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Thanks a ton. That's excellent for what I need. You rock.

Has anyone here seen or even created one of these monstrosities? If so, could you tell me where or post stats? If not, no better time than the present!

You, sir... win the internet. This is the first ever EN world post I've read that made me want to vomit. Tally ho!

OK, a friend of mine and I had this disagreement. He thinks he should be able to use Detect Evil while someone is talking. If they lie, he should know because, as he said, 'lying is an evil act'. Does this have any merit what-so-ever? I told him he was full of it, and Detect Evil didn't work...

I've played in a few such games and, on most cases, just going with it without too much complaint resulted in a fun game. Some DMs (and I assume designers) picture a challenge to go a certain way. This may, or may not, be in line with the rules. The unbeatable cold or the darkness that can't...

I wouldn't totally agree. Perhaps it is true for some people, but I've seen a lot of examples where a role was just a role. I'm going to assume you mean personality-wise. I've played the bad guy. The cocky bad guy, the party-annihilator (a title given to me after I ganked the whole party)...

I'm curious what "The Spiderman" is. I haven't seen a new 'list' for some time now, just the old one.

Generally quite a bit. My wife is the worst. She drops F bombs quite abit. The only censoring we've ever bothered with are real-life racial slurs. Whenever we would play at my house, and an NPC would have to make a grand speech (by grand I mean give Eric's Grandma a heart-attack), I would...

11. "The Overachiever." In school/on the training grounds, you were the best. The best at learning and casting spells, the best at swordplay, the most quiet thief, ect. After graduating at the top of your class and having your family, friends, associates, teachers, and total strangers tell...

Yes, I'm guilty of naming my kids out of fantasy/sci-fi. My son's name is Jaden Alexander. Jaden was a name I first heard on Star Trek: TNG. Data used it as an alias. After that, one of my first and most beloved DnD characters was named Jaden. After THAT, I did chat-based role-playing on...

I saw a disturbing trend with this in my gaming group. EVERYONE'S character had his village burned down by Orcs. EVERYONE'S character had their girlfriend/sibling/whatever kidnapped by the BBEG. EVERYONE'S character was torn inside and mulled like Drizzt. Imagine a character who was born to...

When I was younger, and first started playing, I didn't like the idea of playing evil characters. They always ended up stabbing each other in the back, looting each other's gold, raping each other when camping, and general baby-kicking nastiness. I was always the 'good guy'. Getting older, I...

Even if you add a small twist to a stereotypical character, a lot of great role playing and character development can spring from it. Example: A Dwarven Fighter weilding an axe (like the fellow above mentioned). Yes, he speaks like Breunor from the Drizzt books, yes he's tough as all hell...

I also find it annoying that people need to make odd and often debilitating race/class combos just to be 'interesting'. Many times, I've played all sorts of characters that other people found to be not only interesting, but a fine addition to the party. In a Forgotten Realms/Ravenloft game...

Is everyone in the world Psionic? Or is that the only option to PCs? If there are wizards and druids and such, then could be places of refuge in the world with artificial sunlight (a temporary solution that became their permenant fix and needed to be maintained). If not light (because they'd...

I've seen a lot of "as long as there's some kind of climax" posts, but how do you handle the end of a session, adventure, or campaign where the PCs actually lose? While anti-climatic endings leave PCs feeling disappointed, what about losses? A huge, Final Fantasy 7-type campaign occurs. The...

haha two words: Psi Corps

I had attempted to end a game where the PCs had to piece together alliances between groups, clans, and tribes, sabotage enemy forces/powerful bad guys, and restore a Prince to the throne to bring an army together to defend the kingdom. The game after that was gonna be on hold for two months, so...

The premise of the story is the god of death/undeath has just had a vast majority of his followers/creations slaughtered in a Grand Crusade by the forces of light. Beaten, he makes one last stab of revenge on the world. He kills himself on the prime material plane, cutting off the way to the...

Awesome post. I think I'm gonna go with some of those ideas. Nerf turning! Or rather, it'll work ok at first, and then quickly become less potent until it stops working all together. It'll be nerfed on the premise that, since the gods are losing followers at a horribly fast rate, yet their...