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Use Dismissal on some of the less likely to save, less likely to get back characters. Out of sight, out of mind. Have Ashardalon send an emissary to ally with the party. In the middle of a big throw-down when it looks like the tide is turning, Ashardalon switches back. He should have a...

I'm not quite sure on how the rules for this work out - a room where there are a bunch of vampires in gaseous form. The vampires use their slam attack on the party while in gaseous form to drain levels away. If the dungeon isn't limited to a single plane, you could have a lot of fun bouncing...

My party has become quite adept at converting a Pair of Slippers of Spider Climbing to a pair of Slippers of Any Monster Climbing. Almost without fail one of the members of the party will climb up on the (huge, colossal, gargantuan) monster's back and whale away on it. Common sense would...

My sorceror has an uncanny ability to be killed and otherwise eaten during adventuring. When he comes back from the dead, should he get access to his remaining spell slots for the day? I looked in the SRD and it says that wizards lose their spells, but it makes no mention of sorcerors. If not it...

I'm pretty certain I made a mistake in interpreting wind walk the other night. The spell description says that the players can't cast spells while wind walking. Can they a) attack corporeal creatures, b) attack wind-based creatures, or c) turn undead? Thanks, mypetrock

Long time listener, first time caller... I'm a big fan of the Knights. I look forward to reading up on their adventures. But not crushing the phylactery bothers me. If the dragon stormed the keep and got to the phylactery legitimately he should definitely crush it to even the odds of the fight...

Subterrean assault I would combine the subterranean assault with something designed to cause panic. It is unlikely that the panic effect will hurt the party, but all of the Commoners in the city stampeding out the gates will make it more difficult for the party to protect them. There are a...

Plant feats These feats are indeed situational. In my campaign I came up with a scenario where the party is battling against a large colony of plants - fungus, trees, vines, bushes, ... you name it. The NPC fungus druids that can assist the party have these feats because that's what their world...

CR always depends on the situation I matched my party (3x12, 3x13) up against a Orcwort plant (MM2 CR 20). After shredding the monk (119 points in a full attack action) who wandered too close the rest of the party sat back and engaged the plant from range. It looks like it will take a while to...

Check the story hours. One of the guys there has started a Return story hour. mypetrock

Check HoNFS *spoilers* *spoilers* In Heart of Nightfang Spire, the vampire Gulthias is using the heart of the dragon Ashardalon as his coffin. It radiates unholy energy that animates the mass of undead in the crypt. Perhaps you could use something like that i.e. some part of an extremely...

On the 3E BB, someone posted a thread suggesting that his players should campaign to win the Blood War. After getting laughed at a bit someone posted this thread about the Blood War: http://pub88.ezboard.com/f3ebb85430frm6.showMessage?topicID=1586.topic A bit of planar history. As for the...

I'll let someone else tell you what is acceptable or not. My opinion is that you should go ahead and post the altered encounter below the original encounter (possibly directly beneath or in an appendix) or alternately post the new encounter in some forum where people can get your altered...

I agree with you 100%. Mature green dragons are a whole lot more potent. But then again so are the players. Fighters get iterative attacks a lot sooner. Sorcerors get a lot of spells to deal with a threat. And while this may originally have been designed as that doesn't mean that in its...

Conversions While I may be slightly offended by the tone of Leopold's remarks, I cannot argue with their substance. The job of the converter is to convert the module from 1/2E to 3E. Essentially that boils down to stat blocks, trap ratings, and EL calculations. In large part the process of...

One of the things that I've really started to cut down on is excessive planning during pressure situations. In some pressure situations I get away from turn-based to real-time timing. I think it adds some tension to the situation and forces the players to make the decisions that the might have...

I'll start on D3. Post your conversion of D1-2 when you get it done. mypetrock

I'm getting started converting D1-2. Has anyone beat me to it? SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER In one encounter area, there is a lich where "The lich's spell level is 20," and his spell list includes Time Stop. I know I'm supposed to convert directly from the source material, but this one...

I've been playing in a campaign that we started when 3E first came out. We have been getting together once a week for 2-3 hours per session on a week night pretty regularly since. We have gone through Sunless Citadel, Forge of Fury, Speaker in Dreams, a conversion of Slave Pits of the Undercity...

Usually when our group is in combat, once they kill a critter, we remove the critter from the board. But what do you do when a whole mess of critters (20+ and counting) charges the party and dies in a big heap? How do you handle the dead bodies? How many critters does it take to start filling up...