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I would tell my players what happened because I want to reward their roleplaying. If I hid the fact that I fudged the roll from them I think that they would assume that no intervention took place. I think that giving the players that information would enhance their enjoyment of the game, but I...

I would reward the player for roleplaying his piety even though he isn't a cleric by fudging the dice and making the character live. However, I would not hide the fact that I was doing so from the player. He would know that his character's prayer was answered even though the character does not...

I want a different number of random encounters depending on how often the we game. If I'm in a weekly game, I am more than happy to spend an entire session on random encounters when travelling between locations, but in a monthly game, I pretty much want every encounter to move the plot along in...

My homebrew world has a lot of racism. The various human countries and people groups are all racist against each other, the elves are engaged in a bloody centuries-long war between their two races, and everyone else is involved in complex webs of hatred. I really think that it adds to the...

I might put the 3 in Cha. People don't realize that even if you put a 3 in Cha, your character doesn't have to be a horrible person to interact with. You can take full ranks in Diplomacy, Bluff, and Intimidate to offset your ability modifier and play a person who has a disability but who has...

When I first realized that eating potato chips and drinking huge amounts of soda when gaming was probably not a great idea for my health, I started buying puffed rice cakes as an healthier alternative to chips and unsweetened flavored seltzer water instead of soda. That really helped me control...

I tend to run games where important locations are a long way away from each other, so for my players actually traveling anywhere outside of town is a fairly big decision, and once they embark on a journey it might take them a session or two to complete it. That helps with the wilderness feel of...

I actually think that even though the other classes would get a boost from it, it might be a good idea to switch to the PF classes because the differences in power level between the Pathfinder Paladin and the other PF classes are (IMO) significantly smaller than the differences between the 3.5...

I would probably go with: 1. Orcs 2. Human bandit types 3. Hill Giants/Ogres 4. Zombies or Skeletons 5. Giant Spiders/Scorpions 6. Dire Wolves 7. Hydras 8. Some kind of evil, aquatic Fishmen. 9. Some sort of Demon/Devil 10. Kobolds

It's a term for using a seemingly innocent thing to hide a weapon. It originated in a d20 Modern game where a player hid a pistol in his dog's voluminous coat to sneak it into a meeting with the BBEG. But seriously, what the heck is a Desk-harvester? -Bob the Destroyer

It's possible if you use E6. -Bob the Destroyer

I play more than 50% of the time, but it's not by choice. It just happens that my DM and I have almost exactly the same social group and he is a more experienced DM, so most of the time that people get a hankerin' to play, they play in his games. :( -Bob the Destroyer

Howdy, howdy, howdy!

I voted Sorcerer even though I tend to use Elements of Magic. -Bob the Destroyer

214. The Perpetually-distracted 215. The Vague 216. The Narcissistic 217. The Mighty-Thewed 218. The Irascible 219. The Choleric 220. The Grim 221. The Gruesome 222. The Grisly 223. The Discrete 224. The Disciplinarian 225. The Ale-guzzler

Gene Cooke's Wizard Knight series is very good, and it has an extremely cool cosmology. Terry Pratchett's Discworld is awesome; it has a lot of books but you can pretty much jump in wherever. I have very much enjoyed Piers Anthony's Xanth series. Not so much his other stuff. Jonathan Strange...

I would say that it matches the crunch just fine. We don't know the fine points of how magic works in the D&D game, and it could be that for some reason a caster can't "tie off" a particular spell at the most convenient point. For instance, maybe with Identify (1 hour casting time) you can only...

Trying not to delve too far into religious territory here, I voted yes because the definition seems to include miracles. I don't believe in magic outside of God, angels, or demons and their works. So... I guess I believe in Divine magic but not Arcane.

15/16, I missed Alinia. in retrospect it seems like that should have been pretty obvious. Bob the Destroyer

The three most important things that I've learned in playing in another DM's game are 1. To be descriptive, it is much more interesting if the DM says "You knock aside the bugbear's mace and, ducking under his shield, drive your spear up through his throat, killing him.", than if he says " you...