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Thanks, Dr J! I'm going to have to track down a Large Black, Red Hand, Spider and Archers...

Also, anyone have DDM mini suggestions for Meepo, Ix, Varkasa and the Hob archers? edit: Anyone know the difference between "m" and "M" next to monsters attacks? Anyone know what size Nightscale is (I'm picking minis)?

If anyone has some dungeon tile suggestions for these rooms, I'd appreciate it. I haven't got access to a decent printer, but I've got four sets of tiles, plus a number of those fold-out DDM maps.

Internet connection: $25 Computer: $600 Browsing a thread on Enworld about the death save, and finding a perl script that calculates the odds: priceless thx stripes! made my day!

Gleemax needs to focus on its core features. If it's meant to be a social networking site for gamers, it needs to have detailed profiles, a robust search function, a list of friends and a way to talk to friends.

re: the keep, instead of inheriting it, make it a reward for four loyal servants/distinguished soldiers/influential nobles/troublesome wizards/etc. The Romans used to reward their soldiers with land in border areas when their enlistment was up: good for the soldiers, because they got farms, and...

Hey Flip, What you've described isn't a situation, it's the encounters. Check this out: Your plot: an evil god is up to no good, but his right-hand-minion is secretly helping the characters defeat him. A situation is something the players can grab onto and deal with right now. To use LoTR as...

Flip, what's the first session about? I find if you can nail that, you're much more likely to get players who will stay for the long haul. To put it another way, what's the situation that the players can't ignore when the game starts?

Can we go back to comparing D&D to Tolkien, and not He-Man and Harry Potter? ;)

The hex problem is that when you draw a 20x20 room, you get partial hexes. And then the ancient question of how many angels can fit on a partial hex arises.

What happens when people disagree about what's cool? :]

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I think it's a really cool power. It's to simulate all the times in stories where a hero challenges his attackers and they take him on! It's just an in-game incentive to put the power in the hands of the player, instead of the DM. They could just as easily have said "enemies take a -2 to all...

There are two ways to look at healing and hit points. You can either start from the hit point loss, and then get caught up in what exactly is happening when they're recovered, or you can start with the healing, and then determine what were the extent of the wounds suffered. For instance: if...

Check out True Sorcery, by Green Ronin. It's a skill-based, free-form magic system built for use with d20 (it's also got appendices on using it with True20 and a couple other systems/settings). In a nutshell, they replace all spellcasters with a spellcaster class. Spellcraft is the skill for...

My current group (of nine players!) is smack in the middle of the Freeport series, so we'll be playing 3.5e for a long while yet. At least one of us is a playtester for 4e though, so there's plenty of interest in seeing what all the secrecy and hype is about, but I doubt it'll be until we either...

I have the impression that DMs won't need to use the PC creation rules to make up their NPC bad guys. If you want an evil necromancer villain, pick some appropriate powers, a controller role, give him a striker henchman and some minions and you're done. Also, OP, although PvP does happen...

"If anybody touches the scholar I will hurt you... in the junk." "All elves are the same in the dark." "It was a crystal chalice. Now it's caltrops."

This DM wouldn't last a minute with my gaming group. Dense forests, treacherous swamps, haunted castles and heavily guarded fortresses? Those are crying out for adventurers to try their luck! The author might as well have said, "A pile of gold and magical items is an effective deterrent to...

Realism is a tricky bugbear when you're talking about games. I think it's a bad term for this kind of discussion, because what is realistic to me sure ain't Conan. And D&D sure ain't anything remotely approaching historical fighting men. IMO, of course. Sidestepping the realism question, do you...