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I don't see anything wrong with it. As a player, I approve-- random anything is the bane of my existence. Of course, for some people, the weird dice are part of the appeal.

In my games, I try to balance the way traveling adventurers would be treated by a medieval society with the fact that the traveling adventurers could kill everyone in town before breakfast and everyone knows it. Players don't need to know local laws because, unless they're causing serious...

How is a species with profound physical differences from humanity not going to have profound psychological differences as well? If anything, I would say that these cultural differences need to be deepened and reinforced rather than discarded. I like the idea of having multiple cultural options...

First things first, I would like to apologize. I am being overly aggressive, and I have little excuse for doing so except that I've been involved in a number of alignment threads recently with people who seemingly enjoy stripping Paladins of their powers at the drop of the hat. I've been...

You said yourself that you weren't sure whether or not you should apply consequences, and your previous comments seemed to indicate that you were leaning in that direction. If really intelligent people within the game world disagree over it, that means it's inconclusive-- and the only way that...

I think it does. Players can only operate according to the knowledge they are given by the DM; not even Paladins can be held accountable for things that they have no way of knowing. I think that holding characters to moral standards that the DM not only hasn't explained, but refused to explain...

Are Goblins in your game people, however evil, or are they monsters? If the PCs have reason to believe that Goblins are irredeemable or that, even defeated, they still represented a threat to nearby communities, then killing them was justified and possibly even necessary. In a world where it is...

I don't think I would ever play a Paladin in someone else's game. The sheer lunacy of the restrictions some people place on Paladins-- far beyond anything justified by the rules themselves-- make it impossible to play one in anything other than the strictest Lawful Stupid fashion. I've heard...

Don't tell me. Tell the people who write the comic books. I make it a point not to mix my notions of morality with the morals presented in fantasy roleplaying games.

When I'm playing, I always vote to kill the prisoners and the rest of the party always overrules me. It works for us. They get to be Good guys, and I get to say "I told you so." If they serve an honorable nation, releasing them on parole is a perfectly viable option. In general, PCs shouldn't...

I'm aware of that. But the difference between being able to cast the right spell now and having to wait an hour can very easily be 5,000 gp. A Healer with a 20 Charisma gets a whole whopping 5 extra hit points per spell. Woo. Ah, yes. Scrolls. Who needs a Healer when you have a Rogue?

But the Healer is forced to guess which effect-removing spells he's going to need that day, and unlike the Cleric cannot sacrifice those spells to cast cure spells instead. The Cleric is always capable of healing wounds at least, and the Favored Soul is always capable of healing the effects he...

I've discovered recently that there is a very common type of rules lawyer who not only misinterprets everything they read, but in every case chooses the most staggeringly nonsensical interpretation of the rules possible. The more I deal with people like this, the less and less enamored I find...

That's the problem. The Healer isn't as good at healing as a Cleric dedicated to the purpose, and that's the only thing the Healer can do. The Warmage, is very good at throwing direct damage spells; if the Healer had the same ability to cast any spell from its spell list at any time, it would at...

There seems to be two things at work here. First, he's having a hard time judging the CR of his encounters-- which is a difficult art in any version of the game-- and second he prefers tough fights that require tactical skills and game mastery that the other players may not possess. I can't tell...

The "Healer" has no spontaneous healing. They memorize spells like anyone else, and then get some limited healing as spell-like abilities; the only advantage they have over a Cleric is the ability to add Charisma to healing spells, which is useless for any healing spell over 1st level. In...

My sincerest apologies to you and Whisper72. I don't know how I mixed that up. Definitely. I think they fit with the theme of the world.

Can't give any more XP today or pawsplay would have gotten one. Howard may have been a product of his time, but he was clearly ahead of it in many ways.

Most of those are kitchen sinks, which I've already got covered. I'm probably going to use elements from each of them, but all that is taking place on the main planet-- before the characters get out to the stars. Yeah. The more I think about it, the more I want to use Maztica influences for...

OD&D: Race as class. Each race is biologically and culturally distinct. The rules expansions in the Gazetteer series allow you to have multiple class variants for the racial classes, to represent non-standard race/class combinations like the Dwarf Cleric; Orcs of Thar introduces a much better...