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We have some primitive genetic manipulation going on right now. There are tests for various birth defects, with pregnancy being aborted in some cases, corrective surgery in others. Medical fertility techniques also dip into genetic manipulation; I recently read a book about a child who was...

Highly experimental. Artificial intelligence techniques to get a computer to reliably drive a car don't exist yet - oh, they work well in the lab, but put the AI in the field, and you end up with things like swerving at trees because there are leaves on the road, creeping along at 5 MPH because...

*bump* Have the missing people abandoned their rooms?

What's the price of a single warforged? I'm guessing the price ratio between iron golems and 'forged is somewhere in the 1:1000 range. Sure, a single IG can smack down a battalion of 1000 'forged (especially if they're not customized with golem destruction in mind), but which one is going to...

Voted yes, but it includes the caveat "if you're playing in the same group as me, and our styles are incompatible." Obviously my style is "right" and your style is "wrong" if there's a clash. :p (note: yes, I realize that this is a very self-centered perspective. It's intentionally so.)

Oops. I was thinking in terms of damage rather than a penalty :/

I would lean towards (2d6+6)x1.5, per the text of Empower Spell.

I've updated the Choker's stats to make him a little bit less nasty. This time, I counted Sor levels as "associated" class levels (because of the strength of the Quickness ability) and added an extra +2 CR modifier for the extremely strong Quickness + spells combination. I also made some notes...

The group games at the problem player's house. He kicked me out of his house, and when the option of playing somewhere else to finish up the campaign that the previous DM had been running (I started DMing before the last campaign was over), PP threw a fit and said "venue doesn't matter - it's...

Update: Apparently, the group voted against me. Time to find a new group!

Monkeying with your PC's stats illegally, like applying the Half-Dragon template when creating a higher-level PC and rolling d12s for the 3 level adjustment "levels". Or "mis-calculating" the ECL of a templated, high-level PC, gaining PrC abilities three levels early. Or getting a "Natural...

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I was more liberal about materials in the online group. Since I didn't have a guarantee that the party would be balanced when people were actually playing, I wanted each character to be more powerful to aid in survivability. With the face-to-face group, I was much more cautious. I still let a...

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ShadowRaven: Yes, I was willing to compromise to a degree. For all my failings, I *am* willing to try and improve my flaws. I like to think that it's one of my better qualities! Chimera: No, he's not named Jesse.

Semantics. The way I wrote it here was a little more authoritarian than how it came up during the game session, I think. While talking to the Problem Player, I ventured "Would you feel comfortable with a compromise - I'll quick-review it, you play the character as written for today, and if any...

His new character is fine, with the possible exception (so far it seems okay, but I've Reserved the Right to Remove It) of one ability from Races of the Dragon. If he'd sent a copy of his character sheet ahead of time, I would have okayed it as a backup PC. If he'd explained why he didn't like...

Oh, he already did. He replied to one of my emails - the one where I had the most frustrated tone, naturally - to the entire group with the message I quoted above. I didn't even notice the extra "To:" headers until after I'd copied the letter here. The Deck of Many Things was something he...

Update: It seems that things have come to a head. I've been trying to talk via email to the problem player to figure out a workable resolution, and he'd rather "just drop it." Then, when I started asking why he became so insistent about discarding his original character, he wrote the...

This is mostly irrelevant now; I've ended the campaign. The stress of trying to deal with this problem player is too much, and I'd rather quit DMing than get into power plays about who stays and who gets kicked out - which is what it was about to devolve into. Correct. I've been using the...