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It has been a while since I was last in this thread (life kind of got ahead from me for a while). Here are some more thoughts on the subject. I said in my initial post "Given that no civilized society would actually have a direct use for an established church of that sort, they exist primarily...

My initial reactions: - Wizards is doing this at least in part to appease the segment of the D&D market that truly hates the notion of Fighters with daily powers - No matter what their intentions, they are going to infuriate a large segment of their player base anyway. - I expect there will...

Interesting. I have been doing that wrong. Where is that written down? END COMMUNICATION

How about a TPK Full description here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/277431-how-soon-do-you-see-warning-signs-total-party-kill-2.html#post5225888 Short version: The Encounter Dungeon Delve: Coppernight Hold 1-3, Audience Chamber. The players started out somewhat banged...

Here are my modifications: The big change here is I added Putrid Grasp and modified Hemmoragic Contagion to also add a vulnerability 5 Necrotic. If a player is already suffering ongoing damage from two attacks (total of ongoing 10) and gets grabbed, he will suffer 2 damage from the aura its...

Good feedback so far. Here are some of the thoughts I can put forward. Abduction vs Murder: The abduction vs murder thing by its self is because the cultists need them alive for now. I just have not decided what abducting them does that simply contaminating a food supply or murdering them on...

Not sure if any of my current players read EnWorld. However, I am going to gamble on a no. First some background. I am planning on adding some Cultiists of Morgion in my campaign as an evil organization. Morgion is a god of Disease, death, undead creatures, suffering, and general misery...

Thanks for the feedback. Necrotic might be a better fit for the damage, though I was specifically trying to set this up as a servent of a God of disease, death, etc. The monster builder software had both in the same drop list, so it seemed to fit. Divine damage was added largely to set it...

This is something I might want to use in my game. What do you think? Concerns: Is the damage output reasonable for a 4th level monster? Does this fit the Controller / Leader role? END COMMUNICATION

I do not see D&D as a case of 'story telling vs chess'. Neither analogy really fits what I like most about D&D. The story aspect of D&D is important. But I would hate to play in a game where the DM over writes the story. I also do not quite like the DM completly deciding the outcome of a...

TPK in todays game Ordinarily, I would not quote myself. But todays game had a TPK. Party: All level 1 Bounty the Dwarven Fighter Merric the Halfling Ranger Lia the elven Rogue Torment the Tiefling Sorcerer Heskan the Dragonborn Cleric The Encounter Dungeon Delve: Coppernight Hold 1-3...

I suppose the subject at hand is more an ethical then moral element. But for now lets put that aside.. The one objective fact is that any product that exists as a digital file is entirely non tangible. Copying a file is not the same as theft because with theft, the original item is no longer...

Outcome matters as much as intent Before anyone jumps down my throat, I want to say first that I do believe many copy protection schemes are flawed and unenforceable. But as with any issue, analogies can only work up to a point before you have to consider the objective facts of the situation...

Some character classes have a much more strongly defined role than others. Barbarian is one of those. If you want to tweak your Barbarian for a stronger out of combat role though, it can be done. - Chose a background that gives you access to the Social skills, and train up in one of them at...

I wonder which behaviour gnfnrf is more interested in? For Counter Spelling, pretty much any power that can interrupt and negate an action would fit. Might be worht having, but probably too powerful as an at will power. But a Spell Turning / "I take your attempt to attack me and reflect it...

Draconians As a DM, I like the idea of a monster that can create a problem resulting from killing it. Baaz: Turn to stone and capture weapon for a few rounds Kapak: Turn to pool of acid Bozak: Explode and harm anything nearby Sivak: Take form of person who killed it, also able to take form...

Fluff and Crunch are two somewhat broad categories for content that you might get from any given source book. Consider for example an Orc: Crunch: 1 HD humanoid creature. Attack +3 for 1d12 damage. 21 hp, AC 115, Fort 13, Ref 11, Will 9 Fluff: An orc is a brutish humanoid creature with a...

The least used skills are going to have two traits in common. - Those that the player either cannot use on his own initiative (ie: Because he thinks using it is a good idea, not the combat order), or can only do so very rarely. - Those that the DM has the least reason or occasion to...

The best villains are the ones the heroes create You have a PC who intentionally takes measures to avoid killing? That is a very good source of future villains. All you need to do is take any one survivor that the players let live after a fight, preferably one that the players did not capture...

I would argue that the attitude does not need to be stopped so much as moderated. it really comes down to what the DM and what the players expect from the game. Some players and Dm's have a strong narrative bias. Generally, this manifests for the players as a willingness to make sub optimal...