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IME they can be somewhat over-powered at lower levels and under-powered at higher levels but OK inbetween so your level7-10 campaign should hopefully be OK. My main piece of advice is that there can be an awful lot of work involved in figuring out the stats of the different forms (especially if...

I was GMing a game of WFRP, the PCs were sat in a busy inn and I'd carefully described the other customers. Then a little later I said "you notice the evil cultists get up and leave the room". Doh!

Spirit Games in Burton-on-Trent has a bunch of old and secondhand stuff. They do mail order too. House Atreides have some serious collector items, they don't have a physical shop, it's all Internet mail order (though they do often have stands at GenCon, big Magic tournaments, etc). I've...

Thanks for the WotC link from 2004, glad to see I'm only 2 years behind the times :-)

Some PC races have Level Adjustment (LA) e.g. Drow have a LA = +2, hence a Drow Fighter1 has an Effective Character Level (ECL) of 3. Normally such a character would be considered unbalanced to be played alongside e.g. Level1 humans. Hence to play one in a campaign might mean everybody starting...

PT1 is free to everyone. If you did the Pre-Order before the necessary cut-off dates (31 May for PT1, 30th June PT2) you should have received emails with Discount Coupons to allow you to download PT2 and PT3 for free. If you should have received these emails but didn't then try contacting White...

One thing we have used cohorts for IMG is as a "spare" PC in case the "main" PC dies (and doesn't get raised). We generally assume that the main PC trusts the cohort enough to share with them important plot info e.g. copy of a treasure map, command words for magic items, etc. So rather than a...

In our group the players no longer know their exact XP score, it's handled by the DM. Obviously the players know what level they are and sometimes the DM will give hints "you're about halfway though your level", "there's a chance you might level up tonight so think ahead what feats you might...

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/fracc/953717200 Mysteries of the Moonsea is brand new (June 2006), set in Forgotten Realms and claims to provide a "campaign arc of adventures that will take characters (if they survive) from 1st level all the way to 18th". No idea if it's any good...

Demon God's Fane by Monte Cook is for 14-15th level, I think it might be v3 not v3.5 so could need some tweaking http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_7057.html

You might something of use at http://www.old-maps.co.uk. Also, when you say "London", do you mean a specific part as it's quite a big place! For example, Google found me this page which is Greenwich area. http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/greenwich/main/maps.htm Here's an interesting map showing...

In such a campaign you'd have to factor in low-level magic such as Purify Food & Drink, Detect Poison, etc which may or may not be readily available depending on the setting. In a recent campaign I played in, our PCs visited a village where they became sick after drinking water from a tainted...

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here? If the PCs beat a minion and then lose to the BBEG how is that anti-climatic? Anti-climatic would be barely ekeing out a victory over the minion and then stomping all over the BBEG.

What if a group of four 19th-level characters can defeat a Bbn20, but can't defeat a Wiz17, then the Wiz17 must be more powerful?

If the PCs first defeat the BBEG's bodyguard (Bbn20) will they really feel cheated and robbed when they later face the BBEG (Wiz17)? Not if they're having to contend with 9th level spells being thrown their way. And in any case why should the players ever learn exactly what CRs any of their foes...

For some reason the debate about appropriate CRs for the various demon lords, ancient dragons, etc just makes me think of Spinal Tap "but this goes to 11" :-) I don't see why a demon lord necessarily has to be "more powerful" (as measured on a CR scale) than its underlings, even in as chaotic a...

Assuming that what you mean by "typical" is a pseudo-European-feudalism type world - PC "adventurers" (of any class/race) are by definition bizarre and strange compared to the peasant farmers who make up the vast majority of the population. In which case it does make some kind of sense that the...

I'm not sure if it was the absolute first session, but certainly within the first 3 sessions of a campaign we had a TPK where the entire group got killed by goblins, only for the DM afterwards to realise the goblin stats were wrong (can't remember if it was a typo in the module or if the DM...

Gundark - do you DM all the time in your group? The way our group (of 6 people) resolves different people having irresolvably different ideas for what they want is to take it in turns DMing, with 4 of us having DM'd at one time or another. In our group, not only does each DM have a different...

Wow, thanks to Land Outcast and ThirdWizard for their interesting magic items. My next campaign will be set in the Ice Barbarians land in Greyhawk so some of those cold-themed items could come in handy. Anybody else got anything to share?