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Thanks, all! I'm just excited about the RP potential for a half-mechanical man on a half-mechanical horse, trying to survive in a living (and undead) beings' world. Might make for an interesting campaign. besides, who else would ever get to say "Hold on, I need to fix my horse," and not have the...

My wiz5/ftr1/soon-to-be-EK 1 character just picked up a glaive. I'm fairly happy with the weapon. Reach weapons are the way to go. Add in a wand of truestrike and you've got yourself a great flanking charge weapon. I'd steer clear of ranged weapons, unless you're keen on loading up on...

Has anyone given any thought to what happens when your party rides off on horseback in a race to defeat the BBEG to his nefarious goals...and one of your party is a warforged? Looking at the warforged racial weights, it seems like a 'forged with any kind of gear on him/with him would begin to...

I'd have to side with the conservative faction here. A bachelor party that does not involve depravities of myriad forms (strippers, strong liquor) and which is not an all blokes affair is not a bachelor party-- it's just a party. Don't get me wrong, I like parties. There are, however, different...

Abrus, that's brilliant.

No one save evil tempters sets out to make a cursed item, but conisder this: weapons bring death and destruction. No one likes death and destruction. Imagine the powerful magic weapons and armors used in a devastatingly destructive war. Now imagine the clerics (or druids, if the land suffered)...

Gotta say, I'm a bigger fan of the subservient chicken....

Or just use the simple chunky salsa rules from SR. Houserule your game such that fireball bounces off walls. That way a blast in a 10' wide hallway will do lots of damage and fuel your mages' bloodlust. That's a lot of d6's...

It's not so much that my characters are like me as a player, but that my game world is a reflection of the playground of maddness between my ears when I DM. Players quickly get used to a world which is a little bit more whimsical, a little bit stranger, sometimes a little bit darker, and...

As a rule, I keep track of crossbow bolts fired using hatch-marks on the margin of my character sheet. Each quiver gets its own list: Bolts +1 (20): ||| MW Bolts (20): |||| Of course, when you're just using regular old arrows, it's hardly worth it to collect the errant ones...unless you're...

So my Wiz 5 just took a level of Fighter, heading on his way to picking up the EK PrC. In addition to wanting to pick up some new weapons (he's been watching the dwarf barbarian kick butt and take names), I've been thinking about outfitting him with some armor. Afterall, if the man's going to...

Your gaming group is in its prime... literally. It won't be this prime again until it hits 29.

Never underestimate the value of giving information as a reward. Any roleplayer worth his salt would rather learn a clue regarding the whereabouts of his lost sibling/mentor/familiar/treasure/whatever than get a +1 longsword.

The Horizon Walker PrC is sort of like this, but in a cosmic plane-hopping sense. I've often thought about playing a "traveller" PC, and I think rogue is probably the right way to go. Don't think of it as "sneak attack" damage, but just just more powerful attacks you happen to get karmically...

I'd let a PC cut out an opposing wizard's tongue as a CDG-style attack against an incapacitated/bound wizard. I'd even consider house-rules-ing a feat to allow a high-dex character to make a grab for it during combat. Cutting off of tongues is right up there with eye-gouging: one of those gross...

I was thinking about experimenting with a semicircular gaming table. Players sit along the curved half, and the DM sits along the straight half--sort of like at a blackjack table. I'm the kind of player who likes the stand up when the battle gets intense to be able to peer across the battle mat...

Having just watched Episode III, and listened to Frank Oz make a fool of himself with over-the-top Yoda-isms, it got me wondering: If Yoda speaks with an inverted, German-like syntax (at least in the original trilogy), does the dub/sub of his speech come out as "normal" in German versions of...

I would rack him up like a deuce, another roller in the night.

To add a cinematic feel to your sword vs. sword combats, you could simply declare that successful attacks deal subdual damage (or no damage at all), whereas crtical hit do normal damage. A mechanic would be required to "position" in combat, whereby you could make an attack which would not deal...

What are the rules for armor and riding? Of course knights in days of yore didn't try to hustle around the battlefield in uber-plate; they rode! Being on a mount cuts out the "slow speed" and "movement modifiers" problems with heavy armor. Why don't we see more heavily armored halflings on war...