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Actually, the text states that visitors pass through the shrine all the time, and half the wandering monsters for the western half of the shrine are drow merchant trains. This, combined with the fact that the shrine is right in the middle of a primary tunnel, far from any water body, strongly...

Interesting -- I've always wanted to check that out. Is the T20 psionics a feat and skill based system, or does it use class levels?

I am thinking of running a "sword and planet" style mini-campaign, with a setting similar to L. Sprague de Camp's Planet Krishna. Basically, a relatively primitive world of adventure with several exotic, warlike, medieval-level cultures; the planet is a popular resort destination for citizens of...

DING DING! I think you have nailed it. It seems clear that most of the weird fiction authors were reading the works of their contemporaries and picking up and reusing some archaic and obscure words. I suspect a thorough survey of the pulps would find plenty more uses of "lich" than the already...

I just finished running a 3.5 conversion of G1-2-3 and D1-2-3 last Monday, so the OP is near and dear to my heart at the moment. I love the modules, but they are better viewed and run as a campaign setting than as modules. And while the individual components are fantastic, the narrative thread...

I'm with you. I never quite understood why chagmat never caught fire. Maybe drow sucked up all the spider-monster mind share?

When I first started playing D&D -- and I came to the game through Tolkien, Lloyd Alexander, Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea, and other Ye Olde High Fantasy authors -- I found the presence of sci-fi elements anathema. What is this futuristic crap doing in my sword and sorcery? It used to drive me...

Me either, but Google turns up several interesting pieces floating around the web. Sounds like she's got no gaming industry creds, but lots of freelance writing pieces. The two articles I read were pretty good -- hip, irreverent, funny. Sounds like she could be a welcome change of pace from the...

I believe that Roger Moore once speculated that gnomes may have been heavily influenced by Clifford D. Simak's book Enchanted Pilgrimage (1975), which certainly had creatures very similar to AD&D gnomes -- complete with furry burrowing friends. I don't know that anyone has ever actually...

I think EGG has stated (in one of the Q&A threads?) that the inclusion of the Tolkien races was merely a marketing ploy. I don't think that's completely untrue, but I don't think it really gives Tolkien's influence proper credit, either. In "Influence of J.R.R. Tolkien On the D&D and AD&D...

DOH! Danged teleport redirection effect! Here's the real deal: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20060317a

Note that while the delve format uses a variation of the new statblock, it is NOT the same thing. The delve format is a visual dungeon key, where each room basically takes up 1-2 entire pages. Here's an article explaining the delve format: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20060317a

I find it to be a tremendous improvement in play, particularly with higher level creatures with many abilities. The extra whitespace and logical organization make it much easier for me to find the info I need quickly. I recently ran an encounter using the old-style paragraph glob of data, and it...

Paizo's Compleat Encounters line packaged miniatures and adventures together. (I thought it was produced using the d20 license, but maybe it was OGL after all.) I would be curious to learn if the line was financially successful. I don't think there are any new products planned, which might give...

I think a project like this would be pretty cool, and I was thinking of the exact same approach you've suggested for the classes and races: essentially, make a series of 3e "iconics" for each major class/race combo, and develop stats for each iconic for each level (I'd only go to 12th level, and...

Gary Gygax certainly didn't play the rules as written -- I've heard a couple of his players note that what made EGG a great DM wasn't his total and absolute command of AD&D rule minutiae: it was his ability to weave a fast-paced and captivating story, and to improvise elegant rulings on the fly...

Any other suggestions out there?

I've had a similar experience -- I really liked the DMGII at first blush, but really haven't used it much for anything other than the mob template. The DM advice section is quite good, but doesn't cover much that isn't covered in Robin's Laws of Good Gamemastery. The sample town of Saltmash...

I think one problem in the last week has been that many posts have been disrespectful and rather dinkish -- but they aren't breaking any rules, and if read in isolation and out of context these posts don't necessarily read as problematic. These are really hard, if not impossible things to...

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