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That's because after a few levels 'money' didn't actually mean anything in a typical campaign. You grew to the point where you could buy anything out of the PHB that you wanted, and the only alternatives were investing in castles and lands if your DM could be bothered!. Otherwise PCs just...

I apologise if I sounded like I was accusing you of being deficient as a DM, Mouseferatu! I know from your many previous posts that you are a very capable DM! I guess I am reacting to many other posts, not from you, where DMs don't seem to want to give the system a try. They don't say, as you...

That does seem to be a fairly common 'affliction'. In many ways, the presentation of the Planes seems to encourage this. Rather than 'different' they seem to be 'more': 'more weird', 'more powerful', 'more lethal'. In other words they are just a tool for scaling up adventures to high level...

I actually quite like your approach to the planets - and I could easily adapt some of your ideas to my own Shattered World campaign. In fact that campaign's cosmology does make use of planets to represent the 'planes'. I have the Sun and its opposite, the Darkheart, being the energy poles, and...

I think that you have to design a general distriubtion of levels in a 'typical' locale and then give factors for modifying it. Something like saying the 'average' craftsman is level 4, with a master being level 6-8, and mere apprentices levels 1-3. I'm sure that either a table or a simple...

What is it with DMs that they seem to fall apart at the thought of PCs being able to <gasp!> purchase magic items?!?! I know that it's a departure from the earlier position of D&D, where magic wasn't avaialble except as a 'gift' from the DM. And I appreciate that if you're still running a...

Glad to see there are others who can understand how I feel! Yes, your ideas for alternative locales that can still provide a real challenge for PCs are good ones. And I think you have the rub of it, too, that it's locales that can challenge, and they don't need to be on some Outer Plane for it...

I think I will chime in to point to the other side of the argument: why I don't like Planar Adventures. It's not that I haven't done them, in the past, but now I've created my own cosmology just so as I could avoid them. There are several things which combine for me to make Planar adventures a...

An interesting analysis c_c> It's actually rather handy to be able to describe the Undead in a variety of ways, since it gives ideas as to how to use them. I recall from fantasy campaigns many years ago I divided the Undead into: Animated Dead: the bodies of mortals given some animation...

I'm one of those who put down 'Fighter'. It's strange that when I DM I have no problems playing Rogues and Wizards, Sorcerers and Clerics. And yet when I game I flounder a bit. So I prefer the more limited set of Fighter options, which means I can worry about characterisation more and gaming...

In honesty, considering who the creature's master is (either a Druid or Ranger) then their skills and nature inducing it to grow isn't unreasonable. It's one of those things that I think could be called either way, but ought to be clarified pretty quickly in a FAQ.

Tomym's All-in-One Expectorant and Sinus Inhalation - guaranteed to loosen phlegm, cure a tickly cough and drain those aching sinuses. It does exactly what it says on the bottle - only a little too well!

They appeared in issue #311, and present some nice ideas (though whether some of the fringe benefit feats are worth it is open to debate). But yes, I think you are right here. Is there any particular reason sithramir, that you are going into this campaign saying 'I want to play an eladree and...

I think that that reflects that it's extremely hard to design a Prestige Class for a Class that: can't afford to lose any levels of spellcasting, since they're already a level behind from level 3 forwards; and doesn't have anything else to give up other than spellcasting levels, being as...

A big thank you to everyone for shiming in on this point. I vastly prefer the Cyclical Initiative system (and really miss it when I am playing Shadowrun or Earthdawn), but since it is different to most other systems out there, I need to get the point across properly. Marimmar I think you've...

Having joined a new D&D group last night, one with little experience of D&D since 1E days, we ran into the problem of explaining the cyclical initiative system. I tried to explain it, and I do understand it myself, but I flubbed it. So can you kind people help me put together a really good...

To be a Hero is to stand apart from Destiny. If your actions were merely Destined, there would be no Heroism, only Inevitability. Do not accept that any Fate is destined, or any course inevitable, especially not one decreed by the treacherous powers of the Dark. So do not yield to the...

Quite! :) Though I must say that the half-undead templates sound REALLY cool and VERY useful for a great many campaign worlds. I know that they'll find a place in the Shattered World!

Hmmm... not 'stupid' as in 'idiotic', but green slime does go on to clarify that it doesn't feel like the sort of thing a mighty demonic general does. He's earned his place in the hierarchy by being the most lethal killer around. Such a being is likely to want to show off his prowess, not stand...

The weasel does dance around in his master's robes. This poor guy had a fairly quiet and docile weasel familiar until the player who runs his familiar saw a documentary on weasels. Well, after seeing what little berserkers they can be, his familiar... changed. We feel very sorry for him; the...