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Irda, considering the amount of work they did each day their caloric requirement was closer to 3000 calories per day for the "average" 150 pound man. BTW, good base number is 11 calories per pound (or 25 per kg) for your resting caloric intake. (That is no aerobic activity for more than 20...

Didn't Orcus say that Necromancer will have a free .pdf avail for download come June 6 or so? As far as buying one, think Oct. is the start date for 4e sales, but if you really want to spend money I have a nifty idea involving a kobold and some cake... ;)

Emirikol, The first "error" I see in the article is average household size, 10-12 was the norm for rural agrian famlilies well into the 20th century, when machinery finally was able to reduce the reliance on manual labour. The estimates are very high for the acres per person needs. One cup of...

I believe alot of the "rockiness" is due to the fact that you had one player playing 4-5 characters. Less suggestions of tactics available, less focus on any single character (most likely reason for not using dmage on miss abilities), and an unconscious "boosting" of the character(s) one likes...

From my experience roleplay is purely supported by the players, not the system. I've seen more roleplay at a Hackmaster table than I have at a LARP... As far as Eternal GM's reasons for not liking minions, different strokes for different folks, I believe that if the PC's were just your average...

I think we ran B1 for at least a score before we had a single PC hit level 3... Lessons learned that each "successive generation of adventurers" then brought to the table: 1) Everyone carries 50' of rope. 2) Everyone carries and uses a 10' pole. 3) Tap, pound, and test everything, taking 2...

Endoren, the general rule is one second wind per encounter, you "get back" all healing surges ONCE PER DAY after min. 6 hours of rest. So in your fighter example, the fighters really only have 50% more hit points than listed if they are fighting by themselves. (Assumes they have the ability or...

Careful, might get George Michaels in your shop...

Overall I can find no real objection to the base concept. The "trick" would be to define both attributes (light blades get +3 to hit) and "point cost" for each keyword. Then the trick is to "balance" the keywords with their costs. Each class than would get a set of points to spend, fighters...

Aria, the biggest part of your problem is that the game is not me versus them. It is also not YOUR campaign, but "our" campaign. The story and the plot only progress as far as the players allow, as a DM you adjust the focus of the setting based upon the needs/wants/desires of the players...

Just a "how I done it" post: "Overarching" quests for me have always been spiderwebs, not linear. So though there might be a dozen possible quest "seeds" or "hooks" in a town, they are all related to some bigger problem. The PC's may go on to the bigger problem after one of the hooks, or they...

Why are your players living long enough to swing at your monsters anyway? :D I think the description is just fine, I also think it doesn't make a hill of beans if the players know what happened or not. If they ask OOC then tell them, its not like they can't look it up in the books anyway. I...

First and foremost, they are not "printing errors" they are the "Collector's Limited Edition" of the core rulebooks. ;) So if you want to wait for the "Standard Edition" then go ahead, if you want the foil copy, buy early, buy often. ;) Second, textbooks tend to have more mistakes, was...

Article is o.k. However, the understanding of the basic principles of economics on this board is pathetic, that's about the norm for society though, so no surprise. 1) The real value of any good is determined by the market. PC's want to "offload" magic items quickly ad the DM ALLOWS it, 20%...

Perhaps you'd like to rephrase to "paying anything extra for it." Either you are all meeting up in person, are conference calling, snail mailing, or using the internet, all of which cost money. Everything has a price associated with it, aka, nothing is free. I doubt I'll use it though. Means...

Methinks Derren is begining to fail his Will saves... ;) Random points: Nobody is forcing anyone to go into Epic Levels, DM can make a campaign for any single tier, or combination of tiers. I know some folks will shudder at the thought, but I can see many a "low magic, low fantasy" campaign...

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Pretty underwhelming really. Especially the part about two weapon fighting...

To all of you "intimidate automatically fails" haters. I say you automatically fail at reading comprehension. It is simply NOT POSSIBLE to INTIMIDATE someone into TRUSTING you. There is no DC 10000000000000 check, it is not possible, because WORDS MEAN THINGS. Intimidate : to make timid or...

Complexity level 3 (8/4) My guess: Level 1 (4/2) Level 2 (6/3) Level 3 (8/4) etc. As far as Derren's point, I think it should actually be more of a circumstancial bonus type thing. One would make a history check in order to gain a bonus on a diplomacy check. "Your Grace, we are attempting...