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  1. Abraxas

    Proposed Damage / Healing System

    This flaw could be fixed by having the PCs heal wound points at a rate of 1 per (5 - Con Modifier) days. Your 10 CON PC would take 45 days to recover 9 wound points and your 18 CON PC would take 17 days to recover 17 wound points (assuming the CON Mods are +0 for a 10 CON and +4 for an 18 CON still)
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    What kind of gamer are you?

    No surprises for me - and i also had to answer a tie breaker question You Scored as Butt-Kicker You like a streightforward combat character. After a long day at the office, you want to clobber foes and once more prove your superiority over all who would challenge you. Tactician 83% Power...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Should 5E have Healing Surges?

    It has been my experience that there was not a lot of healing in combat - it was always better to put the opponents down and then patch up afterward. At higher levels we saw more in combat healing, but that was because the damage the bad guys could deal to us was high enough that you couldn't be...
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    13th Level Brawny Rogue -- which Encounter Power to lose?

    Here's another vote for losing dazing for stunning - it's what my brutal scoundrel/daggermaster rogue did. Plus in the paragon levels we started to run into creatures that did something when bloodied. I would stun them, follow that up with low slash, and then spend an action point to get an...
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    Don't love your villains (or "How I screwed up, and how I fixed it")

    I try to not have these types of PC decisions happen at the end of a session. In other words, I would have ended the session when they found the room - before the decision to plunge the sought after sword into the golem's heart. I do this because at the end of a normal gaming night there is a...
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    Killing a character through roleplaying

    I've had the luck of gaming with the same group of people for the last 20 years or so and have a really good understanding of how they play and what their characters can handle - so I haven't had a problem like you describe in quite awhile.
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    Animal Companion abuse (?)

    I suggest using Croesus's idea also. I am slightly surprised by the responses. I've yet to see anyone around here comment on how terrible it is using summoned creatures as meat shields or as trap finders (in fact the latter tactic is considered smart play in the Tomb of Horrors thread) and...
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    Killing a character through roleplaying

    We apparently have different definitions - character concept is character to me - it's everything that defines the character and how it plays. There are many ways to portray what your character would do that don't potentially screw with the rest of the players. Look around on this site and you...
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    Killing a character through roleplaying

    It appears we have different play styles then - the DM pulling punches to save the group's collective butts is a huge fun killer for me. Character and character concept are the same thing to me. Choosing to do something that doesn't screw over everyone else playing the game doesn't mean I am not...
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    Killing a character through roleplaying

    That's fine if 1) it's only your character that bites the dust and 2)you don't mind if the other players choose to not have their characters bring your character back. Years ago I had my character do something that I felt was completely the right "in character" thing to do - it resulted in a...
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    Do you like Mountain Dew?

    I can't stand it - I actually won't drink it if it's all that's available. I much prefer Coke (although I liked it better when I was younger - it seemed to be significantly more carbonated back then), and, also being a Michigander, Vernors or Faygo (and Like Siberys - Rock & Rye is preferred).
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    Distrusting NPC Issues

    You should go read the Evil DM moments thread - it only takes 1 or 2 of those types of events to make all players paranoid.
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    D&D 5E (2014) cancelled 5e announcement at Gencon??? Anyone know anything about this?

    Just thought I'd pop in here. We played from 1st to 20th level more than once - running the Paizo APs : Shackled City, Age of Worms, Savage Tide. We had single classed wizards, druids and clerics. I allowed absolutely everything from WoTC. The only time I had a problem was when one player...
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    Do grognards have to be jerks?

    delericho beat me to it. The jerks are everywhere, it's just that jerks that like the same things you like seem less offensive than those that don't. I had one fellow ask why in the world I would want a copy of the Rules Cyclopedia when 4E was a much better game :erm:
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    Captain America: The First Avenger

    Captain America is my favorite superhero and this is the best superhero movie I have ever seen. I liked everything about it except it was about an hour too short - I could have easily watched more.
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    What would help my Rogue?

    I am currently playing an epic level rogue. As the result of a recent foray into Hell he has approximately 700,000 gp burning a hole in his pocket and an inferiority complex. The majority of the time I was unable to get combat advantage on any opponent after the first round. This was due to a...
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    Zero to Hero!

    Hmm - I haven't seen even one TPK in 4e and we've been playing since it's release. Also, prior to epic level I've only seen 2 PCs die - and both were killed by other PCs. Post epic 3 PCs have died, but because of epic destinies - came right back.
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    I'm sick of...

    I'm sick of being told that if there is some aspect of a game I have a problem with it's because I'm doing something wrong/don't understand/lack imagination/have lazy or stupid players. I'm sick of being told that if there is some aspect of a game I don't have a problem with it's because I'm...
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    Do you GM for yourself or others?

    I only game with friends - people who I do things with outside of gaming - or our/their children (somebodies got to teach them). So I definitely run games catered to them. In fact I am running one campaign (and will be taking over the reins shortly and will be running a second campaign) even...
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    To update or not to update? That is the question.

    They don't have Identical powers/items/whatever - also when I referenced players I was including the DM. Most recent example involved flying and the changes from the DMG to the RC - player assumed he was safe because he had his PC stay within his character's fly speed above the ground when...
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