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Then please accept my apologies.

If the thread is being reduced to collegial versus 'never question the DM', its wheels have come off. Good stuff. When I'm DMing, I have absolutely no problem with players who correct me on the rules. On the contrary, I appreciate it. It strengthens my understanding of the rules. When I'm a...

Fair enough. And I'll stick my neck out and say that a DM who can't stand to be corrected on a rule is a poor DM. But in the case of the manticore, it's not a case of the DM being wrong or nerfing the player. Elves don't usually live in water, until you pick up a copy of Stormwrack or decide...

I know. I just couldn't resist. And I should have; I'm the poster who brought up manicures.

Don't worry. If Celebrim puts a snowman in Alderaan, it's probably commuting to Hoth.

It should. And its companion volume, Good Playing 101 would have the corollaries: 'Don't assume a mistake' and 'Give the DM a chance to turn a mistake into Something Awesome'.

I understand it's not a gripe and you are effectively on a demi-plane of jerks (love it). I was just fishing for the cause of the hostility. Given your response to my queries, I suspect that gamerprinter's suggestion is worth looking into. All that metal you're wearing could be seriously...

I agree with all of this (and the rest) and I'd simply put it like this. If I inadvertently put a manicure (manticore but I'm leaving in auto-correct's handiwork, for the lulz) in a temperate forest, I want players whose default response is: "Oh, manticores live here in the DM's world! Didn't...

I'm not the FR's biggest fan (nor am I a huge fan of Greyhawk, as it happens) but it sounds like you're putting it to excellent use. I am a huge fan of anything to do with the Elder Elemental Eye, however, for reasons I can't quite quantify. The bottom line is, I don't see why the Realms can't...

Given that so many of your encounters are hostile to some degree, is it possible that your party is somehow displaying something or acting in a manner that causes the indigenous people to react so? Holy symbol on show? What about colours? Is your clothing markedly different to those of the...

It's certainly bold. ;)

I've never met a game that wasn't easy to house-rule. I've seen a lot of people on discussion boards bemoaning the difficulty of doing so with game X or edition Y. Then again, I've seen six-figure audited sales figures for monthly lifestyle magazines and audience numbers in the millions for...

I can find it online but not in any of the books I own. It doesn't appear to be part of the RSRD. The nearest thing I can find in anything I have is the Sniper's Shot spell from Complete Adventurer. That removes the range restriction for sneak attacks (though you still have to be capable of...

I'd have the mob split into four. It seems the easiest and most appropriate course of action. That said, if you wanted to create a giant mob (a crowd, a horde), you could. I'd recommend looking at the differences between the characteristics of a swarm and those of a mob. Then extrapolate from there.

I can't speak to 2e in particular, because I spent so little time playing it, but I'm surprised at this. Like gamerprinter, my (3e, admittedly) games have often featured adventuring on the Astral Plane. You could use this to your advantage though. If players who prefer pre-3e D&D are unused to...

I think adventure paths are greater in theory than they sometimes are in play. Clearly, Paizo and their PF APs have done great work; I don't want to denigrate that. I do, however, sometimes wonder about their inherently prescriptive format. To work at their best, they almost require the tacit...

Thank you for that. I'm a little fuzzy on the 4e surge concept but I think I get the gist. The part of your second paragraph that refers to a 3e character - "would recover anywhere between 20% to 50% of her HPs" - I presume you mean to say per hit die? Otherwise, that doesn't tally with my...

An addendum to my previous post: a 3e character who stabilises at minus x hp, on his own, by virtue of making the 10% stabilisation role but who has no one to care for him, still loses hp but at a lower rate. He has a 10% chance per hour of becoming conscious (and disabled) but loses 1hp if he...

Help me out here. This isn't a 4e bash; I'm just curious. If magical healing and a heal skill check aren't available and if a full day's bed rest is out of the question, the best a 3e character can hope for is 1hp per level per day. What would be the baseline 4e rate in equivalent circumstances...

I agree and was about to add: well resurrected, Healbot13, and welcome to the boards.