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Classic Monsters Revisited has a six page section on them, but, IMO, it doesn't really add a ton of lore or interesting hooks to the race, that weren't already kind of there. The first chapter of the Legacy of Fire AP (Howl of the Carrion King) also has about six pages on the gnoll packs of...

I like the Vegepygmies idea. Giant Ants, if tweaked to have hive-minds and sentient queens with spellcasting ability, can make for an unusual low-level threat.

There is some truth to this. D&D is and always has been a game about killing stuff to aquire loot and personal power through 'leveling up.' The game mechanics support this and only this. There is no reward for 'heroism' or charity or kindness or mercy or self-sacrifice other than those the...

Bag of Tricks, Dun - 1) Chipmunk, 2) Garter Snake, 3) Goldfish, 4) Songbird, 5) Walking Stick, 6) Turtle. Beard of the Dwarven Lords - this magnificent beard attaches itself to the lower face of anyone who presses it into place, and speaks the command word. The wearer can cause it to change...

You mention Rapid Summoning, which suggests you might have access to Unearthed Arcana stuff. A conjuror and / or a necromancer (with the bone minion option) can definitely help with some of that. An enchanter moving into a thrallherd or leadership role (and using charm person and diplomacy and a...

I played it only briefly, and the things we noted were; No summoning. Playing a summoner, conjuration specialist, druid or other summoning-centric character type will blow, as some of your class goodies (like a druid's spontaneous summon nature's ally ability, or ability to replace a dead...

Elven pigmentation since 1st edition has been backwards of human pigmentations. The grey elves that live on high mountain tops under the harsh sun are bone white in skin and have light colored hair and eyes. The 'high' elves that live among men, more or less, are the same coloration as men...

My house-ruling on the spot would be that the reduce person (which the target can also save to resist, if unwilling) automatically suppresses the enlarge person for as long as the reduce person would normally last, but when it's duration expires (or is otherwise ended), the subject would return...

In Golarion, the 'god of humanity,' Aroden, had the longsword as his favored weapon, and the 'inheritor' to his mantle, Iomedae, also has the longsword as her favored weapon. Still, as has already been mentioned in this thread, the longsword may be relevant in Avistan, but the scimitar is the...

In my Scarred Lands game (set in Hollowfaust) I had the city come under attack by an army of 10,000 skeletons. The defenses of the city were merely being tested by a single high-level spellcaster (and his assistants) from a neighboring country, and they used a True Ritual (basically an...

Falling Rock Clan (in an area prone to avalanches) High Death (living in the mountains, they see themselves as 'above' the lowlands they raid) Red Night Reavers (like many darkvision-having races, they like to raid at night, and 'paint the night red' with the blood of their victims)...

I'd just pick a CR, and have the players choose a dragon that fits there, allowing those who picked a weaker CR dragon type to take a level of Sorcerer or Barbarian or whatever to make up the difference. Using the 3.X or PF rules for dragons should eliminate a little bit of the wonkiness of...

that's the impression I've gotten as well, although different classes put the next feature at different levels, so matter where the cut off is, *someone* is gonna get hosed. Cleric domains get their second power anywhere between 4th and 8th. Wizards get their second power at 8th. But...

That's my preference as well. I prefer for my super-heroes to have some sort of offensive ability, some sort of defensive ability, a means of getting around and some random utility power (super-senses, self-healing, whatever). Some of my favorites include; Firedrake looks like an older man...

If you want to go with Drow-warped former slave/soldiers, you could explain the brutish qualities of the Orcs by taking a page from the pig-headed orcs off 1st edition, and have alll Orcs have a mixture of humanoid blood, tainted by Drow magic and foul experiments to include animalistic traits...

Both Anton LeVay's 'Church of Satan' and Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' heavily revolve around the concept that selfishness is the only honest moral virtue, and that stuff like charity, kindness and sharing are masks that we wear, just because we want people to think we are 'nice' or 'good.' By...

If you do comics, the Handbook to the Marvel Universe or DC's Who's Who series can be awesome for this as well. Once the outline is traced, it's totally easy to draw the armor, weapons, gear, etc. that you want to use, even for dudes like me who can't draw a stick figure man normally. On the...

Adaigo is a little too good, IMO, for a spell usable at will, and I'd prefer that it have a line like Daze at the end. It's not as good as Daze, so I'd make the increment smaller, just to prevent it being used every single round. 'Once a creature has been affected by this spell, it cannot be...

In earlier editions we allowed either Limited Wish to swap an enchantment from one item to another, or Polymorph Any Object to change a magical weapon or armor item into another weapon or armor item, so long as none of it's enchantments were dependent on a particular type of weapon (turning a +3...