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Brilliant stuff. Sounds like you're running a great game. Thanks for giving us a great Maptools demo.

Then enjoy this (incidentally, Chris once said he used to warm up for gigs playing this, lol).

Thanks, D. I'm actually heartened that somebody here beat me to mentioning him. CS was - damn it - is one of my heroes. His playing inspired me to take up the bass. His riffs and technique still ring around my head whenever the opportunity arises. Saw him perform so many times. Gutted it'll...

Not only does this beauty look like it belongs in the MM, it had teeth running all the way from its throat to its stomach. Anyone else feel a stat block coming on?

I'm very happy to collaborate. Apart from anything else, that'll help keep me from letting it slide. Not sure if we need a site to do that but please PM me if you have specific suggestions. Thanks.

I can almost guarantee you that the strapline that's causing so much consternation was written by a sub- or features editor. What Damien says is that he's always 'dismayed' when RPGs are left out of 'the popular discussion about books and reading', which is far more nuanced and reasonable...

Two thousand words a day is very high output for a module writer or it would be if it had to be sustained constantly. Two thousand words a day for ten days every month isn't easy but at least it lets the writer get his breath back. I was a journalist. Two thousand words a day was considered...

What a shame. It's always a little disheartening when players don't bite. Such a great theme for a dungeon, too. You're right though, I was thinking about the Dragon adventure. I remember it being popular and it certainly caught my imagination back then. I never ran it or played it though. I...

Apologies. When I looked at this list, I thought I recognised some of the adventures, specifically The Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga and The Gates of Firestorm Peak. I thought they were from old issues of Dungeon and Dragon. Now I realise they're all second edition modules, none of which I have...

Then again, I've just clocked this… Up to four combatants can grapple a single opponent in a given round (PHB p157). Maybe your four-tentacled monster with improved grab can attempt multiple grapples against its target after all. Evil. Edit: I still think the whole thing about -20 and not...

Notice the semi-colon and what follows it. Dex bonus to AC, threatening an area and being able to attack other opponents are things you cannot do if you are grappling, unless you have improved grab. For these purposes, if you have improved grab, you are not considered grappling. I can see why...

Improved grab allows you to 'start a grapple'. If you are already grappling your opponent, you cannot start to grapple that opponent. The grapple has already started.

I'm not sure if the FAQ, Errata or any of the old Sage Advice articles tackle this but my reading of it has always been that any remaining attacks can be directed either at the grabbed opponent or other opponents. I think the wording is there to emphasise the difference between the -20-based...

Others here have far more experience at conversion than I do but when I look at a module to convert, I look for the most difficult encounter and try to convert all the essential features of that. Then I take a view as to its EL. I'll consider it reasonable that its EL should be three higher than...

I'd just about given up on the idea of anyone responding but thank you for replying. Having said that... Oh. My. God. What have I done? That would be a task of epic proportions. Nevertheless, I have TRoSP and I'll take a look at it. You make really great suggestions in your second reply, too...

I can't believe that no one has yet asked the obvious question. Why did the fighter stare at the potion? It said 'concentrate' on the bottle. Ugh. :blush:

The latter is my preferred approach and I agree that it can take quite a lot of time and work. After all, you're trying to provide a satisfying encounter with risk of PC failure (and all that entails), but not a TPK gotcha. It's further complicated when you take into consideration how smart the...

First off, thank you very much for the reply and for the articulate explanation of the reasoning behind the table entries. (Ah, and you caught me mid-edit, too. I should go back to drafting replies in a word processor…) I understand the logic more clearly now, although I suspected something...

Very interesting. I'll try it out, thank you. The only concern I have is some of the break points or modifier thresholds might be a little hard to rationalise in terms of the fiction (I'm thinking of those weapons - especially melee weapons - that see a modifier go from +3 to 0 over 1 AC when...

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