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  1. SHARK

    Tucker's Kobolds -- really that tough a challenge?

    Greetings! Good points, my friend, good points! I understand your criticisms of the *Tucker's Kobolds* much clearer now after reading your extensive critique. You know I'm *Old School* too.;) I agree generally with your critique--though I have to say also, that it seems to me that if a DM is...
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    Tucker's Kobolds -- really that tough a challenge?

    Greetings! Well, I certainly agree with many of you all on a number of points. However, as far as critiquing *Tucker's Kobolds* goes, I think some of you are forgetting a few things, and perhaps meta-gaming to some extent. First off, the players do not know, and generally will never know...
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    What would it take for 4E to win over the old guard? (Forked Thread: Changeover Poll)

    Greetings! WOW. Just WOW. This is just incredible. D&D *isn't* ALSO about traipsing off through fairy rings and interacting with the little people? I love combat. But honestly, it seems D&D is about BOTH these elements. NOT either or. This is...gosh, how simplistic and binary in thinking can...
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    What would it take for 4E to win over the old guard? (Forked Thread: Changeover Poll)

    Greetings! Well, I think some of the whole process leading up to and including 4E was wrong. I think--strange as it may seem--that there are some things that are good for the hobby, and good for D&D--but not necessarily good for profits for WOTC. Two things leap to mind-- (1) Dragon and...
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    Creative combat objectives (other than "kill 'em all")

    Greetings! Very cool stuff. These remind me a lot of Advanced Squad Leader scenarios, by Avalon Hill--as well as different missions for Realms of Chaos, by Games Workshop from way back in the day.:cool: Semper Fidelis, SHARK
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    Evil or not?

    Greetings! Heh. Alignment is an interesting, and fairly simple and easy way to visualize a specific character's *world view*. The character's general tendencies and guiding beliefs and principles. As for player characters stealing a betraying each other? Well, in the groups I have played with...
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    Things I don't like about the 4E DMG - part 1 of 1000

    Greetings! *Wicked Laugh*:) I *love it* when my players use various scrying spells. Of course, I've modified them. Using them is always risky, unpredictable, and dangerous. They may very well see whatever it is they seek...and regret it--as a pack of Glabrezu appear, and carry them off...
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    The Fall of Khaiden-Sharnogg!

    Greetings! Thanks, Kishin! What interests you in particular about the campaign? Semper Fidelis, SHARK
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    Station Squatting (Player Railroading)

    Greetings! Ahhh. And it was Roman Generals and Roman Legions that crushed the slave that dared to raise his fist in rebellion to Rome. It was Kings and ferocious, cunning nobles--and their armies of troops and assassins--that crushed the Hanseatic League, and put the merchants on notice who...
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    Things I don't like about the 4E DMG - part 1 of 1000

    Greetings! Well, I'm very much *Old School*.;) My word is *LAW*.:) I'm a tyrant DM.* *Of course, I am always reasonable enough to listen to sincere, thoughtful arguments put forth by any of the players. However--I am the DM, and I reserve the right to interpret any *RAW*--as well as make up my...
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    Fantasy Novels and D&D

    Greetings! Well, of late in my *fiction* reading, I would recommend Jack Whyte's Cammulod Chronicles, and several series of books by Bernard Cornwell. (Arthururian series, Archer series, and so on.) Others have mentioned some good writers. Lately, however--say, the last 10 years or so--I think...
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    Do you not play WOW? Forked Thread: Wil Wheaton plays and reviews 4th.

    Greetings! Indeed, my friend! Yeah, while you're playing several hours a day--the drive and consciousness of competing, achieving, accomplishing a variety of goals...it can get obsessive. Take a break, get away from it...and you seem to return to normal.;) Semper Fidelis, SHARK
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    Do you not play WOW? Forked Thread: Wil Wheaton plays and reviews 4th.

    Greetings! *LOL* The baby Murloc quest in Borean Tundra....very, very popular. People have a very passionate love/hate thing for Murlocs!!! Semper Fidelis, SHARK
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    Do you not play WOW? Forked Thread: Wil Wheaton plays and reviews 4th.

    Greetings! *LOL* Too funny, there, my friend!:) I sympathize.:cool: Semper Fidelis, SHARK
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    Do you not play WOW? Forked Thread: Wil Wheaton plays and reviews 4th.

    Greetings! I play Wow. I have one lvl 80 character, half a dozen alts between 60-70, and another half a dozen characters under 60. I am the Guildmaster of my own guild on Argent Dawn (Alliance, U.S.) Wow is outstanding. Lots of fun. However, it is not ideally suited for *Roleplaying*--the...
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    For former Wizard fans stuck playing 4e...(Forked)

    Greetings! *LOL*!!! PURE WIN, my friend! Semper Fidelis, SHARK
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    The Heroic Impulse: Where Have All the Heroes Gone?

    Greetings! Well, my friend, I wrote that out though to show some historical examples of *heroism*--as well as some examples of *heroism* in my D&D campaigns. Aimed of course, at answering the question--"Where did all the heroes go?"--I'm not thinking thinking they've gone anywhere. There...
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    4e Creatures, Not Scary?

    Greetings! Well, while I have yet to really get into 4E--I'm expecting to start a 4E campaign in the new year--my players universally fear *Orcs* in my 3.5campaigns... *Hobgoblins always give them problems... *Beastmen terrify them... *Vampires make them sweat... Let alone the giants...
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    The Heroic Impulse: Where Have All the Heroes Gone?

    Greetings! Well, what is heroism? Who are heroes? In ancient times, in 66 AD, during the Roman's siege of the city of Jerusalem-- Jewish defenders had cut down the Roman carrying the legion's sacred Eagle. As he fell, and the eagle was falling to the ground, a lone Roman Centurion, shouted a...
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    Gold, Slaves, and Power: A New Order

    Greetings! Brilliant minds think alike, heh?;) Three culturally and religiously related factions, but with strained relations along political and religious lines? Oh yeah. *Chomp* Done. I love that idea my friend! (Scribbling notes for these ideas now!) Just beautiful! I was thinking I wanted...
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