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I buy thirty or so refrigerators a year for work. What I've found is much of what has been said above. The indoor items are nice but expensive and shorten the effective lifespan of your refrigerator. Buy them (ice maker, water line, TV, etc.) if you really want them but be sure to price them...

Looking at will-o-wisps the other night I noticed that they are immune to most magic except magic missles (makes sense and what I remember) and the maze spell. So why the maze spell? Is there some fairy tale or folklore I've forgotten? It just seems like and odd choice.

As long as I am told upfront about restrictions then great, it hopefully shows the DM is putting thought into his game and game world (not that others don't). When I am strung along with a character for several levels and then told when I level, "Sorry, you still get 2 skill points and a d4...

I've gone this route. Inspired by the Oedipus play and Greek myth I created a series of furies like entities who watched all mortals and reported back to the god of judgement. In hindsight it worked well, the biggest problem proved to be it implies a milieu in which gods are powerful, not...

I have two of Rakham's Cadwallon city sets, but while pretty they have turned out to be rather confusing in actual use. They don't adjoin well at all, the underlying pictures frequently don't match the grid lines (so are you on the roof or the ground?), and the art is "crowded" which has...

Reefs grow in shallow waters - with fantasy it is easy to fudge the depths a little as long as you stay within the layer light can penentrate. Just show some restraint and look at a real world map. Also remember volcanos don't have to erupt out of the top, they often erupt from weak spots in...

In geology there are rarely "new" systems - simply old systems that have changed. And it is not that the two outlets would merge together but rather that one would cut a deeper channel faster than the other leaving it high and dry. If something were to block the orginal channel the lake would...

The short answer is that it would take an unusual event to create the situation. In my neck of the woods glaciation could account for things like this having happened, but only temporarily as erosion would quickly favor one outlet over another and the lake level would be expected to fall until...

Not all gorges and valleys are the result of erosion. Some are the consequence of (to keep it simple) unequal uplift or subsidence. Given that it's Greyhawk, it could also be the result of a collapsed underground civilization.

The map has bothered me too and when I used Greyhawk I came up with rationalizations; 1) The Selintan is in part a canal which may or may not contain locks, probably in the Cairn hills. This fits with Urnst and Nyrond resting in a fertile lowland along side the Nesser, a major river draining...

I have my bachelors in Geology and masters in Geology(Hydrology) but don't use them much - by the time I had them I got sick of working for the Federal govt.

I just used some roof tile textures nabbed from the internet to make tiles that I then glued to foam core. This way I can just drop down buildings quickly on top of a battlemat. If you want commercial ones the Cadwallon tile packs from Rakham Miniatures look really nice and are inspiring but I...

In my current campaign there are two major villains /protagonists who like to publicly chastise their underlings when the PC's overcome them. This lets me introduce great cut scenes by way of "did you hear what so and so did?"

The party is engaged in an unplanned show down with the arch villain during a crowded festival. A PC is hit and falls unconscious, but the others cannot spare any time to help him. Then a lone villager rushes out shouting "I can help!" and begins trying to stabilize the fallen PC. The others...

Prior to computer modeling most mines were mapped in 3d with a wire framework that supported a network of tubes and strings representing the tunnels and shafts. I always imagined dwarves would use a similar system.

In general I cringe at most box text, but several years ago I ran across a format I did like (in a federal govt training course of all things). The boxed text was restricted to a single sentence and then there would be 3-5 talking points in bullet format that needed to be included in the...

I played in a Samurai themed game where the GM had developed an events by year life path system which usually tied the a PC into at least one of the major events of that year. Battles, earthquakes, religious festivals, weddings, and so on. The details were left to the players but it did tie the...

DM: It tastes horrible like, um, ... like somebody mixed dirt and water together! Player: You mean like mud?

For the most part I have them eating normal foods. Imagine a world where steaks came only in 1 oz cuts, the potatoes were the size of peas, and watermelons were no bigger than a grape but still had top have the rind peeled off. This is why giants are always hostile and thus so useful in encounters.

For my recent urban campaign the reading list I gave my players was; Gharret series by Glenn Cook Thieves World series, esp books 1-3 edited by Aspirin Lankmar novels Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas Life in a Medieval City and not to derail the thread, but as they rarely read the books, the...