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The sorcerer indeed had assay and greater assay spell resistence. The ropers were just to busy eating the thief and the fighter and could not reach the others. If you combine ropers with extreme landscape advantage I would say that ads +2 ECL. I don´t think playing these beasts as overconfident...

I ran some roper encounters when my party entered some caves in the night below campain. Its a ad&d boxed set so I just converted them to 3.5. My group was about level 10 so the three ropers probably should have taken them down without a problem. I fact without fudging the dice the beasts got...

printed dice rolls... The world is coming to an end. Who wants to play a d20 game without rolling the dice? That is so big a part of this game I can´t even contemplate it. I pray to Pelor that 5th edition does not include your very own d20 number sheet. Zanticor

Oops I tought that was ad&d must have been the old first edition rules. I don´t have my books around. Converting to new editions is such a messy thing. Zanticor

I´m amazed by the outcome of the poll. I never want a combat scene to last 10 minutes! In four hours of play you would have to fight at least 12 encounters at that rate. If they are 12 solo weak encounters that might be doable but I greatly prefere an interesting encounter once per session than...

I wouldn´t come down on illusionists for casting the shadow stuff to hard. You could just ban the highten spell - earth feath trick that makes the the shadow caster gnome so over the top. Casting spells a level lower than the one your using and giving it an other save is quite a fair trade for...

I´m not supprised this misunderstanding was down to my experiences in the previous systems. It seems to come down to my dislike of the turn based game D&D is. But lets not start a edition war about ad&d verses 3th. I seem to be behind the times. Do you guys agree with me that spells like sleep...

I´ve got a very silly question that me and my players have been arguing about for almost four years now. I converted from the AD&D system which said inititive was not so important since everything is supposed to work at the same time. Back in the old days you would kill the monsters and they...

I can´t imagine nobody mentioned tentacles of forced... I mean Edvard´s Black Tentacles yet. To me that is the one that saves my players most of the time and makes my players cringe when they see a mage. Include it please or at least its smaller brother web. Zanticor

Graz'zt, my friends, is behind everything. Especially everything concerning the pc´s. Why do you think a PC can grow in strength from a lonely peasant to a plane sailing hero within the space of just one month? Why does he always meet level appropriate encounters and no more then four a day? Why...

On the discussion on what part of the game should be challenging I think the ony answer can be the creativity of the girls and guys sitting around the table. Sometimes that should be a question about what is the best tactical sollution to a battle, sometimes it is about what the crazy dwarf they...

The campaign world I´m running originaly did´nt have to much of a political structure. I just figured there was a standard king who send out his knights to govern the lands. Kinda medieval european style. But my players went of the beaten campaign track forcing me to create a church system with...

Spoiler alert! For DM's only As a DM I had a real blast with the city. It gives you the ability to trow an enormous amount of reinforcements at your party that keeps on dieing and refilling. My guys could only survive by teleports and almost started crying when one of those awful Ixan or thief...

Just go with a guy first shooting arrows of pestilence at the army and call him the god of heelers. I find that mixing in some Greek gods is usually the best way of introducing chaotic gods into a campaign. They are just so much more unpredictable, ambiguous and complex then anything D&D has...

Hi thedmstrikes, I too had to subtract and add a lot to make the adventure playable for 3.5 rules. The main problem seems to be that ad&d monsters are a lot less deadly so keeping things balanced is less of a problem. Nowadays you need to make absolutely sure your guys are at the right power...

Check your mail Tyrian. Hopefully it came through. Anyone else need some night below help? For me the dungeon has been a great ride to DM. Great and very long because my group has been at it for three years now and we're on the verge of starting our attack on Shaboath. The conversion made by...

No I don 't believe silent image and the like work like that. Maybe if you infuse them with shadow like a shadowcraft mage (RoS) can it will work like that but I guess even that would be a house rule. Zanticor

It is exactly that description of disbelief that is quite problematic to me. It says that if you fall through an illusory floor you know it was illusionary. Does that mean you just fall in without saves? What about if you were poking it with a stick before but failed your save? Does the person...

Aside from the discussion on interaction with sound, can some of the more experienced illusionists give an insight in how they handle the interaction/automatic disbelieve problem. For instance is you step into an illusion do you immediately disbelieve it? So do you get a reflex save for the pit...

I got hooked on the Jollydoc train way back when you were running the Age of Worm and still can't leave your treads alone. Praise and thanks from a long time fan. Keep up the good work so I can continue to use your stories as an inspiration for my own games (I recently beheaded one of my players...