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So what you're saying is that what the character did before the game even started is more important than what they are doing after the game started? What's happening in the game is the context. Before the game starts, the character is static. Take a look at mhacdebhandia's players' histories...

Give them max gold and let them buy a few magic items like potions and scrolls, either at market price in the DMG (most scrolls of level 1 spells are only 25 gp, and there's not much else a wizard has to spend money on once he's bought a staff and a lantern), or at Item Creation price...

If a character history is longer than about 100 words i don't bother reading it, because it's likely to be a bunch of badly written wank anyway. What's important in my games is what you're doing now.

This is my view on XP: Experience is awarded for overcoming a challenge, not for killing things. This is why XP is awarded for traps (whether or not it's disabled, XP is awarded for the trap as long as it's encountered) and non-combat encounters. Therefore, in the two situations provided in...

Jim (or James, he's been credited as both) Holloway. He was a fairly prolific artist in the mid to late 80s for D&D, among other games. He is quite talented, able to do humor as well as serious, and he can wield a mean paintbrush, as well. I always thought it was a gigantic joint myself...

Kill him and take his stuff. He'd approve, because it's the D&D way that he's familiar with. :p Serious answer: Normally, i'd kick him out until he can show that he has read the PHB for the version of the game you are playing and can understand how the game works, then let him back in on a...

I paid a buck for a set of status cards back when they were having that .pdf sale, but i gotta say, yours look much, much nicer. :)

No idea. You could buy two of them from Troll Lord Games at that price. EDIT: Scooped twice, dammit. :p

Assuming he means "DC 20" and not a natural 20, i'd say: "Normally, i wouldn't allow it, but it is really cool, so just this once... Go for it." Here's my reasoning and thought process: I care about four things when players try to think outside the box: Is it cool? Is it going to have an...

I can't be bothered to make a "story" that lasts more than about 6 to 8 sessions. This means that my players get closure on stuff fairly quickly, which they enjoy, and it means i get to change up whats happening every so often.

The Coif of Coiffure +3, +4 vs Rain and Alchemists' Fire

Precisely. I'd like to point out that the English-German comparison (without getting into historical migration patterns and such-like) falls apart as soon as you look a few steps in the other direction and compare Germany to Poland. Big difference in culture, despite the fact that Poland has...

Yeah, typos at 1 AM. Thanks for pointing it out, though. *sigh* You screw a word up a couple of times and people won't let you live it down. :p I always thought of gnomes being Italian for some reason, i dunno. I get a serious Leonardo da Vinci vibe off the little buggers. Anyway, i'm not...

I was looking through the names lists by nation in Five NAtions and stumbled upon such gems as Rave (male Thrane) Sede (Thrance female) and Beaf ((Breland, female). Beaf? The firs thing that popped into mind was "beef". Can you imagine introducing a female NPC to your group as Beaf? :lol...

Except the only 'regional feat"-like choice for Breland is Favored in House. :p

Play Location/Method: Edmonton Alberta Game/System: example: D&D 3.5 set in Eberron, core books including psionics. Player or GM? I'm the GM in this campaign, looking for players. Time/Frequency: Biweekly on weekends, during the day or early evening (we all have lives;) ) Genre:Pulpy dark high...

Let's make some one line adventure seeds for Eberron. Maximum length is one sentence. I'll start. Seducing the queen of Aundair and convincing her that delaring war on Karrnath is a great/bad idea Fighting off the Order of the Emerald Claw on careening, burning air ships Hunting Cultists of...

Hey takyris, I know people you probably know (say hi to James, Jason and Andrew for me). Anyway, my only suggestion is to kill him and take his stuff. ;) I'm going to start recruiting for a campaign (without mental sounding house rules that nerf everything) over the next month or so, so if...

I took this opportunity to nab up a bunch of pdfs i'd been eyeing for a while as well. Great stuff, too, as it turned out. :cool:

On the "use cards" note, use spell cards for spells. That way, they have the spell out right in front of them when they are ready to cast it. I'm a big fan of cards, though. :)