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I like to figure out ahead of time things my character can do, so I'm afraid I need to ask a couple of questions before I join my first real session. Movement: As I understand it a PC moves at his rate/Initiative Passes. The question becomes, does the move occur before, during or after any...

Alright, so we will be playing Shadowrun 4, I believe with all the books. I'm a complete newbie at it. We have a Street Samurai, a Technomancer, and either a Face or Magician of some sort. Since it doesn't matter to me what I play, playing a Gunslinger Adept was mentioned. It sounds interesting...

In all seriousness, why is a Druid so friggin' awesome? Before anyone jumps on me, let me explain why I don't understand. I DM far more than I play. Over the decades, I've only seen maybe half a dozen players play a Druid (only two since 3.5). Most would whine about not being able to do...

How long ago, in a number of years, did you first play D&D? If you feel like it indicate how long ago, especially if it was 30 plus years ago. Drat, I must've accidentally clicked the poll box again. I will repost.

Was D&D your first RPG? If not, what was?

Apparently, my group is going to switch from D&D to Shadowrun. I played it once over the course of a few sessions and don't remember much about it. I have no idea, yet, about the setting or, well, anything about it. Any EnWorld links for Shadowrun? Suggestions of places I should visit?

A few weeks ago, I readied a spell against an opposing spellcaster so that when he began to cast I disrupted the spell. I did the same thing the next round (since my init would be automatically higher and I was certain of what he was going to do). This really freaked out the DM. Probably because...

Tordek falls to the orc's savage attack. Ignoring the combat raging around him, the orc swings his mighty axe, cleaving Tordek's skull like a ripe melon. Back in 2e, my PCs would occupy the spot of a fallen foe. Then, they argued, the simple act of continuing to fight combat from that spot...

OK, this is going to be a stupid question but, unfortunately, I always have trouble remembering if a rule I use/used was 1e, 2e, a house rule, or is the current 3.5 rule. At one point in time (2e and after), we used a rule that a sneak attack could only be performed with a light weapon...

Soon I hope to be running a (3.5) world that I've run several times in the past (hearkening back to 2e). I lived through the whole TSR "let's create anything and everything but don't bother balancing it" period. As such, I've always been leery of races/classes/prestige classes that moved away...

As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been recently codifying my rules for Simultaneous Initiative. I realized that players may want to know definitively how simultaneous movement works. This is what I have: Simultaneous Movement In most cases, it is not necessary to worry about the movement of...

As a DM, I have used 'simultaneous' initiative for over 20 years. Now, as a player, I am forced to use standard initiative. Unfortunately, this means I can't get out of my head the way I think it should work as opposed to the way it actually does. Take as an example: I am casting Fireball and...

Help! My brain is fragged from too much work this week and I can't remember how to do this. I'm running a world where the PCs can pretty much be anything as long as they have documenation. A few months ago a player started a template that had no LA listed. I can't remember if there was a way to...

irdeggman pointed out something I thought was interesting in the Rules Compendium (p. 92): So how do you 'see' this: You fail a spot check to see a hidden creature. The creature does nothing and you make another spot check in it's location (or multiple spot checks or take 20). Would you give...

Ignore this thread. I have reposted it as a poll. Would someone who has the ability please delete this thread?

Quite frankly, I hate the current 3.5 system of Knowledge checks for monster knowledge. The rules are too ambiguous for my taste. You know, the whole if you exceed it by five you get another bit of information. It could be that our DM simply doesn't give what I consider enough. For example a 30...

I was going to make this a poll but my system fragged on me. A spell reads: "One creature/level, no two of which can be more than x ft. apart" How do you read this? Argument 1: It means what it means. Each creature must be within x ft. of every other creature. It doesn't say diameter/radius...

When using Power Attack with a two-handed weapon, you add twice the bonus. A while back a friend of mine explained that there was a specific reason why WOTC made PA doubled instead of 1 1/2 times but I can't remember what it was. Does anyone know? Mathematics? Precedence? The whim of the Gods?

As everyone is aware, hit points do not represent actual damage, but rather things like fatigue (not fatigue) and the ability to ward off blows (hence higher levels = higher hps). Now, I've always been into adding a bit of reality to a game, as long as it doesn't significantly impact...

Since I've been playing more recently, I am constantly being amazed to discover that a rule that I play a certain way turns out I've been playing incorrectly, or that my group has been playing a rule incorrectly and didn't know it until I've pointed it out. Now we've discovered a new dilemma...