Search results

I have been looking at creating my own ring magic items, and am trying to figure out the rules for the same. I attempt to reverse-engineer the Ring of Invisibility but can't get the 20,000 gp price that's listed for; the creation rules seem to give a result of 24,000 gp (Invisibility: Spell...

Could someone post the starting-gold values for the following Complete X Handbook classes: Shugenja Spirit Shaman Warlock Wu Jen I am also looking for the official starting-gold values for these clases that appear initially in the Miniatures Handbook but are reprinted in one of the Complete X...

This is related to my ongoing project of ad-hoc skill check modifiers. I have three formulas for determining the percentage of skill points that a player character of a given class and _low_ level would have put into cross-class skills versus their class skills . (At higher levels a character...

Assigning a 1d6 or 1d8 or whatever might be the thing to do depending on how one wants to deal with skill priority and such, but I will have to see how the current biz pans out before I drop back to randomized modifiers.

That's basically the same as assigning static DCs for tasks, which I'm hoping to improve upon.

AD HOC SKILL CHECK MODIFIERS FOR NPCs (older version orig. posted in r.g.f.d) I have encountered a few situations as DM where the player characters have decided to check out the local shops. By necessity they invoke several opposed rolls from these NPCs which did not exist moments before. I...

I meant the lich version of the tarrasque ... Unaugmented tarrasques are still nifty though.

Who was the original inventor of this terrible creature? I can find references to it as far back as 2nd Edition versions, but I see several anecdotal references from Googled sites of people saying "my friend so-and-so created it" (never the same person). So where did it start? And also, is...

Being able to extract rules would be of use to a game designer who wanted to create his own derivative ruleset for a homemade d20 system. For instance, what if someone wanted to create a d20 game that used separate skills for attacking instead of a level-based attack bonus progression? Or if...

For some reason, methods that involve a player having to decide between a hit die roll he doesn't like, and a complete unknown number seem like unnecessary cruelty to me. (Not that I'm against cruelty, mind you.) So far I have only done the book method and give max HP every level, but in future...

I usually have my players roll 4d6-keep-3 seven times, keeping 6 stats and assigning where desired. For my next campaign, I will probably let my players pick whatever stats they want, with three caveats: 1. Everyone must have the same number of odd-numbered stats 2. All the stat totals for the...

I found a third site appropriate to this topic ... http://www.americanfuneral.com/ "Caskets, monuments, urns, and grave markers. Also offers flower arrangements" Imagine the look on the players' faces when they get a 10,000 gp gift certificate from this company in the first few rooms of their...

Another Memphis gamer here, once you get the details finalized I'll pass the word along to my fellow gamer brethren. AlSiH20, did you catch the Games of the World Day that was held a few weeks ago at the University of Memphis? A few buddies and I were some of the live action fighting folks...

P.S. I hope this thread is not off-topic for this forum, as this is not really a rules-specific question, more a metagaming sort of question with a particular d20 setting in mind.

In preparation for an X-Crawl game, I have located a couple real-world sites which I can use to litter my Dunjons with prizes, ads, product endorsement offers, and the occasional gag gift. At the moment, I have just these .com sites: http://www.aseenontvstore.com/ (clearinghouse for, you...

The "stat classes" of d20 Modern give me the impression that the makers tried to get as close as possible to CofC classless without forsaking classes entirely. Yet, even CofC can't escape the temptation entirely (i.e., the profession templates). I'd say a good alternative approach would have...

RE the subject line - You only get out of D&D what you put into it. Like anything else -- a car, a television set, a firearm -- it's merely a tool.

My five faves: 1) Instead of rolling for your character's ability scores, just choose what you want, with the following conditions: (a) the sum of ability scores for all PCs must be within 20 points of each other, (b) three ability scores must be even and three must be odd, and (c) I reserve...

USCMC Dropships ... ? I'd agree with the negative comments about the artwork if (and only if) Dragonstar was written as a hard sci-fi universe. That said, everything looks very good IMO for a science-fantasy game world. My only raised eyebrow moment was when I noticed a vehicle remarkably like...

Celebrim is right I have to agree with Celebrim. Think of 1E, 2E, and 3E as separate languages each with its own grammar structure and vocabulary. What Leopold &c. suggest is a straight literal translation from 1st or 2nd Edition to 3rd, but that isn't a very good approach because the...