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As a DM, I've always loved throwing bands of humanoids (e.g. goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears) against the player characters. As the PC's gain in level, the humanoids in these bands get even more numerous. Sure, the PC's usually cut through them fairly easily, especially once the PC's get to be 6th...

When wielding a double weapon, the wielder can attack with both ends of that weapon if he takes a full-round action to do so, and if he takes a -2 attack penalty to each swing of either end of his weapon. (This assumes the wielder has the Two-Weapon Fighting feat). But what if the wielder of a...

After a couple of years of using only the three core D&D 3.5 rulebooks for our campaigns, our group is looking into adding some of WotC's supplemental rulebooks, into our present campaign. However, we are overwhelmed by the number of supplemental rulebooks that WotC has pumped out for D&D 3.5...

Nearly a millennium ago, the Cataclysm shattered the world of Urth into scores of large fragments and hundreds of small shards. Divine magicks were invoked to keep the fragments and shards of the Shattered Urth in orbit around its sun, as well as to maintain the atmosphere and gravity upon each...

1. Does a cleric have to wield – as often as possible, in combat – his deity's favored weapon? If, say, I'm playing a cleric of Pelor, whose favored weapon is a mace, and I find a +1 morningstar, can I switch from using my non-magic mace, to using that +1 morningstar? 2. If a cleric does have...

Would you be interested in a combat system for D&D that is a good compromise between the miniatures-based tactical-ness of D&D 3.5, and something that is totally abstract? That is, a compromise that incorporates most (if not all) of the detail and variety of D&D 3.5 combat, but does not require...

I really like the new stat block format, i.e. the one used in Monster Manual IV, as well as in newer adventure modules such as The Red Hand of Doom. The format is an improvement over the original one, used in the first Monster Manual. Does anyone, anywhere, have the monsters from the SRD...

I'm starting a new campaign, using GURPS. It's been nearly a decade since I last gamemastered using GURPS. I've been DM'ing, using D&D 3.0/3.5, for the past five years, and before that, I had taken a long break from role-playing gaming altogether. This new campaign will be set on a fantasy...

In this thread, http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=153775, I presented my "Thieves Guild" campaign. Our first session for this campaign will be this coming Sunday afternoon. Someone mentioned to me that maybe D&D 3.5 wasn't ideal for such a campaign. I think maybe that someone is right...

I'm a veteran DM, with a group of six mature (if not veteran) players. Having just finished a Forgotten Realms "Defenders of the Dalelands" campaign, we're starting a new campaign. This time, we thought we'd do something different. This entire campaign will take place in a fantasy Renaissance...

We are starting a new Gamma World/Darwin's World campaign. We're probably going to use the d20 Modern system. Our current gaming group is taking a break from the 3E D&D "Defenders of the Dalelands (Forgotten Realms)" campaign that we've playing for the past six months. We've been meeting to...

Do bonuses from skill synergy stack? For example, if you 5 ranks each in Bluff, Knowledge: Nobility & Royalty, and Sense Motive, do you get a +6 bonus, total, to Diplomacy? Myself, I'm inclined to say no, because the rules under Skill Synergy (page 66 of the PH) state: "It's possible for a...

Having to choose and perpare (i.e. "memorize") spells ahead of time never did sit well with me, even back when I was DM'ing 1st Edition AD&D. To me, it just doesn't make for a plausable magic system -- it's too gamey. The only fantasy fiction I've seen this sort of thing in is Jack Vance's...

Let's say you were designing a campaign with a limited-magic world. I use the descriptive "limited magic" because it is more fitting than "low magic". The world I have in mind is one of historical fantasy, or one that is more akin to Middle Earth than the typical high fantasy worlds of D&D. That...

I'm of the opinion that the Unearthed Arcana is not a well thought as it should've been. One of the variants that initially sounds appealing to me, but ends up rubbing me wrong, is the "bell curve" variant that uses 3d6 to replace all d20 rolls. But why 3d6? To me, that's going from one extreme...

I'm creating a campaign world that is an alternate Earth, during the medieval/Renaissance times. Magic will exist in this world, but it will be less common than in typical high fantasy worlds such as the Forgotten Realms. This world will be historically accurate, though not strictly so, for much...

In the many history books that I've perused, I've never seen a picture or read an anecdote of a combatant using a 2-handed melee weapon while mounted. I've never even seen this sort of thing done in the movies, historical or fantastical. I realize that in D&D (as in real life), you can hold...

Not long ago, I was talking to a friend about the uber cominations of feats, skills, weapons, and/or special attacks that can power-played in 3.0/3.5 D&D. That friend pointed out how powerful a whip can be, used in just such a combination. Now I'm seeing first-hand just how powerful that can be...

With the arrival of D&D 3.0, breastplate and chain shirt quickly became the ubiquitous armors among PCs, given the AC bonus for those two armors, along with their Max Dex Bonus and Skill Check Penalty, when compared to other armors. I mean, why choose chainmail over chain shirt, when the former...

As a player character, how does a half-celestial differ in the 3.5 rules from the one given in 3.0? (BTW: All I have now is the 3.0 Player's Handbook.) Formerly, I would not allow a half-celestial player character, as given in 3.0, because I thought it was too powerful and unbalancing, even for...