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My group just finished up tIFFoI last night and will be starting the next chapter in two weeks. The majority of the party is 4th level. Given the length of time they have to travel to reach Seaquen (2-4 weeks), I'd like them to be able to get to a solid 5th level before they reach the city...

So we're playing my campaign last night, and things were moving along fairly well. In and of itself that's surprising because it's a pretty large group (8 players) and we've been playing together so long that it normally winds up turning into a dysfunctional family rather than a cohesive party...

I've a question on the counterspelling tactics used by the Inquisitors. I had been under the impression that in order to effectively counterspell a spell being cast, you needed to know that spell (or one very close to it). How do the Inquisitors get around that requirement? Am I...

Trying to find the feat "Spellcasting Prodigy". Can anyone help point me to which book it's in. I've looked in everything, but must be having some block, cause I can't find it. Thanks, --Sam

Continuing my mission of visiting a FLGS in every city I visit for business, can someone point me to a good FLGS in Fargo, ND? I figure that a city with a large college population should have a decent selection of gaming stores. I'm also going to Bismark, though won't have much time there...

I've only got a few minutes right now, but wanted to get the discussion started. I'll post more later. I finished reading Eragon just a few days ago and found that I really enjoyed the story. Its even more impressive when you take into consderation that Paolini only 15 or 16 years old when...

I'm looking for personal feedback here on people's experiences with either the Apple iPod or the Creative Labs Zen Xtra (both are hard-drive based mp3 jukeboxes). I'm going to be using the player in conjunction with a windows based PC. I know that the iPod is more expensive, but have heard...

zenld must be off on Holiday, so in his absence I'll start the discussion on Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. Generally I liked the book. It was a fast read (took me about 5 days to finish). Generally, I like William Gibson. I think this is one of his better recent works. For me...

See link: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_309b.html The question was first asked in 1980 and appears to have been updated sometime in the mid-nineties. Favorite quote:

I'm so totally tired of the email support being provided by my ISP (Optimum Online). I'm at the point where I want more than 4 mailboxes, and basic spam protection would be nice. If I had the ability, I'd eventually get around to moving my tripod page my own domain too. Anyone have any...

Anyone have NeMoren's Vault? I've got the module somewhere. One of my PC's has the Flamesinger sword from that mod. It's a level advancing weapon and he recently leveled. He's asking if the sword has gotten any more powers, and I can find the module! :eek: Can anyone help out and post...

Going to San Diego next week on business. In my quest to see the best and brightest of Friendly Local Gaming Stores, I'm wondering if there is one in the downtown San Diego area that I could/should visit? I'm not renting a car, so it'll have to be in reasonable distance from my hotel at...

In jester47's absence, I've taken the liberty of starting the discussion on this month's selection, Dragondoom by Dennis L. McKiernan. Normally, I'd expect that the person who selected the book would start off the thread and post why they selected the book and what their thoughts were about the...

The family & I are going to Hershey Park in Hershey PA later today for the weekend. If there's a good FLGS in the vicinity, I'd like to stop in and check it out. I'm doing some informal personal research about what makes a gaming store good, so that when I open my own store (keeping the dream...

Just got issue 311 of Dragon in the mail. Doing my usual Dragon routine. Leafing through it before actually reading it. Notice that there's a Ben Bova short story in here. Now, I like reading short fiction. Got nothing against it. But I want cruncy D&D stuff in Dragon. Even a bit of...

If you weren't aware, we've been tossing around the idea of doing an "EN World Book Club" here on the message boards. (See EN World Book Club Thread for more background.) This thread is for people to suggest books for consderation, and for people to volunteer to select a book for reading. If...

OK. So, Oprah has one, the Today Show has one, Rosie :mad: had one. Throwing this out for dicussion. Should we start an EN World Book Club? You know, where a group of people agree to read a book by a certain date, and then you spend some time discussing it. Proposal: Start an EN World Book Club...

Been looking over my shiny new 3.5DMG, and they've changed the way XP is cacluated and distributed to players. I've been calculating XP by deteriming the Average Party Level (APL) and then looking up the CR of the monster/NPC on the table, dividing the result by the number of players. (I add...

On page 122 of the 3eMM, it says that "A hydra can be killed by either severing all its heads or by slaying its body. To sever a head, an opponent must hit the monster's neck with a slashing weapon and deal damage equal to the hydra's original hit point total, divided by its original number of...

When I DM (either for my campaign or in RPGA events), I let the players make all of their own rolls. I've been toying with the idea of starting to make some of the rolls for the players. For things like certain spot, search, hide, listen, sense motive, etc checks. What rolls do you make for...