flip through a National Geographic, I come away with ideas for my game. Prehistoric sea monsters, historical and modern day cultures, ice age mummies, tons of beautiful photographs; I always come away with useful stuff.

I think it might work if everyone in the group enjoyed the role-playing and the wargame aspects about equally. With my group, I know that about half would love it, and the other half would fall asleep during the battles.

Years ago in the dark days before 3.5, I ran a Tunnels and Trolls module called Rat on a Stick. It was a fairly standard old school style dungeon, though a few levels were fairly odd (I remember a cheese elemental, among other things). There were also rules for opening your own Rat on a Stick...

I would go as far to say that if a certain percentage of players become game-wrecking maniacs if they write "Evil" on their character sheet, the problem is with the players more than the character sheets. (Doesn't mean its not a legitmate problem, but instead of saying "I won't run/play Evil...

Won't it though? There is cabin fever, or as it is put in purely medical terms, "No tv and no beer make Homer go crazy."

"Roll til you fail!", as we used to say.

I remember Northern Exposure did an episode where they had a week long day, and Joel went crazy with insomnia. (Seems also the movie Insomnia did something with this.) I wonder what the flipside of that is, say for people who live close enough to the arctic circle to be in periods of extended...

That's not a bad idea, the tides. 12 hours in, 12 hours out, or whatever. (Well, that works for me since my game is set on the Sunless Sea.)

This is a minor point of annoyance for me in my current underdark game. Almost everything in D&D relates to "days" (spells, healing, certain abilities) but for creatures who live far below the surface, that seems like a meaningless concept. Instead, everything ends up being based around cycles...

For me, I've always been unclear on the difference between Freedom of Movement and the 9th level spell Freedom. Aside from the specific examples listed in the description, what would be an example of something Freedom would work against that FoM wouldn't? (This has been an vague point for me...

Paris Hilton. I always thought another good example was the fact that Mother Teresa and Princess Diana died in the same week. PD's coverage far outweighed MT's at the time. And we just had the ten year PD anniversary concert plus book plus about 8 articles in major news magazines (Time...

Its important to note that no alignment, from LG to CE, is insurance against jackass players. Its a good idea to know up front what the characters are capable of, but its absolutely imperative to know what the players are capable of. I think its crucial that as the GM, you don't let a...

It really depends on how you pronounce it. FAQ as "Fact" or, FAQ as "Fa-Cue". You have to say the second one kind of fast. (Not unlike Shrek's "Farquaad".)

Actually, even though I've played in fewer evil games than good or neutral, some of the most party unity I've seen has been amongst evil characters. The two main reasons I've seen for this is that while Good characters tend to serve higher ideals that can bring them into conflict with how a...

I haven't looked at any of the SW RPG stuff (I'm more of a casual sci-fi fan), but I always liked the arena battle from Send in the Clones, and I was wondering if those three monsters are in the system anywhere. I'm not looking for stats, just names and maybe relative power levels.

I remember reading once that the cost of fielding single hoplite was the equivalent in the present day to buying a luxury sedan. I'm assuming that means equpping and training. (IIRC, the cost of getting a Marine recruit through Parris Island MCRD is around $100,000, meaning the cost of a...

If someone were going to doa sourcebook like this, I know what the tag should be: Grandpa: One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires.

I live in Atlanta, and I'd love to take part.

I can think of one C-word which we probably shouldn't go with...