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I'm with Kamikaze Midget here, more or less. It's subjective. It's an interesting question, though, and you really could base an entitre campaign around it. There's a question of Situational Ethics involved. Is it wrong to use mind altering magic to compel someone to give you all their money...

Has anyone here read Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather ? A bunch of cyberpunk storm-chasers in an American midwest that has been torn apart by storms caused by the downward spiral of the environment? Hearing all these stories I can't help but think of that book. The idea of an F6 tornado on the...

Now is NOT a good time to be an IT person, just starting out. I'm not sure what the market is like in CO, but here in New England, it sucks. I've been out of work, more or less, for almost a year now. I've got 5 years experience in tech support and sysadmin stuff, A+, Net+, MCP, and a chunk...

Also keep in mind that all you need to improve your bardic music abilities is ranks in Perform. You won't get any more uses per day, but you can still open up the more powerful music powers without taking levels of bard. Arcane Trickster could work for you.

Even from a player's point of view, a lot of the specific cursed items are really useful. Make a Helm of Opposite Alignment and use it on your captured Big Bad Evil Guy, and call it a day. They're useful as part of a carefully laid plan...less useful in a hack-and-slash dungeon crawl. If...

I feel for you. Truly, you are the victim of a world-class rat bastard. But, at the same time, what a GREAT use of the Resurrection spell...

This may well be my new favorite thread... :D :D :D

I had to vote for a bunch, just becuause I don't really buy THAT many RPG books. It's too bad...there are a lot of people putting out really good books (I had to vote no to Green Ronin...and I think they've done some great stuff!), but I just don't have the discretionary income to get a lot of...

I try to bring just a little bit of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark to each and every game I run. But, then, I don't generally try for a particularly serious tone... On a tangentally-related-but-funny topic, the Dork Tower comic is dealing with just this issue. Uh...sort of...

I heard somewhere that the platypus' bill has powerful electrical sensors in it, that it uses to "feel" its' way around obstacles underwater, since it swims with its' eyes closed. You could give it underwater Blindsight. Or I could just be unknowingly making stuff up again...

the appeal of the 3.5 MM There is a big incentive to get the 3.5 Monster Manual, over the other core books, I think. Supposedly, everything 3.5 is going to be published to the SRD the day it's released (given their history of late updates to the SRD I'll believe that when I see it, but that's...

How much will they change? It's been said in a number of places that they plan on putting in "revised" versions of the Arcane Trickster, and Spellsword/Eldritch Knight. I'm wondering how MUCH they're planning on "revising" them. If they give the Eldritch Knight anything like full caster...

Give the PCs a home base. It helps tie them to the city if they can point to a map and say "that's where my house is".

Thanks, Olive. Didn't know that.

I'd like to see new rules for Summoning spells, or at least new summon monster tables. There have been so many new creatures and templates put out (especially from Manual of the Planes) that it makes sense for a wizard to be able to summon, but they're not on the "official" list. And if...

I was wondering the same thing, myself. Maybe (and this is just about the ONLY thing I can think of), they're throwing the Mature label on Book of Exalted Deeds because they plan on getting into overtly religious topics? Rules and stats for real-world religious institutions, and whatnot...

7 out of 10...no hope for me, I'm a gamer for life. At least, until I shave my goatee, lose some weight, and my taste in music changes. If I can get in under 50%, I may be redeemable...

Wow. So, uh, Sigil...that was just off-the-cuff, huh? I've cut-and-pasted a copy into my gaming stuff folder, to peruse at greater length later, if you don't mind. That's good stuff. One thing I refer to in answering the question of "where is an undead cretures' soul" is an idea that comes...

"The rest of you get out of here. I can take them" says the 10th level cleric, standing just inside a portal to the abyss. In fairness, he had a way to close the protal, and intended to sacrifice himslef to save his homeland from the demons. But still, we all noticed just what a ridiculous...

A friend of mine has a ton of Castle lego sets. We decided we needed minis for a particularly complex fight, so we broke out the LEGO figures, and used them. They worked so well, he spent the next week building mounts and accessories for our Lego figures. In a few weeks we were all playing...