Recent content by JayDarkson

One of my players points out to me at least every session that there just are not enough skill points available to characters in D&D 3.5 as well as some characters being limited to a small handful of useless skills. The Fighter class has become the joke of the table, having only "jump" or...

I concur that OGL Horror is very well written. I've kept it around for awhile now and use it on occasion for my D&D game.

This is a current discussion in our game group. One player insists that playing D&D, one player death per session is the norm. Having played D&D for almost 12 years now (he's played longer than me), I don't see this being normal. He insists that it has nothing to do with being a killer GM, it's...

First the Half-Orc needs to make a move silently and everybody in the party needs to make a listen check to hear the half-orc. Provided the Half-Orc succeeds, any members with Darkvision standing watch or looking in the direction of the half-orc should make spot checks once the half-orc gets...

I've had player's try to sneak a few rolls here and there... roll a d20 once and then say it's something else. Or even not roll and tell me they did then giving me the result. If I catch it, I point it out. And shake my head. If I don't they get away with it. Another player might say something...

There are some online stores that sell the old Dark Sun books in .pdf format if you want to see the 2nd edition material. It's a great setting with lots of potential.

Busted out the 3.5 Monster Manual for this one. I'm going to nitpick at this creature to point out what could be wrong with it using the monster creation guidelines. For starters animals use 1d8 HD not 1d10. The only monsters using 1d10 as HD are constructs, oozes and magical beasts. It's...