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Yeah, I kind of imagined it as being like The Emperor in Return of the Jedi zapping Luke.

Ditto. I kind of like it when PCs act sneaky and do things like spy, gather intelligence and make secret plans. I also like to play characters who do that (i.e. rangers, rogues, wizards). Was there a particular scenario you had in mind? Or just general play?

6400 confirmed kills in the GalCop database. Right on, Commander!

Exactly once: in 3.5e. The campaign was over the course of years. Started with a duskblade from lvl 1-10, then switched to a new character - a sorcerer - from 10 to 20. Felt pretty good to be there, I have to say! Campaign ended in a PC free-for-all, each trying to claim a nasty, beguiling...

Isle of Dread brings back fond memories. I presume you mean X1 from BECMI D&D (or did they update it?) I loved that the premise was to "explore the island". It was very open and sandboxy. Apart from a few keyed areas, though, it seems to mostly serve as an experimental module for DMs to play...

I haven't played TotM since 1e. Even then, as a DM, I would still have a "battlemat" effectively - the map of the dungeon (10 ft./square), sometimes even tactical maps (5 ft./square), so I would be loosely adjudicating actions based on that. Heck, we didn't even pay that much attention to...

It's under each cantrip entry in the spell descriptions. 5th level boosts damaging cantrips by another die, e.g. ray of frost is now 2d8 instead of 1d8. 11th and 17th are the other boosts. No need for PHB: use the Basic Rules

I quite like the Nothic as a creepy stalker. I really want to find a good way to use their Weird Insight ability. It's freaky that its very gaze rots your flesh. A trio of them might be a horrid, unsettling encounter. Use guerilla tactics, emerging from the shadows and...looking at you...then...

I run 3 school groups (7-10 year olds). All players choose a race from the PHB by browsing. None really know about feats and they only slightly acknowledge racial features like dragon breath, so choices tend to be based on perceived coolness and the pictures. Note the dragonborn outbreak! Group...

Lots of interesting ideas here. Three cheers for Backgrounds! I like the idea of an Urchin Warlock - a street kid who wandered into parts of the city that should have been forgotten and found Cthulhu-esque writings in the underground. Drawn back to the area inexplicably, he is eventually...

Could you maybe have more of a artisan-crafted club - hafted with a heavy ball and knobbly bits. Works like a mace (d6), but its wooden and its a "club". I'm really enjoying having a character (3.5e spirit shaman) that clobbers people with a club. It just seems more brutal and unusual than a...

I'd say easy, but some flexibility required in your ideas. I've done a few 3.5e and PF adventures now and all without the MM, just using the stuff from the free PDFs - be sure to get the supplementary stuff from the Rise of Dragons, too, for added monsters - if you have no MM yet. Monsters...

Not exactly earth-shattering (apart from earthquake), but Sorcerers have Daylight(3rd), Dominate Beast (4th), Insect Plague (5th), Fire Storm (7th) and Earthquake (8th), which are not on the Wizzies list.

Thanks! The mobility section was very informative. D&D PCs wear this stuff all day so its probably even more like a second skin to them. What a racket!

Eberron - actually I'd rather just have an update pdf so I can keep using my 3.5e sourcebook. The "Last War has just finished" timing has a lovely, tense, dark, cold war feel full of factions and agents that I'd rather not have trivialised by marching the timeline on. Planescape Original...

I, too, questioned the removal of the very oft-used tactic of delaying in 5e. You actually all make good points for and against. I am leaning towards No Delay simply because I can't gauge the impact on the new system yet, though I may experiment with it to see what, if anything, breaks. A...

For me, the clunkiest bit is having backgrounds somewhere else. I think they would be better placed between Race and Class. Why? Because backgrounds give you set skill proficiencies while classes give you skill proficiency choices. I made about 17 characters in a row and found it more efficient...

Sounds like a typical guy out drinking on a Friday night! No, seriously...Presumably, his charisma problem predates his flaws, so maybe society's reactions to him led him to drink and lash out at the world. This giant of a man is perceptive, worldly and quite bright but people do not like him...

When in Rome... Thank you very much for your swift responses!:) I will try to help the group to see reason. I am a DM too, which is why it irks me when things like this happen. I think I became a DM to, hmm, well to have more control and run games properly. If they do not succumb to my...

Hi, folks. I have just started playing in a new group. The other night, the DM ruled something odd - but the others seemed to agree with him. Scene: Lich, flanked by me and other PC. Lich "casts defensively" but fails his Concentration check. Spell fizzles. Lich then moves away from us...