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And watch for trying to fly with a medium or heavy load -- IIRC, in the MM most creatures that fly with wings are unable to fly with anything heavier than a light load.

I'm looking at these for a "one-off" fun night where each of the players picks a monster race to play for a special mission to destroy a BBEG, probably a great wyrm of some sort. Balance issues in this case are less critical because there is less long-term damage if I am wrong, but I did think...

Thanks. I had never before seen the x1.5 rule-of-thumb. I had pegged the LA higher because of abilities like stonemeld and flight, but I appreciate different opinions.

Are there any estimates out there for the LA for medium or large elementals? The base HD in the MM is 4 and 8, respectively, but they aren't considered good PC candidates I guess, because I see no LAs listed. Comparing the ability score benefits and special abilities with some others I would...

Same here. Big armory, everything is rusted and useless, except one shiny sword on a rack. That's the magic one, clearly.

Savage Species had a pretty good set of minotaur "levels" that you could use or ignore: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20030202 Just stop advancement at a specified level for a "watered down" minotaur.

Pretty simple: Do rogues get to add sneak attack damage dice to ana attack with a sap? It only deals nonlethal damage, which makes me wonder. Thanks.

Do we have 3.5 stats for the phoenix? I was remembering the fun I had with greater and lesser phoenixes in the old days as a kid, and was wondering if they had been published anywhere since? I could always stat something up myself if I wanted to run something, but I was curious.

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Or Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Gore).

"Quoted for troof" as someone here likes to say.

I have a 3-inch wide d20 taped to the top of my computer monitor. It works better than any scarlet letter to tell the world my gamer sins, if they but know what it is. I've had but one (1) person stop and ask "Is that a d20?" Me, excited, "Why yes, do you play D&D?" Him, "I played a...

It was a photo-copied copy. I grabbed it as much for the nostalgia as anything else -- it's publish date says 1985, the same year I started playing. Your guess is as good as mine as to how it got there. Maybe the mystery gamer made an extra copy on accident or something. The sad part is I...

I work at a big office, lots of people, lots of paper. I went to the big recycling bins where we put white paper, and there on the top was a hex wilderness map. "Well", I thought, "I haven't seen one of those in a while". I picked it up. Under it was a big stack of copies, and on the top I...

I'm thinking of starting a new campaign with the PCs all starting with templates or monster races that all give a decent Level adjustment (+2 or +3). Examples: thri-kreen, lycanthrope, half-dragon, etc. It goes without saying that it will be a "munchkin" game -- players here will be a little...

I'm thinking of setting up a new campaign, and it works out that armor will probably be rarely worn. Reasons: frequently shipborne/aquatic setting and PCs will often be winged/unusually-shaped/shapechanging (going to discuss this part on a different thread). What effects should I expect to...

Wow, this many (respected) posters agreeing on the same thing makes me feel very confident ... or slightly paranoid. I'll look into the adventures and Dungeon, since that is where I could use the most help I think. Thanks all.

OP here. 1. The consensus seems to be I don't HAVE to buy the 3.5 books to DM a 3.5 game. I still may get the PH to make character creation easier outofthe book. Good to know I was on track there. 2. There is a lot of good suggestions for different directions here. While I have my eye on...

Howdy, I've been on D&D sabbatical for a few months -- new babies do that BTW -- and was thinking about starting a 3.5ed campaign. I have the 3.0ed core rulebooks, and have played since the red-blue-green-black basic boxes (I don't know the proper edition's name) (mid 80s). Now, with the SRD...

The Wizards of the Coast D&D website had a series of articles written by Sean K Reynolds a while back where he showed how to break the were-templates down into "levels" that can be taken over time (also explained in "Savage Species"). If you are looking for a WoTC source besides the Monster...