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What does this accomplish that can not be accomplished by - giving him a random amount of bullets - the GM actually trying to conserve his ammo Just how would voluntary ammo conservation be accomplished? An NPC would want to plan for after combat, but he would also realize that there could be *no* ...

Part 2 is "the extra meat is superfluous". But it is. A brain doesn't have to have extremities to function. And if keeping brains in a liquid is for some reason impossible (infection is seriously not a problem, you don't have to keep all the brains in a single jar), the creatures can be d...

There are many reasons to enter relationships, some of which are attraction, companionship, convenience, sex, having children, probably something else I forgot. And all of this can be achieved without getting formally paired up. Social pressure to get married is lessening. Of course, legislation sti...

Fun fact! Although a couple of abilities reference "magical flight' as something opposed, presumably, to "nonmagical flight," flight is a movement speed, not an ability. You don't have flight as an Su OR as an Ex, you just have a number and a maneuverability. Not exactly. Movement Mo...

PR said he had to write a review, which looks like something he's either paid to do or forced to do. Big publishing houses don't usually have the man-hours to waste reviewing obvious shit in any detail beyond " REJECTED ", so it might be a magazine, or perhaps PR volunteered to teach creat...

By the way, what is this stuff from, a submission to an SF magazine?

So I just was reminded why every single god in the Forgotten Realms setting is a complete and totally evil asshole who is in fact worse than the worst demon lord. (emph. mine --SM) Correction: was . The Wish and the Word killed every single of them who had printed stats, then The Wish wished Ao had...

Wait, no rulebooks in Russian? And, if they could read the English ones, why translate? Only the core set exists in Russian, and very poorly translated at that. Rules wordings are not checked for consistency, thus if one is playing D&D in Russian he or she is playing a different game. There is ...

And how did the translations go, BTW? I cheated made the only correct decision by not translating the mechanics at all. (Otherwise the end users would translate them back to English to correlate with the D&D rules we didn't throw out of the window and again to Russian to announce the ruling. An...

It [ Grave of the Fireflies ] really is like watching someone perform surgery on you. I did actually watch surgery being performed on myself, and it was fun. I sang along to the radio and tried to mess with the blood pressure monitor. So for me it was completely unlike Grave of the Fireflies. I gue...

Was that guy high or something?

Redeeming qualities: that's not "My Immortal".

The horror: by the lack of spelling mistakes I assume the author is older than nine.

I am firmly against "You agree to lose a bonus here in exchange for a bonus to something else." as a way to work "around" that. [...] If the Dark Side is as strong and more permissive than the Light Side, but morally wrong, then the fact that it is morally wrong should matter wh...

THe first question is whether the PCs want to do something good or just bash monsters in a good old-fashioned way. The monster-bashing you can have in almost any setting from highly idealistic (Saturday morning cartoons) to near-realistic (sure the peasants suffer from high taxes, but that's a fact ...

(long rules quote) This part is sort of understandable, then. The minimum forward speed for a pegasus is 0, so it's hard not to maintain it. A pegasus, having wings, falls when tripped (why it falls straight down even if it was charging at full speed and got tripped by an attack of opportunity is a...

Stephen is best known publicly for his extensive work on the D&D Miniatures Game, where he worked on 10 sets and two rules revisions...

That might be good news. Designing competitive games means you can't use the DM as frontline of defense.

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What book is the creature used to initiate chain binding is from? (The one that has limited wish as a spell-like ability and 6- HD?) I've looked through all the books I own and some I don't, and I cannot find one.

That seems pretty heavy handed. Why not find roles for these characters to fill and make them uniquely qualified to fill them? Hitting things with a sword well doesn't mean you can't pick locks or track or do any number of things that magic isn't designed to do. Moreover, it seems to me that battle...

1) That applies to your solution too since NPCs define the granularity of the majority of the system. "I have a sword of mega fire X Keeness held in Gauntlets of Mechanicalism wielded by hands that know the skill of the ultra wobble slash!" "What does that do?" "Vs PCs, abo...

Everyone complains about Elminster because he's a terrible Mary Sue character that needs to die in a fire. Drizzt is also a Mary Sue character that needs to die in a fire. Drow are Evil because their society is Evil, so any explanation of the reason behind his not conforming to society's norms woul...

That sounds like willful ignorance of said NPCs abilities to me. If Beholders can disintegrate at will there should damn well be elaborate tunnel systems where they swoop down from holes in the ceiling. Beholders are [awesome]. Aboleths are [awesome]. Dragons are [awesome]. These monsters have supe...

That's a pretty swingy temperature range. Lead melts at 327.5 C/621 F. The other metals listed are in the 950+ C/1750+ F range. Also, fire can get get pretty hot. It's also the question of energy input. The flame of a common lighter has temperature of 2000+ K, yet it's not possible to use it to cut...

Games like Exalted have no problem giving that to non-casters. Admittedly, the Solars do have the "magic" tag, but they're distinctly martial and not arcane in their approach to magic. Solar magic is skill-based. So combat magic depends on combat skills, world-altering shenanigans are pla...

To clarify: will you be running Tome E6 or will you be starting at lvl 6? If the former, things are rather easy. For the rites that are for some reason unavailable to the PCs, write the rules of interacting with them (how to disrupt summoning Cthulhu, can daylight penetrate the Eternal Gloom at the ...

Authored by avanturist of auto.ru, translated by that guy , typos corrected by yours truly. The United States of Absinthe, or The Origins of the Crisis. "...I will explain to you in very simple terms what was the driving force behind the crisis. Imagine that we - that is, me, you, and Chronosco...

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