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I remain, as ever, at your service Sir! Good luck with your cogitations. This is a twisted thread to unravel and no mistake; but then the best campaign ideas often are.

I am really sorry that this has affected so many talented people. I think this industry is very brutal and takes no account of the sacrifices people have to make to work as RPG games designers. This makes the commitment of the people on that list, to this hobby, all the more inspiring. I wish...

Cold iron and the fey's susceptability to it is present in alot of tales but doesn't have anything to do with inhibiting magic. As I remember, cold iron was poisonous to Fey and weapons made of it killed them whereas steel would not and their wounds would heal with supernatural swiftness. I...

My favorite approach with 3.5E is to read the game's rule until they are completely clear in my head, read through all the monster manuals, pick out monsters I like or think would be fun and then....................do no more prep at all. Sometimes I have no idea what is going to happen in the...

Jack7; I agree with you that mundane tactics are far more reliable than magic (my comments are 3.5E specific at present) with two caveats. The first is that for tactics to work well you have to have; a) a high degree of tactical skill amongst ALL the players because if one screws up in...

Actually warhammer has a long tradition of dark humour and you have to use it to offset the bleakness or else chaos will begin to creep into your soul........................ Having said that, the grimness of the setting perfectly lends itself to certain kinds of game; games where food is...

I am not sure your "I am going to prove you wrong" is the right approach with this player. He is not sticking to it to be awkward but because he finds the explanation satisfying. If I were you I would try and provide him with an alternate explanation of how magic and armour interact to replace...

I agree with you entirely; lots of people who complain about 4E are just haters. But I would just point something out as a counterpoint; there are LOTS of these people, they are not just a vocal minority. This suggests to me that 4E has some serious problems. I haven't played it yet, so I...

Jack99; How could you have forgotten about Cassandra (LOL)!! Let us know if you have any other problems or concerns.

Hi Quartz, The point is that the TRUE gods are divine whereas the Usurpers aren't and so can be killed. The PCs aren't divine yet and hence also can't replace the TRUE gods.

Malvolio is a gambler and a con-artist. He was abducted from a noble family at age 8 for ransom but was never returned. He watched games of chance at the den of iniquity where he lived and stole some dice at the age of ten; he has been fascinated by chance ever since. His captors used him as a...

Jack7; I agree that mundane tactics are very important but magic is not all about flashy one time effects. You don't need high level magic to win either, just a good knowledge of a variety of spells. The spells I describe below are for 3.5E and most come from spell compendium. There are all...

Mercurius; do you actually want an adventuring "economy" with lots of NPC adventurers? I ask as the default 4E assumption seems to be that there are very few, if any, other adventurers apart from the PCs (I assumed you were talking about 4E since you mentioned PoLs and didn't specify any other...

All magic in Warhammer is linked to Chaos. Bascially, spell casting is like handling radioactivity (pulp version) i.e. you end up mutated, mad or irredeemably evil (or all three) if you cast enough spells. 1e magic was awful because it was so limited and clunky and was based on "battle magic"...

I notice that we still don't have anything on the Imperial University yet. Can you give us some idea of what you are after Morrus as I have a few ideas but they might not fit? We could do the whole "arcane University as a grown up Hogwarts" but that seems a bit hackneyed to me. I was...

Jack99; I think you need to simplify your story a little to make it digestible to the players, but otherwise it looks very solid. Why don't you make the Usurpers demons who have taken god-like form and power to heal their wounds after the titanic struggles between primordials and demons, if you...

Jack99; your problem is that you need an engaging creation story that rationalises the nature of godhood. In other words, you need to define what a God actually is through story and how the world came to be the way it did. Otherwise, Gods are just another monster and have no true majesty. Here...

Why thank-you Master Taliesin! I am glad to have amused or informed you (albeit by chance most probably). You approval is particularly welcome as I named my daughter after Taliesin; her name is Tallis and she is 18 this week!

Names changed to protect the innocent eh! I approve. Let me know if I can help any further with more specific requests or else I shall post anything else that pops into my head.

If you need anything more specific, let us know. I am sure we can all jointly come up with something. I don't know your capitol city background, so that makes it harder; apologies if lots of the ideas have "flavour" problems as a result.