@trogdor Trolldalf. It was a dramatic reintroduction though! Gandalf disappears and the party believes him dead, he fights the Balrog in his own session with the DM, the party plays a session without him... or so they think. Then they run into a strange white-robed man in the forest, converse with him... and then the DM knocks on the table twice. Gandalf's player walks in through the door: "Gandalf... yes, that was my name..."
ETA Guam tomorrow, but I probably won't be able to get to the package window before it closes; meeting all day, and lunch break is probably too early to expect the delivery to have come in.
[gets out walking stick and hunches over] Back in my day, we had to use that page all the time!
Many actions would not result in an accurate reputation change, so the reputation the site thinks you have and the reputation you actually have (listed only by that page) would drift out of sync after a while.
Users in the know would periodically recalc their reputation just to keep things in sync.
This forum focuses on Star Wars type props and costumes, but the structural ideas are still sound. See if you can unearth a useful tutorial there. As always, the HP Lovecraft Society has a plethora of poorly-catalogued links which might be useful, and Propnomicon has some great links to examples and tutorials, with a strong emphasis on cheap effects that look good.
[deep breath] There's a TON of stuff out there!
(If I had a place for it, I'd totally be into propmaking.)
@mxyzplk I don't see "elitism" in sharing practical experience. D&D may be common to start with, but in my experience (and apparently SSD's) it's not for everybody and its ruleset can seem like esoteric arcana to the uninitiated. The fact that it's probably the most common starting RPG has nothing to do with its effectiveness or suitability as an introduction to the medium.
SSD explicitly endorses finding out if D&D is the right fit for the group as soon as is reasonable (and in fact says that he starts with it himself when he knows it's what the group will enjoy), so I'm in the dark about where this "indie game elitism" thing is coming from.
Not bad. Though, again, you could just do it on any platform, the only benefit is shared domain. Which is a nice benefit, mind you.
But here's an immediate question: how would that handle alliance with independent bloggers like me? Pretty much anything I can think of writing for it, I can and will write for my own blog.
(They mourn a dragon, Glint, that was the only ally people of Tyria had against the primordial dragons, and that has recently been killed. The connection between these people and Glint is as of yet unknown).
I'm not a big fan of most of Weiss and Hickman's series, but The Death Gate Cycle is among the best fantasy series I've read.
One element of the novels (there are seven, and it was always planned that way, which I like) is that each has diegetic appendices: we get to actually read excerpts from books or reports or treatises that were mentioned in the book.
And alongside that is a musical piece, often instrumental but sometimes lyrical, that was also encountered during the story.
The first novel, Dragon Wing, has a song that ended a war. It's called Hand of Flame.
And it's scored in the back of the book, but the Internet has never that I can find actually recorded it.
I wouldn't put my appreciation of the show over any other pop culture media fare I like, but I do think the show's pretty cool and I really appreciate the creativity and compassion in the community that's sprung up around it.
There is no legal problem with using intellectual property in a private game.
Unless you're making money off it or making it available to large numbers of people, what you do in your game probably isn't interfering with copyright.
Of the established settings you're mentioning, only Forgotten Re...
I'd better say that it's far too easy for a GM to focus the story on the wrong characters
It'ss cool to have this well developed world with personalities and the occasional meeting with important people might be extremeely good. They can act as hook or they can be a diplomatic problem to solve
Hi! I has a question! Can someone help me understand 3.5's two-weapon fighting rules? The feats presented in the PHB seem a little ... ambiguously worded. Are there any two-weapon fighting feats/rules (available free online) which are less ambiguous and/or end up eliminating the penalties?
It's not one of his usual episodes, but it's very interesting to me; I love the way Doctor Who crawls back and forth and sideways all over its own continuity until it's like someone tried to tie a half-Windsor in an ouroboros.
Season 6b, the Shalka Doctor....
Even without the fan speculation and weird almost-made-it-into-canon bits, stuff like the Valeyard is explicit canon. I cannot get over how much cheek that took.
Hi! I has a question! Can someone help me understand 3.5's two-weapon fighting rules? The feats presented in the PHB seem a little ... ambiguously worded. Are there any two-weapon fighting feats/rules (available free online) which are less ambiguous and/or end up eliminating the penalties?
If you could tell me what's unclear (and you probably can't define it but I'm ok with that) it would be easier. Alternatively, tell me how it works according to your knowledge.
First of all, we need a full round action to land more than a single attack. Usually, when making a full attack we can start it with a single attack, see the results and then decide if going on with the other attacks or do something else with your move action
so if we need to move (more than 5 ft.) we can't do a full attack
Basically, what's unclear to me is what attack bonus the penalties from Improved and Greater 2-weapon fighting apply to. IE, if you have a BAB of +11 with a light weapon in your off hand, do you get attacks at (+9/+9)/(+4/+4)/(-1/-1) with a full attack action? Or is it (+9/+9)/(+6/+6)/(+1/+1) ...
And with a standard attack action, do you get one attack with each hand?
it's for reducing calculations on iterative attacks in general
so that you don't have to apply different modifiers to your attack rolls
and it also has options to translate two weapon fighting feats in a bonus to your two attacks
it has its problems if the enemy is really hard to hit (more attacks = more chance to roll a 20) or if it's really easy to hit (more attacks = more damage) and I don't think it really interacts well with those things that add lots of modifiers to the damage roll ... but it's an option
one of the biggest penalty reducers tor TWF is the Tempest Prestige Class (which is not for free but is worth mentioning). Anything that raises your to hit bonus works.
I haz moar AP. This time I fail to murder somebody and get a sweet Deeds point (the rarest and best kind of fate-point currency) for being all heroic and stuff.
Melee is when you attack someone next to you, Projectile is when you throw (or shoot) something at someone far away from you. Is there a word for causing an effect at range when you're not using a projectile?
@JohnP It's in terms of opportunity attacks. In 4th edition D&D, they got around this by making a lot of attacks "Close Burst, target 1 within burst" instead of Ranged whatever.
@BESW Indeed. But 'twas the first example to come to mind.
There is no legal problem with using intellectual property in a private game.
Unless you're making money off it or making it available to large numbers of people, what you do in your game probably isn't interfering with copyright.
Of the established settings you're mentioning, only Forgotten Re...
