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Here's a list of White Dwarf monsters I've converted. I've got most issues from 5 to 55, and frankly there aren't many more left that I am too excited about -- the bottom of the barrel is pretty weird. White Dwarfs are great to collect, though -- not crazy expensive, but very inspirational. In...

Applying the Makeover Out of curiosity, I wanted to look at a beholder statblock with Mearls' changes incorporated. No one seems to like barrage, so I've left that ability out. This is what I've got: BEHOLDER ___________ CR 13 LE Large aberration Init +6; Senses all-around vision, darkvision...

I've distributed review copies of D1 and parts of D2 to a few people. Gstor, Send me an email. Rhun, Did you get my email last week?

I read in another thread (maybe over at Dragonsfoot?) that the thoul appears in the Blackmoor campaign setting. If true, I'd be interested to see what it looks like. Is it OGC?

A little wackier, but interesting route if your DM would let you, is to try an eldritch weaver from Green Ronin's Advanced Player's Manual. This is essential a 3e version of the old "paths of magic" approach, whereby the mage can advance by choosing a handful of thematically related threads to...

I think you are really barking up the wrong tree here. Merric is probably the most even-handed defender of all editions of the game. Why don’t you take a deep breath, and remember, we’re all just talking about games where big, grown, bearded men roll dice and pretend to be elven sorceresses...

I'm trying to make a fighter trained as a Retiarius -- this is the gladiatorial fighting style with a net and trident. Any suggestions on feats to take to make this build work, or at least not completely suck? Are there any feats that would allow my Retiarius to use both the net (a ranged...

An additional but Open (!) take on the death knight template was done by Scott Greene and appeared in Mongoose's Necromancy: Beyond the Grave book. DnDChick has a groovy 3.5-updated version on her website: http://members.aol.com/CountryGrrlHere/necromancy.html Although I believe the 3.5 update...

This is why I think thread necromancy is great -- I never saw this thread the first time out. I always thought the Oz books would make a cool setting for a short-term change of pace. It's a weird, very American take on fantasy. Eric Shanower's Oz graphic novels are a pretty good non-canonical...

We absolutely are all talking about the same Dragon. There was a very, very weird schizophrenia going on in that magazine during this time. The key is to read the Sorcerer's Scroll articles from the period -- while Dragon was producing some excellent variant rules, the Scroll was pushing a very...

Yeah, I think for me those few lines in the DMG exhorting DMs to make the game their own got drowned in the many, many Sorcerer's Scroll articles and other Official Pronouncements (tm) from Lake Geneva that declared "If you aren't playing the game as written, you aren't playing Official AD&D...

In some ways I think grognards are the single worst group to consult in doing this kind of research because, despite their vast experience, they tend to be (1) tremendous outliers and (2) extremely resistant to any kind of change. Many of the grognards (and in the interest of full disclosure...

Finally posted my conversion of "The Halls of Tizun Thane" to my website: http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/rul/dm/Tizun_Thane.html

I hear you, brother. Let's assume, if only for argument's sake, that your statement is true -- that there are fewer different ways of killing anyone in 3e. But those ways happen much more frequently, enough so that the lethality rates are approximately the same between editions. Dead is dead...

What's a fundamental mechanic, though? Is save-or-die really a fundamental mechanic to D&D? You compare avoiding save-or-die to lowering the basketball rim to 8 ft, but I see it more akin to adding a shot clock -- something intended to speed the game up and make it more enjoyable. Ultimately...

You do realize that MLB lowered the pitcher's mound in 1969 to give the hitters more of chance to hit the long ball? And you must not watch much professional basketball, because the rules for that game are constantly changing.

Even when henchmen and hirelings are generally nothing more than an anonymous collection of hp? I've been in a lot of games where the players never even bothered to give their followers serious names. I remember a troupe of linkboys named "Link," "Lank," "Lunk", "Gunk," "Munk," and (I think)...

I have to admit, I do not mourn the loss of those massive retinues that used to follow 1st edition PCs around, any more than the players ever mourned the loss of any one of those unnamed, unloved arrow-catchers. Cripes, it was not unusual for players to occasionally forget one or two of their...

Gygaxian prose has its not inconsiderable charms, particularly to those exposed to it at a formative age. To this day, I still keep my 1st edition DMG handy for occasional inspiration. But let’s face it, from a technical standpoint that same prose is often not very good. I can completely...

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