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Just because I don't care to build Middle-Earth doesn't mean that my game doesn't have details or is in the process of building something beyond the characters. For myself, it means that I prefer the gameworld and its details to be built within the confines of the sessions and discussion...

Hey, follow your bliss. If that's detailing the eating habits of the Sewer denizens of the City State of Gobblegook, then go for it. Will the majority of it get used in a game and will the players care beyond the loot of the dead guy on thier sword? That's pretty unlikely. Players only care...

Heh...I was just considering posting this...saw it on William Gibson's blog. Never create beyond the surrounding hexes or the next session. Crude outlines sure, but anything more detailed can limit your creativity. (This has been my big hangup with published settings lately, they are great...

Check out Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. Very lovecraftian, even got the squidies :) (Would make a fun Far Realm plot for a game too)

A plotline that struck me was a lower ranking devil/demon that finds out about the Far Realm and summons one of them, thinking it could use a Far Realmian to destroy his rivals. Unfortunately, for the fiend, his plan works too well, the Far Realms entity is much too powerful to control, and...

While I agree with this, videogames still have not grasped the ability to react to players like a GM can. Even in WoW, which I consider to be pretty complex, its still a coded response to players actions, that can be quantified and then written into guides. (DO this to fight this boss. The...

Glad you liked it. I wouldn't bother so much with balancing it, since they are the "bad" guys after all. Maybe raise a CR or something, if your party relies on those magics. (I believe Paladins and Clerics would be hurt the most by this)

This can be fun as one shots, but I don't buy it over the stretch of 20 levels. Its one thing to purposefully gimp yourself with a point buy, because you buy into the weaknesses when you place the points, but its quite another to just roll badly. While this may be fun to explore on the short...

Also makes a horrible riddle. Just ask Gollum. "Whats its gots in its pocketess? How does Precious know what it has in its stinking pocketeses?" (With apologies to Tolkien for memory-based quoting)

That's a good point. Should make them beyond alignment, so far so that alignment based effects have no impact on them. (Also makes them more powerful)

As a friend of mine once said, look at the movie Aliens. Its a bug hunt and almost all combat. But there was a lot of roleplaying too. A good group can roleplay in any system. YMMV of course.

Eberron Campaign Setting. One feat. $39.95. And if the GM or Players have been reading these particular threads, they can use the feats for free! While I agree the Bard is not as central as say, the cleric, the fighter, or the wizard, hes a decent sub for the Rogue or a fifth member. YMMV of...

"Consider Yes" reminds me of Dogs in the Vineyard. One of the main rules, if you want to call it a rule, is Roll Dice or Say Yes. In that game, you only roll dice if something is in conflict. Otherwise, the gm says yes. Being a long time GM, I'm still finding it hard to do, but it goes a...

Did you ban the buff spells or is there just an understanding that these bonuses replace those spells?

The main issue we had with rolling stats is the imbalance among players, if one rolled well and others rolled crappy. Nobody likes to be the kid getting sand kicked in his face.

Another good point, in a larger group you have more room for non-standard classes

Sorry, its just Song of the Heart, which increases the attack/damage bonus by +1.

32 points...for all our games for years now.

Yeah, I think this is the basis of most of the gimp comments. From an individual perspective, they are not that strong (outside social situations), but for the party as a whole, they are awesome.

Yup, the fighter and the ranger are both two-weapon fighters. Big bonus for the bard's song.