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  1. Ventifus

    Your Favorite Halfling?

    Where's the option for overweight used-car salesmen with impressively bad fashion sense?
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    Topic Of The Week 40, September, 2008

    PDF Complete Ritual Index, by Level (v1.2; 27 Sept 2008) I found this thread, "PDF Complete Ritual Index, by Level (v1.2; 27 Sept 2008)", interesting and have nominated it accordingly for Topic Of The Week 40, September, 2008.
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    Poll: Drow PC's

    I would say "the only good drow is a dead drow," but I don't allow dead drow in my game either.
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    4E Monster Manual II: will you?

    I ♥ Monster Books. I bought nearly all of them, WotC and 3pp during 3e, and monsters are even more awesome this time around. MM2 and Blackdirge’s book are as good as preordered. Of course it’s easy to make my own monsters, and I’m doing that too.
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    Alchemy and Treasure

    What I'm doing is including consumable items (alchemical, whetstones, potions) and rituals in the open "gp/art/gems" parcels, and reducing the amount of real gp in that parcel by the item’s market price. The level of the item is mostly arbitrary anywhere from level to level + 5, the same range...
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    Topic Of The Week 39, September, 2008

    Adventurer's Vault I found this blog entry, "Adventurer's Vault", interesting and have nominated it accordingly for Topic Of The Week 38, September, 2008.
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    The fate of the Advanced Player's Guide

    Just downloaded the preview, looks awesome! Can't wait to see how a conjurer druid plays. I do have a small quibble too: the shire halfling's Unerring Determination is a "Free Reaction". Surely it's supposed to be a "Free Action" like Elven Accuracy.
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    Errata: What you don't know, won't hurt you?

    I've had a longstanding rule when I DM: use the rules as printed. I don't want to have to remember what the errata are, or mark up my books with them. I suppose if we came across a totally broken rule, we'd check the errata to see if there's a fix, but it's never come up. For example I don't...
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    Grasping Shadows - Best wizard 1 encounter power?

    It's only 1d8 (check the final Dragon 364). But yes it's very neat. If you can get your allies to push additional enemies into the area it's even better.
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    New 4e campaign using Pathfinder's RotRL - Am I crazy?

    I subscribed to Pathfinder when it first came out precisely because I wanted to make it my first 4e campaign. I think it will be pretty trivial to convert. I've already run a module (the old 1e Forbidden City) using the PrRC and all my own monster conversions and it was pretty easy compared to...
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    4e in Portland, OR

    We are looking for some more players in the Portland area. I will be initially be running Keep on the Shadowfell, and after that, a conversion of Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords. Our current gaming location is easily reachable from downtown, near SW 35th. Sometimes we play in Sellwood. We are...
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    Pregen Character Sheet for Level 1 Elf Rogue

    Impressive, very nice. This is probably going to show up at my 4e game next week. Thanks!
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    #123 - Quicksilver Hourglass - Your experiences?

    Spell Stowaway (time stop) amuses me to no end.
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    How Do You Deal With Splatbooks?

    Right now I'm running the Shackled City (they're down in Bhal-Hamatugn), and it's truly anything goes. The PCs are also gestalt, so it lends this wacky cool fantasy-supers feel. Lots of fun. My next campaign though will be much more restricted. I'm thinking of Arcana Evolved in a homebrew...
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    Kitchen Sink Settings

    My game as well. I actively encourage 3rd party material. Unfortunately many players seem a bit adverse to non-WotC books for some reason. I'm actually thinking of making my next campaign Arcana Evolved with the rule "no WotC books allowed."
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    Clackamas, Oregon game seeks 1 more

    One more, just one? I'm sure we can squeeze in more. Though it might turn into a BYOC* event :) *Bring Your Own Chair
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    Is D&D Your Favorite RPG?

    Nope, my choice would be Ars Magica. "Ars Magica Longa, Vita Brevis," as they say. #2 is a tie between Arcana Evolved and D&D.
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    Need high-level psion help...

    Sure thing. First of all, Crisis of Breath disrupts the autonomic breathing reflex. This means that the target must conciously will his lungs to breathe. Next, Brain Lock prevents the target from taking any concious actions. Ergo, the target cannot breathe, and suffocates.
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    Need high-level psion help...

    While it is a bit cheesy, you might want to seriously consider being polymorphed nearly continuously. Since you've got a 13-hour poly self going, select a couple forms before hand to fill a couple categories: mobility, melee, defense, utility, etc. Remember that a psion dosn't necessarily need...
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    New Feat Notion

    The advantage of the feat in Masters of the Wild is that you don't have to have humanlike voice/hands to cast spells. You'd probably be better off either expanding the abilities that satisfy the prereqs on Wild Spell or just be a Psion instead :)
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