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We have an AoW campaign hitting levels 15-16 now. In recent levels, we've seen combats slow down, not during the actual fighting, but in the prep time. Basically, we almost never get caught in a fight that we do not know is coming, so we are always prepped before the swords come out. Since we...

In fact, this is a handy way to keep those recurring villains from, well, recurring. Turn the body into an undead and stow it away somewhere (preferably shielded from divination), and someone is going to have a really hard time bringing that guy back. Sort of a poor-man's "trap the soul" spell.

It depends on your group. Are the CG and LG characters able to get along? If so, then the LG character and your LE character may get along, too. However, the CG character and your LE character will probably be at odds with one another on some things. It really depends so much on your group's...

I think Wizards made a huge HUGE strategic mistake with d20 Past. Aside from the book itself being a poor quality release (not just writing, but also size and in paperback) but I think they missed the boat on a potentially huge line of products. Were I in charge of the modern line at that point...

Our crew is approaching our 7-year anniversary of gaming once a week, and we haven't had a single session without beer. We even have a designated beer fridge. On the rare occasion we run out of beer before the half-way point of the evening, we take a break to make a beer run. We've also had wine...

A couple of thoughts: The Rapture - I think this could a great "end/new beginning" to some of the published settings like FR. In one instant, the gods decide to call it quits on this plane and start over. In a flash, every NPC of interest to at least one of the gods, say everyone over 5th...

Mine is the old druid from 2E. After 4 years, I still get people telling me that the meaning of my screen just hit them one day. :-)

One important point to consider when looking for a game combat model is that a "realistic" model should probably not be your goal. Rather, if you want realism, then your goal should be a model that "seems realistic." In other words, if I wrote a series of insanely complex rules that took every...

I have one nitpick on the definitions on railroading. I think RR-ing is not when the PC's have no choices; it's when the PC's believe that they have no choices. A good DM should be able to take a fairly railroady adventure and still give the illusion that the PC's are in the driver's seat the...

I forget what the exact creature was, but in our AoW campaign, we were near the top of a waterfall fighting a regenerating flying humanoid outsider. Our hits weren't doing much to him because of the regeneration, and his spell resistance was high enough that our spells weren't knocking him out...

Definitely go with the mounted rules. It's what is intended for just this situation. (There was a thread around here a couple of months back about the same thing, and there were some further rules citations and clarifications that were useful for this situation, if you can find the thread.) I...

Here are some that I came up with for how to get into a guarded castle. 1. Combat - Kill the guards to enter the castle. 2. Combat / Bypass Obstacle - Swim the moat and climb the wall around the castle while the guards are firing arrows at you. When you get to the top, kill the guards. 3...

Other ideas to make it interesting: Put the troll up against the fighter, but have him call out the fighter for one-on-one combat, because he "likes his style". If the troll starts losing bad enough, have him throw down his weapon and "yield to the better swordsman." The great thing about...

I'm in a similar campaign, and my cleric/contemplative has been as close to a pure caster as a cleric can get. (She went from 5th to 13th level without ever drawing her sword.) I would recommend Pelor for the anti-undead goodness. Pick the Sun domain and the Glory domain (from Complete Divine)...

My d20 Modern campaign (referenced in my sig) was structured this way. Some further notes: We refered to the adventures as episodes, and went on hiatus after the "season finale". A typical episode lasted around 5 sessions. At the beginning of each session, we had "the opening credits", where...

No, but half-fiend or half-celestial do turn the base creature into an outsider, and without bumping up the HD.

I wrote up a document at one point outlining a sort of step-by-step process for injecting politics into a game, but now I can't find it. So here's just a much shortened version: As Dave said, all politics is about power. Start out by identifying all of the major power bases in the setting. Then...

You can get "Classically Modern" for free from http://www.freewebs.com/merlinsworkshop/CMsap.htm it does what you are talking about and a whole lot more. It breaks out all of the various fantasy abilities like spellcasting, shapechanging, etc. into feats and talent trees but then also does all...

If you don't want to buff his stats with an item, then give him a non-item, such as land or a title, even a promotion in his church. If it has to be a "found item", then it could be a deed that grants ownership of a piece of land or a noble title, or a non-magical relic which his church will...

Thinking about the multiple spells books... The "Blessed Book" seems to have an error in the description. It says in the SRD that "A wizard can fill the 1,000 pages of a blessed book with spells without paying the 25 gp per page material cost." But then in the magic overview section, it says...