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This is an area of my game I'm working on as well. The single biggest thing that helped me was to throw out the battlemat and mini's. I now use a small, hand-held dry-erase board, but even that only when neccessary. Mostly it's just to give an idea of the layout of a room if it's particularly...

hey thanks for the link! - this sounds really close to what I'm looking for, I'll check it out.

After spending 10 minutes or so during one of my last combats this weekend looking up spells in the PHB, I am now searching for a variant magic system. I'm looking for something without set spells, but rather where spells can be made up on the fly, the DM sets the appropriate DC based on the...

Thanks for the kind words delricho. I'm not a fan of banning feats (or anything for that matter) because they might "break" my game. I'm of the opinion that the word "broken" is applied to far too many things (that is my experience and the gamers I hang out with - one is so jaded, it's a...

I was kinda thinking along those lines, but something just kept nagging at me that since I know more rules than him/them that what I might come up with might not be fair. The way I see it, Monkey Grip is a potentially game breaking feat, if not handled correctly. I have no problem with how it...

Good point, KingJay, I'll keep this in mind!

In the same vein as what Stalker said, I'd imagine that the proper circumstances help too. Along the same scenario from my original post, if i allow the player to hear about said troll beforehand - perhaps he is some, oh, town bully or some such thing, then it puts the ball in the players court...

Where is the line drawn between challenging your players and engaging in a pissing contest with them? I have a PC who is making a fighter with the Monkey Grip feat wielding a Large Greatsword. If I send a, for example, troll with the Monkey Grip feat wielding some massive weapon, am i...