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Personally, I have never subscribed to DDI, and I own pretty much all the books I want to use, probably close to 30 at present. I ignore the errata, for the most part, and just use the books as written unless something strikes me as horribly unbalanced. While creating a character w/ DDI...

The 3.5 Magic Item Compendium works perfectly well with PF...

1) Rig up a cage with a door that drops when you pull the rope. 2) Bait the cage with something cute (puppy, kitten, baby, etc) or shiny (diamonds). 3) Hide. 4) Pull rope when she investigates your clever trap and goes for the bait. 5) Slip D&D books and a character sheet to her through...

I'd say you have 2 logical choices: Either their appearance changes to match the sculpted shape, or the sculptor removed what amounts to the person's flesh and skin with his sculpting and the person comes back flayed alive and dying/dead...

I've never subscribed to DDI, but doesn't that just include stats and such, not area descriptions, fluff, etc? Several D&D books are lower on crunch and higher on fluff, such as the Plane Above and Plane Below, Gloomwroght, the Forgotten Realms and Eberron campaign guides, etc. If you only...

I'd see if the female gamer in the group knows any of her girlfriends that may be interested in playing. And maybe have the female gamer do the asking, or at least have her along with you if you ask. It might sound better coming from a fellow gamergirl...

I initially posted offers to do artwork in several projects there, but was very disappointed in the lack of feedback. I'd sometimes get an email saying the job's posting had expired, but never anything about if someone was hired, or the person just changed their mind, or forgot about the...

Ok, here's the important question... are those 100 pages of new stuff good enough to warrant buying the book if you have the original? I'm wondering if I should maybe sell the original version and put the money toward the new version. I want a physical book, not a pdf, but I hate buying a...

As someone who has run both PF and 4e, as well as many other games, I really feel that "system matters". If you try to run the exact same adventure using Spirit of the Century/FATE, Gurps, and Rolemaster, you'll find they play out very differently due to the systems. These differences aren't...

All of the players have fallen into 1 of 2 groups: kids (ages 8-18 or so) and older people returning to the hobby (35-45 or so). We haven't really had many in between those 2 groups. My regular Fridays Pathfinder group is in their lat 30's to early 50's (!). I have tried several times to get...

Combat tactics: Have monsters use the Combat Maneuvers. They have been much improved and simplified in Pathfinder, and they completely ignore armor class. So have the enemies grapple him, disarm him, trip him, and all the other moves. Once he is grappled or prone, it becomes easier for other...

Wow, that's it for all of London? Were there more shops running it before and it has fallen to this 1 store, or did it never catch on at all?

1) I think there are 2 main solutions to high-level encounter creation: First, you could just use a monster from the Bestiary 1 or 2 (or any 3.5 monster book). Then your work is done for you. Second, you can create a monster using just the most necessary info. That's what I do when I make...

Well, part of it is also that Portland is a relatively big city compared to rural northern CA. If you have 5 tables playing Encounters, that right there is more gamers than there are in a 50 mile radius around me. There are no local conventions because last time the local store tried to...

Anecdotally, it sure is around here. I just found out that the 3 nearest shops to me that were running Encounters have all stopped due to lack of participation. The couple that showed up to my game this week drove for more than an hour to get there because one by one, stores have stopped...

The caption on this picture on the front page brought home something I've noticed in our WotBS game (just now entering the Elven kingdom)... this campaign seems suited to a more diplomatic party than ours. Our group does not have a single character with Bluff or Diplomacy. We do have 1...

Your game is extremely different from the local Encounters game... you spent an entire hour or more on in-character introductions, roleplaying, drinking from the flagon, on the road, etc! The players in my game tend to say "I'll play the rogue", "I'll play the wizard", and seldom if ever refer...

I've played both high and low charisma characters, and it certainly affects how I play them. I'm currently playing a low charisma dwarf, and I have him say rude things to important people, spit on the ground, proclaim false stereotypes about races, ask very blunt questions, etc. The other PCs...

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Thanks for the XP everyone, I'm glad you liked the pictures. I have some new painted figures, so here they are... is anyone else painting their figures? If so, let's see them!