Recent content by Jefuri no Oni

You could just start them at level 4 so that you can run Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil right away. This way you don't need a lead in to bring them up to that level.

I think Turning Undead really should be a spell that the cleric gets spontaneously rather than a class feature. It would be a first level spell, but it would be auto heightened (like some spells such as feather fall are auto quickened) so the cleric can dump any spell at any level to give turn...

I will buy 4e but if they come out with a 4.5 will not be buying that, just like I avoided 3.5 like the plague. Did anyone notice how 3.5 was released right after Hasbro bought WotC. I don't think that was a coincidence.

I think randomness should go away in 4e. I have seen too many fighters screwed by crappy hit point rolls and over shadowed by fighters who rolled well and spell casters who don't care about their hit point rolls as much.

I think rolling stats can stay as a variant but it does not deserve to be the standard way of generating stats in the PhB as it currently is. That is one sacred cow that I would like to see turned into a juicy slab of sacred beef. The standard method of creating stats in the PhB ought to be...

When I first started playing D&D we rolled our stats because that's what it said to do in the PhB. After the first 3 sessions we switched to point buy. We switched because we all had a character concept in our heads that we wanted to play and rolling stats only got in the way of realizing our...

Has any one done a conversion of this module to 3e? I just got a copy of it myself the other day and am thinking of maybe running it for my group some day. I would do the conversion myself but I just KNOW that some body some where has already done a conversion of this classic to 3e themselves...