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I've done it twice, both times in 2e. Once it was a relatively brief journey to an unspecified big city during a plane-hopping chase after the BBEG. The other time was a sideline adventure run as a break during a longer campaign. The party was sent to Earth by some random magical fluke and...

I played homebrew only up until relatively recently. The first published adventure that I played in was Descent to Undermountain. First one I DMed was Ex Libris, from an issue of Dungeon magazine (can't recall the issue, and that may not even be the correct title). I've played Undermountain...

On the one hand, being able to go a day with no water and needing about 3 gallons a day is a lot different from needing 3 gallons every other day (as happens in the proposed plan). You sweat out so much water a day and you have to replace it, so by day 3 you're trying to replace 2 days of lost...

A question about warlocks and their crazy blastings: Can a warlock counterspell another warlock's invocations? Specifically, can they counter eldritch blasts? According to the SRD dispel magic works against spell-like abilities, so presumably a well-timed dispel magic (or voracious dispelling)...

I operate under the assumption that the costs for traps assume that they're being built into a dungeon. 4k is sensible if it's a 50ft pit dug in an already underground tunnel then lined with ashlar to prevent people climbing out and covered with very thin stone plates or disguised cloth/wood...

I only pull my punches at the low levels of long-running campaigns. If I plans for the characters that extend beyond 4 or 5 sessions and they're too low level to have access to ressurection magic, I'll fudge the numbers to keep them unconscious instead of dead. Once they get enough...

I've never seen it used and have often lamented how difficult and unlikely the rules make it, but in reading this thread a question has occurred to me: Can you counterspell a Warlock's Eldritch Blast? eg: if two parties containing warlocks go head-to-head, can they cancel one-another out? Or...

I think "what's pulp" has been covered pretty thoroughly, so let me try "how is Eberron pulp" instead. Now, bearing in mind that I've only read the campaign setting and the Sharn book and neither recently: Eberron is pulp-y in that the setting is, at least partially, designed to offer lots of...

I hate: * hobbits and all stripes of halfling, though I hate the non-hobbity ones somewhat less * drow, regardless of their alignment * non-spellcaster-spellcasters (if magic is so hard to learn that wizards can't use a sword, how the heck does everyone else have time to just pick it up as they...

Running NPCs is the DM's job. I'm okay with it so long as the NPC in question is a lacky, hireling, or story element. I've run and played in plenty of parties with long-term NPC hirlings or hangers-on but they always did their bit (healing, bashing baddies, whatever) and then got out of the...

I can accept fireballs and wishes and dragons that can fly. I think the reason so many granularity debates come up with regard to combat versus magic and the like is that we have an intuitive basis for comparison. We know how swords work, to at least a basic extent. Magic doesn't actually...

Y'know, I generally balk at starting a campaign at mid-to-high levels (eg: 10th) because everyone starts with so many options and should, by that point, have so much character background. But I've played in several campaigns and heard of a fair number more where the PCs start out as powerful...

I'd say no to knowledge(nature) if the PC was supposed to be fresh from Earth. Our ecosystem is probably nothing like the one in any d&d world and knowledge(nature) lets you identify monsters (or at least it has in all the 3e games I've played ;)) which wouldn't be the case for someone trained...

Or, to find the happy medium: There were a number that didn't suck. Back to the topic: Back in 2e I played an earthling for...approximately 7 years. He was a Scot whose great, great-grandfather was a planewalker who'd off'd the queen of the Tanar'ri (or Tanari'i, or wherever you want to...

I think everyone's covered the big stuff. I'll just throw my hand in on more space for posessions. I usually end up moving on to notebook paper for jot down all my junk by 2nd or 3rd level and that's with listing weapons and armor on the front of the sheet. Also, I absolutely love the...

I kind of wonder how editing is done in general. For most companies publishing a printed product you only need one or two sorts of editor. Someone to check the actual writing (the prose, grammar, and spelling, that is) and someone to check for legal problems or to massage bits of the text to...

Large creatures I don't really have a problem with. Yeah, 8-15 feet is big, but it's not insurmountable. Given a 3+ foot long steel blade or a polearm or something, whacking a 10 foot tall creature in the face is far from impossible and you can still reach all the other vital areas pretty...

I did something like this in my last campaign. I had a variety of materials from which weapons and armor could be made. Most granted bonuses to damage or AC or just upped the hardness of the item. Then I had a list of 'upgrades' that a smith could select from when making the item. Different...

While reading a thread about the sizes of various Giants and the ways in which a Medium sized PC would take down a Huge sized target I was struck by something: grappling is the only mechanic which recognizes the size of a target creature. I mean, sure you get a bonus to hit, but that almost...

It's odd. When I think about d&d...thematically I guess it would be? Or maybe cinematically? In any case, when I think about it in general rather than in the specifics of one adventure, I can't really pin it down to a level range. On the one hand I think about fighting dragons, ancient...