I guess the silly thing to me is that your health, strength and vitality is completely unchanged, yet for some reason you can't put your finger on how to pick a given lock, perform a certain fancy sword flourish or understand that scroll you understood yesterday. It really is just attacking an eleme...

I'll need a little time think about this one! Good question, though.

I just don't think it makes any common-sense sense. It's designed to whack you with pure game mechanics, attacking from the formal structure of the rules instead of something that's reasonable from a real-world point of view. It's the game mechanics version of losing your car driver's license for be...

Cool! It's awesome to get a new group together. Once I finally finish school (well, get my bachelor's at least) then I would love to "get the band back together" again.

Well said! With unimaginable sadly I must concur that "our hobby" is dead, with respects to most people. When I think of the countless hours I've spend writing campaign material, working on adventures, paining minis, etc it makes me really sad to think that virtually no new players will fo...

Personally I'm not a huge fan of magical aging; I reserve it for very special situations. I like magical level drains even less as to me they make absolutely no logical sense at all. You physically remain the same but lose just surgically specific skills related to game levels- really? That's the st...

Super powered magic items are really tempting for nOOb DMs but as everyone knows they create more problems than they solve. A powerful item is an easy McGuffin for lazy DMs but the problem is that you have to keep topping the last one and you have to deal with those items in the game. How do you cha...

Maybe it's because high level fighters are very powerful already. But you make a point.

Hahaha! Some people have to learn the hard way that you aren't going to "beat" the DM!

Very cool maps!

Yeah, you're right- some of them are pretty stupid. The supposed "game balance" is behind some of them, and maybe a lack of imagination is part of it, too. It makes no sense for a creature that lives in the cold to have a cold weapon! In other cases it seems like the designer just pulled r...

I had a nice Xmas! Nothing gaming related but I did get some Blu-Rays (Willow and all the Star Trek: TNG films! ) 8) as well as some cash and $150 of Amazon.com gift credits! Plus I made prime rib for the family. Lastly I wound up having Mon, Tues & Weds off so I caught three movies at the local...

Just want to wish a very Merry Xmas to all you folks at BiP! Hope Santa brings dice and minis!

Cool! I would like to get a new group going, too.

Ah, I see. I don't know much about setting it up that way, I'm afraid.

Hmmm...your email should on the provider's server, not on your HD.

Yeah, room for cool effects. Also good opportunities to re-imagine how planar travel might work. I read once that the ancient Irish felt that there were two worlds, ours and a spirit world. The veil that separates the two is thinnest in old lonely places like bogs and mountain tops. That makes sense...

I don't recall ever seeing them in 2E.

I don't blame you Hal...it's a mountain of work you've set out to create (no pun intended! ). It will all be worth it when it's done.

Reading about quantum mechanics can give a person a lot of great fantasy ideas! The truth may be stranger than fiction!

I think they're infinite but oriented in "planes" located in a hypothetical fourth dimension. Infinite but they intersect at points. That's actually how quantum physicists theorize the universe might actually work (ie 'brane theory for "membranes").

I see no problem with stacking 'em. Natural healing is pretty slow at best. I would rather have the PCs spend their time adventuring, not sitting at home with a spreadsheet figuring out their hit points!

Sounds like you're making good progress, even with the snags.

Yeah, I prefer the idea of demons to aliens.

Oh, you are soooo evil!