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Hey, bullets. neat. Turn-offs: 2E. Non-sensical system, although the flavor of everything you could do with magic sounds good, better than 3.5, but it might just be the stories people tell. 3.0. 3.5 is a huge step forward, for me. In this thread I seem to be alone, but there it is. If...

Str modifies your AC versus melee attacks if it is higher than Dex. It's a kinda neat change, although it does make Dex about as good in a way that D&D's strength is better than most stats... but it's in a different way, and if you pump dex you just won't hit as hard... but you'll hit more often...

I generally had dream sequences bleed into reality and back and forth, but I've kind of quit doing that with my current world... I generally have a succubus in there somewhere. Sepulchrave's Nehael was just too cool. I suppose I always have some sort of aspect of the void, generally embodied...

My current character sold his soul when he was six years old for some trivial childish reason he doesn't remember. He was a noble beforehand. He doesn't remember what he asked for, but he does remember spending three weeks in hell, before being shunted out into the planes and into a small...

Current game I'm playing is quite vanilla w/ weapons: Human Bard, shortbow and shortsword/shield (me) Elf Ranger, shortbow and longsword/shortsword Human Fighter/Cleric, masterwork shortsword and shield Human Swashbuckler, rapier Fun game though. Most race-class-weapony event happened when the...

I want to play Shadowrun 4... I have a technomancer/street sammy character I'd really like to hit the table. I want to run True20 in a homebrew world I've written quite badly, and thankfully I'm going to get a chance to do so again next week! Woohoo. Now I just need to turn a few more cranks...

It appears as if this yuan-ti has basically been converted into another race via a taint-removing ritual, if you want to work from that perspective.

My gaming group has a large delineation of types of smoke breaks, or smokies. There's pre-gamey, post-pre-gamey (we never start until after post-pre,) post-eatey, Laura's leaving smokie, Christian's leaving smokie, Focus smokie... all in all, my darn group spends more time smoking and...

I ran a game for a sorcerer and a psion once. Went pretty well. Not too much in the way of potions, just a good bit of running when the time was right.

I haven't gone past 22. I'm not a big fan of the epic level handbook, but it does somewhat work. I'd probably prefer stopping somewhere around 18 or so.

Please note the trial of Socrates. :) The paladin will drink some hemlock! In seriousness, the paladin and the party will work to prove his innocence along non-shady grounds. If that fails, another host of things could happen, but the first option will almost also get tried first. Also...

I liked Heroes of Battle, but it was mainly because it focused on small skirmishes (basically normal D&D fights) in the midst of large battles. It's a neat book, although there's not much system at all for speeding up unit on unit combat, unless I'm forgetting something. I found it useful...

Interestingly, no one has mentioned a monk once. Heck, neither would I. They're fun and all, but not my thing. Single classed, I'd just go dwarf fighter, elven rogue, human cleric, human wizard, and a sentient half-red dragon black ooze paladin. (It's core, it's core!) :) I'm playing a bard...

Someone, I forget who, had a house rule that light armor doesn't affect your movement, medium armor only affects your run speed, and heavy armor affects your movement and your run speed. So if you wore chainmail, you might not be able to full out run away from a fight as easily, but you still...

It appears like no one has mentioned Unearthed Arcana's craft points system, if you just remove the goofy feats for creating normal items from it, it can work pretty well. If they use up xp after that point, just start taking xp, but award 12,000 exp when they'd typicall level. Another simple...

Yep, I've run True20 and I love it. It's a lot easier for new players, and I vastly prefer the damage track to the hp mechanic. Neat little magic system too. True20 is quickly moving to nudge out D&D as my favored game to GM, although I'm still happily playing D&D 3.5 too. (Although after...

I've played in a game where we were 18th level in a party of six and we each had an item that wasn't worth much, like a +2 weapon and normal armor. Really didn't like it. The game doesn't remotely balance at this point -- you can't take a party of 4 9th level people and just chuck them against...

:D I really should get back to this, it's quite good fun. Thanks for the kind words, though!

Although I'm fond of "Ride" ... Write a skill called "sex" or an appropriate euphemism for sex on an empty skill line. Modify it by an approriate attribute -- wis, cha, dex, int, con, or str, in whatever order, could conceivably be "most important" to the person that they're trying to impress...

Druids dumpstatting the physical stats, if they're planning on shifting a lot, is a commonly quoted powergaming tactic.