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Running a Level Up campaign at the moment, so definitely.

In God: An Anatomy, Dr Stavrakopoulou writes about how horns feature in depictions of ancient west Asian/middle eastern art often included horns, including that Moses went horned after his encounters with god. This is because horns were a symbol of power, both linked to the virility of the bull...

Just wanted to pop in and give another cheer for your story hour Goonalan. I really do love your style. Have you been having the PCs advance at different rates? How are you finding that?

Hello all, What follows is a short story write-up of a one-off adventure DM'd by my younger brother for my birthday, inspired by the PC game Planescape: Torment. In this game, I took the role of the Nameless (a Revenant Fighter), my partner plays Kat (a human Cleric) and our friend Hope...

Good stuff Goonalan. A genuine pleasure to read.

Make a Charisma swordy paladin (Str 13/Con 11/Dex 14/Int 10/Wis 12/Cha 16). Let him pick up a heavy shield by improvising a dinner plate or something. 14 AC. Still get hit a lot, but not so much as otherwise. Give them some useful skills for the wordy parts. Diplomacy, Insight are on the Pala...

I think I'll just have to agree to disagree with you on that last point Goonalan. It's an argument that is spinning around the internet that, at this point, seems unresolvable due to the intensely subjective (and, at heart, theoretical) nature of the statement. In short, I'll get my coat.

Goonalan, I think you said you can only use healing surges 1/encounter. Have I understood you correctly, that this is what you mean? If so, then as I have interpreted the rules, you are in incorrect. You can use a Second Wind 1/encounter. The Cleric's Healing Word, the Paladin's Lay on Hands...

Any chance of some information on Orcs please?

My group just completed it. Some things what I did: Generic atmosphere changes i.e. add some NPCs (the Autarch, Allejandro of the Ruby Knights); change the aspects of some of the gods (Eastern v. Western Wee Jas, Templar v. Orthodox Pelor); switch some monsters (Lizardfolk changed to Gnolls)...

So that's it, the Red Hand of Doom finished. Only took half a year, and two and a half parties worth of characters. It's been a lot of fun, though some things were a pain - particular as half of the game involved only a half party! The high point, I think, was probably the raid of the...

Epilogue: Snowflakes and Spiderswebs In the months that followed, changes would come. Lord Jarmaath, a noble lord, took it upon himself to reward each hero individually. Andel he guided into the depths of the Jasite shrine, wherein were kept many relics. In a stone coffin that predated the...

Session 15: Against Tiamat Sol, Xerxes over his shoulder, struggled up out through the roof of the ruined Fane, Andel and Ben just behind him. The miasmic body of the Dragon Queen was fading into the distance, but she left a trail easy to follow. The sky churned at her passing, bloody stained...

It was four days hard travel through the mountains to reach the Fane. The hard slog left them ill-prepared for what they faced. The mountain in which the Fane rested, nestled deep within the range, had been carved into a likeness of the Chromatic Queen. Wolsey’s pet was sent ahead, the skeletal...

They pressed on. The Witchwood was eerily silent. It was likely it had seemed been scoured clear by goblin hunters. The signs of the Hand’s passage through the area was clear, scarred trees, fire damage. Vraath Keep, which Andel assured them was haunted, they avoided, spending the night in a...