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I don't want to get into this whole debate, but I will say that there's no consensus on this being a misconception; many folks, including myself, believe that you're attaching the wrong meaning to the rule passage you quoted. We've had multipage threads about it in the past, and I don't think...

Please email a mod, or report the post, if you'd like to discuss this issue. Thanks! Daniel

I have no idea at all if this will be any use to you, but over a decade ago, a couple of my friends wrote up an alternate New Orleans for the Vampire game. It received pretty high reviews on the nascent Web, and it's still available on several different sites. Some of the characters and...

Indeed, which is a full-round action. You can only ready standard or move actions. Daniel

Lovely post, but gunsel does mean "thug with a gun." I know there's another meaning that's similar to "catamite," but that meaning is practially archaic now. Daniel

I would still check game physics first--that is, ask the DM, "Does that look possible to me?" Daniel

I would really not count on that in this situation. While this may be true in the real world, in D&D people behave more like an action movie than like real life, and it would not kind of cheesy to argue with the DM about the center of gravity of a limp body in the middle of a tense scene. The...

Another option: if you have a high bluff score and you know the NPC well, then sneer and say, "Nice try, but Bob always wears his wedding ring. You forgot to add that in, idiot." Then watch the reaction. If the illusionist looks like, "Aw, CRAP!" then you know it's an illusion. If he's all...

No shame in that: in English, adverbs aren't declined :). Daniel

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Everyone may have it in them to learn the rules, and I do find complex rules to be kind of fun myself. But not everyone enjoys complex rules. One of the best roleplayers I've ever known was terrible at math and at tactics, and I basdically had to accept that if I wanted her in my games (and I...

If your goal is to have them learn the rules, then this seems like good advice. But if your goal is to have fun with them, then this advice may not be so good: folks who have trouble with relatively simple math tend not to find it much fun, and punishing them for their avoidance of it isn't...

That, I think, is the key. I've played with a guy who's really fun, but who can't seem to remember that using his sword two-handed results in the 1.5 str modifier, or who forgets to add that in at all, or who doesn't remember how to figure out what Smite Evil does to the mods, and so forth. Of...

Excellent! I'm hoping to do a dry run up here in Asheville in a week or two. It looks like we'll have a full table! Daniel

What i generally do is to put as much of the information on the character sheet as possible. For example, don't just put the archer's attack bonus down. Also put a separate line labeled, "WITHIN THIRTY FEET!" with PBS included. For a two-weapon fighter, do something similar. Make sure all...

I should state at the outset that I ran my first real campaign in Greyhawk--at least until I warped the PCs through an interdimensional rift into a homebrew world. So I used Greyhawk a lot, and I have a strong appreciation for it. That said, what I didn't like about it was a lack of unity, I...

Aw, dang! I've had ridiculous fun in your games, and I was secretly hoping that you'd sign up for mine--but I understand the time crunch. Sometime, friend, sometime! Daniel

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At my brother's bachelor party, I ran a homebrew adventure with about 4-6 encounters total. Silliness was in high supply that night--but so was tequila and beer. Players who are moderately on task, and players who are drinking a lot, don't often intersect IME :). White Plume Mountain could be...