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So, I handed out some fun armor yesterday. It started as Elven Chain of slipperiness. Then I started connecting the slipperiness to oil (motor oil, really) and that got me thinking about how gross it would be to bite oily metal, which lead me to swallow whole. The result: +1 Elven Chain of...

I just finished a wonderfully ridiculous game, and I have to share. Allow me to set the scene: My PCs started off battling a hydra that had been snacking on a triceratops corpse. During the battle the wizard animated said triceratops as a skeleton. (Not something I was expiating.) They...

Hey All, I've been away for a while. Stupid life... Any way, I need help templating out an idea I've got. My idea is that a dryad's tree was used to create a huge door as the gate to an evil fortress. The makers knew what they were doing, and managed to turn the dryad into an undead...

I've been thinking about how I DM lately, and so I figured I'd share some of those thoughts and ask y'all about how you do it. How I Plan a Game: I generally start by planning out a few scenes/beats for the session. These are usually really cool in my imagination. Then the come into contact...

I'm going to start by giving as much context to the over-the-top cutscene I just shared with my players as possible because I've learned that if I don't, I'll get shouted down for being a bad DM and that tends to make me cranky. The story might have some ideas worth sealing, though, so feel...

My PCs will be leaving town soon. I'm planning to harass them with goblinoids. Each night, they're going to be tormented, the sole purpose of which is to keep them awake. The PCs set watch and start to fall asleep, when the camp is suddenly filled with a swarm of spiders, ruining their...

This is a house rules thought I've been having that grew out of speculation about where DND NEXT might go. Why should spells overcome DR that isn't magic? Doesn't that just add one more layer of overpowered-ness to Mages? Seems to me that a werewolf, for example, should have its DR apply to...

I'm sending my players up against a Sea Hag. If she manages to daze one of them, what options do they have to remove the condition? I've been poking through spell lists, but haven't found anything yet. Thanks, ThaDium

Hey All! I need help. I'm a veteran DM, been running since before 3rd Edition even came out. But one thing I've never done is run an ocean game. My current campaign is set around the Mediterranean Sea. So, sailing is not just an option, but practically an expectation. Those who have been...

I'm the D&D turned up to 11 guy. One of my players told me he wanted to see what I'd do with a vampire. Follow me on the set up; we'll get to the vampire. My PCs are going to come across a Grey Render and an injured man who are being attacked by a pack of wolves near a half dug trench and the...

I'm a veteran DM of a homebrew that I ran for about ten years. Then I got married and had kids. Now, I'm back and running a new game and a new campaign world. We go once a month, and we're only a few sessions in. It's a 3.5 game. The basic premise of the world is D&D turned up to 11...

I'm running a horror style game with Faries as the BBG. Can anyone recommend a source book to me? ThaDium

Hi All! It's been a while. I'm looking for alternative abilities to the Paladin's mount. Can anyone point me in the right direction or give me some ideas? -ThaDium

I'm not trying to start a flame war here. In fact, I wouldn't even post this except that my experience with these boards, with very few exceptions, has been that everyone is quite mature and responsible. Anyway, the question: I've found, in reading various game designer's blogs that they all...

So, I'm thinking of saying that if you know the "swift" version of a spell, you know the regular version as well. Having invisability, but not swift invisability makes sense, but why anyone would chose swift invis over the regular version is beyond me. This mostly impacts PrC's and sorcerers...

So, I'm having some issues with another player. We've only had 4 games, and he's driving me nuts. Basically it boils down to the fact that he's constantly thowing out caustic insults cleverly disguised as witty barbs. He does this in a manner that makes it unclear if they are in or...

So, one of my PCs (A dog riding hobbit lasher type. Don't ask. He wears a breast plate too. :\ ) was a circus animal trainer in his pre-game past. I'm looking to dredge that up because the player needs alittle spotlight time. Here's the thing, I have the plot, but I need NPC's to populate...

What can people tell me about Dundjinni? Good? Bad? Hard to use? Easy? How intuative is the interface? Thanks in advance! ThaDium

So, I'm getting married in a bit and I'm thinking of buying the groomsmen some nice new dice bags. Monograms, leather, the whole bit. The bags at thegamersbag.com look good, but the website is a nightmare to navigate. Doesn't seem easy to order on at all. Has anyone ordered from there...

So, my players are going to be attending an early winter slave auction in a major metropolitan city next session. Anyone have advice on how to go about running something like this? THings I should be sure to include? How the auction might be organized/sequence of events? Thanks in advance.