Search results

No. We level up as and when the DM feels it appropriate to the campaign, depending on pacing, reaching important in-game milestones, etc. Gets rid of the "wander round till we have a couple more random encounters and we're up a level". Generally means we level up just as a session ends so have a...

"Most powerful" in terms of relatively common items in the DMG not something campaign specific with custom powers, I'd have to say a Ring of Blinking in the hands of my halfling rogue.

I'd suggest Skill Focus (Concentration) as better than Combat Casting, OK it's only +3 not +4 but it covers more situations.

My suggestion is to ensure it's clear that the intelligent items (i.e. you the DM) are in charge of how and when their abilties are used and they're not at the characters' beck and call i.e. the characters *request* something to happen. Of course at first the item does whatever the character...

I've found it useful to pick out specific miniatures for selected NPCs. When speaking as an NPC I place the appropriate miniature on the table in front of me, acts as a visual cue. My players like it, YMMV.

It depends from campaign to campaign. In my current campaign, I've deliberately gone for a straightforward, by the DMG approach, so have GP limits assigned to each town (typically <3000gp) and PCs can freely buy/sell anything below those values (but I only allow magic items from the DMG, not...

I think the NPC stat related blunders I occasionally make as DM (forgetting Spell Resistance, not using Dodge feat, etc) are probably more frequent and more serious than most stat block errors I've noticed. Obviously I would prefer books to have correct stat blocks if offered a choice.

No problem, hope it helps. If you have any feedback regarding power levels, errors, improvements it'd be much appreciated. Very little of it has been playtested so far, we just followed gut instincts. So feel free to post here (or PM me) with comments.

My group have been using the Generic Class rules from UA (also available for free at d20srd.org). We quickly realised that very few class abilities had been converted into feats so spent time house-ruling most of the others. So far we have 2 PCs using these rules in our current campaign...

Going back a few years, and away from d20 entirely, the Power Behind the Throne scenario for Warhammer Roleplay did a very good job of this kind of thing. It'd be worth a look if you saw a cheap secondhand copy.

They did do a web enhancement for Hellspike Prison to scale it up from 9th to 12th level. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20060113a

Sorry, I saw the "no core rulebook" proviso, yet I still have to nominate my WFRP rulebook from 1986 as having *easily* seen the most use out of all my books.

It's both print and pdf. http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?mpress_Sky 64-page softbound book Stock #WW16121 ISBN 1-58846-061-4

A useful book to consider would be When the Sky Falls from Malhavoc Press. ENWorld Store http://shop.enworld.org/index.php?productsid=1560&source=Search%20for%20sky ENWord Reviews http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=product&productid=118579 Homepage...

A common language is not the *only* apparent connection between the two - there's the small fact that an Ogre Mage has the word Ogre in its name! I'm not being facetious. I've been playing since 2E days but it was only reading this thread that made me realise that the two monsters weren't...

Huh? This sounds like a DM teaching players a morality lesson? Why would a dragon ruthlessly execute PCs just because earlier in the campaign those same PCs had butchered an entire band of orcs? (Unless of course the orcs were vassals to the dragon, and the dragon found out that it was the PCs...

There's a weather generator built into DMGenie (http://www.dmgenie.com)

On the question of "does allowing access to more spells to choose from increase the power level". My opinion is yes. As evidence I'd point to the Magic the Gathering game. Imagine a Cleric with access to PHB only to be like playing a "Standard" Magic deck (aka Type2) where you build a 60 card...

Clerics are my favourite class and many of my 3.X PCs have been Clerics. But I dislike the fact that most Clerics end up very similar in terms of spells. A Cleric has a large number of generic spells with only a small selection of domain spells. I think it should be the other way round. I...

One suggestion - don't allow Spell Compendium as a player's accessory. Also note that those who picked Spell Compendium won't get access to any special feats or PrCs. A different suggestion - see if the Cleric player would be happy to try the rules for Spontaneous Divine Casting instead.