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Same spell, new question. Can caster cast additional spells while in the altered form? The text of the spell says you can only change into something of the same creature type, which for gnomes would be humanoids I assume. If a gnome used alter self to take the form of a goblin, could they cast addit...

Thank you Rigon and all, you've taken a good deal of the fuzziness out of the equation. I can see that ruling clearing up the majority of issues and I'll happily adjudicate anything that remains grey as it comes up.

-CT

Regarding the spell Alter Self, part of the text reads: "...the caster also gains extraordinary special attacks and qualities, such as darkvision, low-light vision and so on. The caster does not gain any supernatural abilities though." Does M&T differentiate between "extraordinary...

I've listened to these multiple times since they've come out. Great stuff! Made me realize that 4e can actually be a mediocre game if you have a fantastic DM :) Point of fact, I'm running my players through the second series adventure, the one with the tower and the ruins beneath, reflavored as a va...

My players are level 11 and have around 115k gold socked away in their stronghold. They've put over 100k into building the stronghold. Additionally, they have around 60k in minor magic items they don't take with them everywhere. All told they have close to 300k in cash and investments. This is from ...

I want to thank everyone again for giving me all these options to explore. I had no idea most of these were out there. For obvious reasons, I'm going to start with the freebies and then check out the used rack at my FLGS. Once again the TLG community comes through!

Thanks for all the input guys. I took a look at GORE and Caosium BRP, both way more complicated than I was looking for. I don't suppose there are any d100 rules lite systems? I was thinking I'd find something simple like, "roll under your skill and you succeed". No opposed rolls or stats n...

Can anyone recommend any systems that are d100 roll under? I'm looking to check out how the mechanic handles modifiers and opposed rolls in different systems.

In my current campaign that's about to wrap up I'm absolutely giving experience for treasure. It's the most significant source of experience the players have. In the new campaign there is to be no experience awarded at all, only levels. See any one of my previous posts for clarification

Koralas, Simply do not grant XP for superfluous or wanton death and destruction. Build in encounters that require interaction with the NPC's, especially in cases that would raise a moral dilemma, and without the non-violent interaction, the successful completion of the adventure would be impossible....

SavevsFail, We're doing a sandbox style campaign right now. My players are free to go where ever they want and do whatever they want. I spent about three months planning a total of 16 locations with combat encounters and another 8 with just puzzles or interactions. So far they've gone to around 20 l...

Dead Horse, I'm not sure why you think my method would present too fast of a progression. If I gave the impression that a mission would take a single session that was not my intent. Many published adventures are similar to what I would term a "mission" and you can expect to gain one or two...

Relaxo, Good points. The thing is, I really don't want to track experience at all. I want to give my players an objective with a reward for success. Go here, get this thing, and you level up. Make it back safely and you level up again and get treasure. I think this is the simplest way I can keep my ...

Greetings, My campaign will be wrapping up around the first of the year and I'm beginning to plan my next move. One of the things I'd like to happen with this next game is to get the players to attempt not to resolve every situation with combat. The principle way I would like to accomplish this is t...

I don't mean to be antagonistic, but why would you veto that wagon idea?

I talked to the player who disliked how it went down yesterday. Turns out he's never had a DM put him a group up against something they weren't supposed to be able to defeat. He admitted to remembering me explaining that such would be the case in this game, but I guess it didn't sink in until it hap...

I can't decide if we're going to continue playing C&C right away or give it a switch. This campaign has been going on for over a year and if we hit the pause button there's a shiny new Paranoia book sitting on my self. One Paranoia mission and my players will be glad that at least in C&C you...

The one who broke the staff is really excited about it, he thinks it was a great way to go. Him and another player are really excited to make new characters. The "warning" player has stated he intends to make a new character of the same class as his old character. I thought it was a great ...

I agree on all counts. I knew that this particular player would not want to die, and indeed if the dragon defeated them he would have left them in an easily escapable jail cell with no gear, but alive. Once the wand was broken though I didn't feel like I could have them survive without telling them ...

Thursdays I presided over my first total party kill. They started the session a man down, their cleric, then proceeded to enter the lair of a very old dragon. Now, admittedly, they didn't know it was a dragon lair to begin with, but it became obvious once they saw the dragon. It spoke with them, dem...

Do monks get their additional attacks with the monk weapons listed? If not, would you rule that to include the cestus?

I'm curious as to what people mean when they say they handwave encumberance. For example, I tell my player they can carry three weapons, one suit of armor (worn), two days worth of food, their class gear, and up to 500 coins. Anything beyond that they need to let me know what it is and how they are ...

I sure wish I'd gotten to use that Ogre though. Darn players neutralizing their enemies.

Greetings again! It's been a while since I've posted. Still loving C&C but we've got a new addition to the family that's taking up all my extra internet browsing and posting time. Anyway, I had a great game last night and just wanted to share, so here goes! The party is composed of a Half-Orc As...

Double post. Sorry.

Thanks guys. The players certainly are resourceful, as you will see in the upcoming sessions. We've played six sessions so far, and most had more going on than this first one. Thanks for the compliment Omote. Though I'm sure an editor would take a chainsaw to my writing I appreciate the support. I'm...

Introduction: It was early fall when the unusual pair made their way through the thick doors in the eastern wall of Westhaven. Their walk was slow and resolute as they made their way to the nearest inn. The regulars at the Setting Sun whispered among one another as first one great hulk, then another...

Hello everyone. I wanted to post what has happened so far in my campaign both to get feedback as well as to encourage myself to keep writing session summaries. I really think they help me keep my game organized by forcing me to go over my notes and allowing me to give names to things left unnamed du...

Just thought I'd let you all know, since you contributed so much to the discussion, that I did some more testing earlier this evening with the wizard character's player. It looks like 10+spell level+target's hd makes for a more fair target number than the spell costs that I had come up with. It's a ...

I do think if you are going to count NPC or monster HD into how hard it is to cast on something then you would need to also count the spell level of the caster. If you give a 10 HD monster a +10 to resist then I think a 10th caster should get a +10 to effect. A simple system would be to award a + o...