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This is the first time I've run a non-D&D game. I'm having a tricky time with some GMing stuff. The crew was hired by an anonymous "benefactor" and is performing missions for him. He gave them a basic ship, which is largely used for transport (I'm focusing on away-team action more than ship...

There are references to the Perception skill, and it has a place on the NEW character sheet. But the NEW core rulebook has no rules for calculating Perception in the Derived Statistics chapter, nor is it in the index.

In the NEW pdf, on page 114, it says "one dose of a drug can be created by performing a major chemistry science" no period. This doesn't seem like it can be the entirety of the rule. It doesn't seem complete to me. So I assume the sentence got cut off? I checked the errata, and I didn't see...

Original thread was lost. Found a cached version, reposting with an update. Hi. I've been away from ENworld for some time. But I thought I'd pop back in to share some notes I'm making for my upcoming NEW campaign. This is my first time running a sci-fi game. The rules seem fairly...

I haven't been following the 4e news that closely. Read the rules primers, a bit here and there... It seems most of what has been leaked so far has been the combat stuff. Which of course has set of choruses of "4e is a combat-oriented slugfest" in a couple of places. Well, I'm sure the...

OK, here's the scenario. The PCs have discovered a Boccob's Blessed Book, which is itself locked. The previous owner has inscribed an Explosive Rune on the first page. The rogue searches the book for traps, rolling quite well. But he has not yet picked the lock on the book. He then picks the...

OK, I don't normally bitch about my players, but she's driving me nuts... My group meets every saturday, and we play two campaigns, alternating weeks. She already dropped out of one of the campaigns because she needed more time to herself, but she seemed to do so with hesitation and regret...

Alas, mark now the death of D'narg Glittertunnel, dwarven rogue of loose morals, wonderful lockpicking skills, and total cowardice. But who would have expected the very ceiling rafters to have been animated objects? One of the confounded things grappled poor D'narg as he was searching the...

...do you tell him? Or do you just want to hear the bad news? Ultimately, the question is deeper - do you want your DM to fudge the dice to keep your character alive, especially in small encounters that weren't intended to be lethal? (poll upcoming)

My group has taken to pinning their dead character sheets to the wall, right underneith the poster-sized campaign map. They draw little gravestones with the dates of their existence on them and stuff. So far I've only killed two of their characters in this campaign, so it's not like I'm the...

Check it out: http://www.cheapass.com/free/games/rotgb.html I'll post the basic rules here: It's simple and elegent enough that I think I'll use it for the rare times such a battle will be happening in my D&D campaign.

This is a somewhat vague question... but one of my players is asking me via email if he can take a level in this PrC, but I'm not familiar with it. He's currently a 5th level fighter (can a 5th level fighter qualify for this PrC?), twinked out for archery. Already his damage potential per round...

I've just proposed a house-rule to my group. My proposal is to extend the range of the "disabled" status. Normally a character is disabled only at exactly zero hp, which always seemed a bit odd to me. So I'm suggesting extending "disabled" to a negative number of hit points equal to the level...

My players have been using Disguise a lot recently - primarily because the local law is on their tails. Only one character has any ranks in Disguise. I'm allowing her to disguise other people, but only her ranks are used - the characters being disguised have to apply their own Cha bonus to the...

Now, this has probably been discussed before, but I missed it. Our DM gave us, as a reward for completing a quest, any single magical item worth under 8000gp. We're officially playing a 3.5 campaign, but we still have our 3.0 books, and since we were all shopping for our reward item at once...

This should be a quick question. If a diety's favored weapon is an exotic weapon, are his clerics automatically proficient with it?

It seems to make sense that they would exist. A crossbow with a heavier pull that can only be loaded by a character with the approprate strength bonus, and then deals the Mighty bonus to damage when fired. The only potential I can see for abuse is to have all the characters have a mighty...

No, not the one from Ladyhawke. Double Crossbow Type: Exotic Weapon Description: This light crossbow is fitted with one string that but is capable of firing two bolts simultaniously. Both bolts must target the same creature, but they use a single attack roll. When firing two bolts, a -2...

I mentioned once that I had no problems slapping class levels on monsters, intelligent or not, just to make them an interesting challange for the party. You know, black puddings with levels of Monk, stirges with levels of rogue, things like that. I do this knowing that the creatures can't have...

This happened a while ago IMC but I just remembered it and wondered what you thought. What happens if you cast Daze on somebody who is swimming? What happens if they're wearing chain mail and have, up to this point, been barely making their swim checks? Do they just sink?