blargney the second
blargney the minute's son
Galethorn, since you're already sucking up the major xp penalty for multiclassing, you ought to take a few levels of Sadist to get your BAB back up to speed! 
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The 5+ Styles of DMing: Contrasted/Compared/Mocked
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blargney the second
blargney the minute's son
Btw RangerWickett, I think that's a very positive way to look at the advantages of each style of DMing. As usual, equilibrium seems the route to a happy life!
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I was once a master planner (world builder). Then I found a crazy job and had a kid. Now I am a fairly crappy winger. I have found that in my primary homebrew world that I ran for 12 years, I can run about a two year campaign with little prep, but that's cause it has so much internal logic and so many characters that it seems almost natural to me what should come next. Unfortunately, my current group hates the place, so we play in a newer world that never quite comes off the way I want it and ends up with lots of mistakes on my part.
Woe to the winger who forgets to write down what he has winged, or wang, or whatever.
Woe to the winger who forgets to write down what he has winged, or wang, or whatever.
More examples
Winger: You find a diamond that glows brightly. It's in (long detailed description of) a cave. What do you do?
Player: I pick up the diamond.
Winger: What diamond?
Planner: So, where do you go next? There's the town faire at Goblingate, and the comet strike near Starfall, and there's that dragon on the loose near BurntToast. Where to?
Player: I'm going into the mountains to hunt orcs!
Planner: But I haven't designed the mountains yet! You can't! **sounds of nervous breakdown**
Railroader: You reach a T intersection. To the left, you see a comely woman with horns beckoning you, to the right, you see an exit.
Player: We go right.
Railroader: The exit shuts, leaving you with the comely woman.
Player: We run back the way we came.
Railroader: The passageway back collapses.
Player: Oh very well, we approach the comely woman.
Railroader: You all fail your saves against her dominate spell...
Sadist: You find some prisoners.
Players: We release them.
Sadist: One of them is a polymorphed Red Dragon. It attacks you!
Players: We run for it.
Sadist: The dragon breathes first. Make saving throws for your equipment, please.
Newbie: You find a 10' by 10' room with 20 orcs in it.
Cheers!
Winger: You find a diamond that glows brightly. It's in (long detailed description of) a cave. What do you do?
Player: I pick up the diamond.
Winger: What diamond?
Planner: So, where do you go next? There's the town faire at Goblingate, and the comet strike near Starfall, and there's that dragon on the loose near BurntToast. Where to?
Player: I'm going into the mountains to hunt orcs!
Planner: But I haven't designed the mountains yet! You can't! **sounds of nervous breakdown**
Railroader: You reach a T intersection. To the left, you see a comely woman with horns beckoning you, to the right, you see an exit.
Player: We go right.
Railroader: The exit shuts, leaving you with the comely woman.
Player: We run back the way we came.
Railroader: The passageway back collapses.
Player: Oh very well, we approach the comely woman.
Railroader: You all fail your saves against her dominate spell...
Sadist: You find some prisoners.
Players: We release them.
Sadist: One of them is a polymorphed Red Dragon. It attacks you!
Players: We run for it.
Sadist: The dragon breathes first. Make saving throws for your equipment, please.
Newbie: You find a 10' by 10' room with 20 orcs in it.
Cheers!
ph0rk
Friendship is Magic, and Magic is Heresy.
good DM's don't kill parties, they kill themselves 
I find that a mixture of planning and winging is best, winging with 0 planning sucks, and planning with no winging also sucks. (the door goes nowhere - this isn't much different from railroading).
Sadists rapidly end up with no players, in my experience. Newbies don't stay newbies for long.
Another axis, if you will, is 'have a good time' vs 'create art' Yes, to many of the 'artistes', having fun is a detriment! All must suffer for the almighty plot! The plot is all!
I find that a mixture of planning and winging is best, winging with 0 planning sucks, and planning with no winging also sucks. (the door goes nowhere - this isn't much different from railroading).
Sadists rapidly end up with no players, in my experience. Newbies don't stay newbies for long.
Another axis, if you will, is 'have a good time' vs 'create art' Yes, to many of the 'artistes', having fun is a detriment! All must suffer for the almighty plot! The plot is all!
dren said:
"It's their god."
"Get away?"
"No, really. It's Quezovercoatl. Half man, half chicken, half jaguar, half serpent, half scorpion, and half mad."
The parrot's beak moved as it worked this out.
"That makes a wossname total of three homicidal maniacs," it said.
"About right, yes," said the statue.
-Terry Pratchett, Eric
I thought it was appropriate.
DonaldRumsfeldsTofu
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You guys are bringing back far too many bad memories.
demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
MerricB said:
Were they stacked like cordwood?
I think I'm a Planner/Sadist with a few levels in the Loremaster and World-Builder PrCs. So the multiclassing penalties are terrible, but I make up for it in sheer tonnage of books.
Demiurge out.
