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Someone mentioned that they thought it would stifle RP, so I brought up our experience. :) I prefer my players to act more prudently anyway...

Heh, this is actually the first time we've played a game with an option for any type of resurrection, no matter how remote. I've run standard 3.5e with other groups before, but not this group (mainly consisting of people I've played with for nearly a decade).

For us, I already had a few alterations set before I posted here (just for general interest). These are known to the players. Currently, we don't have any arcanists. We have a paladin, a cleric, and a ranger: the full extent of our casters, currently, and the paladin isn't of level for spells...

This was awesome. I am, in fact, amazed at the ending! Totally didn't anticipate civil war.

No one recently has accused me of sanity. I'm all ears--pretty much everything is, for me, open season.

You can also check out Green Ronin's Black Company d20 setting. The book has a pretty good section on combat, scaling it at 3 levels: individual (PC level), unit level (say a single company), and army scale (entire armies; the war theatre). I believe it's available for purchase as a .pdf and...

I was curious about what players & DMs using 3.5e consider the most overpowered spells or spell combinations and about any recommended, houseruled fixes. I've just begun a campaign in a low magic setting and I am concerned about game balance in the face of strong divine and arcane casters. I am...

Soramain - actually, I hadn't heard of R. Scott Bakker. So now that I've checked him out on wiki, it looks like I may have a new reading project. :) So, it's coincidental. And considering the choice of themes, eerily coincidental.

Even immortals can see their plans destroyed and their goals interfered with. Plus, a group of unkillable PCs may still have reasons to not want their world destroyed or transformed into something else. Those characters can still be enslaved, may be in competition for power (first stop...

The new storyhour entry is actually above. I'm merely rearranging these two sections. ***** The young ascetic had awoken in a simple cell not unlike, nor far from, that of the other newcomer. He, too, depended upon the charity of the temple at this time, though in his faith, it was the...

N.B.: I've rearranged the sections to provide a little more coherence, since Agniprava's section begins with a mention of another stranger to Ceteran. Cael is that stranger. ***** The tiny cell was given Cael by the charity and forbearance of the priesthood, and more than a few of the clergy...

I have a default screen by simply running games online. IRL, I don't use a screen. I just have so many notes, and my handwriting is so bad, that that information is useless to the players. I roll in the open online and off, but sometimes screen by using pointless rolls, or rolls that I don't...

3.5e/d20 are the only systems I've played where the characters' social skills are determined mechanically and the outcome of any matchup is determined largely by dice rolls. I've been lucky to play with a lot of gifted RPers, so this hasn't often been an issue. The thing to consider is, as...

I recently started a campaign with a group of friends plus a friend-of-a-friend based on a setting I started developing way back in the mists of time. The world's been batted around quite a bit, but still isn't wholly realized; nevertheless, we've liked it for a long time. The last time I ran a...

As far as I know, there's no FLGS in my area. Borders doesn't count; they have about 3 D&D books and tiny, tiny tables mostly taken up by hipsters writing the next great American novel. I've lived here for almost 2 years, and I don't actually know anyone in this state; I commute out of state for...

You don't have to buy the finite ammo limit for your firearms, either; what's your problem? ;)

I hate it when a player suddenly cancels on me the day of or night before a session... For an event he knew about long in advance! (And I'm talking weeks, even months, of advance notice.) I only have a few players, and we've only had 2 sessions of the campaign because of this crap. :<

I've been working on an alternative feudal model for a non-Western society. I still find these types of info posts useful. :) Thanks for the content!

Iomedae, huh? I'm not sure it's a wise strategic decision for even a goddess to try to face down Mox... Thanks for the updates! I'm very much enjoying the sudden flowering of posts in the SH forum. ^_^

I'd eliminate the sorcerer/wizard dichotomy. No more daily spell memorization. (Is this what people mean by 'Vancian'? Never read his work.) More long-term ritualistic casting and more time-resolved spells. I would also ditch the bard, rogue, paladin, and ranger. Time to re-write classes. Ditch...