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Perhaps a link to what NYC Gameday is would be helpful too.

As far as some 'non-violent protest' in-game, that wouldn't really work. In order to keep the military feel of the campaign, the DM most of the party take mostly Lawful, mostly good characters, meaning that there would be no way 'in-character' to do something out of line with the campaign...

A little more background on the situation. One of the players and I (we're probably the two most active players) got to talking a month ago and realized we had the same issues with the game. We spent a week trying to word an email that would best express our concerns without sounding too much...

Hmm, well, I guess you're right, it was a bad choice of comparison. Maybe Final Fantasy would be more accurate. I guess I wanted to express the simularity to a computer game, in the sense that obviously you don't have the same flexibility that you would have in a real campaign. For example...

I don't know if I'm here to ask for advice or just tell my tale, but I thought some of you might be interested and/or have had similar experiences. A quick background: I played D&D all through Junior High/High School and then quit once I left for college. I didn't play again until about 3...

It sounds like there are a few possibilities. 1) There is some 'special' way to defeat this vampire, some item or method you can research to defeat him. 2) He is supposed to be a thorn in your side until you get more powerful and defeat him. 3) Bad DMing. I don't know your DM, but from your...

I see a lot of constructive suggestions (Trying to make the best of the situation) and some others trying to get even in game. I think, even though you are having fun, that may just be because you haven't had the chance to experience a authentically good gaming group. Read some of the story...

At first read I thought this was a terrible idea. I DM and am currently playing a Paladin in another game as well (one who is about to get his horse). I think there are few bad assumptions being made. First, the idea that the warhorse is essentially Summon Monster with a longer duration...

Wow, I go away for a couple days and my thread has grown into a monster! Ironically, I think I am less extreme than most, in that I don't hate Poly so much I think it should be destroyed, and I don't think the quality of adventures has dropped THAT much. Ironically, though, one I did have a...

Re: Re: Re: S1 The Tomb of Horrors The story I heard was Gygax wrote this module to defeat his son, who had beat every other thing he'd been able to throw at him. That was the idea behind the demilich and its impossilbe-to-guess weaknesses. I also heard that it didn't work.

I remember at one time it would sometimes contain tournament adventures, along with reports from the tournaments, and small articles on D&D related stuff. This was back in the late 80s when I was an paying RPGA member. I think I still have some of the issues of the old Poly back home in the...

Also, did you notice that in issue #99 they only printed positive letters, and none remarking on the changeover to the new format? Sure, its their right to print whatever letters they want, but it stikes me as a bit odd since every other issue of Dungeon has always included a mix of...

Re: Re: Dungeon #99 - Is the end near? I should ask you the same question. Issue #98 was the first of the so called flip-flopping issues. In that one, 40 pages were devoted to Polyhedron, 60 to Dungeon. So, on the 'good' weeks I'm still getting %40 Polyhedron content (vs. the %20-%30 or so...

I have to say issue #99 is the worst issue of Dungeon I've ever seen (admittedly, I've only been buying it off the newsstand for the last two and a half years or so). One adventure? ONE? And at 26 pages (including ads, maps, etc) its not exceptionly long for Dungeon. It really is just 4 or 5...

Always cool to see people take a stereotyped class and do something original with it. Good for you! (though I think its a good idea you didn't go with the 8 str suggestion!) Oh, and Power Attack isn't all that great but Cleave is ALWAYS useful. Anyone who says its not doesn't understand the...

Wow, that sucks. Granted, maybe Bull's Str was a little overpowered, but only a little. Maybe they should just make it 2 points instead of 1d4+1. But 1 minute a level is just stupid. This is the first 3.5 mod I've heard that I REALLY don't like.

I've gotten in a debate with a DM of mine recently about this. I DM also and it occured to me that we've been handling this all wrong for quite some time. Specifically, when a creature is turned, or frightened, or under any other affect that would cause them to flee, when does the fleeing...

Someone pointed out that you can't always predict what players will do. But there's another issue. In my campaign, and in campaigns I've played in, I feel it is the DM's responsibility to remind the players of what their characters may or may not know, and also to point out behavior that would...

Wow, this thread sparks all sorts of emotions in me. I'm 30, and growing up in the 80s as a gamer in Indiana was a huge stigma. Of course it didn't help that I was an all-out geek. I read sci-fi and fantasy, had no fashion sense, was kinda antisocial, not physically fit, a computer geek, etc...

How exactly do you 'implement' such a thing? It's not like it needs a ruleset or anything else, either you have gay people or you don't. It's not like there's a Homosexual class. Seems simple. Many players are either uncomfortable or unable to play a gay character, and I don't think...