Recent content by Orius

Sounds like just the thing to throw at a party with a duskblade, factotum, and archivist. Not that I have anything against 3.5's out of control power creep, mind you.

According to this post over at The Piazza, they were: https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?p=301323#p301323 We know that the original Known World campaign that Tom Moldvay and Lawrence Schick ran before working at TSR had Kzinti as a PC race. Later Schick was credited with the...

Not a bad idea, but definitely a campaign idea where it makes a difference if the party has a paladin. The DM needs to be careful about avoiding paladin entrapment. No paladin, then it's less of a problem as to how the party resolves things.

Gnome bards are something that gets kicked to the curb in my game. Gnomes are and always will be the illusionists. At first, I didn't like the flat bonus of the stat boosting spells because I thought the +4 was too generous, but it makes sense with the math. A +4 increase is always a +2 bonus...

That was a statement made in irony. I don't agree with underhandedly penalizing a player who is even suspected of looking at DM only material behind the DM's back. As I said, there are players who both play and DM, so they're going to have familiarity with the DM-only stuff. Even Gary ran PCs...

I never bought the Jakandor books, nor have I felt much of a need to pursue any pdfs of it. I have thought of it as an interesting approach for a self-contained campaign, rather than the excesses of peak 2e. I think a more modular approach to subsettings would have been better for TSR, and more...

That's how I interpret the "any non-DM player" phrase at the beginning of the passage. I doubt Gary was so obtuse as to not take into account that some groups had DMs taking turns, especially as he co-DMed with Rob Kuntz. Anyway, I'm okay with saying things like PCs can share spells, but they...

Ah, but it gets better! Players not knowing about assassins being able to research poison is in the book that comes with this little gem from its intro: So not only are these players not supposed to know about one of their class's abilities but if they ask about out of the blue, the logical...