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I've been playing RPGs for a long time, I'm very familiar with all of those, we use them extensively in our normal games. We are obsessive about not letting anything get away, our normal GM can be a real RBDM about how badly they punish the players for letting even the most trivial enemy...

We had our first session of the DDN playtest on Monday. We had a full party of 5 PCs, we spotted and engaged kobolds outside the caves. Before we could eliminate them or move to block their path, a few ran inside to get reinforcements. We followed them in and we engaged the kobolds in the...

I'm all for reducing spam, but it is a very difficult problem to solve. While filtering to only ISP email accounts is an idea worth considering, it could easily become a nightmare to maintain. There are two possible approaches to restricting it to ISP only email: 1) Blacklist non-ISP "free"...

As an alternative to doing it completely in-house, would it be possible to add Amazon Payments and/or Google Checkout as alternate payment processors for those adverse to using PayPal?

I would be very surprised if WotC did their own printing, and whatever printer they use is probably not sitting idle waiting to run WotC print jobs on a moment's notice. A one week delay could easily delay things to the point where they have to wait a few months for another opening in the...

I'm similar, if the players get ready to do something that is going to end very badly, I tend to ask "Is that your final answer?" I don't point out what I think are the weak points in their plan unless it is obvious to me that the players missed something that the characters would have known...

Having a defense AC spike up to almost unhitable levels for a single round isn't that unreasonable, there are plenty of enemies that have abilities that are just as annoying (chillborn zombies with their stacking damage aura, foulspawn berserkers with their hit redirection, and other creatures...

This is the way I'd prefer to go. You can let them know there will be a twist without necessarily letting them know when or what the twist will be. You might even get some good ideas from listening to the players trying to guess what is going to happen.

I like the second better, but I don't care for the kerning between the R and I in Intrigue, something about it makes me feel like the second half of the word is shifted up slightly compared to the first half.

Warnings of dangers, maybe accurate, maybe intentionally misleading (warnings of pit traps when the real traps are overhead), or even referring to dangers that are no longer present. "Fear the serpents ahead, I could outrun them, but not their venom. By Pelor's grace you fare better."...

Our GM uses RP Tool's TokenTool to make tokens from images he finds. He then prints them out on plain paper or cardstock and sticks the print out to a self adhesive foam sheet and uses a 1" circle punch to cut them out. I think the circle punch was under $10, and I've seen the foam sheets as...

There is also: Jagged Weapon (19-20 crit range) Deadly Axe (treat all axes as high crit) War Ring (+1 die crit damage, daily to add two crit dice, maximized if milestoned) High crit adds 1W per tier on a crit (not auto-maxed), so a d8 axe with high crit would do +1d8 from L1-L10, +2d8 from...

Looking at the DCs, a healer is going to either auto-succeed or be very close given the DCs. The one case where this doesn't work is if the healer gets infected, you can't use the heal skill on yourself. Most healers aren't going to be nearly as good at Endurance, so they may be looking at...

For me it depends on where I am. If I'm on a public or business computer, I usually don't want to enter my credentials because I don't want them saved or grabbed by a key logger or anything of the sort. I also frequently read the forums on my phone while waiting to pick up one of my kids from...

Yeah, the only thing out of HotFL that appears to have made it were the updated feats and powers, but none of the new feats, powers, or classes made it in. :(

Your group has a radically different philosophy on play than mine, ours is a group of friends as equals, with the DM acting as the rules arbiter and plot driver, but not as an authority over the group. Several of us have kids or work commitments or other interests that interfere with the...

Charges are easy to pull off for both of us, we both have a Badge of the Berserker (AV2) which prevents OAs from movement while charging. So far we are still low level, and our encounters are fairly close in damage. Looking at the higher level powers and items, I think things will start...

That's odd, I would have put rogues ahead of barbarians based the current campaign I'm in. At L6, the charge-oriented artful dodger rogue dishes out more damage than my whirling slayer barbarian. His Sly Flourish (d6+2d8+cha+dex) comes out ahead vs. my Howling Strike (d10+d6+str) or Whirling...

I played in a Shadowrun game where the GM rolled all the dice, it didn't work particularly well from my point of view. Allocating dice from a dice pool is a common mechanic in Shadowrun, and being out of control of the dice makes that a lot harder to manage. I think it was driven by the GM...

My wife and I just started in a game, she played a panther shaman for one session before switching to bear shaman. The party got torn apart the first session and the panther shaman just didn't have enough defensive buffs or healing. Since switching to the bear, we have been in much better...