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I just read a story about a bloke who served as a UN peacekeeper in the Congo back in the 60's. One day his section caught some rebels raping and torturing a young nun. That was nothing compared to what they'd done to the old nun and the old bloke who worked there with them. Certainly, being...

There are a lot of reasons why 10th level PCs might fight city guards. For starters, 10th level in 4th edition represents a vastly different level of absolute power than it does in 1st edition, 2nd edition or 3.nth edition. The 3.x DMG states that your average guard will be a 1st level...

Maybe the guards started it? It's not like PC's have their levels tattood on their foreheads. How are the guards to know they're outclassed? This is generally how I do it. But it's good to know roughly what level potential threats are so you know at what PC level to make them...

Wow. This is different. Very interesting system for a narrativist game.

In premodern societies (as has already been said, these are ostensibly the model for D&D societies) jail wasn't about benign incarceration or social rehabilitation. Jail was about punishment, pain and torture. The kinds of people that ran these places were sick sociopaths who wanted to hurt...

And here I was thinking Christian organisations just wanted peoples' money... :rolleyes:

Sure you can. You don't have to derive population demographics from the rules of D&D, but you can easily make the rules a factor.

In 3.5e I also went with 1st level warriors, but in 4e I'm thinking the average guardsman in a big town should be about 5th level. I think the entire Heroic tier is somewhat gritty and mundane in this edition. Even a 10th level character in 4e is only a third of the way through the potential...

Agreed. What made me love Dark Sun was that adventure (one of the ones with the two ring-binders) that introduced the Avangion (a kind of preserver-dragon) - finally there was some hope. I think this is a cool idea. I once toyed with the idea of an old retired adventurer - an extremely high...

I love the WH40k universe but I imagine it would be very taxing to GM. It's interesting that this is the case with space/sci-fi settings. I've found the same with fantasy settings where planar travel is too prominent. It's probably a topic for another thread, but I've often wondered about it.

I guess this is a levels/demographics question. What level is your typical town or city guardsman in D&D? I'm aware it's not a simple question, which should make for an interesting thread. What levels do you, personally, believe NPC guardsmen should be? Go into as much detail as you want...

Don't forget the fact that the players play the game primarily by talking. They are already far more engaged with the mechanics of resolving a negotiation encounter than they are with resolving a combat encounter. Thus, negotiation requires less scope in its arbitration mechanics than does...

I didn't buy much in the way of 3.5 stuff - the Core books, FRCS, Manual of the Planes, Oriental Adventures, Eberron... I steered away from mindless splatbooks and bought a few things from 3rd party publishers. I enjoyed 3.5 but never felt the need to buy everything. And now I love 4e. But no...

An important point we haven't yet touched on is that of the afterlife. I mean, any powerful extraplanar ('immortal' in 4e) being that can kick your ass can demand worship - and receive it when they or their agents are around to enforce this worship. But what about when they're not around? 4e...

While it's already been said (in a very roundabout way) in this thread, you put it very well.

I came to this conclusion myself, but didn't like the constraints this would put on the kinds of settings and adventures that would be possible. So I decided to make gods all but nonsentient - effectively insane or maybe just eternally sleeping (I'm sure I've picked this up from something I...

That was my first thought. The only non-compete contract that would be worth anything would be an offer of fulltime work. True story - my flatmate in Stockholm toured with a Suicide Girls stage show. But I never thought to ask her about contracts and whatnot.

Sure but in D&D the gods don't directly 'grant' (ie. consciously) power to their followers. Not anymore (ymmv). I've toyed with the idea of entirely unaware, nonsentient gods being sources of power for parasitic clerics to draw from. Maybe a certain mindset (ie. a few tenets or attitudes) is...

There's probably more truth to this statement than you realise.

I wouldn't say I'm a "bad" DM. Bad implies evil or something. I'd say my DMing is "poor".