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Answering your third question first, yes characters can take multiple tries when opening an object. Page 65 of the PHB "the normal take 10 and take 20 rules appy to ability checks" So, a person with a 26 strength will open the door 100% of the time - if they spend two minutes trying it. They...

I'm not really sure where all the time goes. For those who are still reading, thank you for your patience. I'm still writing, it just seems like there's all these conflicting things to do. This last post marks the end of a very long day for Kellron and crew. They started out assaulting the...

An Interrupted Evening ”Don’t tell me about “women’s work”. Hmph. The patron of the Shtaran Empire is Latina, the Defender, and while she bears an upraised shield to protect those under her care, she also wields a burning sword. In the Empire of Shtara, women of breeding are just as likely to...

One of the early adventures has the PC's running an errand to retrieve some Control Water wands which will help avert the rising waters of the lake. Are you going to create a semi-annual rising water source? Or change it to rising lava from below Sharn?

An Evening at the Deverex Household A woman of fire and passion. That’s how Imych described his young half-elven lover. The bard would have taken consolation that his death had hurt the young woman but would not have been at all surprised that she had forgiven her father for it. Her...

Heh. She gets bolder. This part of the session she had been operating solo with the players observing. In an intrigue-based game it's a good sign when the players starting using Commune to check on the loyalty of other characters. Of course that's just my opinion. :cool: That should be...

Misdirected Expectations There are events that no good person wants to see happen, yet when confronted by them these same people find that they are unable to look away. As a battle-tested veteran of a handful of fights Senior Captain Rusuk knew this. Further, the Captain knew that he was...

Thank you very much. Nope, it's not the end. Shortly after the last post I hit a creative wall and then the work piled on again. A week ago however I started to go through my notes and organize them a bit more and I think I'm ready to put the pen to paper again. I'm hoping to start posting...

Thanks for the reply. Two other things come to mind about my assumptions when I posted. The anti-magic field is described as a wall, but doesn't give a thickness - but let's say it's only few inches for the sake of argument. My first assumption then is that regardless of the thickness of the...

Spoilers for Night Below If you're one of my players or playing in a Night Below campaign, hie thee away. My players are about to scout out Great Shaboath, an aboleth city in "Night Below". In their conversations they are contemplating using Wind Walk to fly over the city walls. The...

Once More into the Fray The light snow had stopped earlier that morning and a bright patch of clouds announced that the sun was nearly overhead, trying to burn its way through to shine upon the city below. It seemed as if the gods themselves smiled upon the freeing of Latina’s cathedral...

Thanks. It was nice to see the praise in that thread.

The same reasons as in real life. Sometimes the perceived skills are better. Sometimes someone is just a better teacher, regardless of how knowlegable they are. Other times one teacher might be more prestigious than another Finally it could just come down to personality types. The student...

I'm DM'ing it using the conversions posted in the Conversion Library: http://www.enworld.org/downloads/index.php?cid=9 So far I love it, but it does need some tweaks, especially when converted to 3.5. Adding some side quests to break things up a bit is almost a must; and many encounters rely...

A nice little thread from not so long ago: The year is 998; the place: Argonth 5

Thank you, and welcome to the boards! I'm glad it was engrossing enough to encourage you to post your thoughts. I'll try to not disappoint. I'm still working on the next post and hopefully will be able to put it up sometime next weekend. Life is starting to slow down to a more normal pace and...

In one game I played in, the DM gave me a hat I could never lose. It could be blown away, stolen, whatever - and it would always find its way back to my character. Inspired by Indiana Jones' hat - didn't matter what happened to it, by the end of the scene he would have it back.

Marching Orders Earlier this morning… “I warn you, Captain,” sneered the thin, little man dressed in the latest court fashion. “It would serve you better to learn from the mistakes of your superiors than to emulate them. Your general is exiled north and your colonel is all but convicted of...

Another Point of View Aesiphon waited and prayed. As one of the Defender’s Own, Aesiphon was knowledgeable of the virtues of duty, courage, and compassion. She didn’t so much understand the virtues as embody them. An angel and divine guardian, Aesiphon had protected the most holy relices of...

Thank you both. It was enough to kick me in the butt and get going again (Kestral's player helped too). Life is still busy and I've been wrestling with the next bit. Not quite writer's block but close. Quite frankly it just didn't seem interesting to repeat what happened - so I came up with...