Recent content by ViciousPenguin

There's a feat (in Complete Divine?) that allows a druid to cast spells while Wild Shaped. Totally broken. Use it. There are some very strong creatures on the Summon Natures Ally list. Use liberally. And buff (Bulls Strength, etc.) Druids come with a meat shield. Use their animal...

A wise reader on another board (yes, I'm cross posting) pointed out that I should: I always overlook divination spells. Evacuations would prove to be difficult, as there are known to be spies for the enemy floating about, plus it's winter time. Tough breaks. But divining time and place*...

Well, the spawning is really integral to the BBEG's plan. You can't conquer a religious nation with only 100 shadows. Recruiting new 'soldiers' is important to him. I have seriously considered nerfing the ability though. Maybe you should only spawn if your CON is under X, or you get a dying...

That would be a great idea . . . if arcane casters weren't so shunned in this land. :( Novel idea. It could stop a few of them. How did I overlook that one. They can even sit within their Hallowed / Death Warded zones and pick them off. "I'm calling primary," says the high priest. Thanks...

I may have painted myself into a corner in my own campaign by giving the BBEG an "I win!" button, and I'm trying to figure out how to control the amount of damage I'm doing while still raining a little death and destruction in my campaign world. The BBEG's lieutenant, a lich necromancer, has...

Nonsense! Those of us considering this house rule may want to hear a counterpoint to it. House rules are very handy when the 'Official' mechanic is broken, less so when it is not. This forum is absolutely appropriate or discussing whether something needs to be fixed or not. - ViciousPenguin

I'm only half inclined to agree that this is a matter semantics. More accurately I suspect that this is a matter of language, and while the rules are not always well defined, the English language generally is. Where 'piece' is not a term of art in D&D, I think it appropriate to fall back on...

To clarify, I (the DM of the group) considered what qualifies as "an existing piece of stone". The SRD reads: My interpretation was that a "piece" needed to be contiguous and unbroken. A castle wall, being made of 'pieces' of stone, could not be manipulated by the spell, unless it was cast...

I was thinking the same thing when I saw this thread. It's not unreasonable to assume that all golems are constructed with these basic rules as well as whatever tasks they are meant to accomplish. Of course the "Laws" would have to be modified slightly . . . The Three Mandates of the...

The system you're looking for (and that you have recreated, in part) is called Grim-n-Gritty, by Ken Hood. There is an updated version that is available for purchase and download from www.RPGNow.com, and if you Google for it you may be able to find an older version hosted online for gratis...

Let's see what I can do . . . 1) A source of free, printable, overland maps that I can flick through in the hope that I won't have to make one up myself. look here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mwa/archive2006 View previous years archives by changing the '2006' to, say, 2005, et...

A quick thought - a psionic warrior with improved + focused SUNDER might do the trick for you. Or, as mentioned before, warp wood.

Just a quick thought - if the Forge is native to Pandemonium it should have some random qualities to it as well. They could range from curses to random boons (free metamagic qualities or enhancement bonuses, etc.). And perhaps people using the forge risk going insane for a time.

A problem occurs when there exists an abundance of these atypical, fantastic things in any given world - after so many of them they're no longer fantastic. When a half-this and a touched-that exist around every corner there's nothing special about them any more. This overabundance of the...

That's the best suggestion I've seen yet. :-) Kudos Cabral.