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If the NPC had NPC-value gear, I would not see a problem with it. Do you do XP the way it is described in FRCS: each character gets XP based on each challenge and his or her level? This tends to slow down higher level characters and speed-up lower level characters. This way, everything would...

This is where I come from. We did the WotC Adventure Path with NO WIZARD. All the way up to Bastion, when we had a new guy join. He did not know the party composition, and we got lucky - he did pick Wizard. I and the players in my groups expect to have an adventure, not just a series of...

No, sometimes it is more interesting if they find out after they get into something that it is beyond them. Then they have to find a way out, or take a different approach to rescue a captured character, or come back later having a better idea of what is there. Sometimes, it is the getting out...

I simply can't accept that. Even the most minor creature with regeneration can ignore a clay golem. There is no other basis for this ruling. Glad it's not in the FAQ. -Fletch!

I'd buy that. Just curious what some others thought. I don;t think it really matters, though. What campaigns spen decades or centuries. Doesn't happen all that often (only if you have dwarves, elves & gnames and no humans, etc.). -Fletch!

Here is where my groups fall. Characters hear rumors, legends, pick up other info, and tell me what they want to pursue. All of it is charted out in advance, so if they go after the cattle mutilations, and stumble into a green dragon that is far beyond them, that is a possibility. I don't...

I'll agree on the death traps. But tailored in my mind is the 3E tailoered: "the PCs could overcome any four of the encounters from the module per day, chosen at random, until all encounters in the module are vanquished." I tend toward the EL=average party level plus 3 to 6. Multiple...

Rules lawyers are not too bad, as long as no briefs are filed during the game session. Any litigation is fine once the dice go back in the bag. I've found it actually helps to keep the group in touch. -Fletch!

Re: Different topic but To many gamers, especially casual players, "suspension of disbelief" is a four letter word... -Fletch!

Flexor gets a gold star for that one. The characters have to feel the fear of their characters, whether or not the fear is actually real. If they find it is not, you lose all credibility as a DM. -Fletch!

It is really this special vs. ordinary discussion that lies at the core of most "how deadly is your camapaign" discussions. I've had it before with gamers I have played with, many a time. It is a fundamental question that can eventually tear apart a gaming group. -Fletch!

I would agree. -Fletch!

I tend to have a 'tell it like I see it' and, occasionally, sarcastic personality. And the only things that I can see, in common with you, are the rules as written in the books. It really is that simple, at least for me. I've read the material, and kind of expect others to do the same. To...

Sorry, then. Hey, I'm here to discuss rules, not intent. When we have different goals, we'll never reach them together. -Fletch!

3E is supposed to be a "system". The more that players are forced to make arbitrary or inconsistent decisions to 'fix it', the less and less useful a "system" it is. And this, I think is where you find me incomprehensible (or reprehensible; I can't tell which). I am using a very narrow...

I see the MEA as being too high a cost. It will never be used. Why have an option if it is useless? Even the DnD FAQ says that Refocus is almost always useless. Why even include it? A useless option is no option at all. A buddy needs to make a call on a pay phone, but has no change. You...

No, I did not. I have not called anybody hypocrite or called their posts valueless, regardless of what opinions I may hold about them. Other than a text scolding (hardly a violent attack by any measure), I have not attacked you or anybody else this day. That I defend my position vigorously...

What is the point of cake if I can't eat it. It's a ranged weapon, and I can't make an AoO with it... But if you can draw an arrow and use it for an AoO, why is an empty hand less viable. Not from a 'picture it this way' point of view, but from the 'what the rules say' point of view. So you...

OK, that I'll buy. I don't have d20M in hardcover, so I haven't seen that diagram. I disagree with it, obviously, but the "no unarmed AoO while using a missile weapon" has a bit more weight. Could the bow/crossbow/pistol be used as an improvised weapon for an AoO? -Fletch!

It was IceBear's estimation that I was using 'real life', but what other example do you want? We are working in an area that some people feel is unclear within the rules. Some other posters have laid out logical arguments, quoting sections of the rules, and demonstrating how they interlock to...