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I think the tone of the column is essentially all Marketing's fault. I also believe their reasoning goes about like this, except filled with buzzwords: *Our surveys show that the average player is around 30. Ergo, let us placate them with the content of our product; as long as it's acceptable...

What? After reading the thread, which was very good and mostly insightful, I nonetheless feel the need to interject. I agree that you should be sensitive to players' tastes, but there's one thing that disturbs me no end: Don't your PC:s ever kill people? I don't care whether it's only when...

Suchen "Suchen" is german for Search. If I'm not mistaken (and the title suggests I'm not, since "Engel" is german for Angel), the game was originally written in german and then translated to english and d20 rules, and this is merely a translational botch.

Horribly I am all of those things except overweight. I'm underweight. Also, the poor dressing is a matter of opinion, but I think a bowler hat, white shirt, black vest and black pants classify these days. And NO, da:rolleyes::rolleyes:it, I'm NOT a Goth! :D /Feliath

Yar! I compete! *deep breath* OK, here goes. My contribution. Half-Orc Bard? Half-Orc Bard. A half-orcish bard? Like sweet spring birds twittering atop a dung heap. Oh, two more, just for kicks: A Haiku contest? Billy gives out adventures!!! I must try to win... Which is funnier: Fireball...

Design # 999 It's an artificial limb that sticks to the skin! This would actually revolutionize medicine, come to think of it... Design #1090332648 It's a computer mouse! It works in the opposite way to that which you'd expect! :D Design #578701393 It's an explosive device! It makes...

I may be wildly misunderstanding the question here, but in my campaign world, serfs and peasantry pay the taxes because well-armed people threaten them. The peasantry has no power, no pull, nothing. If they don't work the farms, the nobility kills them. If they pay no taxes, same thing. They get...

What I do Well, I, as a DM, try to allow all players to play as close to what they want as is possible, because, this is a game, right? And it's all about having fun, right, whether "fun" means "drooling angst" or "monster mayhem" to you? So with that in mind, along with the fact that a forced...

Excalibur What?!? Caliburn weak??? Its name means Cleave Steel, for crying out loud! It goes through plate armor like a lawnmower through wet cardboard! True, Merlin says (according to Malory, here) that the scabbard is worth seven of the sword, but that's just to show how absurdly fantastic...

Stormbringer and Terminus Est First things first: I wholeheartedly agree with Tsyr. There is nothing, and i mean nothing, so annoying as literary elitism. :mad: Anyway, I voted Stormbringer, but then ColonelHardisson reminded me of Terminus Est, which is the coolest-named sword EVER, and so...

Going by the PHB domains only, because I'd never be able to pick just four otherwise, I'd say Retribution, Trickery, Knowledge, Air if we're talking what's probable based on personality. I'd want Knowledge, Magic, War, Luck, though. /Feliath

Well, I play with the movement and encumbrance rules since, as GoldenEagle pointed out, they're an important part of the tradeoff you make in deciding what kind of armor to wear. (I'm one of these people who prefers an unarmored swashbuckler to a plate-clad knight - although knights are cool...

Abysmal embarrassment :o Yes. Yes, I am. I blame this flub on five cups of tea combined with the fact that it was rather late in my part of the world, when I wrote that. Still, though: :o *turns deep red* Well, my point is mostly that a game having rules for high-powered characters doesn't...

Talking power (long-winded) OK, so this right here is where he shoots himself in the foot with such large-caliber ammo as to blow off everything beneath the neck. I don't really think there needs to be any debate about something written by someone this elitist. So, as a disclaimer, everything...

Evil Fatwizardry I'm surprised nobody's pointed this out yet... Another cool benefit of this system is that it explains why evil wizards want sacrifices. You'd take a feat which allowed you to convert another (helpless) person's mass to spell energy, and use that in your casting. This is...

I'm a Swede, so I was comfy and far away. But I used to live in north NJ when I was younger, though I'm born in Sweden. The thing I remember most from NYC is being eight and not being able to bend my head far enough back that I cound see the top of the WTC. I remember that on my grandmother's...

Cow Damage Technically, no, it should be just the falling damage, assuming you're hit by the cow on the falling part of its trajectory (a perfect arc, ideally). All the kinetic energy transferred into the cow by the catapult would be spent in getting the cow up to its maximum vertical height...

Realism vs. Balance I don't think it's really more than a summary of what some others have said, but I'll give my opinion anyway: While DEX would be more realistic, STR is more balanced - so I'm leaving it like that. /Feliath - very brief (for me:()

PC Death First things first: My current campaign Mortality Rate is precisely ((1/3)*100)%. ;) Secondly, I tend to handle character death by this simple rule of thumb - close to one previously mentioned, by the way: Never kill a character unless: 1) He/she does something really, really stupid...

Yeah, me, I have one. I thought it was a piece of cake, and so far it hasn't proved unbalancing. I gave them fighter BAB (made sense to me given that they're supposed to be specialists of - get this- killing :D), 6 Skill Points/level and Craft (Poisonmaking) as a class skill. IMC, Craft...