Recent content by Ragnar_Deerslayer

I worked the SJGames booth with him at DragonCon back around 2000. I had some good conversations with him. RIP.

I'm sorry to hear the WotBS hardcover was disastrous. I'm currently running my group through "Tears of the Burning Sky" using my BW hardcover, and I love it. I was hoping for a Zeitgeist hardcover to be waiting for us when I finished WotBS, but obviously I'm in the minority. Ragnar

We're doing the 3.5 version under Trailblazer rules. After 30+ sessions, our party is at the Monastery of the Two Winds. We're having a blast so far, and starting with Adv #2, I've been recording all the sessions. My players are intelligent, creative, and very funny. WotBS gives them a...

And remember that if they're not braced, a DC 21 will free Indomitability without removing the sword - putting the party into a pretty predicament, either having to defeat Indomitability without the use of the sword, or coming up with a creative plan to get the sword out of the freely-mobile and...

Bodyguard: The idea of using Bodyguard to add to reflex saves is that the bodyguard can physically interpose himself to protect the ward from certain traps (pit traps, etc.) and certain spells (fireball, etc.). If the bonus to AC vs. ranged attacks is kept and the bonus to Reflex saves is not...

Here's my regrouping of the Knowledge skills. I had four rules: 1. Three areas per knowledge 2. Every area appears twice. (I like the idea of the Cleric and Wizard arguing over some minor point concerning the Planes.) 3. No knowledge has more than 2 "creature knowledge" areas (because I've...

I've adapted these feats from other sources to fit the Trailblazer framework. Anything obvious I'm missing that would prevent these feats from working well, before I introduce them into my campaign? Bodyguard [Combat] Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes Benefit: When using Aid Defense, the...

Happy coincidence! I'm running the Spectacular Trial next week. After the Council of War went over like a lead balloon (I tried talking in different voices and holding up pictures of who was talking, and using props for characters that didn't have pictures, but my players don't take to...

(page references are to the 3.5 hardback) How do the heroes get the knowledge of the Shahalesti betrayal? Timbre knows, and might tell them if the topic comes up, but she doesn't appear to have concrete evidence. Diashan, the elf in temporal stasis, knows, and can give firsthand testimony, but...

My party is almost to Seaquen. I've had Torrent active in combat from the beginning (taking her share of XP and levelling up), but tried to minimize her decision-making so the party wouldn't be deprotagonized. Haddin always retreated to safety and put a dominated Crystin between himself and...

That's right; I only mentioned it because I had a player whose previous DM had houseruled that way. The only sticky situation we've encountered so far is how to adjudicate charges. I simplified it by saying you could only take a 5' step if you weren't the target of a charge; another player...

A few things: * I allow Barbarian Rage to be activated by a Combat Reaction (for purposes of duration, it counts as having been activated on the player's previous turn). * I allow characters to take free actions on a Combat Reaction (including talking or dropping prone). * I allow a player to...

I recently finished reading the main campaign, and decided to post my notes and questions, both to help other DMs, and to get help from them. Ranger Wickett, I'd appreciate your comments, but I would ESPECIALLY like for you to post the stats missing from Appendix A: the stats for the earring...

Will ZEITGEIST be for 3.5, or will it be 4e only? The description I read on RPGfreelancer seemed to imply 4e, with the references to Shadowfell and such, but I'm holding out hope for a 3.5 edition. (I'm currently running WotBS in 3.5/Trailblazer and loving it! - as are my players!) Ragnar

Timbre knows, and the Shahalesti elf (Daishan) in temporal stasis in Anyariel's shrine knows. The Ghaele might give the PCs a hint, since he is guarding Daishan, and he was summoned in response to Bharisrava's final prayer: "that some god would protect what he [Bharisrava] had failed to - the...