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Well, bulk would be the key. Also consider the failure rate for teleport I believe would be much much lower than the actual historical failure rate of the cargoes coming from Asia in the 16th century. By a modern standard those merchants took insane risks but if they made it they were more or...

Heh... before pushing off into the Age of Enlightenment (and past the original poster's medieval tech level), the only tech I think that gets cut is castle development. Assuming the builder isn't outlaying additional times the cost of the castle in magical defenses as well, I don't think there...

Well, I'd say as a general rule science in most gm's campaigns gets hand waved. Unless the players enjoy the minutiae of the details it really doesn't add to the fun of the game for an evenings play. Frankly, if it's considered at all, I think a number of gm's are a bit leery of thinking up...

Heh... it's a hard one to wrap the noggin around. For one, to bring them up to steam age technology some of the classic (heh... romanticized) notions of Celtic culture will have to be altered or dropped. 19th century technology is the story of money and finance. You might have a impossible...

Thinking about it, small animals in d&d do have kinda high statted strengths (for small critters at least). Too lazy to open the books and run the numbers but offhand I don't think it'd be too expensive to dress out a familiar in full plate (or out of their carry capacity). Might be out of...

It's been a long time since I read that bit of REH lore, but I'm sure a Kull story was one of the rewrites (just don't remember if it was the first one or not).

Saw the link on Instapundit. I thought I'd share :) http://www.pitbullarmory.com/Squirrel-armor.html

:) Well Howard certainly wasn't. Wonder why there seems to be quite a few Conan the pirate short stories? Or Conan wandering around African-like savannah? It's because they were pirate stories or Kane stories or what have you rewritten as Conan stories because they originally didn't sell. I...

Wasn't Fate of Istus 1e? A 1e to 2e transition module (getting rid of monks at least?). For 2e my fav is Return to the Tomb of Horrors. Great atmosphere and tension, very memorable for my players. Along with Gates of Firestorm Peak and the Monstrous Arcana series, I started to put anything...

The first episode actually irritated me. I don't mind preachy scifi, as long as it hangs together on it's own framework (and generally only builds on one or two impossible things). Even just considering the psychological aspect, it was a weak and predictable story... more skiffy than science...

Definitely CE. Original or prequel he could care less about order as it applies to him. The only order he's going to impose on the universe is his whim, he absolutely knows the Emperor took power under false pretenses (and thusly is totally illegitimate), he has no loyalty either to his...

Diverse Background feat (also from Races of Destiny).

Are Changlings considered Half-Human or do they require the Human Heritage feat from Races of Destiny to qualify? Thanks

"I'll turn around and take it like a dwarf." (I thought the PC was already facing and engaging the beastie at the time.)

Yep, but it's a 250 gp a pop too. If the party has a half-way decent healer, shaving off 10 hp a hit on one (hopefully) higher hit point front line type just is a bit harder to justify putting it in memory when compared to the other 4th level spells in the toolbox. Unless the party has a high...

Additionally, if a wizard needs to protect against damage from mooks the front-line either isn't doing it's job or the wizard needs to keep a better eye on his defenses. The best defense against mooks is a higher ac or avoidance either via other better defensive\movement spells or tactical...

Stoneskin. By far one of the best defensive spells of 1 & 2e and a 'must have' in every 7th level-plus wizard's repetoire.

Here's a link to the maps of an old pbem I was involved in called "web of tears' by Rob Hemminger. http://host09.ipowerweb.com/~arcanump/ArcanumPBM/Page1043.html It was mostly centered on one drow noble house, and the maps are fairly detailed.

Should be interesting to see if this is going to hurt the convention LARPs.

Check out some of the old 1st ed competition module series. While by their nature competition modules are more goal oriented and geared for problem solving it can be a nice change of pace. And in KoDT fashion it can be fun to compete to see who has the 'best' group on the block. :) As for...