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Oh give me a break. I don't know why I wasted my time.

Corsair has a point though -- get 100 players at the local meetup.com event and you'll find more than a few of the players shy away from the cleric because they don't want to play the "band-aid." Do plenty of smart players go for clerics & druids? Sure, they've seen the class abilities, the...

I fudge all the time. I assume my job as DM is basically to sit with players and lie to them until they are giddy from the fun of it all. Got a waiting list a mile long. Not taking new applications.

It's not bad at all! Thanks for that.

Yes. For fun & profit, as the thread topic says. :)

For what it's worth, while I do not think I've specifically told my players, "I WILL ALTER DIE ROLLS BEHIND THIS SCREEN," the players know that the screen is there precisely so that I can do secret stuff. There may be a fudged die roll, an alteration to an NPC's sequence of attacks (I write...

Same. I've had DMs that feel very cheaty -- a player takes a trip build and suddenly every enemy has 4 legs, or a player creates a pyromaniac and suddenly every enemy has fire resistance, etc. Back in my Seattle days, I had a DM that would throw down 20 enemies onto the battle mat and then...

A person says that when she plays Monopoly she loves using the Free Parking house rule. Someone urges that person to reconsider. The Free Parking fan says, "Huh? But it's fun. Why would I reconsider that?" A person says that he loves to drop almost all the dragons from Runebound so that...

Why are you pursuing the badwrongfun angle?

Canary in a coal mine. He's suggesting that because you posted something that slightly agrees with him, you are in "danger." What he doesn't seem to realize is that you expressed your point in a way that does not antagonize anyone.

Jesus, Ariosto, you're getting condescending with a moderator. You come off just as "unreasonable" as he suggested, even if you might have a nugget of truth in there under all the posturing, which I'm not sure you do. What good is going to come of this? Let the guy game as he games and find a...

I'll chime in with a broad generalization, which is that you shouldn't waste spell slots on highly conditional spells. For example, you shouldn't have "Remove Disease" as one of your daily spells unless you are nearly certain that you'll be interacting with diseased monsters. Same for...

For what it's worth, dealing with undead and the Animate Dead spell will really help to sharpen your ideas on Wisdom vs. Intelligence. The reason is that, at least in D&D 3.5, skeletons have Wisdom but no Intelligence. So you have to think pretty hard about what implications that has for how...

Intelligence is what you know. Wisdom is how you apply it. I've never had a problem with this, and neither have my players. I guess I should be grateful.

Worthy of note is that Lore of the Gods only works for Knowledge checks. What's really cool is that it lets you retry a Knowledge check you already failed. That's huge, because if you follow the RAW, it's intended that once you fail a check you've failed for life. No retries on level up, no...

(I should note that I do not allow Wieldskill or anything in the Faerun books in my campaign. However, I secretly use it when creating custom magic items. I've found it's a good baseline for trying to figure out how much adding a feat or skill ability should cost, and it's really nice for...

Living Greyhawk has a free book sample that includes the Leech Ghost Skill spell, which allows you to use a ghost's skill ranks instead of your own. Dragon Magazine #335 offers Loresong, a 1st-level bard/sorcerer/wizard spell that allows you to select one skill to use untrained. It also gives...

I hate to say it, but not interested any more. The updates are too slow nowadays, and have been for a long while. I just un-bookmarked it. :( I still check the forums from time to time, so maybe I'll catch a few strips in passing. But really I think it will be easier to follow the story by...

The other player is wrong by core rules, although if you've houseruled and forgotten it, maybe he's right...? But aside from preposterous possibilities, no, masterwork absolutely doesn't qualify. The DMG makes it clear that the cost is a "+1 bonus" as in, you now have a base of +1 magical item...

You know, what's weird is that I actually think getting away from elves/dwarves/humans is a good thing. I like that D&D has moved on to dragonborn/tieflings/whatever. It makes the world more fresh, and gives us a chance to explore new ideas instead of rehashing the same old "ha ha that dwarf...