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I'm putting together a Summoner character, too. I'm pretty much stuck with core books, but I've taked my DM into allowing select stuff from Tome and Blood and MotP. I've got some ideas, but haven't settled on anything yet. An interesting avenue to take is the Holy Summoner...cleric that...

My gut reaction to these was "eh...pretty cool", but I thought about them some more, and they have some really cool ramifications. Once in a while you might catch some kind of polymorphed baddie trying to seak into your hamlet to do mischief, but more often than not, the properties of these...

This early victory sets up a great sub-plot for the rest of the campaign...the intrepid heroes who have gotten themselves a reputation to live up to, and the hot water they get into because of it. And I think the multi-cult idea is a good one...how will the players react when they travel to the...

So, I must have missed some back-story here. What was this lawsuit about? Who actually sued who, and over what? Just curious...seeing as Neil Gaiman is generally a personable and witty fellow, and McFarlane is a tool, it makes me happy that he won, but I wouldn't mind knowing what the fight...

Kugar's got a good point. What's the player of the "apprentice" character think of all this? Unless it was the apprentice player's idea, or he's 100% behind it, that's yet another reason to disallaow this completely unreasonable concept.

Great plan, RW. I'm assuming you've already thought of this, but if the ship's alive, rather than a construct, will it be vulnerable to Slay Living, or Finger of Death spells? What about something like the Symbol spells that effect "a creature" or "all creatures within X"? Or level drains...

Heck, it's probably been around since the first person bought a D&D set and started their own campaign. Each game, and each DM, does things their own way...all the OGL and 3rd-party publsihers do to fragment the market is make it easier to find house rules that DMs like. I guess the way I see...

If you're concerned about bad puns around the gaming table, never, under any circumstances, allow a character to posess either a Rod of Lordly Might, or a weasel familiar. :D

I voted 2 or 3, but honestly I don't believe there ARE hardcore roleplayers, only hardcore groups. I like to get in character. I don't get up and LARP at the table or anything, but I like using the accents and the personalized ways of speaking that can develop around a really solid character...

Mine too. And I'd pick that moment, because so many of my favorite parts of the story have built over time, or are conceptual, rather than specific moments in time. When Nwm has been pushed too far, and he just completely cuts loose, it's sudden and surprising and entirely justified. Eadric's...

This all sounds very much like the cosmology in Princess Mononoke. The forest is full of ancient spirits and gods, from the little glowey forest sprites to the giant, talking archetypical animals, to the very top-of-the-food-chain Great Forest Spirit. All very real and physically present, but...

sorry. Double-post.

Naw. Not too much information at all. I've always thought lucid dreaming was interesting stuff. Never been able to do it, myself, but friends of mine swear they've been able to teach themselves how. Gaming applications aside, it must be a fantastically fun way to work off stress...

So, last night I confirmed that too much of my latent gray-matter is devoted to gaming. I had a dream that I was out of hot water, but neeed to take a shower. The obvious solution was to ask my wife (a mid-level Druid, of course) to cast Endure Elements on me, so I wouldn't be effected by...

When it's absolutely necessary, we use a roll-out hex-map and dry erase markers. Occasionally for a major encounter, our DM likes to build sets out of Jenga blocks. Really. Jenga blocks. They work pretty well, too. A friend of mine who doesn't game with us much, anymore, had a brilliant...

When one of my group of friends tells a particularly bad joke, we accuse them of causing sanity loss. It's not specifically a D&D reference, but Cthulhu's d20 now, so it's close enough...

Mmmm...riblets. :p These really are pretty good. My vegetarian wife and I have been together about 6 years now, and I've had to gather up a number of veggie recipes, since I do a lot of the cooking. I've got a great one for vegetarian stuffed peppers, made with rice and cheese, and...

Really great! Claudio, I think this is one of your best pieces yet. The less comic-book-ish style is really paying off for you.

I love doing this kind of thing, both as a player and as a DM. Generally, I don't give or expect much XP from down-time stuff, the reward in my mind is having a more direct hand in deciding how the character develops. Sometimes, though, giving a bonus level is OK, especially if the campaign...

If the meeting is set up in the middle of the plains, you have to assume that there aren't many hiding places. The Red Wizards will be using magic to hide, obviously, so they will probably have scouts looking out for the party, so they can fire off invisibility spells, etc, when they are...