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I imagine Deathstrike Bracers (MIC p. 93) are going to be exceptionally common for rogues. The bracers allow critical hits or sneak attacks to affect creatures normally immune to them (constructs, oozes, undead, etc). My question is this: Some creatures, such as oozes, are immune to flanking...

Character death is not common in my games, so this type of problem is rarely dealt with. Assuming the character is not resurrected for whatever reason, the party has access to the character's wealth and the character had appropriate wealth for their level, when a character dies how should the...

My lovely mother just gave me a $75 gift certificate to Amazon for my birthday. This presents me with a problem I'm sure most everyone would like to have: what to buy? Of course I could get literature or music or what-have-you, but I'd much rather get D&D/d20 books. What 3.5 compatible WotC...

Here's the map(s) of my homebrew, the Corrlands. One is without border outlines and names, the other with. This was originally done by drawing by hand the land outline and scanning it in. Most of the rest was manipulation in Photoshop. I did manage to steal the mountains from one source or...

Seeking 1-2 player(s) for a Spycraft 2.0 game in Tacoma that meets on Sunday afternoons. It's already an established group of four (including GM), but three players is a bit too small. Normally we only play D&D for roughly year-long campaigns, and this will be the first time this group has...

I'm making a t-shirt for my cousin. He wants it to say, "Shirt of Charisma +2" on the front. However, we've been having trouble coming up with a bonus slogan for the back of the shirt, and I thought we'd ask you fine folks for help. Some we came up with but aren't perfectly happy with: "You...

As the title suggests, I'm wondering whether an artificer can/should be able to use their supernatural ability of Retain Essence to drain the XP from a cursed magic item to put in their craft reserve. I don't see anything in the rules that would suggest this is not possible, but it seems to be...

My question came up in my group's last session. Bear's Endurance was cast on an already raging barbarian. Does the increased Constitution add two extra rounds to the duration of the rage? Or does the rage end normally and the BE only adds the extra HP for the spell's duration?

What should PC's Armor Class be at what levels? I know the whole BAB vs. AC rules system makes AC almost pointless at certain levels, but what AC would be best to counteract that flaw in the system? Also, what would be the best way to get the best AC at various levels (low, mid, high)? I...

I have the opportunity to include a young person (9 yr old boy) in my gaming group and I have natural reservations. He's a very bright, interested, engaging kid with very little annoying features and is not the son of any of the players. I'm inquiring about your experiences with including...

Looking to start a new game in the greater South Sound area on perhaps Sunday evenings. The truth is, the location right now is flexible, with a potential range of Renton to Tacoma possible. In short, we'll game where everyone can. The game will be based in a homebrew world with a good mix of...

I've seen the Organic Point Buy character creation method here posted before, but either didn't save it or lost my bookmark somewhere along the road. From what I recall, it consisted of rolling 3d6 in order, getting pluses or minuses to the point total based on the rolls proximity to 10 or 12...

GMs, how many races do you allow your players to choose from for character creation? I'd be interested to see how more or less variety affects peoples' games. In my personal experience, with less choices I tend to have a better game overall, but my players are initially less happy. Of course...

I'm in the process of redrawing (yet again) my homebrew world's map. I can never quite get mountains to come out right. For my last map I used Peter's guide to map making. The site can be found here: http://www.brodt.dk/peter/mount.html My problem is two-fold. I'm fine when I essentially...

Page 72 of Unearthed Arcana contains rules about creating gestalt characters by taking the "best-of-both-worlds" from two character classes for use in a high-powered game. My question is in regards to using the monster class variant in Savage Species in combination with gestalt characters. For...

How do you begin generic outdoor random encounters? I'm talking the good 'ol fashioned "party is tromping along and see some bugbears" type of encounters. Assuming fairly bland, generic landscape during normal weather and vision, at what distance do each of the parties see each other? At what...

I am seeking one to two players for a new D&D 3.5 game taking place in Renton, WA. Information about the game can be found at home.comcast.net/~torx. I like the game to be focused on plot and character development, but plenty of combat and the occassional dungeon crawl are to be found. I also...

Forgive me the faults of this story hour - I am new to it and fictional storywriting period. This is based on characters and stories from my world of the Corrlands and from several years and different groups of playing. I've chosen to do the story hour in short story format, with no preamble...

How do you do languages in your games? Whether it be Elven, Orcish, French, Norweigan, or an ancient unnamed script, both written and spoken - how is it done? Does the DM/GM make up spoken language, or delve into the depths of intricacy a la Tolkein? Are notes/clues/runes hand scripted or...

Let's hear some good riddles that you've used/thought up for your traps, puzzles, and of course: the Sphinx. If I might suggest - give the answer in a later post, only if others haven't come up with the proper one yet. And feel free to post unoriginal riddles, but don't steal 50 from the same...