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Orb of Impenetrable Escape and Orb of Mental Domination Two issues with these. 1. They stack with what many already consider a broken power (Wizard Orb Mastery) 2. They represent objective power creep -- they're equivalent to the same level Orbs from the PHB, with extra abilities that have no...

The following system, for the most part, isn't so much a house rule, but instead a more simplified and streamlined presentation of the stealth rules already present in the PHB (at least, as I have interpreted them). The only major change is the removal of the "guess the hidden/invisible...

I've already houseruled this in my game, but I thought I'd post this here anyway and see what other people think. Armour of Bahamut allows you, as an immediate interrupt, to turn a critical against you or an ally within 5 squares into a normal hit. It's a Channel Divinity feat, and thus once...

Just wondering on people's experience with encounters over the party's level. At the moment, I am thinking about making the hardest encounters the PCs face about four levels higher than themselves. These top-end encounters wouldn't occur more than once per level. I know there are going to be a...

So, this is my first attempt at a skill challenge, and I am using the Stalker0 System 1.8. Originally, I had set this up as a single challenge, but decided that the two elements were distinct enough that the challenge could be divided into two seperate but concurrent challenges. PCs will be...

So, I wasn't really even cognisant of the fact that 4E was coming out until a couple of weeks ago, but since discovering it and doing plenty of research, I'm really, really fired up to run a game. Overall, I'm really happy with how 4E has turned out, but I've run into one stumbling block that I...

My group finished up an 18 month D&D campaign a year or so ago. It was a fairly standard good vs evil campaign, in a world where the gods had left long ago and demons walked the earth. The groups actions meant that when new gods were born, one of Lawful Good arrived first, and had the greatest...

Vaguely relevant preamble: Personally, I'm not a fan of "just award whatever" experience systems. For whatever reason, I like a nice, codified system to work from, even if I end up arbitrarily altering the results. As such, I've been developing a system to utilise in my upcoming Conan game...

I mentioned some time ago on the Mongoose boards that I'm not happy with the standard d20 distribution of power when applied to the sort of game I want to run with Conan. A poster over there mentioned the option of capping level progressions, and sent me to Ryconada's thread over here. After I...

In recent times, I have become enamoured of "controlled randomness" in ability generation. I have always been a fan of "just roll the dice" style ability generation, and I was fairly disapointed with the point buy system introduced in the Rolemaster Standard System (actually, I have a few...

Information I need for the purposes of world building: Assume the world is a perfect sphere with a circumference of 10,000km. What is the distance from one fixed point at Latitude 72 degrees, back to that same point, following the parallel around? Many thanks in advance. :)

First, I need to point out that I am half-way through Storm of Swords Pt 2, so it would be appreciated if no one commented on anything after Bran reaches the Wall/Daenerys sends her knights away (into the sewers, I'm guessing...)/Robb and Catelyn die. Second, I should also point out that I do...

Well, sort of Bronze Age... The campaign world I'm developing at the moment is a limited Iron Age world - the reclusive, nordic dwarves use iron/steel. Most of the world makes predominant use of bronze however. The ways of iron, and more especially, of true steels, are kept hidden by the highly...

Can someone give me a Minotaur ECL? Thanks.

Who amongst you would be interested in a skill-based combat and magic system for d20? A broad outline would be: Combat -Heavy armour reduces damage, but makes it easier to be hit for small amounts of damage. -Damage inflicted uses a more detailed system than hp. All weapons use the same damage...

I've had nothing to read for ages. Actually, I've just started re-reading the Dark is Rising sequence, which isn't exactly what I call ideal fiction (not that it isn't interesting, but anyway...I'm already rambling). So, everyone keeps talking about this Martin (was that RR Martin?) guy, and...

Psionic combat in 1E always intrigued me - probably because I never actually saw it in play, and it was back in the very optional, special appendix. I spent hours reading the 2E rules, looking for the part I missed. I never found it. As best I could tell, using an attack mode cost more PP than...

The scheming, nefarious psionicist (without a primary discipline as yet) controls a shipping company. What I need to know is: what intriguing, possibly disturbing, goods are the PCs likely to discover in his shorefront warehouses? "Why"s are also welcome, but not as necessary.

Before the Rose, Mendalia was doomed to eternal strife, perpetuating itself unto the death of all. Then came the Time of Quiet, and with it visions of the Final Conflict. But the demonic armies that the sages heralded did not come, and finally Mirdallis, High Priestess of the Sacred Order Above...

Just what the topic says. D&D is the only game system I've come across that considers it's compendium of critters to be a core rulebook. Why, why, why is it so? You could talk about the difficulty of determining CRs for homebrewed critters, but the MM as core predates 3e, so I don't think...