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This actually happened in my Shackled City game. The 2nd adventure in the hardcover (Drakthar's Way) involves a

I really like the Customizable GM's screen from Pinnacle: http://www.smithandrobards.com/product_info.php?products_id=28 It can hold fewer pages than the Hammerdog screen, but I prefer the landscape orientation.

The best I've been able to find is this: "It's a Toltec petroglyph of a man combined with a sun symbol" Which would seem to indicate that it was created (or combined) by EN. I knew I should have asked them when I had backstage access when I saw them in Chicago. :)

Yeah, I had the shapeshifting variant thrust upon me at 2nd level *after* deciding to go for the "halfing druid" concept. This is in an Eberron game, so it's not as twinky as it might sound -- a dinosaur-themed druid is pretty damn cool. :) I *did* get to readjust his stats at that point...

Yeah, these days, any standard random number source on a computer should be good enough. Back in my undergrad days, I wrote up a large-scale die roller for testing probability. I used the school's Sun workstations to do so, and I discovered a strangeness with Sun's random number generator: If...

My rule of thumb in these situations is to use a multiplier of x8 for single-round spells. That makes the above item 240k, which makes it an epic magic item, and in turn multiplies it by 10. 2.4 million gold pieces for an extra move action every round seems fine to me (and 34,000 XP if I'm...

I had a DM who required an appropriated Knowledge check before allowing favored enemy damage, unless it was obvious. Didn't work so well for my Magical Beasts, Undead and Evil Outsiders favored enemies, since K(arcana) , K(religion), and K(planes) are all cross class...

I'm currently running a future-noir game (using D6 Adventure) set in 2081, revolving around a ex-cop turned PI. I've been stealing liberally from the Rockford Files for the past few cases, and have also converted several hard-boiled novels for the game as well. Both have worked out extremely...

I got a Community Supporter account on 5/4/06, and don't seem to see the features. (Just went to search, and realized I couldn't do it). Thanks in advance for looking into this.

Casting defensively won't help against readied actions, and I've yet to DM a NPC caster that can keep casting after taking 50+ points of damage...gotta love high-level D&D...

A (human) bard of mine under the effects of a philter of glibness once convinced a court offical that he was 1) an envoy from the dwarven kingdom to the north and 2) that "Top of stone to ya!" is the dwarven equivalent of "good day".

I believe it's originally in Libris Mortis--it's in the Spell Compendium (p131) for sure.

I just use poster putty ( http://www.cleansweepsupply.com/pages/skugroup31609.html )--it's reusable, and does the job just fine. I've found I sometimes need two globs of it rather than just one in the middle for Large and larger creatures, but other than that, it works perfectly. The circle...

I actually use Adobe Illustrator for mine, since every counter remains a separate object in the file. I give each of them a 1 pt stroke, and then apply the Round Corners filter to everything, at a radius of about 6". This means that even Colossal creatures turn into circles. Don't ask me why...

Here's my mapping freudian slip: The PCs make it to the wizard's throne room, and after a bit of banter, decide to charge him. So I start drawing out the room. The evil wizard is on a dias on the far end of the room with two staircases up to his level. I'm copying from a pre-prepared map, so...