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FAQ ruling creates headaches and involves mathematics that may involve a slide rule and computing rotational velocities of non-Earth terrestrial bodies in an RPG. House Rule ruling creates simplicity and internal consistency. Hurtling out the other end of a dimension door at terminal velocity...

IMC, teleportation spells reset inertia. --fje

Yea, I've been wanting to do this for a while. I don't play enough D&D to try out all the character options I'd like to explore. --fje

Way back, the setting search entry I sent in to WotC was an early Iron Age thing and some cultures used bronze weapons. Wonder where the documents I compiled on that got off to. I've always thought it would be fun to run an early ages fantasy campaign. A little heavier on the mythology. Olde...

Why not just ... y'know ... hit him ... with the sword? Or Disintegrate? I'd do both, really. People hate that. When you hit them with a sword and then cast Disintegrate on them. --fje

I don't think it was balancing via RP. I think the intent was not to allow spontaneous casters to copy spells of both types at will for no XP cost. Unfortunately they decided to add sorc-type-casters to the divine side later on, which makes the point sort of moot, but I imagine at the design...

I'd simply say, with utmost frankness to my players, that the reasons for it being a bad idea are entirely RP reasons and that I, myself, don't want to turn the campaign into: "Genie Wars, the RPG". I usually find it most effective to address the fourth wall at this point and just avoid it...

I don't think the arrows actually killed anything. I have no idea what their stats were, but it usually required a full attack with power attack for my character to bludgeon one to death and that's in excess of 170 damage. We were going through something like 6-9 arrows a round with full...

Well, the Rogue is also a Cleric, so, I imagine he's probably more in touch with that aspect than other rogues. Though I don't think any of us know what his god's alignment is either. My character is a diehard crusader, may be some "issues" with that little revelation. --fje

Well, as somebody said that night: "A lich in an antimagic field is a zombie." The plan did work out fine. We didn't even need the Silence In Tanglefoot Bags, though we did prepare them. I had expected the Wall of Stone to fall, really, but it seems to be an interesting tactic for clerics in...

But that's the issue I'm addressing, the XP component of Miracle, unlike Wish, is a choice made during/at the time of casting the spell. You can choose to cast Miracle and ask for a 6th level Wizard spell and not pay any XP cost. It should be possible to at least create a scroll of Miracle...

Well, aren't scrolls usually a special-case as spell-completion items? Can you cast Protection from Energy from a scroll and choose the energy type or do you buy a scroll of Protection from Energy (Cold)? --fje

The only Knowledge skill my character has any ranks in at all is Knowledge: Religion. "Everything I need to know I learned from St. Cuthbert." Here's a Wish/Miracle question. If you buy/scribe a scroll of Miracle that DOESN'T include the price for the 5,000xp cost, can you cast the Miracle...

Usually I use a clear acrylic dice box. Y'know, the kind that you get your "D&D Set" in from Chessex and the like. They're almost exactly 2"x2" on the battle grid so they fit overtop Medium creatures well. Additionally you can set the flying creature on top and use a dry erase marker to note...

Well, we're currently looking at art. I think the cover has been finalized as well. After that is layout, I guess. Which is to say, I have no real idea, but it's not that far off I'd say. I'll share a Rank-Based Benefit, bit of a preview for those who haven't seen the products and a nibble...

Well, for my part, I've rewritten some of the "weak" races for games in which I wanted to allow for "nontraditional race choices" ... Goblins and Kobolds, in particular. Usually, I say: "These races are weaker than normal." and I give them a few bonuses. Goblins get a free racial feat called...

We had somebody try to run it. We got about four sessions in and pretty much everybody involved got tired of it. Every game session the GM would come in lugging that giant freakin' tome ... and then open it to the very very front ... and I, at least, could feel the weight of all of those...

Why not just say you don't like it and won't let it in your game. When a GM has hidden prejudices, he's not really "letting" somebody use something he doesn't like ... he's setting them up to repeatedly punish them for going against his will for the rest of the game. For my part I say: "Eh, I...

We're bad with names, usually, but I can't help myself. In the Age of Worms so far we've had: Blackwall Keep becomes "Fort Moron" Eligos becomes "Elly Gross" or "That gay wizard we met and his 'manservant'." The Ulgurstasa is "Chicken-salsa" or "Regurstalsa" Whatshisname Smallcask is "John...

Prest0's company, 12 to Midnight, actually writes low-FX occult horror adventures and has a little free campaign setting detailing a little Texan town on the website. I'll also toot my own horn, as the FX products detailed in my sig are specifically tailored to low-FX occult-style games. --fje