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Everyone's expected to stick their neck out and take risks - it's D&D, for goodness sakes. The whole point is to come up with a character generation method that's different form point buy (everyone starts about the same) or random gen (everyone starts out the same, except for bob who got 18...

Very true. At the time I thought it up, it really applied more to the _player_ than to the character. Very true. It's like taking an NPC dependent in Champions (like a girlfriend), and not having her be threatened by the Villian of the week once every three games like they should be. It's...

Well, the idea isn't to completely negate the character's bonuses - just to mitigate them, but that's true. Another possibility is to apply the hubris as a penalty of some sort to the item saving throws for the items he owns - everyone else survives the fireball fine, but Bob's sword melts...

In the thread that's arguing over point-buy vs. random, I came up with the suggestion of allowing players to pick their stats, with a caviat: Someone suggested I start a thread to discuss what Hubris could do, so this is that. First off, Hubris is supposed to be a breaking factor of sorts...

Heh. "Pick whatever stats you want or need. 3-18. Your choice. But total up how many points it would cost to make that character with point buy, subtract 32, and that's your Hubris score. Write that on your sheet so I can see it." "Hubris? What's it for? Oh, you'll find out."

Personally, I go back and forth between point buy and rolling, but I'm interested in the question between monk and sorcerer. Let's say we're making a sorcerer and we end up with, oh, 18 12 12 10 10 8. He's going to be pretty powerful with that 18 - nice work. On the other hand, we could make...

If you buy a 9 point stat, and have a -2 penalty for racial traits, then you end up with a 7.

I think Dragonstar was one of the casualties of the big 3.5 changeover. I kinda like it, and have the set of the books they sold off last year, but haven't really had time to read it in detail yet.

I saw the Illusionist and really liked it. I'm considering seeing 'The Covenent' - it sounds like it could be fun, or bad - probably need to check reviews.

I really liked the movie - I can't wait to buy a copy.

Asking for the third time how and when the product was shipped to me? Is there someone I should be emailing directly rather than posting in this thread? I'd try messaging through ebay, but I never got a reply through that...

Wow! I hadn't heard of these maps - thanks! I'm planning on running Against the Giants starting later this month - having updated pretty maps is great.

Wow. Well, I'll be looking forward to that...

21 days and counting on still not seeing anything... was this sent Media mail? Did it somehow get returned to sender?

I think Monte's ideas are interesting, and I'd like to see a spellcasting class that follows his ideas. But I don't see a reason to get rid of the current Wizard class, which I enjoy playing.

In America, we've got this thing called humor...

I haven't gotten anything either, but if Canada is anything like France, half the country took the month of August off for Summer vacation. So, I figure I can wait a few more days.

Hey, thanks!

Canada, eh? Well, I guess I'll have to hang on for a little while longer, then....

I seem to remember that the Miniatures Handbook had rules for randomly generating dungeons...