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That one's iffy, depending on the player(s). A big problem with trying to make the desert encounters relevant to the city is that it's not usually going to be immediately visible what changes have gone on. The siege though? They can directly and immediately observe the changes it's causing in...

I wouldn't be inclined to add fumbles to a game I ran unless the players had ways to mitigate it. Likewise, I'd want something that was more independent of the D20 so that the players who want to do dozens of strikes don't get so screwed that they don't want to bother anymore. Maybe if I had...

If they roll low and gain no knowledge, I'd be totally fine with them wanting to go straight to the city. I'd kind of expect them to because most players would be like "Wastelands are called that for a reason. Let's GTFO." And if the party was really as focused on the city as you keep saying...

I believe some of that was due to the player wanting what was described as the "nuclear" option. When that happens, it does seem to be everything on the DM since the player apparently won't budge. Personally, I'm not a fan of the nuclear option. I haven't yet come across a situation in D&D...

In short, you wanted your checks to actually mean more than just "fell off the mount again." No arguments here. I expect whether knowledge checks get rolled and how they're initiated greatly depends on the group. Were I DM and no one chimed in about checks when they got plopped into it, I'd...

Just how many splats might be acceptable for him? And what other things do you think we might need to know about with regards to this class and your campaign? I suppose the good news for him is Battle Caster is in CArc, so he can get a hold of mithril full plate for AC. Edit: I wonder if...

If it's characterized as a DM ego power trip, then it's definitely not something players should suffer through since the DM has become an unsufferable (insert expletive). However, if it's characterized as the DM genuinely thinking the players will enjoy something because he's basing it around...

I'm hoping he means that the players need to have something to go on, but realizes that making everything explicitly known would mean there can't be some fun or interesting surprises. What level of reveal and buildup he likes is not fully known, and might not ever be because it's likely going...

I believe Hussar's point on this was that none of that 50 pages of backstory was given to the players, thus the DM really shouldn't be surprised when the players are like "Oh, it's a desert. Let's just get through this as fast as we can." because they don't have that information. And do keep...

4 levels to not trigger the AoO seems excessive, especially since it's the class's primary shtick. 2nd or 3rd would be more reasonable, and I don't think anyone would bat an eyelash if it appeared at 1st because provoking an AoO to make a single melee attack just plain sucks and shouldn't...

Do keep in mind that Eldritch Glaive, while technically still suffering from triggering AoOs, is already a full-round action to make several (reach) attacks if the Warlock's BAB is high enough and allows for doing AoOs too. So part of your PrC is about lessening the suck of Hideous Blow instead...

Depends on the DM's style. Some might outright kick said player. Others would pull the player aside to have a chat and if it could be resolved then things can hopefully continue on. If the players had been told ahead of time that getting tetchy and going nuclear would not be accepted at the...

Sometimes that's difficult to work with. Pretty much everyone has something that will set them off into a whiny state, so I suppose the trick would be to see whether the player is consistently going to be immature and whiny in the campaign. And then there's the issue of "the player has been...

I rarely can tell which side he's on in any given post.

Copy and paste from the file so we don't have to download? Or is it formatted such that you don't want to break the formatting?

Quick question for @Hussar : How would you have reacted if the DM had asked for knowledge checks of the wasteland area and then determined you guys knew of something? Would any of it have been interesting to you right there, or would you have preferred getting the information before being...

And yet he has no problems throwing Batarangs.

Ah, a module. That explains things much better. I agree, significant parts would need to be redone because now that you've provided a description (which I missed Hussar providing), it doesn't seem fleshed out enough to really interest a large number of players due to lack of stuff in general...

The player's action was Plane Shift. The player's reaction was "This sucks, let's get to something interesting." Thus the DM is left with a decision to "make the players play out the consequences of their actions, even if one or more become bored and/or disruptive" or "move things along so the...

The 2E explanation sounds like the most likely. They didn't want to add too much new stuff to the "already proven" weapons. Looking at http://rodriguezvaughn.com/geekspeak/index.php?topic=133.0 I can't find any martial bludgeoning weapons that do 1d12 or 2d6... Yet I know at least one exists...