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Surely the PCs have made friends of powerful good clerics who are willing to raise them so that they might continue their quest for glory and honor?

Drek. I've never felt so unanimous before. (Yes, that does mean I want to play M&M :D )

Heck, I was doing some rock scrambling (not even free climbing, just a steep slope) with a buddy of mine last summer. He was having the toughest time of it (think, DC 5 climb check), and made the crack, "Man, imagine doing this in full plate, looking for the goblins' lair. Whew!"

Zoooombies..... from outer space........ Zoooombies..... from outer space........ If the world does not end a la Space Zombie Bingo, I'll actually be sort of disappointed.

So this explains what broke my windshield. It wasn't those meddling kids at all....

It has been said that Florida is a large chunk of Long Island that broke off, floated south, and got snagged on a southern coral reef... (for our non-US friends, Long Island is an affluent area outside of New York City, an island, from which many people have retired to Florida from)

A good model of a solo adventure are the Fallout and Fallout 2 computer RPGs. Although the hero can acquire a party, the NPCs are largely there to round out skills that the PC does not have (e.g., lock picking, repairing machinery, science, etc.) In light of that, I cannot agree more with...

Harmon--to answer your question: there is some compelling evidence that Mars has lost water (in addition to other light gases) over time. This process is part of a phenomenon called "sputtering, " or "Jeans Escape." As gas molecules, like water vapor, bounce around an atmosphere, they may reach...

From a DM point of view, here's what I would do to keep the game exciting: You know how every so often in the LotR books the various groups of adventurers get glimpses of Gandalf working at a distance (i.e., on Weathertop) or see him come in from nowhere and save the day (e.g., Helms Deep), or...

Thanks, Biggus! Any time folks have questions about geology, astronomy, etc., or want informed speculation, they should feel free to ask. It might make the OT forums a little more erudite, but I think that's okay. If folks want to see how wildly obliquity can change, even over the course of a...

Law-chaos is a huge, real-world, material plane issue. Consider an adventure in a dwarven city. The town fathers ask your party (because of the dwarven fighter you serve with) to clear out a band of bards, ruffians, marauders, and malcontents who are preying on their fair city. Suddenly it turns...

As a lawful cleric, I would only heal those who behaved lawfully--who understood the risks of combat and the rules of the party, and who acted accordingly. A chaotic character who picked a fight with an innocent bystander (say, in a pub) is a ruffian, and will heal on his own (thankyouvermuch)...

Just to clear up the "Venus has a longer day issue" (sorry, I'm a planetary geologist, so this kind of question strikes near to my heart): Venus rotates more slowly than the Earth. Therefore, 1 "day" (the time it takes to complete a rotation around the planet's axis) is "long." In polar regions...

As far as producing a Mars-like world goes, here's some things to think about: * Mars and Earth have very similar axial tilts (at present) (25.2* versus 23.5*). * The technical term for axial tilt is "obliquity." * Mars, unlike the Earth, has experienced rapid changes in obliquity over the...

Is anyone aware of a critter out there that has a "bloodlust" type of ability? I am thinking of critters which go berserk, "rage" or get other combat bonuses when they are in the presence of fresh blood (I'm thinking something like sharks going into a frenzy, or the feeding behavior of...

Elven eruptions smell like a summer's day, like a leafy glen, like a shady hollow. My bard is going to write a song about this one day....

Poking around the SRD... First, yes, it is odd that a halberd is not a reach weapon (it is, afterall, a medieval canopener). Second, with a reach weapon and spiked armor, a character would threaten all squares within 10' of him. That's a pretty neat trick. An AoO against an adjacent sqaure...

I just finished playing a character who was a medieval sapper. He sported an iron "miner's helmet"--an iron helmet with a shiny steel reflector on the front. He'd snap the heads off of sunrods and put them in the reflector--working like a hands-free bullseye latern, minus the oil.

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The forecast high for sunny Rhode Island is 88*F today...which I think is a polite way of saying 90.