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NPCs, motivation, and a system of collective dreaming that's better than the freeform stuff I came up with. Forget geography and history, because I really don't bother with it much. Just give me some ideas to make some particular NPCs come alive and I'm happy, and give me a weird sense of magic...

For me, absolutely not, it's neutral at best, evil at worst. My definition of alignment shifts for campaigns, but I've generally labelled them as good is altruistic, evil is selfish, and neutral is somewhere in-between. Enlightened self-interest is purely selfish. Umm, in D&D, they might turn...

This is really adorable, thanks for posting it.

Myrime walked quickly back to her lean-to, hugging the cold away, when she heard someone yelling. "Myrime, are you alright?" It was her friend Falea, who darted out from behind a tree, a laughed, saying "Myrime, you're soaking wet! What happened?" "Falea! What happened!" Myrime gasped...

I've never met a player, besides myself, who preferred NOT to roll! I made my groups do point buy, and there was much grumbling and gnashing of teeth. Quite frustrating, really. My pet peeves with d20 are generally how much my friends complain about it and dislike it on the basis of poor...

My first inclination is to go, "what? I always thought weapons having an attack bonus versus certain armor types would be neat, and make people switch weapons against armor types." My second inclination says, "oh... everyone else has lived through this system and says that it's really, really...

Had a campaign that did this, your weapon was somehow disabled, tied into its sheath with a knot, and it took a full round to undo the knot. Essentially, it made drawing a weapon a full-round action instead of a move action. Not doing this was illegal, etc.

I'll usually tell my players direct AC's after a few swings, a round or two of fighting, anyone who fights a lot can sum things up quickly enough. Just depends on the game, really, I leave a lot of stuff open, it's alright. OTOH, I highly enjoy playing in games where I don't roll any of my own...

I like the UA action point system -- you can do some neat stuff you can't normally do with them, but they won't save your bacon, and they don't act like "extra lives" -- I'm not big on the special points in that regard. I still have a fondness for swashbuckling cards, though I haven't used them...

Of minor theoretical interest if you accept the CJT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink Groups don't necessarily make better decisions, they can prove to be worse. Watergate, the Bay of Pigs, the Challenger explosion, etc, showed symptoms of groupthink -- bad decisions made by a group of...

Well, if you think the other players would have fun with it, cool. I'd go with the "she's being coerced into doing it" method, could be more fun than "I'm eeevil." My players would probably not go for this at all in a D&D game, and neither would I. Shadowrun or White Wolf for this sort of...

Well, mechanically, don't forget that you should have hordes and hordes of skill points, and any int-based stat you rather simply succeed on, and can likely do as a free action. You can be as arrogant or humble as you wish. I'd disagree with the low-wis not being absentminded -- a superhigh int...

Here's an idea... whenever he says "why don't I know where it is?" have him make a survival roll, and a knowledge (geography) or something appropriate. Remember, if he has 5 ranks of survival, he does have intuit direction, and might very well know where the place is... just, probably not. But...

Thanks for the encouragement. :) Please add any ideas that you might have or that you've already used! On to the D's of the Monster Manual: Darkmantle: Svirfneblin outcasts are subjected to a ritual that causes skin to grow over their eyes, and cast away. A ruthless society of these has...

I'm really enjoying hearing what everybody else has come up with, keep it coming. I find it interesting that so many people have used variations centered on the water elemental -- I spose it does have a neat power though, jumping from bits of your element to another is certainly cool with...

Wrote some more tonight: Arrowhawk: A frozen bee, cold ray instead of shocking ray, uses its stinger instead of its beak. Assassin vine: Symbiont of a creature like a troll or an ogre -- they share a square, and the vine may protect the creature while it is asleep. As well, an intelligent...

Yikes, my knowledge of d20 is lacking. I'll look over these books more when I get a chance... goodness. I don't recall the drunken master being barbarian-esque, maybe a simple adaptation is more in line. It's hypothetical anyway, the campaign has ended, but it was a neat concept a friend of...

Yes, that thread! Yes, Greatwyrm did an excellent job with his conversion of dryads into something "new," although the changes were all cosmetic. Does anyone else have any changes they've used like this, or any changes like this to propose? I'll have some more tonight, yesyes.

This thread has been edited to put the list of monsters and their alternate fluff at the front of the thread. The original message still rests at the bottom of this post. (I'm not done yet. :)) Aboleth: A dire shark with four long tentacles that emerge from its mouth, and four open sores...

Hmm, the Grim Tales system does sound interesting, and I might check it out sometime, but I'm specifically interested in d20, though. On the other hand, thanks! Sounds cool, I might check it out. I wasn't terribly impressed with d20 modern as compared to spycraft and call of cthulhu d20, so...