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Hmm. Currently the party is on a quest to redeem the sword of an older paladin (if you follow Warcraft at all, it's named Ashbringer -- Mograine's sword that he was slain with by his son, although, the son does not have the sword in my world, the party recovered it from a church vault in an...

Set: That's a whole lot creepier than the MM Vargouille's transformation, and I think I might just slip a blood naga into my Ravenloft game... good stuff! Buuut, it's sort of beyond the scope of this thread -- it's more about making huge cosmetic adjustments in the face of little to no stat...

Well, it's the players' first game (they're my younger cousins, both are ~15) and so far they've been a little headstrong about charging into combat (which I encourage, honestly) although they're willing to run if they need to. I'm not sure I'll be running very intelligent evil undead quite as...

Yes, I think I will end up taking this route. I'm not looking to run this game as tongue-in-cheek... not that I don't love doing so, just not for this game. :) Hrm, raising the wolf as inherently evil but as a dread companion (fiercely loyal to the players) could be pretty fun! Don't think I...

Hey, bump. Forgot about the great ENworld crash, and thankfully I had the thread I was editing saved on my computer, so, here it is again! I hope someone gets some inspiration from this, if not, it was fun so who cares. If anyone is feeling creative, I'll be happy to update the list with...

Unearthed Arcana is the next book I'd recommend to almost anyone. Maybe psionics. PHB2 is very good but far from a must have -- I think there's more neat stuff to put and use in your games in UA than PHB2.

Hey, with all the fuss about Ravenloft going on, I've got some of my old vigor for horror-fantasy awakened by nostalgia from playing the game Quest for Glory 4, and, well, having the town named Barovia just gives me ideas. Now, I've played and ran Call of Cthulhu, which I'd say as a game can...

If there was any kind of cover within 600', they wouldn't have to run that far -- trees or whatever to hide as they run through as fireball requires LOS. If it's your normal dojo on top of a hill/something, though, well, they're out of luck. Sounds like you have a whiny player who felt like...

Eh, I agree with the original French author, in theory. Of course, I've played in D&D "adult" games about responsibility, etc... but I think CoC necessarily lends itself to that playstyle more readily, in my experience. This is not because it is horror or not horror... simply because in CoC...

Most houserules I've encountered are GM's trying to "fix" aspects of the game that aren't broken, while breaking other aspects of the game along the way.

I think der_kluge is right, and that going about making characters based on who's rather than what's will land you with a better game. This does not mean I generate this way. I recently generated for cyberpunk, which made me go "omg handrazors are SO COOL" and then I went from there. Really...

Hate to be contrary, but I'm a fan of no pantheon. The gods are gone or never existed, and there is no objective creation myth -- but people believe a lot of different things. I suppose that's somewhat like multiple pantheons, but all divine magic is simply faith based. If I had to choose...

True20 Hobbit warrior 5 (Berserker) Ogre adept 3 (Summoner) Human warrior2/expert1/adept2 (Fallen Paladin) Pixie adept 3 (Necromancer/vermin lord) Human adept 5 (elementalist) It's sort of a neutral-aligned group, no one is really evil.

Awakened dire badger sorceror hit the table in one of my games. (His son was his familiar. :)) So did the pair of rakshasas, both of whom carried around blessed crossbow bolts. I did disallow the monster of legend and feral templated humans presented to me, though.

A rogue with vow of poverty is cool. Robbing the party is not, very few people would have fun playing with a character like this in the party. I know I would not.

That's quite moving. Very cool.

I usually ask my players how their killshots happened. Other shots I'll ask them to describe what they were swinging for, and describe the results. (I know it's not realistic, as to-hit implies a non-called shot and going for whatever's available, but so what? :)) But yeah, never force it. I...

Patricia Wrede's worldbuilding site from 96 is primarily for fantasy authors, but it asks a lot of questions you'll want to ask yourself. http://www.sfwa.org/writing/worldbuilding1.htm

Usually 0 minutes. One DM I run w/, I've spent 5 hours on one character and probably 20 hours on another character before they're generated. After generation is done, I don't really do much at all. Of course, if you count helping design the homebrew system... I spent a good deal of time...

I've tried this a few times and never really had good results, or heard of friends having good results when they tried it. One game goes well but the other one stutters and stops... one group of players works better than the others, etc. I've had some luck with running different sets of...