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I've had fantastic luck with them. A complex teleport-redirection trap for a Drow stronghold, a Clay Golem in a room that sprayed acid from multiple nozzles... Great stuff. They're awesome fun, but there needs to be something (synergistic) for non-Rogues to do. The fighters had to fight the...

D'oh! And this - THIS, specifically - is another reason I suck. Reason # 175,734.9

Hadn't thought about type remaining the same... I like that. Probably a good idea. I've used it before at +2 LA, and been generally pleased, but you do make a good point about the STR bonus (and everything else besides!)

Thanks for the feedback / help. I'm using 38 points for stats. Additionally, the character / player taking the template is a Sapphire Heirarch (Magic of Incarnum), so she's giving up two levels of spellcasting. AND, wearing medium armor (mithril full plate), will need to take a Feat to be able...

My personal observations, from similarly easily-overcome undead BBEGs. 1) Your HP blow. Increase them. If your PCs get any "rerolls" or "always at leasts", your Undead better, too. And assume every undead was created in a Desecrated area, unless they were created involuntarially. Unless they...

Hello! I was hoping to get some opinions on lowering the Level Adjust for Half-Celestial. In exchange for losing the spell-like abilities and the Spell Resistance, I was considering dropping the Level Adjust to +2. Can I get some other opinions on this?

Most of the blunt weapons (excluding the greatclub) have special qualities - the flails are tripping weapons, a potentially very important factor. The greatclub got deliberately hosed, I always figured, so that low-CR large creatures (Ogres, Hill Giants) who are dumb-but-strong can use it and...

As he draws his hands up, trying for a crushing overhead blow to take advantage of his overwhelming strength, you quickly run your weapon along his abdomen, and a red sheet of blood pours out, throwing off his stance and causing his blow to sweep downward weakly, sparing your life. As you hear...

Exactly! ... 'cept, moreso. Just like those one-sheets from the back of Dungeon, or the Map-Of-The-Week stuff, any castle map with reasonably realistic features - that is, door, entryway, armory, rooms for servants, rooms for masters, art halls, conservatories... I can easily just draw lines...

Hello, all! I have the cast, I have the crew; I have the ELs and CRs and mechanics and what-not... ...what I don't have is the stage. I'm looking for a castle. I'm not much of a mapper myself, so I'm looking for a map of the interior of a castle. I've already got some of the outlying...

A change my group evoked for a similar reason was to give +2 Skill Points to every class (and a general widening of the class skills lists). We play an extensively social game, with lots of Bluff, Sense Motive and Diplomacy and such, and Rogues were beginning to get *overplayed* (we were...

...wow. This isn't intended to be a flame (no, seriously), but I don't think I'd ever invite you back to my table after you tried to call me on "cheating" exactly one time. And I just mean that to say, "Wow, this hobby has enormous depth and variation to it". If we (D&D players) are just...

The Guard DID put up a struggle. For the few rounds it took all the Sapphire Guard to succumb to insanity, Xykon wasted a 9th level spell on a disrupted Meteor Swarm, was smote (smited? whatever...) twice, tripped, thumped in the chest (no big deal for his DR) and generally quite on the...

As "Referee-of-the-game", you want to make sure the decision you make for yourself would fly for the PCs. As "Creator-of-Challenges", you want to make your party work hard to earn those XPs. As "Teller-of-Stories" you want cool things to happen. And here, those three roles might have...

Huh. The more threads around here I read, the more I think my players - and myself - are really odd. Recalculating from buffs is really easy for us; everyone uses a "combat sheet" in addition to their character sheet, to keep track of their spells and miscellanious bonuses. Lose a spell, erase...

Dispel Magic! Dispel Magic! Hey, you over there - Dispel Magic! If you're taken by surprise, Dispel Magic! If you haven't had time to buff, Dispel Magic! If you're surprised, unless it's reeeeeeeally important you stay standing right where you are, Dispel Magic plus Teleport, while screaming...

Simplified Complexity. That is, there needs to be plotting and scheming aplenty, but you* need to remember that this is - ultimately - Epic Fantasy. Good is White (with the occasional light shading of grey), Evil is Black (with the occasional light shading of grey, and no racial insinuations...

...if your first complain was sarcasm, it's fallen on deaf ears. I hate it when DMs do that. The player playing a fighter doesn't know how to weild a +5 Vorpal Greatsword. The player playing the bard shouldn't need to be able to cite Shakespear (sp?). When I DM, I go for something along the...

Definitively, no. Save-or-sink powers are simply no fun. They're poor design. The idea - the "one big roll" - is a ton of fun. That "da-DUM" moment when your heart beats a little faster or you exhale the breath you were holding when you succeed - or feel your heart sink when you fail - is...

I definitely remember that one. Glimmerpane. My favorite Critical Threat ever. I've had him in three different campaigns, and the PCs never found out - because their plans never ran counter to Glimmerpane's for long enough for the mirror to try to destroy them. Very, very awesome villian.