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I share a similar unease about how vehicles/mounts get trashed by mid/high (even some low) level players. I have an idea, but I haven't playtested it so how well it will work is open to a lot of testing/debate. Basically, I suggest treating the vehicle not as just a vehicle, but as a creature...

For your initial question re siege weapons used by a castle: historically, before the age of cannons, not so much. Hard to aim, and most useful AGAINST castles rather than attacking armies. However, if the world has dragons and wyverns, and manticores, and giants... why not? Also... players...

If you have the time, it might be interesting to have the players introduced to the king for their great deeds, the king nods to them, then instructs Baron X to "Speak for the throne to those who have given us a great service." Then the king moves on to other matters. Thus the king acknowledges...

One way of ranking people socially is by asking the questions, "Who do they know, and who knows them? Oh, and how much money do they have?" The more important people they know, the more social rank they have. The more people (with power) who know who they are, the more social rank they are...

Hilariously, this *exact* situation occured in one Dragon magzine comic, "Knights of the Dinner Table" (can't remember which strip). Party was planning on entering the "Caves of Horrible, Sudden, Gory Death" --or some such-- and party responded by pulling out the horde of sheep trick. DM...

I bought it for my iPad 1, and while there are some small issues (mostly appearing to be with iplay4e itself) I'm finding it does what I want from a tablet character sheet. I'm planning on using it this weekend and I expect I'll be pleased with my purchase.

Nope, but for a TOH death-trap, it is pretty logical and straight forward. It is tough but fair. When my group ran the dungeon: Player: "I reach out with my stick and lift the crown off the throne." DM: "The crown lifts from the seat, resting heavily on the end of your stick. So, does anyone...

Another thing to consider --for my party at least-- was the fact that here was something in the Tomb you could finally hit with swords! I can't discribe how cathartic it was to finally have a battle, to roll dice (and not worry about dying instantly), to scan your spell list for the old...

One idea I've had but never delved into to figure out if it was balanced/a good idea/fair is the following: "When you spend your last remaining healing surge, make a saving throw with no bonuses. If you succeed, regain a healing surge." The idea is to reduce the number of times a single...

Speaking solely from my experience, we didn't know there were no wandering monsters. As such, we didn't have a whole alotment of divination spells, instead we were tricked out with the standard cure x/fireball type stuff, with a few utility/divination types. After a few slogs, we traded out a...

Not "you can never be allowed to break the setting," but, "5 (usually) clever geeks with access to physics defying magic designed around dungeon crawling and in a situation where they won't have to actually do the actual work themselves shouldn't be allowed to effortlessly break an evocative...

This is probably an exercise in long-term futility, because I remember one such thing came up on the WotC Eberron boards. Someone asked, "Why are Valinar Horses so expensive?" The answer: "Because the elves don't sell them." Reply: "So if I horse-thief some of them, and start breeding them, I...

How about this possibility: When the elves fled Xen'drik it was a time of chaos and it was pretty much a case of "grab whatever you can lay your hands on and run." As such, the elves have a whole bunch of arcane knowledge they've never really properly examined, or got misfiled during the...

After the arch had hooped my party, the GGD was pretty much met with a UXB-level of caution. The riddle was not much help, (“There’s both green and black: what does that mean?”) so we quickly developed a pattern of dealing with the Tomb. Touch nothing. A copper piece was thrown at the GGD...

Failure: PCs get the wrong ingredients. The NPC is healed, but permanently crippled. He's still part of the campaign, but the failure of the PCs is forever staring them in the face. PCs get what they think are the right ones, but upon return they find out they do not work. Further...