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If you get your hands on AOL Instant Messenger, their chatrooms have a dice-rolling feature. You just type in //roll-dice#-sides# and you can roll anything from 1d2 to 15d999. I tried running a game like this, and it would've worked if it weren't for the mapping issues and the fact that most...

That's the plan. I just figured it'd be a neat little way for him to invest something of his character into the Realms, to help ground the PC in Faerun and keep him from being a character you'd find in just any setting.

Just to clarify -- there are rules for 'the faithless' that I'm putting into play, so he can do whatever he wants. I'm not going to force him into choosing a patron diety until those rules come into play and he wants to get raised. It just bothered me because of why he chose that route for his...

The way I've been using 3E FR is as a supplement for all my AD&D stuff. Since the FRCS doesn't have a map of Shadowdale and included only a small blurb on the town itself, I had to get my hands on the boxed set for all the relevant information. So now I've decided to stockpile old 2nd Edition...

The Athar faction -- somewhere in F&P or MotP? I told him that the PC would have to be crazy to believe that there was never a Time of Troubles and that divine magic doesn't come from anywhere in particular. His response was that it was just a case of not feeling a particular attachment to any...

We've been talking about powergamers and munchkins and twinkies and everything, and I wanted to vent about another one of my new players (it helps to clear my head :D). He's been a good friend of mine for years, but has never gamed before, and his only experience with D&D is lots of Dragonlance...

When did this happen, and can you point me to where I can find specifics on it?

I wouldn't be surprised to find an ankheg or two acting as a workhorse for digging out some of the larger sections of the colony (and to burrow up in the middle of unsuspecting adventuring parties and bite heads off of PCs).

I want to avoid being painted into a corner where he expects me to give him the exact weapon he's wanted since he rolled up this character. What I'm going to do is give him his half-glaive (masterwork, if he wants to spend money on that) and deem that he takes an exotic weapon proficiency for...

This sort of explanation seems to fit more a sneak attack made by a rogue in hiding. Once you attack, your cover's blown and they know you're there. Invisibility is a spell for a reason, and it's more effective than a rogue's ability to hide in shadows because it's magic.

In the thread about explaining why invisibility ends with an attack, Dr_Rictus says: This is the same explanation I've used for Infravision for years, and never really understood why it was considered broke or unbalancing or something. When reading through Sean K. Reynolds' rant on...

For those of you who missed the thread, I had a new player coming into my game, who wanted to bring in a character from a previous game. I asked for more information, and he sent me a summary of the beginning of The Crystal Shard, centering on Regis and an entourage charged with protecting him...

Ohhh...is this why I can't find any of my threads?

I think it's the Drow domain that has a Cloak of Darkness spell, negating all disparaging effects of sunlight (which I am desperately trying to figure out a way to gain access to, for my current PC, a Ftr4/Rog3/Duelist4 human vampire with absolutely no contact with divine-spellcasting drow). I...

They are. Page 309.

Not if we flood the board with Angel fan-fiction! :D

Minsc possesses an Int of 8. His animal companion is Boo. "Boo is a fuzzy little hamster. While Minsc believes that Boo is a miniature giant space hamster, you are rather certain that the tiny rodent is just a normal hamster."

We were still about half a day's ride outside Shadowdale, on our way back from a keep infested with Cult-allied bandits where we encountered a green dragon. I think we wound up taking refuge below ground until it left. We looked skyward with relief to see a four-man hippogriff-mounted patrol...

You know, with all this big extravagant magic talk going on (especially the mention of Netheril), you might want to check out the Elven High Magic section in Magic of Faerun. This place is starting to sound like it'd be an ideal spot for a mythal. I think there's a free ESD on the Fall of Myth...

Well, on one hand, you're absolutely right. The undead are unnatural in the grand circle of life, and they're rife with negative energy. However, FR has a precedent in good-aligned undead in the baelnorn who walk the ruins of the mythal cities, protect the larger elven tombs secreted away in...