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I was thinking about how creatures might evolve in a fantasy world like that of most D&D settings. I imagine the world starting as lifeless, with the exception of elementals. The elementals roam around and alter the landscape, on occasion interacting. Eventually, they might happen to interact in...

There was only one time in my games where a player directly interacted with a god(dess). Wee Jas, to be specific. He was sent on an epic quest to recover an artifact (a tome that pretty much gave the person 100% control over any and all conjuration spells, said to be the spellbook of the god of...

Have the church invite him to be the head priest at a certain ceremony. Also, have them present him with Boots of the Unending Journey from the Magic Item Compendium. They are a relic of Farlaghn (but only cost 4000gp) and would be put to best use by a high level priest of Farlaghn. Finally, I...

First off, extra favored enemy would allow you to get one level of ranger and then use this feat to get another favored enemy. Also, you could probably get a house-rule variant to replace the cleric's turn undead or the paladin's smite with favored enemy like the ranger. I know that I'd allow...

Sadly, this probably wouldn't work. He says that the dragon has to "allow" them to travel without fear. The pact won't be broken unless the dragon specifically stops them from traveling without fear. Now, what might work is having the dragon step close enough to you that his fear aura affects...

So, I've run the first session. Also, I've figured out that Kineticist Psions are amazingly OP at times. We fought the doppleganger, then 2 Ankhegs (sniped by psion before they could even get close), then an Aranea that almost killed the psion while he was sleeping, then a Drow Raiding party...

I'm going to be DMing an adventure for a group of my friends starting today. I've been thinking about this for a while, but I still feel like I don't have enough ideas to make it a really interesting experience for them. I'd appreciate any cool ideas or material that you could throw my way. The...

Actually, I think that the hit dice are included in the level adjustment, otherwise the system would make no sense; why would two extra hit dice and an increase in BAB and a few other things be equal to a level in a character class? The level adjustment means that the whole template is the power...

It seems like it would be pretty common to get an apprenticeship in order to learn a bit about magic. Perhaps your character learned a bit from the village wizard, before it was realized that he had real potential (read "was a pc") and was sent off to a wizard college. This sounds like a really...

No, it would still be affected. The description of the Brilliant Energy weapon quality says that only part of the weapon is changed into light "such as its blade, axe head, or arrowhead". That means that all of the rest of the arrow (including the tail feathers, which most affect how it is...

I think there might be a problem in that the BBEG managed to TPK them because he was able to cast one spell. Just because he wasn't interrupted in the first round of combat shouldn't have made him win. I don't know what really happened, so I may be reading this wrong, but it seems to me that the...

As a DM, I would allow this just because of the cool roleplaying factor. Of course, if it started being a common thing then I would certainly have to put a stop to it. Strictly according to the rules, this isn't possible. But, I would ask your DM if he (or she) would let you do this anyways.

This is amazing. I hope I can convince my gaming group to run a campaign using this system.

I've actually been working on a system that would do just that. Your health is based on a racial hit die added to your constitution. Also, you can take abilities (similar to feats, but more powerful) as you level to increase your health, if you want. Mostly, though, your health is stuck at your...

A good way to make this work is to make a house rule saying that the movement for a "5 foot step" is 1/4 of your land speed rounded down. This keeps both small and medium creatures with a usual 5-ft movement, and gives a 10 foot step to creatures with a speed of 40 - creatures including...

Okay, so here's my explanation of these things. If you still think that it would be better another way after I've explained, then please say so First off, the table is actually two tables. This was just stupid formatting issues. Sorry. One of the tables relates your result to bonuses, and the...

So, I've been working on a class that (I hope) makes a scholarly character actually fun to play as well as not pathetically under-powered. Here's what I have come up with. Please comment, criticize, and basically tell me how I did and how to improve. Let me know if it's too powerful or not...

Preserving meat Just think of the possibilities for meat preservation! Not only could you preserve meat in salt form, but you could then use that meat to preserve other meat through salting!

The Great Change The world is ending. But, like a pheonix, new life will rise from the ashes. A group of cultists who worship Erythnul work to bring about the Great Cleansing --a ritual which will destroy the great wall separating our world from the sea of monsters. If they succeed, all life...

Wow, that is a really good character option, but I'm sorry to say that I've already mentioned her familiar in the campaign and at this point I couldn't bear to give it up. Do you think that it would be too unbalanced if I had the spell-like ability replace scribe scroll instead? Oh, I should...