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Not a module, but yeah... I was running a 3.5 campaign with three males and one female player (my wife). They were deep in a section of dungeon overrun by trolls, far from any exit. The trolls were in fact trapped in their section, and starving to death. The party carved a path through the...

then later.... By picking and choosing which rules you believe to be poorly defined and which you believe are absurd (characters can take actions unless there is an exception - but no exception is provided for dead characters - clearly absurd) but working as intended (dying characters are...

How do characters in your d&d campaign spend their loot? There's the traditional: setting up a stronghold or mystical experimentation. But what other ideas have you seen in practice? Anything especially cool or offbeat?

Quoted for truth - the module is full of low level, easy to hit brutes. It's a playground for strikers.

I've seen you say this other places. Care to enlighten us on what your interpretation of 'exception based design' is?

Care to provide your interpretation rather than empty snark? Oh, and maybe some evidence to back it up?

Respectfully, you have yet to show that the dead aren't conscious or moving around per RAW. The onus is on you in this case. You can't pick and choose - if you claim that *logically* the dead can't be doing that (i.e. common usage), then I can just as easily claim that there is something called...

Darn, I was afraid the idea was too cool to fly ;) Thanks for the citation

So a sorcerer uses an elemental twist dagger daily to strip fire resistance from an ancient red dragon. Can the dragon turn off its Inferno aura? Does it then take damage from its own Inferno aura?

Why I started this weird argument about dead characters The advent of exception based rule design has resulted in people treating the *lack of an exception* interchangeably with actual explicitly stated rules. So an ochre jelly can be knocked prone, since it is not explicitly exempted from...

I don't think anyone is actually arguing that - I put the idea forth as part of a reductio ad absurdum.

Live by RAW, die by RAW Ok, here's the deal. The RAW do not definitively tell us whether dying characters are still bloodied. At some point this may get resolved by WOTC (I haven't seen anyone claim that yet), and until then we can all believe whatever we like. But the whole "rules don't say...

So you are saying that healing should behave normally when applied to dead characters (not following the exception of raising hit points immediately above zero as in the special case of dying characters)? Or are you saying that dead characters cannot be healed? Where in the actual rules is that...

Fun Facts! (1) its effects occur at the start of each round, and it remains in effect until the end of the round in which the cleric does not maintain it. This means knocking a cleric out has no effect - its effect heals the cleric at the start of their turn, waking them, so that he or she can...

A couple of thoughts Oddly enough I just blogged a few days ago about how I've been using skill challenges in my campaign. Summary: I've eliminated all skill checks that aren't part of a skill challenge. As a result, I plan set skill challenges the way I might plan set encounters. The key...

*plants hand on forehead* You are correct sir. Not sure why I thought that was 2 different areas rather 1.

Just realized that I can identify only three of the locations on H3 Pyramid of Shadows poster map. I can identify the ice cave, the apex of light (or whatever that place is called) from the end, and the palace of bones. Anyone know what area the fourth represents? I had always assumed it was the...

Mixes up two different ideas I think its useful to separate two ideas: How realistic a setting is as a sandbox Who's fun comes first? Player or game master They are really completely independent from one another, and both are continuums. Bad or pathological game experiences can emerge from...

Aboleth Since the original question was split off a discussion re: Aboleth minis, here's a photo of the home-made minis I cooked up (literally) for our group while running Night Below: I made 18 of them, though I only have two remaining now...

Ran Night Below start to end Converted it to 3.0 (and half way through to 3.5). And the party slaughtered more than a few Aboleth. Getting creative, I rolled up Aboleth mages, Aboleth rogues, and even the dreaded Aboleth monk. Because Aboleth monks are just plain sick. Trust me on that. My...