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It's a game - GM 100%. There was a time not so long ago when I rather foolishly believed that DM had gone the way of the dodo. Then 3e comes along, defrosts EGG and DM is suddenly retro. :rolleyes: One day I'll be cool, but not today.

Damn!....25%?!? I remembered it was bad, but I had no idea!

For Terraism: Wormy was a comic in the back of Dragon Magazine. It contained the adventures of many different creatures, including some very stupid goblins; a hillbilly cyclops with a giant, cyclopean bloodhound for a pet; and extremely cool talking panther with a pair of black wings on its...

The very original Deities and Demigods book had stats for the creatures and gods of both the Cthuluh and Melnibonean mythoi. The Chaosium company had the rights to the gaming conversions of these two mythologies and so they were pulled from the second printing. The rules stated that there was a...

Re: Re: What makes stupidity fatal? In fairness to the DM, we did teleport into a quiet corner from which we could sneak away fairly easily - if we had been so inclined. I on the other hand had eyes on a magical crown.:rolleyes:

Something a lot of people have said on the TPK thread is that TPK should only result from party stupidity (or some paraphrase of this principle). The question is, how stupid is TPK-fatality-Darwin Award-stupid? I'm not talking about ignorance here - "Hey dude, so it's a floating ball with eyes...

Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that you couldn't use a rapier against a heavily armoured opponent, just that it was far from ideal. Let's face it, any weapon is better than none unless you're expert in unarmed combat. That being said, I'd still rather the slower and heavier broadsword than the...

One suggestion that hasn't been made is to limit spell casting by skills. Frex: To cast a spell the wizard/sorc/bard makes a Spellcraft roll DC 10+spell level. Spell acquisition can be similarly limited: if you want to learn a spell you need ranks in Knowledge [specific magic school] = spell...

Thud and Blunder is my source for most of my knowledge on this subject (armour). An important point that should be made though is that a rapier is a civilian weapon and as such was not designed to face heavy armours, neither was an epee (acute on the second e). At the time in history when the...

Of course, my friends and I played CoC waaay back, years ago. Now we only play "Travel CoC" - the CoC game you can play in a car, at a picnic table, anywhere. It's simple: Roll 1d6 1-3 You die! 4,5 You go insane! 6 Roll again. Hours of Lovecraftian fun for the whole family!

Aahhh...greedy player stupidity - this I recognise. Personally I have the dubious honour of once having a stupid comrade cast a fireball into a 10'x10' room in which the party was standing. I and the rest of the party made our saves and lived. The idiot caster standing in the doorway failed his...

I've been playing and running rpgs of many ilks for over twenty years and it occurs to me that I have not ever had a TPK in a game I ran. In fact, I would consider it something of a personal failure if I ever did. My campaigns are about the players, not about my ability to drop a (drow...

The widespread prevalence of healing magic would mean that athletes would beable to train their bodies to much higher levels of achievement, since any damage done in training could be repaired on the spot. No more promising quarterbacks doing their knees in at college - all the good ones go pro...

Why would neutrals forfeit their possessions to a good society?

If only I was so cunning IRL:( . I'm glad you're hooked - our next session is Friday, I'll try for a new episode by the end of the weekend (no guaruntees though).

Mary Gentle's book "Ash: A Secret History" has all manner of nasty and magical machines of war, including armoured war wagons and golems with flamethrowers. If you've got a few weeks give it a read (it is a BIG book.) Another source for war machines would be any of the books looking at WWII...

Something else just occured to me that might be worth considering. I appreciate that this issue is important, but consider any of your actions from the AP's point of view. If you keep this in-house (don't pull a first ammendment/ACLU on her) then you don't threaten her personally. However, as...

Absolutely 1st class :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Christian Perspective I wasn't going to post here because I dreaded what was being said about me - not me personally, of course, but people like me. Anubis - here's your fundamentalist Christian who "wouldn't dare" post here. But, back to what I feel I can contribute. If your AP's...

Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War" sums up exposure to hard vacuum rather elegantly.... "Once your exposed it's a split second race between the vacuum and the cold to see whether your blood boils before your body flash freezes." Pleasant. Also, just for the sake of being pedantic, in the case...