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To your last question first, I don't think the source of a compulsion should have any bearing on which of any competing compulsions the recipient of the spell should prioritise. Under the subheading Multiple Mental Control Effects on page 172 of the 3.5 PHB, it says that the recipient of...

I too have watched the videos and - apart from the fact that I think their videos betrayed a lack of experience of level design - I agree with the OP. It isn't quite what I was hoping for, which was something along the lines of NWN. Someone upthread said X-COM was the template for a turn-based...

3.x really clicked for me when it came out and I still find it an easy ruleset to remember and run, even at relatively high level. I never saw a reason to move to another game that positioned itself (not unreasonably) as being a variant of the game I was already playing. Some of my players moved...

People who have come across Traveller in the last couple of decades in particular tend to make assumptions about it being most suitable for a certain kind of SF game, because it has a well-developed setting, The Imperium, that looks like something out of the Asimov era. However, the original...

Recently -- by which I mean over the last year and a bit -- I have been replaying the Baldur's Gate series of computer games, specifically the Enhanced Editions. I played the originals back in whenever it was, developing a protagonist and party of comrades through BG1, Tales of the Sword Coast...

I do pretty much what Delericho does. If a new PC is joining because the player's previous character has died, what happens to the dead character's gear depends solely on its recoverability and the desires of the survivors. If a player retires a PC, that character keeps all of his belongings. He...

Great post, thank you. It got me thinking, so I looked up the 3.5 DMG. Sure enough it mentions a player taking mapping duty but not in the form of a suggestion that it may be a good idea. It simply assumes a player might be doing so. Here's what it says: "When one of the players is drawing a...

Yes to all of the above. Mesopotamian: I can't remember which 3e-era issue of Dragon had the core pantheon in but they suited an idea for a campaign I had right down to the ground. And fortunately, one of my players was keen, too, and played a superb cleric. In that game, the Mesopotamian...

Chronicler is as good a reason as any for a thread necro (especially as it necros a thread I hadn't seen first time round). I've had such a player in one of my games. The player volunteered himself for the role; it was not one anybody had suggested. And he was really good at it, too. Beer...

I agree entirely. And 5e's goodberry is on a par with other spells of its level, you're right. But it's also more powerful than in previous editions, which is something that, until I caught up with this thread, I hadn't noticed. Perhaps 'abuse' was too strong a term but I was addressing the...

Seems to me like you could treat the skill similarly to knowledge (local) or knowledge (nobility). In other words, warfare is such a broad subject that it's reasonable that the skill doesn't confer a tangible benefit in every martial situation, especially if the PC's adventures take him to far...

Going back to the OP for a mo, isn't part of the potential for abuse down to the way 5e has changed how Goodberry works? I can't speak for 4e's version but, prior to that, you had to cast the spell on freshly picked berries. So, irrespective of how long your post-casting enchanted berries...

I knew it. Someone's been spiking my drinks. For years.

It's made worse by the misleading wording. The rule is under the heading 'Draw or Sheathe a Weapon' but only describes drawing one. I always rule that it applies to both. Having said that, I like the 5e system better. I've seen less angst from players. That might have something to do with the...

Apart from being one hell of an endorsement for the original module, that is impressive. Also, I love the sequel's title.

The entire back catalogue? Wow! I must have missed that announcement. That's brilliant. I don't mind 3.0 being left till last but, given its significance, I didn't want it to be forgotten either. Thanks for the info.

Started on Ro7P for 3e couple of weeks ago but work has prevented me from getting very far. As I said to @Oryan77 earlier in the thread, I've started with Uninvited Guests. I'm about two thirds of the way through but I have less time to spend on it than I thought I would, so it's going to be...

I want everything everyone else seems to want. But I also want the 3.0 books and something tells me not to hold my breath.