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Well, I gotten one familiar that I remember in 20+ years as DM. This was last year, in our 3E game. The Player had an Eagle Owl as a familiar (a fairly large type of owl) Anyways he sits down in the forest on a solo adventure (sort of, the party are linked with a set telepathic rings of status...

Nice to know it is at least backed up weekly. And I know how much backups take to run....at work ours takes about 6 hours nightly for about 8 servers. Understand, I was not referring to a complete restore of the database back to before the qlitch, but a recovery of the lost table where the...

Count me in on the loss......:( What no backup of the database? That is bad. :uhoh: RD

What about one wand of Quicken Magic Missile and one wand of Magic Missile...would that let you fire both in one round? :D Just had to say it...as I've got players that would try it if given the chance. RD

Another suggestion I've been kicking around in my head to try is similar to Dogbrain's so here it goes. You still have the alloted slots per day as per normal however, when you cast a spell you must make a spellcraft check DC (the hard part to figure out is the base) + spell level. If you...

I think a lot of way magic items are handled in game as well as by players and DM's is depends on the mood set by the campaign. I feel as though magic items have lost their special feel but that could also be the result of players who don't always look at a cool item with a history the same as...

Go to the MENU and Choose DATA then FILTER and then AUTOFILTER. This will give you a drop list on each column at the header row. Once you have done that it is just a matter of selecting a column and choosing what to filter it by, and you can use custom to filter using and/or with matches...

Still use it to some degree in my homebrew in various parts of the land. Takes 5 electrum to equal a gold on the average. But not highly used. RD

Excel for just about everything character related. Word of notes, house rules etc. CC2 and any other drawing program I can try to do maps if I don't break down and do them by hand. (always faster it seems) :D Access slowly building a db to use to track everything in the world from towns...

I actually have an intelligent ring that contains remnants of a Archmage that served as a High Magister (top of 10 Chosens for the god of magic). He is known for giving advice to leaders and such. Basically the ring is a minor artifact: Ring of Protection +5 +5 Deflection +5 Resistance...

I'd agree with getting another of the DM's to mentor and help out. In a way that's how I got started a long time ago back in '83. Another suggestion that the DM that worked with me used was Dual-DMing. He would work at the adventure, notes, NPC's etc, Of course I was helping him with the...

Unfortunately, but hopefully it buys time to train and improve, can never expect immunity. :D RD

Couldn't resist the taunting of the killer of my pet. :D I do believe I taunted after the fight btw. Oh and how come I now have 2 losses when I've only been in one fight? Very strange. RD P.S. Morrus, I taunted and played with the big bad dog... that should at least keep Jazzie off the...

I agree with Cheiromancer as the simple way to do. Also I think that there is a method of dealing with evil/unholy weapons in BoED that is similiar to this and might help you with the mechanics as well. RD

IMC, we added a sub-attribute to charisma, Appearance. Based on Charisma it is +/0/- 1d6 off of charisma open-ended. Roll a 6 on add and you get another, roll a 1 on a minus you subtract another d6. First you roll a d3 to see if you do anything. 1 - Subtract, 2 - nothing, 3 - add. That...

Even with an enchantment that would do this for you or a contengancy somehow placed on the staff, one Disjuction spell good ruin your day and null and void everything about the staff. Also having the staff be able to reform and re-enchant itself after being destroyed or something equally bad...

I'm standing while DMing about 60% of time. During the longer combat resolution, I might sit down to take notes or look at NPC notes, but them I'm back up describing the results and moving on. The area we game is cramped (most of the apartment is), so there isn't a lot of room to move around...

I didn't do these calculations but I had copied them down from a posting back in April 2002. Hopefully this helps you out. I tried to search for this thread but turned up nothing. Thankfully I copy stuff into Word when I find stuff useful for later. :D bright silver cylinder (as cloak of...

I use a simple system to boost HP without worrying about calculating size or anything. I add Constitution straight to HP's at first level. Makes character survive a little better, lets them take a little risk from the beginning without too much effort. I just add the same to any...

I use a simple system to boost HP without worrying about calculating size or anything. I add Constitution straight to HP's at first level. Makes character survive a little better, lets them take a little risk from the beginning without too much effort. I just add the same to any...