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It is a 3.5 Edition D&D book. I am not familiar with Star Wars Battlefront but what you wrote appears to be fairly similar. The Victory Point method detailed in Heroes of Battle allows the party to perform various activities which result in victory points. Near the end of the battle, these...

Do you/the DM have access to Heroes of Battle? If so, there is a section titled "Rules of War" that discusses PC's actions in massive battle situations. Part of these rules focus on "Victory Points" as a way for PCs -- even low-level ones -- can affect the outcome of a battle. Among the options...

Has anyone used the following variant rules in a campaign they have run/played in? I am contemplating the use of these variants for my next campaign and was curious as to what people thought of them. Contacts Honor Reputation

You are right on the specific example of Dark Sun (I had to look it up when I got home from work.). The broader point still remains, though: banning spells does not mean an incapable DM. It could mean a DM attempting to create a specific environment or a unique challenge for the players.

You seem to be assuming that banning is occuring exclusively for power reasons as opposed to flavor or campaign reasons. For example, a game set in Dark Sun requires spells like Create Water to be banned. The alternative defeats the point of playing Dark Sun.

Have you looked at, or considered, E6/E8? If I were to run a low-magic, 3.5 campaign it would be using one of those two variants.

I started in 1991 with hand-me-down 1st Edition books... so, I am not a 2nd Edition player but I did start during that time period, and our games were informed by the same cultural events that informed *traditional* 2nd Edition gamers.

My Mentzer Basic/Expert books are PDFs! Even if they weren't, a couple of 64 page, soft-cover books are considerably easier to carry around than my hard-cover books. @mlund - I have a rather large collection of PDFs, all of which were paid for, in-full from Paizo. The insinuation that we are...

Also, take a look at using these free adventures from WotC. They are all generic and can easily be dropped into the Realms. As you are a newer DM, I'd suggest using some of these modules coupled with some from Dungeon magazine. Free adventures!

Yeah, the ability to build an optimized character does not translate into the ability to play an optimized character.

Yes. And those funds will be generated through regular business operations. What WotC loses by D&D not being a Core brand is the ability to request additional funds from corporate to build upon their existing marketing and R&D budgets. The breakdown between Core/Non-core should not be used as...

Um, no. That's not what Hasbro said. Hasbro considered 50M to be the point of differentiation between Core and Non-core brands. Core brands would receive financing from corporate for product development whereas Non-core brands would have to fund product development through existing cash flows...

You have a few options available to you. First would be to play one of Paizo's Adventure Paths (Shackled City, Age of Worms, and Savage Tide) and reflavor it to the Realms. Most of the conversions are pretty straight-forward. If you do have any problems or concerns you could always ask for...

I think a lot of people are using Obsidian Portal to host their campaigns. I'd suggest checking out that site and clicking on the "Campaigns" tab. There are hundreds of campaigns there. Obsidian Portal

If you use the random treasure rules in the DMG, be prepared for a large degree of variance in terms of total treasure received and, in some cases, a wealth disparity between characters. In my hexcrawl, for example, I rolled an EL 2 treasure that included a gem valued at 7,000 gp and an EL 3...

I am a huge fan of Greyhawk. I love my 1983 boxed set; I love my City of Greyhawk boxed set. After years (decades!) of play, my sets are pretty well worn down, falling apart but taped back together. Over the years Greyhawk has transitioned quite a bit. The original boxed set (not including...

Why should WotC care about you as opposed to the fans who made the setting popular? For 25 years the setting has included these iconics and has been a viable setting to those people.

Using your method, the average stat array is ~16, ~14, ~13, ~12, ~10, ~8. That's a normal PC with an aggregate modifier of +6. @Dannyalcatraz 's array of 15, 15, 13, 11, 8, 6 is certianly in-line with the above array. However, due to the frequency of odd results, it produces a character that is...

Swift Hunter's Handbook As to which concept is better... it depends. How long will the campaign go? What environment will they be adventuring in? What sort of encounters will they be facing? When you change these assumptions around you change the incentive structure, and therefore the...

This is one of the primary purposes of the hexcrawl I am writing: to make a campaign world that makes sense, while including every officially published monster. (Note: this includes all WotC books, Dragon/Dungeon magazine, and the miniatures line.) In general, I think that this is the best...