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While that may be true, I'd have no interest in playing a character with these stats. Like others pointed out, this character should technically be re-rolled. But with a GM who won't let you do that and is known for not letting characters die... I guess I'd have to have a sit down talk with...

I'm right with you. The World is the World. If first level characters insist on hunting the Legendary Dragon of Wherever, they're dead meat. BUT; Be prepared. I can virtually guarantee that, no matter how clearly you spell it out, no matter how often you repeat it... At some point your...

Simple solution, dude. Don't play those games! Or don't play a fighter in those kind of games. I've only heard, mostly indirectly, of games where there is no combat. I was invited to play in one about five years ago, but when they told me that they had started as apprentices (under 3.0...

Line of Sight to the place where the Area Effect goes off. Not to the victim, who you don't need to see. If I know you're behind a tree, I don't need to target you. I can target the fireball to explode just past the tree. Besides the entire messy issue of Cover vs. Area Effect spells.

QFT This is a standard fallback, and very sadly, I've often had to use it on people who are themselves GMs and would never tolerate that kind of thing in their own game.

Last week, on top of ending the game I was running, I quit the game I was playing in. I'd told the GM (who was a player in my game) that I'd come very close to dropping out last spring. It was a matter of never knowing WHEN, WHAT or IF we were playing. Often right up to the last second. I'd...

I agree on the anger thing, having just ended a game over it. Well, a lot of other issues too, but when both players and GM all start to get hostile and angry, it's pretty much over. Part of the problem is: D&D is essentially rigged. You play a lot of other games, you expect to be either...

Been through a fair number of groups over the last six years. I have higher than the base normal expectations of what I want out of a game / game group and have learned that I don't need to continually compromise myself by settling for less. Sure, that means a lot of moving on, less actual...

Perhaps Nature is an old woman, who is dying. The solution is that a young woman must be found who is strong and courageous enough to take up the mantle, yet humble and self-effacing enough not to desire it. At the key moment, the Old Woman dies and the 'Spirit of Nature' enters the young...

At the stage of my Homebrew that I am currently using, the Calaseans (powerful magic users) rule the world. Few races content with them. The Dragons rule one entire continent. The Goblinoids (Goblins, Hobgoblins, Bugbears) are their thralls. There are no 'good' or 'evil' dragons per se...

Ah, but you're a Lawyer. Can't you get some intern to do it for you?

As you may have noticed, there was a significant change between the first book and the second. Gone was a lot of the nonsensical stuff, like everyone singing a different song at the same time and Dumbledore stepping up to say a few words of gibberish. It's Good vs Evil, but not simple fairy...

Preferences shows AAC Encoder and High Quality (128 kbps). Cut/pasted from Apple's technical specs for an iPod; 30GB or 80GB hard drive(1) Holds up to 7,500 (30GB) or 20,000 songs (80GB) in 128-Kbps AAC format I don't have that many games on my computer, so I still have plenty of room (125...

With over 90% of my CD collection loaded in, a current total of 1,895 songs in my computer's iTunes. El Condor Pasa (If I Could); Simon & Garfunkel; is what is currently playing. But it could be anything from the soundtrack to O Brother (old folk/gospel music) to the latest stuff, from Enya to...

Homebrew (see sig line) Nieri - Halfling Rogue 1 / Wizard 4, on way to Arcane Trickster Samsel - Human Kineticist 5 Lawrence - Human Psychic Warrior 5 Kethra - Human Ranger 5 Healer John (NPC) - Cleric 5 Add in Hero Points and Dork Tower cards and the group has a lot of punch and staying...

H.R. Puffinstuff. 'nuff said.

Been there, seen that. Players who think the only 'real' things that should happen are the ones they chose to be a part of. If they ignore it, it shouldn't happen. Past Campaign: Shock of all shocks, a major (NPC) ally's new town gets destroyed by a troll army that the party failed to stop...

Around here, it's Morels, which like others said, appear in spring. That'd be April and May in this location. One the subject of Morels... I see 1 ounce packages of dried Morels in the upscale grocery store. Walked by them all the time before deciding that I had to go get some. I grab a...

I worked at the truck gate of the local Kmapart DC for about a year. We kept some seriously strong air freshener out there. Some of those people (not just males) were criminally unwashed! One guy stepped out of the over-the-road version of a garbage house. It was that deep inside. The funk...

My Homebrew is a bit different. Arcane Power is a blood-line thing, though it can occur outside known families. Not just any yob can become a Wizard (or Bard or Adept). Sorcerers are a separate blood-line thing. Detect Magic basically adds +25 to your Caster level for the purpose of...