Recent content by Brother Ezra

I have a character that plans on taking the Forge Magic Arms and Armor feat at his next level. He wants to know if he can create a magical weapon with a +1 enchantment, pay the 1000 gp in material costs, and then later upgrade the enchantment to a +2, paying only the difference between the +1...

Essential I run a group website through Yahoo! Groups, and I've found it to be indespensible. The website serves a number of purposes: 1. A central repository of all campaign-related issues and information (campaign background, house rules, copies of documents found by the players, etc.) 2. A...

I think the most important point people have made here is that it is your world. Slavish adherence to canon defeats the purpose of an interactive, fluid campaign setting, and tends to make players feel like they are nothing more than cogs in a machine, powerless to change anything. In order to...

My 3rd level group is in Damara currently. I started the campaign in DR 1360, so a lot of the current canon stuff hasn't happened yet, in fact the Tuigan invasion is going on currently just a little to the south. I ran the Crucible of Freya set in the eastern part of Soravia; tied in nicely...

Clarification I guess I'm looking to build an appropriate encounter based upon the treasure to be recovered. I know this is bass ackwards, but the player wants to quest for a specific item, in this case a suit of celestial armor. How do you determine the appropriate types and CR of creatures...

One of the players in my current group wishes to go on an item quest, preferably looking to obtain light magic armor. I'd like to design encounters and guardians scaled to the power of the item being sought. I want to give him an idea of roughly what CR of creature he would face if he sought...

Although I wouldn't mind having each of the four character "types" well represented in my campaign, I also give each player the free choice to play the class that they prefer. Shoehorning a player into a class that they don't enjoy or understand defeats the purpose of the game, which is to have...

Our group has 7 players, and meets every two weeks for about a 5-6 hour game session. We've met 12 times since the beginning of the year, and the characters have advanced two levels in that time, and may level again in the next session or two. At first I was alarmed by how quickly the party...

My campaign has seven adult players plus myself, ranging in age from 28 to 36. All are employed, and are either married, engaged, committed (in the romantic sense ;) , and have varying hobbies or activities in addition to our gaming. Being adults with lives, we recognize that coordinating...

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The rogue in my campaign has been pining to do some "extra-curricular" activities appropriate to his class, but is finding it difficult in the context of game-time. I don't want to take away time from the other six players while I role-play his side-adventures, but want to give him the...

One of my players wants to take this prestige class when he is able to do so. Since we've been discussing balanced and unbalanced prestige classes lately, does anyone have any opinion on this one? Has it been updated to 3.5 yet? Is it overpowered in your opinion? Well-balanced? Let's have...

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Point well taken, but with my group, they've made a point of telling me that they enjoy the game more when things make sense realistically, and things occur to their characters that have logical explainations, not just "poof, you can now turn a wight and cast Cure Moderate Wounds. It really...

Another vote for Crucible of Freya. I just completed it with my group, and although I had to customize it quite a bit to fit the campaign theme, it was a smashing success. WARNING: Do not let the group make a frontal assault on the keep. TPK will result. It's a tough encounter even using...