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I kind of liked the Sovereign Speaker. Eberron PrC, trades caster levels for lots of domains.

The PC doesn't want the GM to have any excuse to separate their character from their horse?

IC it's harder to imagine, true.

It only takes one guy determined never to retreat, to guilt the rest of the group into hanging round. If the GM then saves the party from all the TPKs that would result, never retreating becomes the logical step and then a habit.

A Man In Black wrote:... you know, I'm kind of vague on why Flame-believers rationalize crazy clerics.

The Silver Flame contains the trapped demon lord as well; one heresy of their doctrine says that its voice can be heard and mistaken for the good guys.

I turn off 'Allow pages to choose their own colours...' anyway, so I hadn't even noticed.

Since there's still a forum going for Alternity - a game which was never as popular as WW or any edition of D&D and which hasn't been supported by anyone in years - there's no chance of any of those forums going away in the next decade IMO. http://alternityrpg.net/onlineforums/ if you're interes...

The main reason to do a boxed set - aside from just doing something that the last marketing guy didn't, which is still my bet - is so you can drop everything that a new roleplayer might want to start with. Dice, an adventure, maybe some minis, maybe these days a CD with some multimedia or character ...

hogarth wrote:There's nothing wrong with impossible tasks in many cases -- only when you would reasonably expect the whole party to be able to contribute.

Or in cases where you might think that anyone should have a chance of success, however small - noticing the assassin sneaking up, for example.

I'd assume that in both cases the people in charge of marketing at first didn't like the idea, then later the marketing people were replaced for whatever reason and the new guys decided to try something else. I've seen stuff like this happen where I work (not in gaming).

Depending on how lucky you feel, there's a lot of flexibility in terms of the extra materials required. Working mine tunnels from what I've seen have regular framework shoring the tunnel up, but there's a tunnel some crazy would-be gold miners dug into Tinakori hill in the 19th century which doesn't...

Blood mage PP looks like it ends fights faster, and this is an obvious concern in D&D 4e. If you can't RP something around the implied flavour you aren't trying.

Aren't a bunch of D&D 4e builds about maximising the power of your at-wills, and not usually having to use your supposedly more powerful encounter/daily powers? This seems like it could result in choosing daily powers for their passive bonuses and just spamming at-wills all the time in the same ...

FrankTrollman wrote:What kind of situation are you in when you release a positive press release when you have no news at all?

Sounds like Situation Normal to me.

d% helps people who are idiots with probabilities work out the chance of success. Seriously, I've had arguments about whether 15+ or 16+ on a d20 is a 25% chance of success.

Wouldn't this depend on what sort of SR campaign you were in? I mean, Masking is useful if you want to emphasise the staying in the shadows part, but not so much in a Pink Mohawk style campaign. Vice versa for Invoking.

So do you see these things as goals, or as something the PCs might use, or both?

They sure are. Like not being able to shoot someone because you don't like him or her? That's a moral foundation. And not being able to beat your spouse? That's a moral foundation right there. And not being able to urinate in public? Well, that's a grey area. PR, I'm not sure you're aware of this b...

Practically any sort of buffing could do this, from spells and/or bardic music, to the druid wildshape variant which lets you sprout fangs.

There's a feat in ToB (Stormguard? something like that) which lets you make nondamaging attacks in exchange for getting bonuses on the attacks in the next round.

I wanna go back to when the Monster Manual was bigger than the DMG and PHB combined. When was this? The 1e AD&D DMG was way thicker than the 1e AD&D Monster Manual. Probably 2nd ed? I remember a Monstrous Compendium which was in ringbinder format so you could add more supplements as they ca...

Becvar sounds genuine. But I'd really like to know what made him choose TGD over forums where 4e is more popular and which, frankly, are more popular themselves.

Way back when, I bought Queen of the Demonweb Pits because I wanted to run a high level AD&D game with a chunk of the work done for me. I never bought or played the G or D series modules, and I wouldn't have paid 3 times as much for a big book with all the series and some bonus stuff added in. S...

What possible purpose does the metagame ability serve that isn't served better by a rogue with a disguise skill and a sap? If the answer is "None" then you should not have that meta ability. Replace rogue with sap and disguise as appropriate for all other metagame abilities before impleme...

Anything along the equator will generally be hot or tropical. It's never gonna have snow save for magical shenanigans. Anything along the poles will be cold. In between are the temperate regions. If you want to you can change the amount of tilt in the world's axis. That will change the weather dyna...

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:...There was a lake deep in the swamp chock-full of various seals ...

I read this as marine mammals for a minute and was quite confused.

I'd be interested to know just what Loren wanted to do with Harlequin that was so annoying, or is that covered by an NDA?