Our group is looking to add 1 or 2 new players for a new Castles & Crusades campaign starting soon.
We play in either Winslow or Clinton and get together on the first and third Saturday of each month from 1PM-9PM.
I'm reading all Paul S. Kemp's Erevis Cale books back-to-back (currently on Dawn of Night) and listening to The Chronicles of Amber (currently on book 9 - Knight of Shadows).
I understand that all magic items carried get a Will save, but are all spells/spell-like effects within the AoE automatically dispelled? There is no mention of a dispel check so I figure it's automatic - it IS a 9th level spell after all.
Mordenkainen's Disjunction
There's a family in Forgotten Realms called Kanarok that hates all arcane casters and anyone they think is an arcane caster - a pretty broad range as most of the family members are insane. They have a "trial" and then burn suspected casters at the stake. Maybe you can use them as a model to...
Dude, that sounds just like my group back in `82! Nowadays I don't mind the story - in fact sometimes I'll think "why are we here again?" if the story hook was particularly weak.
That said, when we have social encounters that last OVER AN HOUR it's all I can do not to bust a chair over some...