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I like them living in covered pits, it keeps them close to the earth/underground idea, as well as hinting at trap building. I would, however, wonder how the kobolds would keep native animals from crashing into their living rooms.

Also, because you're buying monsters from an XP pool, all of the monsters in the encounter don't have to be of the same level. Maybe have a (Leader) monster be a few levels higher, and have a more XP in lower level monsters. I've been playing around with this because my group will probably...

Someone mentioned something about losing healing surges, and it got me thinking, maybe the healing surges don't come back naturally after rest. It can be a form of spell sickness. It might have another issue of trying to figure out how to balance the loss of healing surges against the time to...

I think I'm going to require some of these ley-lines or nexuses to use certain rituals. Raise Dead needs not only the hard to find mystical salve, but also needs to be preformed in an area that had been dedicated to the god of death by means of some sort of hallow ritual. Maybe the ritual can...

From what I've heard other people saying, rules for PCs are decidedly different for NPCs, and this example of Intimidate interests me. If I used a monster with intimidate, could I use it to intimidate the PCs? Also, the buzzword "exception based design" -- this monster is exceptionally...

Not so strange if kobolds have a limitless supply of kryptonite.

Isn't there a limit to the number of magical items you can use in a day? In addition, each character can only activate a few different magic item powers in a given day, so the guy who brings a loaded pack full of flashy items doesn’t get as much bang for his buck...

I saw the move Pathfinder yesterday, and it gave me a good way of thinking about this cure disease ritual - and healing rituals in general. Viking-born, native raised protagonist gets an arrow to his back while fleeing from the viking 'dragonmen' (another thing I found interesting, and made me...

He will be thrilled, thanks.

I managed to find the character sheets for KotS and DDXP a while ago, and have had some fun throwing them at monsters either shown on wizards.com or brewed in these threads, but I do have a question when it comes to reading powers. I'll give Holy Strike as an example. Hit: 1d6 + 2 radiant...

Star pact, with all it's Cthulhu Mythos goodness.

One thing that I've been trying to find a way around is the situation where the elf bombs his perception check -- how then does he provide the 'subtle hints' to the other pcs that something is up. A way to look at that case is that, the party knowing the elf is keeping a general watch, are able...

Here are my thoughts. I don't know if it's necessary to decide which side the PCs will ultimately end up on -- you could try planning it for both ways. Make it a factional thing; you already have the BigBadEvilEmpire, which forms the 'rebels' out of necessity. Maybe throw in a third party...

One thing you can do is give the other pc's something to do while the cleric is shining. I agree with the ideas of the other characters holding the targets (especially the part about the holders making a will check to be still), or the hexblade gambler in the crowd. Off the top of my head: Not...

I think that if I were part of a very advanced magical empire, I'd develop weapons systems that would scare/confuse opponents due to their own superstitions. Maybe it's more fluff than crunch, but dragonheaded flamethrowers definitely comes to mind as something worth doing. I wouldn't know how...

Thank you, using OpenOffice to make them fit on one page helps a lot. I was alternating between trying to use paint or GIMP. I had an issue with copying the image from the thread and then pasting it into GIMP; it was reading more than the size of a page. The OO way works much better, and with...

This is a really good idea. I downloaded the zip file of sprites, but I'm running into a problem; how do I make them so that, when they print, I can make sure that medium monsters will take up one square? I don't know how to shirk them down correctly. Any advice is appreciated. :D

Using the KotS pre-gen characters, and some monsters that I picked up on this site, I put together a little 4e run for three of my friends. At one point, they were fighting a boneshard skeleton which the paladin had marked. The group huddled itself around the boneshard, with the rogue...