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GIMP. Make the bottom layer your map with the secret doors. Make the middle layer the 'player' map. Make the top layer your fog of war. As players move through the dungeon, erase the fog of war, revealing the map underneath. If they discover a secret door, erase a small area of the middle...

Ok, if were going to debate the merits of the various power levels as pertaining to FR, let's gets some facts. What are the NPC presented in the original FR boxed set. The boxed set included two books, DM's Sourcebook of the Realms and the Cyclopedia of the Realms. Let's Look at all NPCs level...

We're getting off track. :-) Suffice to say that FR 1E isn't as bad as what followed and that it suits my needs for the moment. More importantly, I've gotten some good ideas out of this discussion and I intend to start entering into Realm Works asap.

Well, I do like FR as originally created. In the FR1 sourcebook, there are maybe 50 people described with basic stats. Levels go from 27 to 21 to 17(?) then down quickly. 90 percent of the people are below level 10. In my world, what makes a person dangerous is their 'network'. Khelben is...

I just checked my main source of information for my campaign FR1:Waterdeep and the North. Khelben is listed as level 26, which surprised me as I thought that he was around 17. I must be mixing him up with Piergeiron, who is level 14. Laeral is 24th level as per FR5, still higher than I expected...

Well, I agree about the FR power creep. I play 1E Old Grey Box FR, so the power level is quite low compared to the uber magic, wizard-in-every-bar that came later. That being said, Waterdeep has a least one iron golem for defence, has Khelben Arunsun in the coty and is a member of a...

You're right to a certain extent. The Green dragon did just that: headed for the nearest town and wiped it out. The local authorities summoned adventurers and they eventually killed the Green. The Black Dragon DID in fact fly to the nearest town and confront the human representative of the Cult...

Hmmm....I like the 'make contact with the Black' idea. At the very beginning of the campaign, on their way to their first job, the group saw the Gold Dragon and his mate fight the Black over Waterdeep before the Golds chased the Black away. (it's one of the reasons why the Lords are involved...

I love the Tiamat idea. I'll have work on that. As for the detection spell (Detect Plot LOL!), would hiding the eggs in a bag of holding or some sort of extra-dimensional space not hide them?... Just checked...Discern Location cast to find an object can't be blocked by anything short of the...

You've just described how the Gold Dragon is going about it: pretend to be human paladin worried about the attack of the Black dragon on Amphail. The problem is that Polymorph self lasts minutes, which means that every time the group meets him, he's is a hurry, giving the impression of a...

Thanks for the ideas guys. A little more background: Green Dragon eggs get stolen first. Green dragon goes on rampage and is slain by adventurers. This is 6 months before beginning of campaign. Gold Dragons get stolen next. Gold Dragons mated pair begin frantic search and eventually trace a...

I'm thinking not well, but what do you think? I have my main BBG enchanter stealing chromatic eggs of each variety as components for a variant of the ritual to become a lich. In this variant, the caster gains various draconic powers in addition of becoming a lich. Now, I'm thinking that the...

4 out of 5 rating for Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook A well organized book with a great index. Very useful and, since you can get the PDF version, you don't have to carry it around if you don't want to.

5 out of 5 rating for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: NPC Codex If you're like me, you don't the time to master the "optimal" build for everything. You need a PC class, well built and put together with the appropriate items. This book is great for that. Need a level 8 cleric now? Well, it's got...

Ebay or Kijiji is your friend. I got my copy there. That being said, once you have FR1 and FR5, you don't really need the campaign setting anymore. There's very little about the North in it. Assuming, of course, that is were you want to play. EDIT: and the FR series is available on dndclassics.com

1E Old Grey Box all the way. I am running a Pathfinder campaign and my source material is limited to FR1 to FR5. I pick and choose a bit from some of the 2e stuff (maps, mostly). No overpowered NPCs, no magic items on every street corner, no mythals and Elminster is just another wizard...

I am pro-fluff. What I mean by that can be well illustrated by the power cards of 4E: the fluff what a pure tacked-on afterthought. One of my main gripes about 4E what that it lacked flavour: it was all about numbers. The powers were interchangeable and mathematically equivalent, the flavour...

THIS. WOTC's idea of creating yet another format for books is wrong-headed. PDFs work and nothing stops them from having Web content AND PDFs. The sale of PDFs on DndClassic is a perfect example: every PDF they sell there is found money. Those products are out of print. It costs nothing to...

if, by now, we do not have PDFs or clearly stated plans to put them out, we will not , in all probability, ever have PDFs until the products are out of print and, even then, we probably will not have the PHB/DM/MM as the other editions are not available in PDF either. As noted above, the...

This! Here is the reality: PDFs will exist, legal or no. WOTC can either make money by selling them or not make money by not selling them. I don't want their weird app. I don't want the book formatted in a different way. PDFs are easy, cheap and STANDARD. I can read PDFs on EVERY major...