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    Holy striker my party is all cows!! Forked from: Holy cow my party is all strikers!!

    They'd be quite at home with the range-r class.
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    equivalancy table

    So after CharGen and my concerns voiced to the DM, he decided that there would be ramifications to ultra negative stats. The thing is, we've been having a major problem with people not roleplaying AT ALL, and one player even being vocally abusive towards those that do roleplay (LULZ LETS JUST...
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    Monk=Striker? I'm disapointed

    Honestly, I've always wanted to play a "brawler" type of character, but the "ki" theme of the monk and all their supernatural powers always mucks up the DM or the world. If the power source was named "soul", it could be like the inner anger of someone or their will to fight that produces some of...
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    equivalancy table

    We're rolling up new characters for a 4th ed campaign. We're using a point buy system, and one of the characters (a druid) is dropping his stats to 7 to game the system. This is especially dangerous in 4th ed, where you can use half your stats for dump stats, while pumping up the useful ones...
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    What Would Happen If (Almost) Nobody Paid for RPGs?

    Tri-Stat DX is completely free for download, and look how popular that is. They make money on selling 'genre' books that give alternative rulesets. GURPS lite is a free download of core rules, enough to play as well. Between both of these, I'm willing to bet you don't have much of a strong...
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    Bard Quips, Jokes, Puns, and One Liners

    Awesome, keep em coming. :D
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    Reflections on the Barbarian and Avenger

    pardon my ignorance, but what gives the avenger two rolls?
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    Bard Quips, Jokes, Puns, and One Liners

    Playing a Gnome Bard, I've been trying to think up and make a list of various quips, jokes, puns, one liners, stories, limericks and quotations. Also included could be various Pranks he can pull on his party and/or enemies. I had this idea from a prank I pulled on my party this last week in our...
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    Defeating my powergamer Glave master

    In our gaming group, there's a guy just like this. He doesn't read the rules too closely, but he tries to say realism works in his favor ("Electricity should do more damage if they're standing in water, right?") I run a couple of one off sessions to give my DM a break, and he rolled in with a...
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    GenCon 2009 Event Submission

    How do these tournaments work? Do you fight other players?
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    How do I throw people?

    for a flying creature to be considered 'prone', imho, it would be unbalanced and/or faltering in flight and need to spend time 'righting itself' much like a prone land-dweller spends time 'righting himself' on his ground bound legs.
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    Bard does not suck!

    I would like to say that my 3.5 Gnome bard, "Nimble" Dimble Garrick, who was a notorious prankster, will be making a comeback. I'll be playing him at GenCon all over. For me, there is an infinite amount of prankery you can do with Ghost Sound, Prestigidation, and Dancing Lights. I don't have my...
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    GenCon 2009 Event Submission

    This is my first year to GenCon. My DM Matt and one of our players Nick went last year and had a blast. We've played 3.0/3.5/4.0 DnD and GURPS Space, so we're looking to expand our horizons a little bit, but also get some ideas on how to play the systems we're into. :D I just got the PHB2, and...
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    D&D 4E What rules do you think are still missing from 4e?

    What I've found that I'm missing greatly are rules for grappling and throws. What I've been relegated to doing is using opposed skill checks. Examples: -Fighter grabs Orc. -> Grab action, Orc immobilized -Orc grabs fighter -> Fighter immobilized (what to do here?) Here are some options...
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    Hammer Implement

    In my campaign, the dwarf cleric of Moradin has his divine symbol(s) carved into the head of his warhammer, so he strikes with it, or raises it up and points/brandishes it (much like a scepter).
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    TS' Book of Heroic Might: Alignment as it is Meant to Be

    I found your book enlightening. Though I have am at odds with two characters currently. One plays evil characters, or neutral leaning evil characters b/c he doesn't want to have any moral contraints on killing or whatnot. Generally he's Unaligned, with a few character flaws (selfishness) that he...
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    Moved-Looking for a group in the Union/Franklin county/St. Louis area

    I'm in the st. louis area, but I'm way out in St. Charles county (its the farthest west of the st. louis metro area. But I would try to check out The Fantasy Shop, which has at least 5 locations in the St. Louis Area. They have a billboard that is specifically for finding gamers, and they have...
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    D&D 4E Skill tweaks (or how to deepen the 4e skill system just a touch)

    on forgery, I would make it a combined skill check between Perception (understanding the nuances of a person's handwriting, the format and style of a document) and thievery (for sleight of hand, manual dexterity) basically, you have a complex skill check which involves a DC to study the...
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    Grab and Grapple

    reading in the PHB, it doesn't specifically state under improvised weapons or the grab combat maneuver how much damage a thrown goblin does. My guess is 1d4 to creature thrown, and 1d4 to whatever it hits (for balance purposes, 1d8 is pretty standard for an attack) and you can use it mostly for...
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    Maps for Encounters

    as a DM, since my gamer personality is wayyy Explorer (bartle quotient) I make maps of maps of maps. I own wayyy too many of the dungeon tiles, and have trouble with storing hundreds of pieces of cardstock and cardboard 5 foot squares. I would have to say that my favorite aspect of use for maps...
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