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A few notes. The campaign has been running PbP for nearly three years now and we're close to wrapping up. The message board is actually where a large group of us that have known each other online for nearly fifteen years come to commiserate. Many of us are writers, either pro, semi-pro or...

So a party goes into a dungeon filled with earth genies. The casters stay spider climbed on top of the cavern while the melee types go down below to distract. An earth genie casts rock to mud on the ceiling, causing the spider climbed casters to fall. The sorcerer casts featherfall. Does the...

I had a very interesting question from a player in a PbP game I run. The situation is this. The character has captured a bugbear enforcer in a local crime guild. His desire is to use the bugbear as an informant in the organization, but there are two drawbacks. 1- The bugbear has a drug...

Okay. So I DM a PbP game that has an ettercap absolutely brutalizing my party on a mountain trail. The ettercap has been sticking happily to the wall side well out of most melee and ranged weapons (with the exception of the rifle-toting ranger who is regularly webbed every other round.) A spider...

Just what the title says. I have a player whose absolute favorite PC is a factotum- a crafting savant with machinery and obsessive physical paragon who has studied magic after a bad run in with sorcerer mercenaries. Switching over to 4E will hinge a lot on perhaps translating him. Granted, we...

Chapter 1 Mightier Than the Sword It's the 2nd of Rain in 721. They say every month is the month of Rain in Ptolus, and today was no exception. A light drizzle keeps the streets wet and the familiar smell of damp clothes mingles with the daily aromas of each district. It hasn't been terribly...

I'm running a PbP City Watch game in Ptolus. As a result of the format, and the fact that most of the PC's are actually somewhat honest- loot often goes unclaimed or left. So I'm trying to make up for it. The PC's are currently 3rd level. I recently awarded them a message badge, inspired by the...

Just figured I'd poll the breadth of knowledge of ENWorld for this. (And some of my players may want to... stop reading if I decide to use any of these...) I'm running a police procedural campaign set in Ptolus. Most of the PC's are members of the City Watch, with some "specialists" brought in...

I am very lucky (and cursed) to have players who think outside of the box when it comes to spells. The situation: a rat swarm is barreling down on the PC's. The Illusionist's solution? To cast a Minor Image of a swarm of yowling cats chasing after the rats. So what do you think? If the swarm...

So it finally happened. The quivalent of a car chase scene in my police procedural Ptolus campaign. So what kind of penalties are we looking at for a) leaning out the side of a cart, b) shooting while it's raining, and c) trying to keep yourself steady as they barrel down roads at breakneck...

Hey there. For a Ptolus game I am running, I'm planning on having a female lizardfolk paladin/bard be a sort of non-traditional antagonist for my police PC's. Essentially, she isn't meant to be entirely combat optimized, but more of a politcal organizer for the opressed homeless lizardfolk...

I'm running an urban police procedural DnD campaign, and the player with a gnome PC had a very good question. Namely, if rats would count as a "burrowing animal" for a gnome's Speak With Animals ability. The gnome wasn't raised in the city, however, and is basically a slumming tourist from a...

I'm starting a police procedural compaign in Ptolus (inspired by a thread at ENWorld actually...) starting at level 1 and one of the players *REALLY* would like to play a werewolf. And elf rogue lycanthrope to be exact (Yeah, someone read Elfquest growing up...) I initially said no straight out...

I'm starting a police procedural compaign in Ptolus (inspired by a thread here actually...) starting at level 1 and one of the players *REALLY* would like to play a werewolf. And elf rogue lycanthrope to be exact (Yeah, someone read Elfquest growing up...) I initially said no straight out until...

So I am contemplating creating a 3rd level Human Ranger with the two-weapon combat style who uses a whip and axes, both throwing and hand. He's an older semi-retired adventurer who used this to dismount goblins from their wolves. My question is this. Which three feats would best make this work...