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You shouldn't be summoning at level 1 since you'll only have it for one round, so Augment Summoning can wait.

Magic-user from the Dragonlance novels.

"I don't know." (You Can't Do That On Television.)

This sounds more like proof of the greatness of this thread, with which I whole-heartedly agree. I agree with Bullgrit: this module is at best way over-hyped.

OK, replace one non-elf PC with an elf. The probability of not finding a secret door is: (5/6)*(4/6)*(5/6)^5, approximately 0.22. (The first two factors are the elf getting a roll just for being within 10' and a search.) If the door is concealed (not secret), the probability drops to...

It's not as bad as it seems. If a party of 6 non-elf PCs are actively searching, then the probability of not finding a secret door is (5/6)^6, or about 1/3. Not absolute certainty, for sure, but the odds are in favor of the party finding the door. Throw in an elf or two and the odds get better.

Then you'll need 3-5 returning thrown battleaxes since they don't return until the beginning of the next round. This is gonna be expensive!

It isn't? I just tried the link in dm4hire's post and got an oops! Do you have a working link?

Some folks use the same color font as the background to hide spoilers. With some folks using the white background and some using the black background, this doesn't work. I would urge folks to instead use sblock. My $0.02, anyway.

But it doesn't! If 1 = E, then 8 = NE...

Poor thread. Once so full of life and promise....

Ropers! Maybe not a TPK, but someone's probably going to die if it surprises the party.

When I was a little kid (early 80s), my Mom would take me with her to the mall when she'd go shopping. I liked to read, so she'd drop me off at the bookstore where I read pretty much every Choose Your Own Adventure they had. I don't remember the moment, but eventually I noticed the shelf devoted...

He left the site and erased some (all?) of his posts. His good-bye thread is in Meta: "Thanks for All the Fish."

Sounds cool, and might lead to a fun project for my multivariable calc students this fall. I'll google around for it, or feel free to send me a link, if you have one/some.

I wouldn't get too caught up in the details here. (And I say that as a very detailed-oriented mathematician.) Keep in mind you want a map that the people of your world would come up with naturally. I would suggest that you do a Mercator where, instead of using an axis passing through the North...

Now I'm confused again: The equator isn't the usual equator? If it helps, I'm imagining something like Earth where there's only the North + South America supercontinent, except it twists around the globe in roughly the shape of a loxodrome. The North and South Poles and the equator are where...

To be clear: You want a rectangular map (not just on a rectangular piece of paper), but you don't want the rectangular grid? Edit 1: Oh, I think I get it now. You want something like a Mercator, but instead of projecting onto a right cylinder whose tangent curve to the planet is a great circle...

If the archipelago is in fact shaped like a loxodrome, and if it twists around the globe only once, then ender_wiggin can simplify his life greatly by representing the archipelago as a diagonal line from corner to opposite corner on the map, rather than as a horizontal line. If it twists around...

Arcane Strike from the Core rulebook. Scales with level, not bad for bard archers.