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I don't have the Complete Warrior. I'll have to have a look. Thanks.

Morning all. Does anyone have any house rules (or variant rules that they know of) for getting rid of a wizard's/sorcerer's familiar, and the spells for a ranger, and replacing them for something else? I know the Pathfinder Alpha (and one of the Dragon magazines) has alternatives for...

I'm developing a PoL town called Rifton, which is on the tip of a great chasm caused by a battle that was the reason Nerath fell apart. There's a river flowing into it, where a great waterfall cascades into the rift. A mill stands at the mouth, a fishery further along. A solitary tower stands...

I'm started building my own campaign world to play 4th Ed. in (link to maps) and plan on detailing a small region (town, city, ruins, villages, forest, river, that sort of thing) to start the campaign in. Still, just because 4th Ed is coming out, doesn't mean we all have to quickly adopt a PoL...

It's ok, but I'd steer away from the drow-idea and do something more interesting instead: say, treat the elves as exiles, refugee types, forced to do 'evil' because they have to in order to survive. Don't make them evil as such, more desperate; make it a grey-area instead. Maybe the PCs can use...

As a companion to the Memorable Moments thread, what characters have you played that have stuck in your mind well after they've died a natural death? I once played a 2nd Edition Gully Dwarf, Togglet Blibblob, a rather dim-witted, stupid yet loyal companion to the kender I played. Togglet was...

I once played an all dwarf-party campaign, based in the mountains and the underdark; using mining, exploration, rescue mission type quests. You could also borrow from literature for more elf-ideas: Feist's Rift War saga, and Brook's elves in his Shannara books (although there're little...

Fireball. It was the spell most used by my magic-user/mage/wizard, in the past three editions of the game.

Yesterday's session had a few stupid moments (mostly initiated by my character; I was in a mischevious mood). We were hunting for the secret back entrance to a criminal gang's HQ, and after a few encounters decided to stake out a tavern where we knew they hung out. My ranger was on the...

I have a party that uses their shields chiefly for identification (although a few are magical too). The all hail from the Shield Lands, are called the Defenders of the Shield, and bear the coat-of-arms on the shields. Shields can also be used as improvised throwing weapons; useful when it's the...

Here's another: while DMing The City of Skulls adventure, the PCs were battling it out against priests of Iuz, ghasts, zombies and the odd demon. One threw a fireball, which unfortunately also struck the PC paladin, who failed his save and ended up losing his plate armour. But the paladin...

Thanks for that. I've amended the link now. :D

A common blunder I used to do back in the old days of handdrawn maps and mini's, was to lable the maps with the name of the encounter; a classic was when I had painstakingly drawn a tavern, but had the words 'BAR BRAWL encounter' written in plain view for all to see. Kinda took the surprise away...

I'd definately use the Stranger's priests as the main bad guys, working in secret to bring forth further madness; maybe seeking a way to break the seal that blocks the world from the god's. Sounds fun in any case.

You could go with the idea of the evil wizard wanting more power and discovering an acient ritual that should give him demigodhood; but it is actually a trick ritual, left by some dubious devils, which actually brings down hell-on-earth, altering the landscape, flooding the land with demons and...

Do you have any memorable moments from past/current adventures (any system)? For example; I had a wizard in one adventure, who, after being silenced by a priest's spell, fled the chruch by running up to the altar and leaping through the stained glass window, escaping certain death. What I liked...

Check out this website Cartography Guild for useful tips on maps and the like. There are plenty of maps too, including Greyhawk ones :)

I never really used miniatures much until 3ed came along, other than to show marching orders or when we needed to be certain where a character was standing; but we did scribble on pieces of paper or player-drawn maps to position characters, which isn't really that much different. I think the...

How about: "AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!" shouted by scared kobolds who are desperate to live, but terrified of the dragon that has just sent them to their deaths as cannon-fodder.

You could get rid of Action Points completely without too much fuss. That would help a bit. You could throw in some monsters resistant to the wands. You could adpot a more role-play approach, cutting down on the instances when the PCs wade in with wands blaxzing. Or, you could simply boost...