I never had this sort of problem, but nobody wants to believe that my last name realy is Bloodgood.
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There is a section on building memorable villains at giantitp.com in the gaming section if you want to take a look.
I'm Aquarius and I don't know what my Chinese zodiac is.
If Mal Reynolds was able to whup the Aliance operative that came after him, than Kirk would be easy pickings.
I prefer the Forgotten Realm setting because there is such a wealth of fictional work to draw on. I mean if you read about, oh say, the Time of Troubles or Menzoberranzan in a sourcebook, it's like you are readin a high school textbook sometimes. On the other hand, if you grab a book by R. A. Salvatore or Ed Greenwood, you can read what it was like for someone who lived through that event or was raised in that area. This not only helps the players bulid a more realistic background and personality for their PCs, it also helps the DM create NPCs with more individuality than "generic dirt farmer #783". Also, some players get a kick when thier favorite fictional characters get a cameo in the campaign. Little thing like a passing reference to a moon elf crime lord known as "the Serpent" or a brief glimpse of a dwarf with green hair and beard armed with a club. Hee hee hee.
I'm guessing that while it is in the magazines, Age of Worms is ment for 4 characters, same as most of the other adventures. However, if/when it comes out in hardcover, it will be tweeked enough for it to be ment for 6 characters. It's what was done with Shackled City and I don't see why they won't treat Age of Worms any differently.
...you buy D&D books just because they *are* D&D books.
I prefer the sorcerer partly because they get more spells per day. Also it prevented arguments with my DM over what spells I could cast. ("You didn't prepare that spell today!" "Yes, I did!")
Mine came from when my group was helping a new player write up a new PC.
Since nobody in my group plays a cleric or any other type of healer, our favorite items are potions of cure moderate wounds.
Mine is "Normal is highly overated."
Some of the favorites from my group are "Prepare to defend yourselves!", "My intelligence is superior to yours, you are in my domain, prepare to die", "Magic Kombat!" and "All your base are belong to us!"
I think that feat came from the Epic Handbook.
Are we talking PCs or strait from books characters?
The look on the players face when the trap went off must have been priceless. I've heard of curiosity killing the cat, but I've never heard of it killing the PC before. At least, not in such a hilarious way. |