Recent content by FoxWander

Wow, leave a thread for a bit and things can go a bit crazy! Sorry, I work Wednesdays and Thursdays, so I haven't been around to participate in my own thread. But thank you to the folks who tried to keep things on topic. To answer this one... I would guess this is based on the same thing I...

Thank you for all the replies. I guess I should have specified at least a rule set for my thinking. My original thought for this question was for the Pathfinder rules, since that's what I mostly play with, but it would apply to any 3.5 or higher ruleset. According to those rules, here are the...

What I mean is- humans, at the very least, are a very industrious and innovative people. Look how far we’ve developed in just the past 2000 years- or even the past 100! But most D&D settings seem to have multi-thousand-year histories where the world has existed at the “default” D&D setting; that...

Awesome thread! See a few of my quirky faves from back in the day here (Near Dark, Death Trap, and Into The Night). Here are my suggestions. After Hours (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088680/) Griffin Dunne goes to SoHo for a date and has a very crazy night. Love the last scene in this...

I found this one under the "Attend" header at the top of the site. http://www.gencon.com/attend/attendeefaq. There's a lot of good general info there. If you're looking for specifics, I'm sure asking here would get a good response, too.

Thanks everyone for the responses. Looks like Kingmaker could be adapted for goblins but we found a DM who suggested a different idea- the Skulls and Shackles AP. Not only is it a much easier adaption but, goblin pirates sounds like a lot more fun than goblin kingmakers! :D

So last week our group played through "We Be Goblins!" and it was lots of fun. On the drive home my wife brought up the idea of keeping our goblin group and running through some kind of quest to establish a goblin nation. We'd have to find someplace away from established cities so the big-folk...

I myself would prefer a system that had a limited number of base spells but each spell would have a scalable power level. For instance, a mage might know "Create Fire" and the level he casts it at would determine its effects. Cast as a cantrip you'd have a Firefinger effect. At 1st level its...

Wow, the people who agreed with that post must have played a different Tomb of Horrors than I did because they couldn't be more wro... Oh yeah, I'm the guy quoted as "Exactly right," up there. :p But that does go to prove the point I made a few pages ago (here). Nostalgia and misremembering a...

I think it's entirely possible to get through the Tomb without relying on luck. A single magic-user who can cast 3rd level spells (although 5th level spells makes it even easier) could get through unscathed. In fact, of the pregens in the module #10 is both the correct classes/levels and ideally...

I'm sure we can do better than those two. I say we list the best and easiest ways to "defeat" Acererack without resorting to the random list of spells he's vulnerable to. Here's a few off the top of my head... 1) Scoop him into a Bag of Holding (mix-and-match with a Portable Hole as desired)...

I think the dichotomy in the Tomb's reputation comes from equal parts nostalgia and ignorance. Older gamers played the Tomb 'way back when' and they only half remember all the details. What they do recall is rose-colored by all the wonder of their early days of gaming. All of it is bigger and...

Yes, I think this is an excellent summation of what we've proven in this thread. The Tomb is only a "thinking person's dungeon" in that it is not merely a chain of combats set in a dungeon. So the absence of combat means one must "think" their way through it- even if there is no rhyme or reason...

D'oh! Yeah, that price is totally 3rd edition. Got rushed to post before leaving for work and wasn't even thinking. But still- even at 1 gp/lb. that would be almost be worth the trouble of straight digging down from the top of the skull hill to retrieve them. And mithral has got to be worth...

Well the VALVES OF MITHRAL are easy, they have a cost per pound listed. They're 14' tall x 28' wide x 3' thick so 1,176 cubic feet. 1 cubic foot of steel weighs 490 lbs. Mithral is half the weight of steel, 245 lbs per cu. ft.. 1176 x 245 = 288,120 lbs of mithral 288,120 x 500 gp/lb. =...