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If at first you don't suceed - Raise Dead.

If you hang back, the enemy has more bows than you, if you charge the mage will cast into combat. A pyromaniac with a fireball is not your friend, no matter who’s side he is on. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, complain often about hp and get the healing. Clerics have non healing spells - this...

Mid 30's? Well that probably depends on your own age range. When I started in school everyone I played with was of school age, at uni mostly in the 18 - 24 range, now in one group I play in it's early to mid twenties, the other early twenties up to 40's. Just because I no longer roleplay with...

Probably because there are more stoners than there are roleplayers? Also most rpg mags were absolute rubbish so few people bought them twice. If a stoners mag is complete tosh it's not like the readers are going to notice/care now is it? BTW Privateer press do a mag for their Iron Kingdoms...

While it may draw spells from a variety of lists this class pays for it by having too few spells to make it worth while. Isn't a primary caster, isn't heavy on skills, can't fight its way out of a wet paper bag, can't wear armour without taking a feat for it, lacks the low level defensive...

I doubt it would affect LARPs in the slightest. Quite a lot of larpers I know don't play tabletop, some hate tabletop and a few didn't even know it existed and were baffled as I tried to explain pen and paper roleplaying to them. Lots of larpers sign up in university to larp societies as they...

When it comes to Madness songs you can't get out of your head my personal bane is Tommorow (Just another day)

If only the pesky romans could have stuck with one structure without changing every 200 years history would be a lot simpler.

Stop being so pedantic :-) It depended on the era, it changed quite a lot. 1000 was, strickly speaking, for auxilary units. Cohorts of the legion had a fighting strenght of 600 legionares of 6 centuries of 80 men, plus riders, engineers etc making the actual marching size far higher. I think...

As if Leadership wasn't abusive enought. If your GM is really gulible you might try pointing out the first cohort was typically twice the number of the rest.

Time for my pedantic 2 pennies worth. If you are taking the Roman naming convention 1000 is closer to a cohort that a legion (approx 10000) as a cohort is 6 - 8 centuries. Unless you are talking about the manipular legion. For an army of 1000 marching toward you I'd go with, an army, a...

Several of the castles in south wales have you ziging and zaging past the arrowslits trying to get up the (steep) hill to the castle, only to find the gate is on the other side leaving no room for siege engines or battering rams up there. The thought of trying to assault Llanstefan castle is a...

A different player, a different group. Fresh stupidity. The player has been roleplaying since before I was born and holds a doctrate so should be intelegent and experienced. Its CP2020, he is playing as a cop and trying to quell a peaceful protest. He as standard loads his auto shotgun with...

Dumb things PC's have done: 2e First time anyone got to a high enough level to cast 3rd level spells in any game we'd played to that point I attacked the party with some frog men while they were traveing through a slow moving swampy river in a wooded barge. Wizard casts fireball. At a target...

Most stupid thing I've done in a game (not including times where I was roleplaying my PC into a dumb situation or drunk) was in one of my first ever games where I learn several important lessons. One: When setting a booby trap it is usually considered polite to let the rest of your team know...

Pirates, privateers and even navy ships rarely used cannon as they would damage the prize. The last thing they would want to do is damage, for long periods of time naval action was based on being fast enough to close and board. Read some reports on old naval battles, they tend to read things...

Unless you want your PC's to sit in the castle twiddling their thumbs waiting to see which side dies of dysentery first you should look at how you want your attackers to try to get into the castle. Only then do you need worry about what the attackers are. Are there going to be sappers trying...

Assuming they all turn up both games I play in/run are 6 players and a GM (different people for the most part). Theory and practice are quite different though, especially with players who work shifts. Fortunately the 9-12 player, 16-hour straight Shadowrun games while drinking heavily are...

Sounds like many larp systems I’ve done. Ablative hits from armour. Only difference is the armour hits are tracked separately. I.e in one system I might have 3 body hits and 5 armour hits. Unless hit with a “through” I lose the armour hits first. These hits can’t be healed as it is the...

I'd talk to your GM about music styles and what he/she thinks would match the flavour of the world as they envision it. As long as what you play matches their world style I don't think it matters but if it clashes it can ruin the mood pretty quickly. Unless you style your character as some...