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I got rid of all my 2e books except for the Complete Book of Necromancers & DMG, but I seem to remember: Individual experience awards (wizards gain xp for using their spells, fighters for defeating foes, thieves for thieving, etc.). We never played any one game long enough for it to become a...

I prefer to raise skeletons from creatures with the [fire] subtype, so that the resulting creature is immune to fire and cold. Also, although skeletons of winged creatures cannot fly, the skeletons of creatures that flew magically can still do so. Are there any [fire] subtype creatures with...

While I am aware that Gish is a githyanki profession, I always thought that the current usage of "gish" was an abbreviation of "gestalt" - i.e., the "gestalt characters" from Unearthed Arcana. I think the usage of "gish" derives from people routinely hearing the word "gestalt" in conversation...

I've been over this ground a bit myself. I favor baronies or small fiefdoms for characters -not JUST a castle, but also not an entire country. I don't know what level of detail you may be looking for but here's my two coppers on the books I own: Stronghold Builders Guide was one of my favorite...

Fell Animate makes zombies. Skeletons can be spellstitched (rules are in Complete Arcane, maybe elsewhere) and benefit as much as you would expect from being able to cast True Strike.

Wow, I seem to have opened up a can of worms. Cool. Time to get a bigger can. I like wikipedia, and I see its primary strength as being a source of information about relatively obscure or ephemeral phenomena. I don't agree that wikipedia's standards are arbitrary or "esoteric." And I don't...

K's necromancer thread is definitely required reading. Are you trying to make an "optimized" skelemancer or is flavor more important than results? If you're going for optimized, conventional wisdom is that clerics are better for undead hordes than arcane casters. Dread necros are good too. If...

Wikipedia has quite a few articles on classic D&D modules, and even plot summaries in some cases, but most of them are pegged as possibly being non-notable. Are D&D modules notable? (By wikipedia standards, I mean). And how would you convince someone of that fact? Is there a D&D-specific wiki...

-There was little to distinguish one character of a given class/race/level combination from another, except for the (randomly-determined) ability scores. If you were a cleric or a wizard you could somewhat distinguish yourself by what spells you memorized. If you're a fighter - well, hope you...

Several things about D&D crossbreeding bother me. For instance, humans can apparently breed with elves, orcs, giants, ogres, trolls, demons, angels, fire elemental creatures, dragons, farspawned, and fey... ...but not dwarves, gnomes, or halflings. That would just be silly. Plus, I've always...

Point of order: wouldn't any level above 36 / 20 / or whatever be a house rule and therefore, illegal? In this fake contest about whose made-up character is the most powerful in a fictional fantasy world? Besides which, doesn't the XP needed for each level scale algebraically? Wouldn't...

You can write out a note for each player at the table beforehand. One of them says "You've been possessed by a mind flayer" or whatever (you can dress up the prose however you like). The others say "You suspect that one or more of your companions has been mentally dominated." Then take up all...

When I talk about the Greyhawk feel, I mean, essentially, old-school, dungeon-crawling. As distinct from, say, the Planescape feel or the Dark Sun feel. So I'm not concerned about specific setting elements as much as the general concept of the adventures. And by "canon" I mean the modules that...

The Enemy of My Enemy / Curse of the Azure Plot Device - The characters share a common enemy or suffer under a common curse.

I'm starting work on a new campaign. I'm trying to do the "classic" canon D&D modules in Xen'drik, with Stormreach as the home base. My canon may be different from yours, but I will definitely be including B2 (KotB), at least one G module (Glacial Rift is my favorite), D1-2 (Descent), at least...