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*facepalm* OF COURSE it's a doormaker's shop >3>; What a load of fail, I got so distracted by the secret entrance/puzzle/imp that I forgot where the PCs were. I even remember thinking "that's odd, but I guess they have to make doors someplace" when I first read the scene. Eheh... thanks guys...

Forgive me if I'm bieng dense, but... I'm currently reworking all the Scourging encounters for my 6th-level group. When I got to the eladrin hideout (badgers and such) I found myself rather confused - what's with all the doors? The encounter describes them as "stand-up doors", which makes me...

That's more what I'm getting at; the point of the example was that using brute strength was the goal of the exercise as well as the means to move a tree. Though, it's worth noting that if somebody makes a big strong barbarian, it may be because they want to be able to approach strength-related...

That seems awfully inappropriate to me. By reading that as written, a character basically can't acheive anything on their own unless they get a natural 20 or do something "clever". What if this isn't a circumstance that requires "clever"? For example, what if my barbarian is trying to uproot a...

Ah, wonderful. Thanks Truename :)

Let's not pretend that there isn't a middle ground, though. Personally I like having rules for this kind of situation because I'd rather not make an arbitrary decision; the dice are a useful impartial audjudicator. If my view is that something is neither better or worse for the...

Okay seriously... in Scourging, when the group finds the letter marked "M" indicating that the Wyrms are to go after Erdan Menash, who is the "M" supposed to point to? I need to know, because I'm changing so many names - I don't want to ruin the clue ^^; But I can't find it anywhere in the...

I reckon they have their traditional fantasy covered with FR (which I don't care for), contemporary fantasy covered with Eberron (which I care for a lot) and their "violent counterpoint to FR" covered with Darksun (which I rather like, but I think it may hate me). I don't really want to see...

Hah! I remember these guys. I never realised they were supposed to be that big, though! As for who would hang around with them, I imagine chaotic little fey sprite things or something. If you could fly and your mate could control gravity, how fun would that be? :p

How is that bad? The challenge rating/encounter level of a combat encounter doesn't raise or lower depending on the party's tactics. They don't get more or less XP if they come up with a clever plan and score an easy victory (unless the GM arbitrarily decides they should). Just like CR/EL...

Loooongass overdue response. Excuse me if I reiterate anything that has already been thoroughly trod. We've had lots of interesting Skill Challenge examples in our games so far - interesting in particular because they have been so very, very varied. Our first GM ran the Keep on the Shadowfell...

I gotta agree. There were aspects of it I really liked, but when I needed to drop something for a campaign that was starting at sixth level, the fire forest was the easiest thing to cut. And it was kind of a relief ^^; Really, I think it may have made a better solo adventure - it feels rather...

- - -SESSION 1- - - With this rather alternative opening, Torrent isn't actually around. Instead, Pan has been in the bar some of the evening, waiting for somebody from the resistance to contact her. Since Olive is happily serving drinks for her, Acid has assumed the bar isn't so closed after...

Well, I've had a horrid day and one of my ferrets died. I thought I would distract myself by writing up a summary of last night's gaming session, where I started on GMing the 4e WotBS path (albeit heavily homebrew hacked). So... it's War of the Burning Skies of Escarnum. Or something ^^; - - -...

I dig NPCs because I'm all about character interaction, but I didn't want any combat-capable characters upstaging the PCs by virtue of bad rolls or better niche powers. So, I made a new mechanic for "cohort" characters. Basically, certain NPCs are "recruitable" if the group can gain their...

If it helps, that dovetailed beautifully into my version, where the inquistors themselves come from a heavly cleric(or any other divine caster)-filled nation. And the neighbouring country they have a mad-on for is basically a land of scholars who made some bad deals with extraplanar magical...

To clarify, I did suggest leaving those out only because I know some groups will be unambiguously good-aligned, like mine. There's no chance they will side with anybody but Tiljann unless I deliberately fool them about the outcomes - ditto with killing Timbre - so those turn from important...

Really? This is kind of surprising to me (that it would be tha fan favourite, that is)... Fire Forest isn't too bad, sure, and its "immortal bonfire" concept is both tremendously dramatic and thoroughly unique. But I found the story rather convoluted and lacking direction. I also thought the...

A core aspect of my campaign setting is that it has no gods, so this was one of the more difficult aspects of conversion for me >3>; Characters like cleric and paladins draw power from ideals and personal resolve rather than channeling from a deity, so I took that idea and used it to create...

I think saying that chaotic good gives you a "flawed outcast" is inappropriate, but aside from that, I see where you're coming from. A protagonist with only one source of opposition (the villain) is pretty primitive; it's the kind of thing that comes more from very old stories (or poor amateur...