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Then again, why do we need WOTC/Paizo to compile an index? Truly amazing site.

Three quick points: 1. It would be an enormous amount of work initially, then a fair bit thereafter. Can WOTC/Paizo cost-justify the expense? I doubt it. 2. If such an index existed, we would quickly see that too many WOTC products are produced without a clue about each other. There are a...

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Yep. I often refuse to buy a small pdf because it's priced 1/3 or 1/2 the normal cost of a large one. Unless that small pdf fits exactly what I need, when I need it, I'm not likely to get my money's worth. And just as Phil uses small pdf's as an opportunity to test out ideas, I buy them for the...

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! [Later] There's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace! And replaced it with a flagon. With the figure of a dragon. The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with...

My solution is simplicity itself: Have someone else in the group start a campaign. After character creation, the players are told that their characters are locked in a room. There's no food or water. The only way out is to solve a puzzle...with circles...and double arrows...and upside-down...

x/day abilities: The only problem with using tokens is that they are replenished with each encounter. Making the ability cost a lot of tokens limits it to high-level characters only. Making it cost very few tokens means it will be used in every encounter (if it's really useful). You almost need...

Not quite. What WOTC's system says is that a bonus to Str is worth a penalty to two mental stats. The opposite - that a penalty to Str is equal to a bonus to two mental stats doesn't automatically follow. Protecting a character from stat penalties is pretty easy - just don't play a class that...

I know you meant this to be rhetorical, but honestly I have absolutely no desire to work at a game company. A couple years back I helped some friends with editing their products and learned that I don't want my gaming to be my job. Once I got bogged down in the details of "Is this npc statted...

Here's something from a campaign I ran a while back. Fair warning: if the grendels get the drop on a party, they're much tougher than their CR would suggest. Grendel Troll Large Giant Hit Dice 6d8+18 (45 hp) Initiative +1 (Dex) Speed 40', swim 30' AC 19 (-1 Size, +1 Dex, +5 natural, +4 mage...

Halt in any kind of damaging terrain can be nasty. A couple walls of fire and half the party could be roasted alive. Then there are spells like cloudkill, acid fog, creeping doom, etc. Or command the party to halt as they are climbing up a rock face, and knock them off. Or while crossing a...

Just to be different: I drink a lot of milk, always skim, often chocolate skim milk. I find it works much better as an appetite suppresant than just water. And having drunk skim milk for the past several years, I find that I don't like whole milk - the extra fat is very noticeable and not...

A good tip I got from a co-worker: If eating out, immediately cut your meal in two, and take half the meal home with you. Portions (at least in the US) tend to be too large, encouraging people to over-eat.

As a GM, I never use them, because as a player I hated choosing my next class level based on the favored class rules, rather than the direction I want to take with the character. I have no problem if someone wants to play a non-stereotypical character, like a ftr/barb gnome or a half-orc...

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Just to clarify, you're asking for locations, not just buildings, right? So a park or statue or whatever would be acceptable? (Assuming it's reasonably interesting, of course)

Holy Mace of Disruption - the ultimate tool for an undead slayer.

I actually liked the first two Map Folios, in a kind of "these look cool" way. But if you want to maximize your dollars, get your maps here: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=73423 http://www.silverthornegames.com/free_stuff.htm This first link is to a thread on EnWorld for 100 maps by...

Well, realistically, building anything beyond three rooms and a trap should take months (years) and lots and lots of gold. So try approaching this from a different angle. Your group wants to start up a new business venture (Dungeon o' Death), but lack the capital. You have three options: do the...

According to Ruins of Adventure (the module based on the first gold box game by SSI), the pool of radiance is "a portal to one of the darker planes". Apparently, bathing in the pool can allow creatures from that plane to possess the body of the bather. There may be more material in later FR...