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I don't even bother trying. Players (including myself when on that side of the screen) have an excellent knack for: 1. Taking longer to get a clue. 2. Figuring out the clues quickly. 3. Taking longer to get somewhere. 4. Getting somewhere quickly. 5. Turning left instead of right. 6. Turning...

A GM that holds back with "unwritten rules" and then breaks them should get smacked around a tad. Granted, it's not a rule I would use as a GM and as a player I wouldn't particularly like being pampered, but a GM has to make up his mind as to which one he's doing and stick to it. Of course, I...

You had me until this one. I simply refuse to play with idiots and immature dolts. Doing so impedes my own enjoyment and defeats the purpose. (Come to think of it, idiots and immature dolts ruin just about anything except suicide pacts... Probably why I'm so picky about who my friends are.)

I actually find that pretty funny myself; particularly since what they originally stated about them is exactly why I manage them in-game the way I do. I don't think I even really noticed that there was a general misuse of them until I read MC's mini-rant in his Prestige Class Design Workshop.

3E did.;)

Generally, as a homebrew addict, I never look for campaign settings to play in. That said, I generally look for two things: Original worlds and themed locations. Unfortunately, the former is rare (most everything is psuedo-midievel, a rehash of already over-done ideas, or just plain silly)...

They still make worlds? ;) Where would I start? It's likely the next campaign I've begun laying the ground-work for involving an empire that spanned several worlds (by way of dominating a "planar sea" that permits multi-world travel in a manner akin to, but quite different from, the old...

Well, my use of Prestige Classes is easily made in three points. 1. I have over 100 Prestige Classes in my campaign while less then 10 were written by someone other than myself (and kudos to Ambient & Mystic Eye for being the source of most of them). 2. PCs learn about Prestige Classes...

My apologies for bumping this... The thread with the actual poll in it is here.

Depends on the game... I had one going for a while with PCs at a wide spread, being 4th, 12th, and 35th (non-Epic variant), but the situation of the campaign focused on military actions and duties, so 90% of the time the three PCs were on different tasks (one a semi-experience adventurer turned...

Well, I do a little of both, but in a quasi-predictible manner... 1. I start to read the material cover-to-cover; if the flavor/fluff factor is compelling, I'll finish it in this manner.* 2. If the flavor/fluff doesn't keep my interest, I'll flip through it looking at specific...

Wounds & Vitality.

My two coppers on the matter... As "psionics", I despise 3.x Psi. I think it's the stupidist psi-system ever conceived. I did have a player that wanted to use them, so I re-flavored the system as a form of back-water Arcane Magic (Mysticism) used by primitive cultures based on fragments of...

No kidding. (BTW, in the download, there's a section on Ward Magic; there's an OGC version in FFG's Spells & Spellcraft. I highly recommend that in any campaign. Good stuff.)

My players are always willing to listen and engage in verbal exchanges, dialogue, and/or abuse. Of course, they've had a few situations where the person they thought was the BBEG was really their biggest, secret ally, and they've also had villains they could not defeat physically (the ol'...

I still like the array I use: 9, 11, 11, 13, 15 & 17.

Haven't had the problem since leaving Chicago; Living in Florida, I don't know many gamers. I do tend to reject players now more because I don't like the "feel" I get from them, but I rarely allow the player-count at my table go above 4 anyways. By the same token, I tend not to like the idea...

Yep... Just add in some mystical effects (via Feats or Prestige Classes, or perhaps Templates to represent Bloodline Strength) for BR-styled Regency and the system is completely adaptable as a BR-system that's easily portable to any setting. Over-all, I like FoB. I've compared it to...

Another vote for Fields of Blood.

Here is the story of three players and one busy GM... Unable to lock down his work schedule (his job wanted him flexible around his college schedule), Player A could only show up on random days that could only be determined about a week and a half. Player B wanted to game a lot. His work...