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Yeah, seriously, out-of-combat healing is a solved problem, and you just need to buy a stack of wa-- ... what he said. By the level where Healing Hymn is turning a cantrip into cure moderate, you already have access to enough cure light that it's not a balance factor any more. If you were...

Yeah, it would be nice if it were more of a template. - - - Another thought: the 20% sale price rule was supposed to compensate for the variance in power between optimal items and whatever the DM gave you. This rule wasn't changed, was it? Item prices (and item levels) were supposed to be how...

I'm not here right now, but I was here in 2004. Cheers, -- N

I came in here to recommend Fiasco. It's an excellent gateway drug to cooperative creative roleplay. There are a bunch of expansions up on the web for free, too. Cheers, -- N

Well, it's not like he had a choice. It's winter. The Summerian mods will be back in May. Oh wait, I forgot about the NZ mods... Plain Sailing is probably Summerian right now. Cheers, -- N

I give out XP because what the hell else am I going to do with the stuff? You can't eat it, or stab things with it, or even sell it. Some people like it because if they get enough they can pick some new spells, but apparently I have no class. "Like school in July", -- N

Perhaps it only victimizes other golems. Cheers, -- N

Brilliant! "You must spread...", -- N

Yeah yeah, religious toleration and liberal social policies are great in real life, but they are useless in my RPGs because they don't provide any justification for stabbing people and taking their stuff. What I want out of my RPG religions are conflicts, schisms, vendettas, millennium-spanning...

Sure thing. What I do is tell them to make a total of four Legwork rolls. Right now the rolls are labeled "Matrix" (includes hacking and covert datasearches), "Legal / Historical" (includes extraterritoriality borders and matters of public record), "Social" (includes contacts), and "Magic"...

I've been playtesting a solution to this, but it's system-neutral... is this the right thread for it? Cheers, -- N

Red box. Dude, I can re-write the damn game myself if I had the time, and it would come out better. I'm not paying WotC to tell me that I can do a bunch of work myself. I already know how to do that. What I want is for them to do all the boring work for me, so I can make high-level decisions...

They took away the ability to slap the signature template on anything except animals, and they took away the ability to summon regular Outsiders, so it's a specialist summoner who can only summon things that suck. Poster child for overnerf. Remains viable. Remains meh. Remains viable. Many...

Bleah. In every real sense, it was already always up to every individual DM to decide, but it sure would be nice if there were some guidance from WotC on how to use their system. Another bleah: this brings back the social engineering "play the DM" mini-game. A third bleah: this makes the...

Mmmm. I've been thinking about this, and I don't like it. Rather, I prefer the idea that the old, animistic Spirit religions would come into conflict with the "new", civilized Idealistic religions -- put some teeth in the alleged conflict between Druids and Clerics. - - - If you're interested...

IMHO the Spellthief is one of those heartbreaker classes. It is so damn cool but the weak mechanics just make it lackluster in play. They are terribly weak if you don't meet one of two conditions: 1/ Common enemy spellcasters; or 2/ Party full of spellcasters. In case (2), you'll feel...

(Paragon) Counterstrike Guards are pretty good for a primarily ranged character who has a decent basic melee attack (and who does not use a bow), but how often does that happen? It's not bad, but it's still very much a niche item. If you don't expect to make many melee attacks, then getting +1...

You are the one asserting that the text of that article constitutes a rule. It is on you to justify your assertion in light of observable reality. If you're going to drop the assertion that there is a concrete rule, then you agree with MatthewJHanson, right? Cheers, -- N

According to your rule, Iron Armbands of Power should be Common. You can test the validity of your hypothesis by verifying if they actually are. Cheers, -- N

Exalted (by White Wolf) does this pretty well. There's a god for everything, and everything has a god. It also handles ancestor cults, though they may have a bit of a sinister side. Cheers, -- N