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I have terrible luck trying to make an NPC that the PCs will like; usually I just make a lot of NPCs, wait until I see which one they like, and then abandon the ones they spurned. Or let the players have contacts, because that way they make their own NPCs that they're guaranteed to like. ;)...

Relics and Rituals has a spell called "Assassin's Senses" that increases the critical multiplier by one and the critical threat range by one (for example, a longbow would threaten a crit on a 19-20 for a x4 multiplier with that spell active). 2nd level on both the Cleric and Wiz/Sor lists, if...

We've got six people in our group. One prefers to GM and is good at it (and in fact is kind of a problem player). One likes GMing about as well as playing, but isn't very practiced at running a game and has a work schedule that makes it hard for him to have time to do it. Two prefer playing...

I don't know. I don't even know how I'd begin estimating a percentage. More to the point, I'm not sure why I'd want to know. I guess it'd be safe to say that we play 100% of the interesting times in a character's life, and just summarize the non-interesting times. -- and i'm not going to...

Actually, I think adventuring crafters (or crafters who just want to take a few commissions here and there when they need some quick cash to fund their REAL work) might actually prefer the less regimented (and more volatile, hence potentially more lucrative) adventurer clientele. And...

Hm. I personally don't mind discussing rules, as long as it's not during the game or immediately after the game. What I always liked was when players got so interested in the game and in their characters that they spent the week before the next game barraging me with questions, comments, and...

Looking over the games we've played, humans and half-elves are tied, followed closely by elves. Everyone after that is a native outsider of some kind (aasimar, genasi, etc.), in about the same proportion as elves, but scattered among the various subtypes without any duplicates. And then...

Oh, I get it. You actually limit the item creation feats, huh? As in, a PC wanting to learn Craft Wondrous Items needs to find an NPC who already knows Craft Wondrous Items to learn it from? Interesting. But I still say that this: ...is only half-true, which is why "no one sells magic items"...

I'll third the recommendation, but for a different reason. I think the Central Casting books are worth checking out because they're totally hilarious. You get the most bizarre, whacked-out backgrounds if you just roll your way through the tables, and let the whole gaming group watch and...

And you know, I understand why setting books say things like this, really I do. It's just that, speaking from the perspective of a guy who's been playing an item-crafter in a Scarred Lands game, it falls apart during play. I crafted stuff that I had no intention of using for the specific...

Our GM always went with a Wilderness Lore check for stuff like that. I'd suggest a DC, but to be honest, I'm pretty sure he was just making it up as he went along, letting us harvest one dose for a good roll, and one or two more doses for really obscenely excellent rolls. -- we also used...

You know, I don't actually have an opinion about "anime." I have opinions about specific shows, the same as I would for any genre of television. For example, Cowboy Bebop is extremely well done, while Trigun is a big pile of ass. However, I'll agree with this: ...because honestly, the...

I've seen that before, too. It usually goes hand-in-hand with games where every NPC (down to the cuddliest little cleric) has some kind of dark, malicious, secret agenda aimed against the PCs, and if someone's spent a lot of time playing with a GM who pulls that kind of crap, it can take a lot...

Barring emergencies, travel, or other reasons to cancel, we have a game on Thursday nights and on Saturday afternoons. (Right now Thursday is Vampire and Saturday is a Scarred Lands D&D game; about a month from now, Saturday will be a Marvel Universe RPG game.) I think even if we had lots and...

Sure it does. Just look at their attack bonuses, figure out what percentage of them are going to hit AC10, and that tells you how many of them just aided their buddy. Make the one attack roll at the obligatory huge bonus, let the player know that they're swarming all over him, and move on to...

Well, that's not really the point of the rule, is it? The real point of the action is not having to roll 23d20 (and more importantly, not having to make the player wait while you roll 23d20). The single best use of aid another when used by NPCs is reducing the number of times you have to roll...

I actually used a simplified version of GURPS when I ran our two Thief: The Dark Project games. (Dumped a lot of detail out of the combat rules, strictly limited magic, and for a little cinematic fun, added in the cards from WEG's old Masterbook system.) It worked great. I'm not sure if you...

We try to make it useful and to use it. But most of the time we give up on it, saying things like "oh, just make one Appraise check for all of this stuff" and then just giving the correct price for everything right off the bat if the final check result sounds reasonable enough. And I can't...

I prefer direction at the beginning, when characters are fragile and still being developed and the style and setting of the campaign are still being established. Then as the game goes on and everyone gets more comfortable with all of that and begins to develop likes, dislikes, friends, enemies...

Honestly, the only thing anyone in any of our games has ever used it for is to ID potions, and that's it. Making alchemical items just takes too much time for it to be even remotely worth it to any of our wizard characters, especially since the items themselves aren't all that great. I think...