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But if the treaty itself is evil the paladins might be good to go? So how about the paladins doing everything they can to look at the treaty before its signed? Bribes, cajoling, appealing to PC's good side. Or they might want to switch the treaty for a carefully edited copy. Who has time when...

You might also try using flow extender when you paint. That'll keep your paint from drying quite as quickly, which should improve clean up.

Last one I used ambushed the party while they were on an ice flow. Once I realized how outclassed the party was I simply started rolling dice behind the screen and designated places where the ice was breaking up. The players, thankful for salvation, jumped on to the pieces and were happy to...

As has been poited out already, there isn't any one reason. Technology is in so many ways inseperable from culture, from needs, and from other technologies. Gunpowder for example; First there needs to be the discovery of gunpowder. Its not that complex, but someone some where needs to mix it...

A morning star can be converted fairly easily for most dwarves. Simply by a figure wielding and axe, trim off the axe head, and replace it with a round bead of the appropriate size. If you need spikes on the ball use the tips of round tooth picks or dabs of glue for knobs.

In a time without clocks people have to set calenders to trackable events. Unfortunately most of them don't sync. Months were originally set to the moon, years to the seasons. Two different things, so no wonder they don't match. If you want yours to, then fine. Just think it through.

Harpoons - Not that exotic, but they've become the favored weapon of centaurs IMC who use them to ride by, throw, and then drag the spellcasters off to where they can be dealt with five on one. Lasso - As many of my players have had rodeo experience, they naturally drift towards the lariat...

Use lots of forshadowing. For example, decide on names for the BBEG's among the toolmakers, the ones you want the party to encounter near the end. Now sprinkle those names among the earlier adventures. They can be makers marks on constructs, or a birthday noe on a calender, just something for...

IMC vampires are the result of a body being buried in unhallowed ground. Instead of rising though, the spirit must infest the body of some one else, usually a passer by. The infected must remain within a few miles of the actual vampire, and shows no symptoms during the day, nor is even aware of...

How about souls? Copper (cu) can be used to produce metals with green and red tints, but these alloys wouldn't be good for coinage. Cobalt for blue, but beyond the average medieval tech. Take the 20's pulp writers technique and add -ite to the name of the various countries or locales to...

IMC its less about equality and more about gender roles. For the most part women have some legal and social parity with men, but tend to have more domestic roles, though exceptions are more common than is usual in our own history. A female PC will stand out, but won't have to establish her...

PC and NPC monks have been too rare in my game to justify a major place in the campaign. Instead they are refugees from an overseas kingdom of Rakshasa who prohibit weapons of all sorts, hence the rebel groups devoted themselves to styles of combat that don't use weapons.

By and large I've tried to leave the subject of souls somewhat ambiguous, at least in game. The closest to any rules for them I used was no resurrection unless you had your soul, most chose to instead trade the soul for a random magic item.

Glass Glass is common, though rarely in the large sheets of clear glass we are used to. Ground lenses for telescopes and microscopes exist but are not a daily item for most. Mills, wind and water powered, are also common as are simple pumps. Their prevalence is often an economic factor as they...

You will also have to cope with the issue of creature with larger than one inch base sizes. For example, a giant covers four spaces using squares. Should he now cover four hexes? seven (a megahex)? We found that there were no perfect answers, and arguements were often generated when AoO's...

The room should be about 80-100 feet in diameter. The walls would max at around forty or fifty feet in height, with a domed ceiling above that. The Cathedral is quasi medieval, and was built with defense as much as religious worshp in mind. The walls would be stone, possibly with tapestries...

I have several dwarven kingdoms that range from the oldest in which the dwarven stereotypes are adhered to in a compulsive, Ghormenghast sort of way, to several more traditional ones. In the east the largest dwarven kingdom has been abandoned, part of the population turning to magic and...

There is an active gaming community in Billings, not as large as one might expect for a place of its size, but large enough you should be able to find a group. There is currently one game store that I am aware of, a couple have popped up and fallen by the wayside quickly, but the Splash Page is...

I too had heart ache with the raise dead and resurrections. After all whats the point in having asassins if the dead keep coming back? So I banned the spells. Then came a sequence of TPKs and near TPKs at higher levels. My players were understandably perturbed by the ease with which characters...

It was even better IRL. The local law enforcement haven't tried it again though. And yes, it was last year.