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Only 1.3 x 10^22 pages? Why my Omniworld setting took me since before the beginning of time to write, will have a googleplex of pages, stats for this and every alternate world and will include conversion rules for every game system ever made, and a few that weren't. And it won't have drow...

With issue 308 out now, I'm starting to wonder where #307 has got to. It hasn't shown up in any shops yet; this is understanably annoying :( I just want to check with other UK users if they've managed to lay their hands on a copy, or if it's just a local problem.

Woohoo! And a change of avatar to celebrate.

Lady's Grace! No'one's _that_ addlecoved. I hope. :)

No, they hedge out conjured and summoned creatures, no matter their source. OF course things may change in Revised. In any case, the hamatula just picks up a sword and twacks the protected character, as the spell only stops physical contact with the conjured/summoned creature

A book about running a stronghold and dominion, because that added so much to a game in OD&D (continuity, NPC interaction, a ready supply of plot-hooks, and it let the players make something, their own corner of the campaign world). And of course, mass combat. I want armies! :)

The creature itself didn't make it (silly idea for a critter anyway IMHO) but the image became the Ethereal Marauder. Both in Fiend Folio

I always imagined it sounded like a sillibant blend of deep hisses, snarls and rumbles to a human ear. After seeing Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, it'd sound like a deeper, more resonant form of Parseltongue. [edit, added after seeing Dave-O's post] IMHO it'd be written in angular...

Personally, I like them. Balor Very good, very demonic and firey. IMHO, it resemble the version from Neverwinter Nights more than it does the Balrog, though with less of a skull-like face. Though I have to agree with Kamikaze Midget, the loincloth does look a bit off. Perhaps a slight change...

IMHO, Spellcraft isn't all that useful for a Cleric, Knowledge (religion) has only a limited amout of use in a non-epic game. I'd say split between the four with an emphasis on Craft (bowmaking) and Concentration.

Thanks for understanding. :) Oops, better stop this thread-jack before anyone catches it.

By starting equipment (spells), I assume you mean spells known for a Wizard. My own method is to give them the two free spells per level, plus the starting 3 + Int modifier. Anything else comes out of their starting equipment cost as a scroll + the scribing cost.

Apologies, it's been a long day and I tend to get a little prickly about terminology at the best of times, I didn't mean to sound so arrogant about it all. :(

It's still a smaller* and more highly-trained force than the immense armies of, say, the Napoleonic era, or the archetypal fantasy medieval army with its feudal levies. *per head of available population But it has cut their numbers down and changed the dynamics of warfare. Magic does the same...

The proper definition of meta-gaming, according to most gaming books, is using the knowledge that you are playing a game to make decisions. Such as, "there has to be a lever here, the DM wouldn't let us all die like this", or "that couldn't be an -insert monster here-, it's too high a CR for us...

Assassination, as "defined" in D&D by the Assassin class, is the act of killing someone for payment, which is an evil act and therefore anyone who does so is evil or slipping that way. Unfortunately, this doesn't match the dictionary definition, which is Assasinate - to kill by surprise or...

Its because of things like this that I maintain that D&D worlds don't have huge armies of low-level plebs. IMHO it'd be more like the modern military with smaller numbers of better skilled (and higher-level) troops.

There was also short RPGA Planescape adventure based on the poem, complete with frumious bandersnatch, jub-jub bird and an armanite called Toves. Very good, and a rather amusing ending :) It was called The Manxome Foe and was published in the TSR Jam 1999.

Castle Amber - the adventure, especially the section in Averoigne, had a fairy-tale fantasy feel to it that makes it so different from almost any other module.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rs/20030506a Very little seems to have changed, except that you can make multiple AoOs against the same opponent. Rather more sensible that the current rule, IMHO.