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I have savage species and it has sample monster classes and what not. It is close to racial levels (except that a creature has monster classes = to it's ECL and it can't multiclass until it attains max level in it's class. Compared to racial levels, it is quite dismal. Racial Levels are so...

The table is probably wrong (eyeballing the value of the abilities granted), the description is probably closer to a balanced value. You are the DM. The prices are merely suggestions. Your word is final. -E

I've always seen it as: Clerics are to white magic as Wizards are to black magic. Healing just isn't part of the Wizardly archetype... -E

33) Winter will not lift. The PC's must find out why and correct the seasonal flow. This works for: D&D: Ice creature or sorcerors doing. Or magical Crystal fell to earth. OA: Evil Yuko-on-na has stopped the season (or captured the dragon responsible for the season). d20 Modern: somebody...

I like this advice, it is the way I handle things quite often. I like letting the players do the work. Keep notes on what they create so you can be consistent or award experience points to players that keep thorough notes. I like to take a generic city map and define 4-8 areas. General areas...

Dark Matter (what? it is out of print!)- best source book for a setting I've ever read. I wish I'd bought two. The 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms Adventures hardback book (used to be worth cash, a roommate of mine destroyed the cover of my book- spilled water on it...). Anyway it is still a...

Iron Satyr was a good adventure... The name put me off (and so did the cover art), but these were the good elements: 1) lots of small locations ( My group and I prefer several small areas with lots of stuff to do as opposed to a map with locations 1-50). My adventures are usually like this...

I thought Lodoss was based on the writer's D&D campaign the first time I saw it. The archetypes line up exactly... So do most of the creatures. So pretty much I agree with Remathilis, it would be super easy to have an adventure in Marmo... But the original thread poster is right. I didn't...

I just wish the crystal thing would go away. or I could get an electronic copy so I could switch all the crystal things to something else. I just don't like the crystal thing, it is a flavor thing. Maybe I'm more chocolate than vanilla. I understand this is a personal problem, but everytime...

Ryan S. Dancey is the OGL and d20 prime mover (he couldn't have done it without Peter Adkinson buying TSR). The license is based on the GNU license by Richard M Stallman (iconoclast, genius, however you want to see him, Stallman is a very important idealist in the world of software). You can...

Wormy, although Downer now in dungeon is quite good. The comedy 1/2 level spells from issue 72. My group jokes about detect evil 1/2 . We might have made it up, but if we did it is inspired by that article. It consists of point blank asking: "Are you evil?" This spell is reversable. The...

I'm a big fan of small and simple. My home brew campaigns are built like lego buildings, many small simple peices snapped together (hopefully seamlessly), to make a bigger whole. Have you run any pre-made modules or games? -E

I only have a 3.0 DMG. I read it quite a bit when I first got back into the game. I used to read it for different reasons- 1st time was for general use, then what was good for characters, then what was good for campaign creation. I folded over pages I used all the time during games (then I...

I'd buy it... I have a subscription to Dungeon. And I like it. But the most useful thing I have is the Dragon Magazine CD set. I regret the day Wizards killed the Dungeon Magazine CD compendium. I don't want to keep a shelf of paper around forever (some of them I do, but they are the...

I have three suggestions: 1) Let somebody else DM. In fact make all of them DM. Maybe they need a little appreciation for what it takes to DM. This will also let you see their side as a player. You can arrange this with one shot sessions easiest. 2) Read Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastering...

I couldn't agree more. I like Monster Manuals to have layout, but to have stat blocks in rtf or txt as web enhancement too. Makes homebrewing sooo much easier (or tweaking existing, because then you can key your own monster conversion). For adventures, stat block and volume and page reference...

I've done the same a few times (Traveller, AD&D and Alternity Dark*Matter). The most successful was Dark Matter, AD&D and Traveller were munchkin silly. The difference was in the Dark Matter campaign, you didn't make your own stats or skills, the other players determined your rank for you. It...

I agree with this sentiment, but I don't allow hiding to deny dexterity (unless the hiding leads to a surprise round). The tactical advantage I do allow is flanking, and generally flanking for the rogue and getting the sneak attack on all attacks while flanking is plenty (and explicitly allowed...

My players loved it too! They were an unruly lot, barely foiled the evil plot and got into tons of trouble. But they were fantastic. And I had a good time. Be prepared for 'miscellaneous town encounters' not in the module. My players were highly interested in the districts and shopping...

Orc and Pie http://www.montecook.com/arch_lineos11.html Okay seriously: Your situation is what I like Dungeon Magazine for... but that is neither free nor online. The free online WoTC modules for 3E (no conversion because they have some old 1E and 2E modules that are awesome but require...