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    When the PCs Can Beat Everything

    Print out card with the summoned critter stats, and let the other players run them when the cleric and druid make them. As for other suggestions: Low level characters can effectively foil high level ones. Level 1 kobold druid in a tree on a hilltop 440 ft away targeting the pcs in think...
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    Biggest combat/encounter you've run?

    I've run major battles on several occasions for a "all comers welcome" 3.x game run for my university Sci-Fi club. My methods vary depending on room set up (subject to what is available at the university) In all cases, for mass combat I use a D100 initiative roll: (initiative mod x 5)+...
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    Druid/Psion.. quirky yes.. but do-able?

    "Oomph"? That only matters if your game is more combat than story based. How are you setting up the xp earning challeges? On the same line of thought, "Oomph" level for a psion depends on what type of psion. Does he want to run a telepath, a nomad, a metacreationist, .......Is there a place...
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    Rocking the world

    1: A pyroclastic flow is not a solid or even a liquid. It is a flow of superheated ash, several stories tall, that may move at speeds in excess of 70 mph. A toxic (sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, various others), super heated, heavier than air cloud moving with gale force...
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    Player who can't get the numbers right

    Is she having trouble with adding the dice, or just adding the modifiers? If she is having problems adding the dice, teach her to group them by groups of 10 or 20. If it is adding the modifier..... what class is she playing? Switch her to an arcanist. I know... Magic seems more complicated...
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    What do they do with the copper and silver?

    coppers? things not nailed down? Hell, Real Estate !
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    Rainbow Ray vs Scorching Ray

    Ask your gm if he will give you a 0 level domain spell....the Color cantrip.
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    Incompetent DM seeks help with powerful PC

    You can't gestalt paladin and rogue. The mandatory alignments clash. It's almost as bad a making a good aligned monk/warlock, or any type of paladin/warlock.
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    A question for super science geeks!

    Or maybe they only think that the old places are cursed. And maybe for a time they were....with untrained people breaking into surviving old places to scavenge relatively early on, surviving old places like Nuclear Power Plants and CDC labs...
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    Christmas time

    Either The misfit toys summon a "Claws" deamon so they can get back at Santa for making them wrong... Or The "Asian" Elves, recently fired from the workshop for quality control problems, build a lead golem , or animate a swarm of rejected "Dora the explorer" dolls....
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    "No Core" game

    Somebody got high and mighty (and put max ranks in diplomacy) and gave a B5 John Sheratan style "Butt Out!" speech to the Gods, (rolled a nat 20) and ,well, they did. They packed up their toys and substaining influences and left. Some of them were nice enough to leave their portfolios on auto...
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    Evel Kenevel Dead

    I just read on CNN that Evel Kenevel, the motercycle daredevil has died. Somehow I think that there is enough pop culture relevance for this to merit mention here. His activities during the 70's and 80's, the era that spawned modern gaming, included stunt jumps over buses and an attempt to...
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    How best to roleplay a weird cohort XP development

    Cohorts abandon you if you don't treat them right. So do animal companions. A druid with leadership would apply the penalty for "causing the death of a cohort" to his leadership score for causing the death of animal companions. It is a measure of how well you treat followers and how likely new...
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    What happens when a necklace of fireballs detonates when worn?

    A save indicates that you somehow dodged or managed to find cover and didn't take the full brunt of the attack. You can't take cover from a grenade tied to your neck. In this case, it is more like a bomb with a fuse going off instantaneously as all of the fuse is lit simultaneously across its...
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    CR for a Old Black Drag. PsyWar5?

    On the equipment issue: I'd let the dragon have "Starting gold" equal to a 7th level character as a 5th level PW who is also a dragon can get better prices....Buy what the dragon would want. Then I would use an online random treasure generator for the hoard, and click on the "Include psionic...
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    How best to roleplay a weird cohort XP development

    As a GM I'd have to nerf that, or they would start hiding behind the cohort in every undead themed adventure.
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    How best to roleplay a weird cohort XP development

    Differential and somewhat hesitant. She is gunshy now, she knows it, and she is trying to work through it.
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    Too many monsters: what to do?

    Well, I consider the duplicates as variants for use in keeping the pcs guessing. It is lots of fun to hit them with older edition stirges that do hp damage, and then later hit them with the 3rd ed stirges that do con damage. I just make them slightly different colors. It also makes them put...
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    How best to roleplay a weird cohort XP development

    She is the cohort. The side kick. She is learning less because she isn....what the hell? Every time I try to type a apostrophe the firefox quick search function kicks on? any firefox users know what is going on? anyway, I was saying...she is not making as many decisions as a pc. Just play her...
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    what to do if you gave too much power?

    Simple. Make the weapon/item MORE powerful. Set the party against something very magical and very powerful...and let them kick it's butt. As the weapon/item is used to strike the final blow, there is a flash of light, an unleashing of energy, and after wards, in the course of the next...
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