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Waiting on my cases. Dave

Some of them could be big extraplanar dungeons. But, in general, I see the outer planes as the homes of the gods and generally I don't think of a god's home as a big dungeon. I see the inner planes as being somewhat similar to the physical universe, but consisting of predominantly one element...

In 1980 I bought my first computer. I used a cassette tape machine and a black-and-white television for storage and display. If I wanted to do word processing, I first had to write the code for a word processor application, and then run it. In 25 years, we've moved a long way. If the...

I wish I did. This sounds great, a setting I'd really like to play in. Hopefully, someone here has something useful for you. (I want to read it too.) Dave

It's been a long time since I've done this kind of work (I think the last time was about 6 years ago). Nice to see someone else put down the steps in the process. I'm sure mine were a little different, and the order was a little different, but it's amazing how similar they are. Thanks for...

This is why you create an epic spell (just had to bring that up, didn't I?) that allows you to cast your other spells through the sphere. Dave

My son DMs a Warcraft Campaign. Whenever someone has taken Leadership, he's chosen some interesting character from the novels and worked up stats for that individual. He has his own campaign mirror the stories rather well (he's taken us through all the wars, starting long before the actual...

What you're suggesting could work, it's just a mechanic. Whatever is used, so long as it's fair, is probably fine. A lot of players are probably attached to the idea of rolling their own saves by now, but that's just a quirk that would eventually fall off. The heat stroke would be treated as...

I haven't played in many campaigns where the alignment restrictions are really all that restrictive. (And, I've played for moe than 25 years, so it's not because I haven't played much.) But, I also haven't had fascist DMs who would have my paladin come unglued if he forgot to excuse himself...

Knowledge Arcana magazine is always on the lookout for submissions. Issue 5 is currently available (see my sig), issue 6 will be released shortly, and issue 7's deadline is upon us (issue 7 is a special D&D-themed issue). As our number of downloads per issue continues to climb nicely, we see a...

A brief glance at page 77 in the 3.5 DMG didn't give me an EL suggestion. On the page with the sample encounter tables, there's a piece of advice to go looking at the CR and EL section of the DMG to make your own tables with the right balance. So, it looks like their advice is to have a...

This is basically how it worked for me. Ah, those were the days. A friend of mine and I played characters that just beat the crap out of each other. I think he finally won that first fight, his fighter using his own amputated arm as a club (hey, he still had one good arm left) to beat my...

Ditto. Dave

In the game I DM, it rarely comes up, except with one paladin. In one of the two games I play in, it comes up all the time (the two main characters have been cavaliers since the original Unearthed Arcana days--yes, it's a slow-moving, low XP campaign). In campaigns where there is a lot of...

Crap, that means I'm old. Dang, I and I've always counted on not being old. Dave

I've played two characters that were this way. One was a psionicist (from 1e and 2e days), and one was a LG fighter who hoped and dreamed of some day becoming a paladin. Both were a great challenge to play. The fighter came from a very backward area and he was almost perpetually afraid of...

I have a player who has always had his characters trying to maximize their fortunes. He had a druid once who defied his normal ways and got involved with a rather amusing shop in the city. The "No-Bull Knight," jester and cavalier supply shoppe. :) Dave

Very cool. Thanks for the reply. And, one of the reasons I ask is that one of my occupations is philosophy instructor. When I teach sections on logic, I usually cover paradoxes and those can sometimes come about as close to riddles as I get. When you said it was part of your job I thought...

If the DM changes things in the game, in order to kill characters, then he's cheating. Lots of DMs will make changes, either to make an encounter harder or easier or better in some other way. That's not cheating. In general at-home-play, anything a good DM does isn't cheating. At...

Sorry for the tangent--what is your job? Dave