Recent content by Benjamin Pass

I was only referring to the XP components of the research phase as the system is published in the ELH. That doesn't exempt them from any XP costs they may have to pay as part of actually casting the spell. Epic spells cost a truck load of gold and xp just to research. If you want to use a seed...

It's been a long time coming and I'm sure the suggestions provided here will be subject to at least some criticism, but I think I've finally found a way to balance epic spellcasting and make it a viable option for PCs. Before I begin with my suggested modifications to the system, let me start by...

The thing is, what appears to be a single mote of light standing on the surface of the Earth could actually be a galaxy composed of billions of individual stars, so pointing to an individual mote of light and saying I want to teleport "there" could simply teleport you somewhere within that...

I like the ideas of low doses of radiation and doing fire damage, but why restoration to restore it? Ordinary cure spells should work. Now, when you're being bombarded with elementary particles as well as high energy photons, specifically those in the X-Ray and Gamma ray end of the spectrum, I...

That is a positively marvelous idea! :D

Overcoming the logistical issues of the nature of the cosmos itself and how to transport an adventuring party across it's realms was really just the first step to making a successful adventure. As a DM in a setting like this it's up to me to create new and fascinating worlds for my players to...

At some point or another, most, if not all, of us have wanted to take our characters to new heights of power beyond 20th level. When WotC released the ELH, they gave us a means for doing just that and up until around level 40-60 the system works reasonably well until it starts to break down. The...

When I first approached the idea of how to travel in deep space using only the resources available to characters in my D&D realm, I thought about how to accomplish it easily rather than efficiently. The first major obstacle which presents itself to space-travel is the lack of stable atmosphere...

So, here pretty recently I've wanted to run a fantasy game in outer-space. Whilst I was contemplating ways to challenge PCs in an outer-space-but-still-on-the-material-plane type adventures, I discovered that someone else had beaten me to the punch many years before. Enter Spelljammer...