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Something I've been debating - what's more useful to have as a character: group debuffs or single-target debuffs? For the purpose of this question, "Debuff" is any spell effect that applies a penalty or hindrance to the target without causing physical damage or death. Let's leave out the...

I think it's a fine book - but it's far too fantastic/pulpy for the apocalyptic vibe that early Dark Sun espoused. Or rather, it's the opposite side of the John Carter of Mars coin that is Dark Sun. The second you start having a campaign where Mutant Halflings use Lifeshaped Artifacts to...

Can you provide a link or a source? I'd like to take a look at it. This is the main problem with the class. The thing is, they're still only kind of okay when they fight casters - they steal a spell, and then spend an action to cast the spell. This is why I think basing them off the bard...

I am running a Pathfinder Dark Sun campaign, and I've done my fair share of converting. Dark Sun is my favourite setting of all-time, and I've read most of the setting books. That being said, I think the books are just good as a starting place - you need to take them, get rid of the junk, and...

Or, another idea that occured to me: Spelltheft is simply a standard action, which you can do within 30 feet. If you catch the guy flatfooted (or flank him), you get a +2 on the attempt. When you steal a spell, you sacrifice one of your spell slots to gain a spell from your enemy. You make...

talking to my GM, and we think the best starting place is to take the beguiler, and modify it to have some spellthief abilities. Or maybe use the bard as a starting place, add in sneak attack (maybe at a lower die cost?) and throw in the sneak attack abilities at the cost of most of the bardic...

My all-time favourite class is the spellthief - which happens to be one of the "weakest" classes in the game. Experience has told me that when the class is in its ideal element, it is a lot of fun and not "overpowered", but when it is in a situation where the stealing spell/innate abilities...

I grew up in a navy family. Here are a few Canadian Navy superstitions/traditions that still survive. There are a few duplicates from above, but sometimes, repetition is a good thing, because it shows what's truly important. * Naval toasts. A search for Lord Nelson's Toasts should get them...

(fair notice: I haven't read any posts beyond the first post... sorry if it seems I repeat earlier entries!) To answer your question: VEGEPYGMIES. The pathfinder vegepygmies are great - plantlike creatures that have a reason for abducting people, and have a completely foreign outlike on...

My few thoughts on it: 1) Build class archetypes into the game from the get-go. Perhaps it'd be cool if every class was structured like the rogue - a few core abilities, and then you pick and choose your talents. 2) Fix the hit point system so constitution isn't absolutely necessary for all...

Geez. It scares me that no one is backing Loonook up on this one. I got your back, man! Not only is this pure craziness, but it'd be a terrible thing to happen at the table - essentially, you not only have a caster player trying to out awesome the fighter, but by doing so, he's taking over...

Generally, the PCs look at the fight, and say "hey, guys? We're boned". I had two last session. One they fought (and barely survived) and the other they turned and ran from immediately. I rarely tip off the PCs. But I set things up so that if bad stuff happens, they can usually run.

Oh, HELL YES. I have so many fond memories of this game... especially because it's a game you can play with non-gamers. I remember my dad and I (both gamers, me since I was six years old) playing it on board game night with the rest of the family, including my non-gaming-at-all mother (Clue is...

And I'm gonna disagree. :) I am a pretty avid camper. I know which foods are poisonous and which are edible. I know how to make bannock bread, and while I'm a pretty crappy fisherman, I know how to fish. And I can tell you, if you put me out in the bush and told me to fend for myself, it'd...

Gah. I live in an area where there is a HUGE amount of plant life, berries, and edible plants. I am in an area where there is an abundance of sea life (some of the largest concentrations in the world, in fact). Wildlife can be found everywhere, and if you know where to look, you can easily...

An idea for a pretty huge houserule that occured to me last night. First, all PCs get a flat boost to armour class, much like in the 3E Unearthed Arcana defence bonus system. This would depend on character class. Second, armour that PCs wear would not modify armour class OR provide any sort...

I would avoid basing it off con - it is already too important a stat for characters in any system in which hit points are related to con (in my games, con does not affect hit die rolls, but only starting HP, so it'd work there... but in RAW D&D, it's probably a bad idea to base further bennies...

I was playing around with a similar idea in an abandoned house rule, called "adrenaline". The idea was that the game was built around the use of adrenaline, and that it could do really useful things - minor damage reduction, bonus to die rolls, and reload weapons faster. PCs had between 0 to 3...

This thread is the gamer's equivalent of those skateboarding videos where someone gets hit in the nuts. :) Okay, a few of mine: THE PSIONICS HANDBOOK FIASCO: I bought the 2e Psionics Handbook for a Dark Sun campaign I was running. While the campaign was running, the book got lost - probably...

As I mentioned upthread, I did something similar with my own game, and if you have it simply laid out, you CAN have a percentile system where you level skills as you use them, without having to resort to clunky XP systems. And, in the few playtests I ran before my deadline came, that part of...