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I ran into this rule disagreement last night with my DM about the extra damage that the Chillborn Zombie. It has this Ice Reaper ability which deals extra 5 cold damage to an immobilized creature. The question is when that 5 damage gets added. Is it: a) added to its cold aura damage, so that...

I'm crying too. I wish I was running a Planescape campaign just so I can use these maps. :( I'm so glad you guys are keeping the setting alive through planewalker.com. I keep wanting to jump in a help, but life always interferes with the fun...

What I really want to know is what the heck is the Shadowdark? Is it next to Lightdim? Or perhaps above Brightnot? These guys say it better than I can: Penny Arcade! - In Search Of A Robust Cosmology

I had a situation in which two party members (a rogue... and was it a cleric?) got separated from the rest of the party. The rest of the party was knee deep in a titanic battle, while the two party members were unwilling to wade into the battle because they perceived themselves as...

While I agree that there is an inherent problem with "ticking clock" scenarios (as well as forcing players to not rest in order to "challenge" them)*, I am a little puzzled about the above statements and need a little clarification. There is the obvious situation where the players have put...

I have a friend who owns a game store in Northern California, and I worked for a board game company for a year and a half. (But I am so not an expert!) My friend told me that he expected to lose money for the first two years of his store, and expected to break even in the third year. If you...

I feel like situation is similar to Yaris because of the following points: 1) There was an obvious difference between my conception of the situation and the player's conception. What I saw was narrative text, he saw as a detail that stood out and meant something. 2) Because of this conception...

I have a concrete example from my own game that I want people to comment on so I can better understand the arguments presented: I'd like CharlesRyan, Cadfan, and others who believe in the entertain-first camp to comment specifically, but of course anyone can contribute... In this 3.5 scenario...

Personally, I'd give Varis a little more credit. He attempted to make the climb up the pipe interesting for the two piping PCs with a Skill Challenge, including XP awards for surviving the challenge. That's not punishing players, in my opinion. Whether or not he should have put in something...

I'd like to note that in a previous post I suggested the real problem of the OP is that the party split up. If the whole party had gone into the pipe and the same thing happened, there would be some slightly different issues. Deep down you can frame the issue to be: should the DM turn every...

What I meant was that a few of my players would argue that: a) if I mentioned a water pipe, then it has to serve some important purpose, and b) they deserve some skill rolls for more description about the pipe. The more skill rolls would then lead to more description, explanation, and eventually...

I have players that would call this railroading...

I've DMed similar situations. It's a 'Catch-22'. If I say right away it's a dead end, then I'd be accused of railroading. So to avoid that stigma, I'd have to let them make choices that would appear to be 'wasting time'. The main problem I see here is the actual splitting of the party. Once...

Darn! They don't have 'Alpha Factor GW6'! I have the module, but lost the map. :mad: Here's hoping they eventually scan a pdf one of these decades...

In the 'Great Modron March', there is an intelligent, talking book. I have always wanted to run a series of adventures where the book is missing some pages and hires the PCs to find them. I think the book was going to be a diary, so the entries would hint at the possible locations of each...

My favorite mystery-solving game is Mage: The (Either edition). In one Mage: The Awakening game, we were trying to discover the location of a book, who wrote it, who hid it, and why. While we never got to the end of that advenuture, it was interesting in the HOW we figured out the answers...

To add an additional caveat, I might be remembering thea statement to be about the SRD, not the OGL...

Didn't the Paizo guys mention that they were concerned that the OGL might be revoked some time in the future? Isn't that one of the reasons they started the Pathfinder project to give themselves their own core rules? (Of course, now I can't find that press release...)

I can see Sigil being the focus of the DMGII as a paragon level base setting, like Fallcrest in the DMGI. In fact, I'm wondering if adventuring in the paragon level would be about exploring the Astral Sea and its domains. Perhaps the DMGIII would be about the City of Brass and exploring the...

I would definitely use a large initiative chart that every player could see. I have a player that always claims he was skipped, even when he wasn't. After one battle, I discovered that he had taken two more actions than everyone else... I would always have a copy of a pregenerated dungeon in...