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That's pretty much the direction I went - that the undead are a growing menace, that they are more plentiful and powerful than before. This party started off in large part as an undead hunting party; that focus has changed a bit but they're still the primary enemy. If you are familiar with it...

There's a paper available at bakery supply stores that is totally edible. It's what they use to screen images of cartoon characters onto cakes. You could even load up inkjet printer carts with food dye, and print right to it, then eat it. pretty tasteless, but better than wood pulp. This is...

OK - here's what we've got so far: God of the Sun and Moon: Still alive Goddess of the Hearth/Home/Love: To be reborn when a young woman assumes her mantle. God of Death/Law: To be reborn when the son of a possessed woman is born. Three-fold God of War: The aspect of Conquest is ascending in...

Great thread! Just wanted to throw a shout-out to Greatywyrm - those dryads were inspired! I used them (with some added templating to get them up to my party's CR) and it was one of the most memorable and vivid encounters they ever had. Thanks for the idea! jtb

Well, I am not sure how it will work, but can sum up my experiences with a world largely lacking arcane magic: the pc's are not as tough as they should be by CR. DND assumes a certain level of firepower at a certain CR, and that firepower is usually based on arcanists, particularly at higher...

try the timpani sheets at www.dndtools.com. If on the control tab, you click "Show All Sheets", there's a page called SKillD. if your excel-fu is strong, you can make that spreadsheet dance, sing, and ride a pony. I mod it all the time.

Good advice. In some cases, there will be character rewards, which will probably be enough. The players I have are REALLY dedicated to their development. More stuff happens online, out of session, than in session, wiht various subplots and background development. Seriously. One character has...

Oh, yeah, big time. She's there with them, in a mortal form. Her mastery of time and space was what allowed the spell to be cast in the first place. See the attachement for a little more detail. She is Aurora, though that's left to the Player's interpretation... So, she'll be the first...

Another thought - PirateCat, were there rules you used for the plague that struck when Imbrindarla was down, before Teliaz ascended? I remember reading about that in Sialia's Dylrath tales; did you have any guidelines? Was it a transmittable disease, or did it just hit anyone at random? Were...

I like that last one, with the changing of the guard. But I think it works as well for the goddess of the hearth, as well, largely because I just came up with this idea about druids and their connection to the divine circuit. What if he druids ARE the nature god... split asunder and...

I've been thinking hard on that count. My answer is that there is one source of divine magic - it's a raw, untamed force, fundamental to the universe. (So is arcane, but that's a different story) The gods act as conduits - kinda like hooking your house's circuit breaker box up to the city main...

Wow, thanks for the quick replies! One thing that I should have mentioned - the party is 1/2 priests (a monk, a paladin and a cleric) of the Sun God, but events have transpired to convince them that the Church at large was wrong in its wars against the other churches and the mages. Also, the...

Hey all - a long-term campaign plot arc has been prepped in my current campaign, and will begin after the current arc is done. The long and short of it is that in my campaign world, 6 of the 7 gods fell, more than a millenia ago. The world is slowly going out of balance - crops are starting to...

I feel your pain. Last session, my PCs offed my BBEG with a poison spell and a sneak attack. Which isn't so bad, really. Except for the part where the BBEG had a template that gave him the elemental type. Elementals, you will recall, are immune to poison and sneak attacks. The...

I'm not normally a fan of shifts of story-telling perspective, but this: is just beautiful.