Café de Nuit

Sean K. Reynolds has a good article (albeit he calls it a rant) on his page about called shots.
You might want to take a look at it.

Called Shots Do Bad Things to the Game

The article doesn't take various spell effects - like True Strike or Wraithstrike into consideration - but even so, it ...

Secondly, I am a little bit worried about our Barbarian character. I find it frustrating. He is a killing machine, and even though I boost challenges WAY up he still does it too easily.

Target his weaknesses :
- Will saves
- Fear (and Horror/Madness checks) should be not too easy on him - and ...

Well, if you haven't the moduel yet and the PC have not yet been to the Tarrascon Manor, that's a very good place to expand; the (almost) empty manor is a very good place to spring some hit-and-run encounters with a heavily robed and hooded enemy (Jean) and some undead.

(If "Ghoul Dinner (where ...

First, when casting the spell, the victim will probably notice, since normal spell aren't that stealh.


But unless the target makes a scucessfull Spellcraft Check, he won't know what spell it is. If the caster tricked him into beliving it was a positive spell (or a spell protecting both him and ...

I'll second It by Stephen King as a good and scarry book (well, at least if you can stomach King's style which can become very hard to do). But the scariest one - I can't decide; I'll therefore say both Shining (again, by King), which I read in a bit more than 24 hours, reading the whole night ...

I usually read them using the Acrobat Reader. If there's something I want at hand during my games, I print the relevant part.
As long as I can copy-paste things I wish to modifie and/or print, I'm fine with pdfs - and I prefer them to word-format.

Thanks for your replies.

As I'm in a hurry, I won't comment / ask about them now, since I need to know other things.

For this weekend's game, I need to know a bit about the past of the carnival, the dark "puppeteer" time under the rule of "what'shisname".

I've ordered the novel but ...

Up to now, my players didn't encounter any firearms; they were in domains with low CLs, but they'll enounter them soon. I'll see if one of them thinks about picking one up (but I don't think so...).

Scipion_Emilien :

The time of unparallel darkness

You can patch together your favourite :

The time : Le temps

darkness : obscurité (f.), ombre (f.), ténèbres (f., pl.)

unparalleled : sans pareil, incomparable, sans comparaison, unique (which would change the meaning), nonparail

e.g.

Le ...

As for Latin, I might be able to assist, too.

I just happend to walk into a copy of this book on a flea market and bought it. I'm still reading but I think it would be an interesting thing to introduce it in my campagin.

But before I do this : Has anyone of you already used the Carnival in your games ? What are your impressions of it ? Do you ...

Oh, this thread again. Well, this time I've some photos to link to, too.

I dislike being on photos, which lead to these pictures, that have been taken off me - except the the one inspired by Tool Time's Wilson Wilson - without informing me beforehand.

Schattenburg

The first one was taken ...

I've used dragons - well, one up to now - IMC while the PCs were in Rokushima Taiyoo. But I didn't use the standart D&D MM dragons, but a slightly modified version of the 2nd edition MMII asiatic dragons (sic?).

I might use one or perhaps two (real) dragons somewhere during the campaign - although ...

If memory serves me right, 2ed Forgotten Realms box set had a reference to a proper life extending potion that had an accumulative chance of it draining years instead of adding them.

Wasn't there a Potion of Youth in the 2ed DMG ? With this (cumulative) chance of reversing it's (and all previous ...

It's not my fault. The name came from Buffy.

Never intented to lay the blame on you. It's just something that can be seen many times when looking at Ravenloft (some official work and lots of fan work); there are many names, be that persons/beings, places, domains or whatever, that are in an other ...