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Saw clarification on twitter that ravenloft can be played stand-alone, or as an expansion to D&D.

I figure that since the file are all still there, this is more an issue with the breaking of the link, and not some attempt to take them away from us. It will likely get fixed when the web-team has some free-ish time, since it's not exactly a high priority page of the site or anything.

I prefer seeing diversity in D&D art - my favourite setting (Eberron) is a cosmopolitan world, where the humans of the main nations are very mixed in skin colour, and even multiple races live together regularly (the 3.5 phb races are pretty much common in ever village, town and city, everywhere)...

For a long time I knew about thing called roleplaying games, but nobody I knew played them - then I started reading dragonlance books and noticed ads in the back for modules... and wanted them (without really knowing what they were) - but still didn't do anything about it. I started playing...

amazing!

I'm using inherent bonuses for my new campaign, and also giving out the occasional magic item - but each player can only use a single magic item at a time (per tier, so 2 at paragon, 3 at epic... not that its making it to that level) and I'm super happy with it so far!

So the big strong and hardy men (and women) who live in harsh climates (the mountains) don't work for you as big, strong and hardy women (and men) who live in harsh climates (the desert)? The general consensus that I've seen is that most people are quite happy with the utilization of a race...

Well, the D&D Essentials game is going to have tokens to use as minis - as will the Monster Vault. Give those a try when they're released?

I like the idea of the new magic missile - but I kinda wish it was 1d4 + 1 damage, for the full classic spell model. In fact If someone is playing a wizard in my game they can have that instead of just 2 flat damage. Only increases average damage by 1.5, so not too bad. Will have to keep the...

These are great things to think about - A magic break room for guards that lets them get enough sleep to count as an extended rest in 15 minutes. But that 15 minutes means there are more guards around. Sometimes its GOOD to push the party, have them go into a hard fight without dailies, and...

I'd contrast FR and GH by placing the party into a situation in GH where magic is being persecuted, and highlight the low magic and technology levels. Interact with some local clerics. Then when in FR be somewhere EPIC and magical and full of apparent history, and interact with more different...

Maybe take some inspiration from the russians and give him a bunch of former allies that are also after him but that are in deep cover - married middle-class families, who are really spies and just had kids to pretend they are really regular brelanders and not karrns

Some ideas if you're looking into using the same character ideas, but changing their classes to be more what they THOUGHT they were looking for - The Paladin MIGHT rather be a Strength based Cleric - (and still call himself a paladin of his god if he wishes) - it would get the party a leader...

This thread reminded me that there aren't very many pictures out there of female hobgoblins, a problem I ran into when I wanted to play one about 6 months ago :(

I can see making a dominated player or monster drop their weapon in an adjacent space as their single action, with a saving throw if it's down into a pit or something. Still bad, forces them to use some more actions to reequip it when they have their faculties. throwing it away completely...

I like Eberron's take on resurrection - it's hard to do in the first place since there aren't a lot of high level clerics or haflings in Jorasco that can cast the spell/ritual in the first place, so they can ask for exorbitant alms/fees, and in the end it's hit or miss if it will end up working...

Sometimes the approach AbdulAlhazred posted is the best way to go - most of the time really - it's the most naturalistic way of approaching a skill challenge: one where the players don't even know that they are doing it. Sometimes a skill challenge goes well when the players DO know the...

Generally any effect that doesn't say how long it lasts other than until end of the encounter can continue indefinitely (Stances are an exception, and always last 5 minutes at most) - but there aren't a lot of these.

Well once hidden, as long as you can move far enough, you maintain the combat advantage from being hidden until end of turn, even if moving out of cover/concealment. So if combat is raging, the elf rogue could easily hide 14 squares away from an enemy then get right up on the enemy, and sneak...

These all stack, but I believe they have also been errataed to only function when granting healing via healing surge being spent (to avoid abuse from non-surge healing)