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Forbiddance (Cast by a CE cleric) is a great way to set up a safe house. This will keep most of those lawfully aligned authorities out. Another favorite trick of mine is to set up a false door that does not open. Right next to it is the real door to the safe-house. This door is concealed with...

Real shame that 3.5 made wall of force operate only as a plane. Probably for the best however. The above combo (one of my favorites) is rather hard to get away from. But it also takes 2 rounds to cast. Here's another good one: A Druid's best friend. Transmute Metal to Wood->Repel Wood->Wall of...

I can imagine the Male equivalent of Joan of Arc in Drow society. Veldrin of the Underdark : "Loth has spoken to me, she has given me a devine quest to defeat the rivvin!" Drow Crowd: "Burn him for heresy! Loth only speaks through female clerics!"

I have used the Deck in just about every game I have ever DMed. From level 1 to level 12. The players are generally smart enough not to draw from it, and those that did usually did so because they wanted a new character anyway. Sure a character could have a great boon, but the PCs did not trust...

Spells are a great tool, but lets face it, not everyone knows a great way to use most spells. Covering every spell in the PHB*, post a great combination of spells,feats, and tactics that makes any monster (or PC) tremble in fear! *Specify if your combination requires 3.0 or 3.5 Acid Fog (3.0)...

Correct me if I am wrong, but the 3.5 spell Enlarge Person is REALLY bad. Its more like a curse than a buff. Sure you get +2 STR and reach, but you also suffer -1 to attacks, -1 to AC AND -2 to DEX. So you are basically giving up 2 AC to do 1 more damage. I would much rather have Expeditious...

I dont like 90% of the spell changes in 3.5. I'm not one of those "Change is Bad" kind of people. It's just a simple matter of the shorter spell durations are less friendly to my campaign style, and the weaking of core lower level spells only served to annoy everyone concerned. For example...

An enemy fort was set atop a tall and narrow rock formation. 200 ft Up, 50 ft diameter. The PCs were at the base of it. The enemy Yuan-Ti used flying magic to enter/exit the fort. Rather than use their own flying magic, the PCs cast transmute rock to mud upon the base. The Mud cannot support the...

Bonuses of the same name do not stack. With the only exception being DODGE bonus. So mage armor, is an ARMOR bonus, so it stacks with the shield spell, which is a SHIELD bonus (In 3.0 its a cover bonus). Here is a list of the basic armor bonuses. Shield, Armor, Natural Armor, Dodge, Cover...

Playing Devils Advocate here: A good DM will have his monsters anticipate player tactics, and those monsters will take steps accordingly. My players have come to learn that they can use a tactic about 3 to 4 times before they can expect their opponents to have a devious counter to the plan. My...

The PCs are trying to assault a large keep that is filled with a race of creatures that use Arquebuses as their standard weapon. The PCs know that 1 in 100 of these creatures have an officer that has a magical helmet of true seeing. Two of the PCs decide that they want to scout out the keep from...

Go up to the richest noble/merchant in the campaign world and say: "Greetings, I am a deposed Nigerian King. I have billions of gold pieces trapped in a vault in my homeland, but I need money to get the vault open, give me just 5,000 gold and...."

The mathmatical methods are time consuming. The best way to test a die is a very simple phyical test. Use a device called a "Dice Balancing Caliper". Casino supply stores sell them. You clamp the offending die between the calipers and you give the die a spin. If the die comes to rest...

When 3.0 came out, it was easy to force everyone in my group into the new system, it was too different from 2.0. It was only a few months ago that everyone in the group finally had their own phb. Getting everyone in my group to get 3.5 phb's is out of the question. Most of the rules in 3.5 I...

Actually dreamhaven just went out of business in dinkytown. Which bites, cause I live a block from campus. Otherwise I would say MSP/St Paul summed up about right. There are 2 symphonys in the Twin Cities, both of them internationally reknown. The transportation system is so-so at best...

I like to have the dice on the table, both as a player and a DM. as a DM it lets me not have to hide behind a DM screen, I feel a stronger attachment to the players. I also like it so the PC knows exactly how they died and why, without having to say a word. "Wow, so you're rolling 10d10 for...

My policy on 3.0 vs. 3.5 is quite simple. The DM, can use rules from either 3.0 or 3.5 at any time, and may switch between them at will. This is to speed up gameplay. Of course I have my hybrid rules in mind, and try to stay as close to them as possible. The only exception is spells. Where only...

<Sarcasm> This is going to be great! Once music piracy via the internet is dead, I can go back to letting MTV and Clearchannel decide what I like to listen to for me. </Sarcasm>

Sure WotC is a company, and needs to make profits. Profits are generated by selling books. WotC decides it needs more profits, so it comes up with more books to sell. whoop-de-doo. Quite the revelation. There are 2 ways that WotC can proceed with making books: A) High quality books B) Low...

As a DM, I powergame, a lot. Why? Because my players powergame like dittle little munchkins. They know I powergame. In fact, some of them have stopped looking for powergaming combos on their own, and just wait until I use something nasty on them. They then pick up on that idea and use it for...