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From the CSI bag of clues: You could have some areas of the Temple sprinkled with certain types of spores (ferns or types of fungus perhaps) or plant residue. If the PCs find it and investigate, they could learn that the area of the tomb has those specific types of plants etc. Although, if...

Thanks for the heads up! Something like that would be perfect to put up against my players.

I like it, mostly, because of the clearer presentation of information (with the same caveats as others, that is, I'd like to have breakdowns of AC and such). I dislike it for the same reasons as others have said, since I too do a lot of creature modification (vanilla creatures or NPCs are...

I'd buy them in a heartbeat. Many of my campaigns feature evil or neutral characters. Celestials make great antagonists.

In a perfect world (for me), every possible situation would have some rules for it (or, preferrably, a framework for extrapolating other parts of the game logically into the new area), any of which I might conceivably ignore or change if the fancy struck me (or it facilitated play better). I've...

Depends on the disposition of the party. If they are your typical D&D style mostly-good-altrusitic party, then I usually just put them into situations that threaten the existence of the game world, and let them see if they can stop it. If they aren't the typical party (as IM current campaign...

I never saw the first D&D movie (luckily for me), but I thought that the second one was passably decent (though, it was only a mere shadow of any proper D&D campaign).

Tarek, that is a lot of what I would do, if I were trying for the old school feel. Although, IMC, I make the all the characters train or do in character things to train for next level etc.

Indeed. My main point was that the overall "feel" IMO, does not come from any specifics of mechanics, but from the style and capabilties of the players/DM involved, and that the actual "feel" of a D&D game varies less between edition than it does from player to player or DM to DM. (That is...

I know this doesn't really answer your question, but I find it strange when people compare the "play styles" of 1e through 3e to eachother and say they are vastly different games. I own some 1e books, but never had a chance to play it, as I started in AD&D2e before Skills & Powers. All that...

Before I started my campaign I warned the players that it would be difficult in the extreme, and so to be prepared to act intelligently against similarly intelligent opponents. There have been a few times when the party was just about dead or near-TPK (though one of the wizards (necromancer...

I'll definitely be buying this book, if just to look through it for items for my own character, but also for the fact that having a reference like this will be great for throwing down *unexpected* loot to my players. Usually, if I need something really outlandish to surprise them with for NPCs...

I'm doing this with a friend in a current campaign. Initially, I had a lot of hidden depth in the campaign, and his PC was the only one finding it. Due to the nature of his char, he decided his char would ICly not share much of it. Over time this sort of screwed with the other players, as...

Saw the ads for it, but I was struck by the fact that they pretty much just advertised which celebrities they'd be having on it to flaunt around, which put me off of it. I don't watch a games award show to see celebrities.

Might actually go see it. I dislike most books that exist solely as allegory (which is why I rather disliked the book...). I'm much more inclined to agree with Tolkien on this one.

I was rather interested in the book after reading the first chapter, until I found out it's just a "holy grail" story.

Then again, you've never been dying, have you? Edit: Uh, I just wanted to note that I'm not trying to be offensive, since the above sounds kind of harsh.

We're currently finishing up a 3-4 year campaign that I play in, and that means it's showdown time with all the major baddies. One such was a massive battle against the half-dragon (black) grandson of our main enemy (who is a black dragon). Our army moved in, and the PCs were part of a "strike...

Personally, I love monster books. A good monster or template can really swing a session. I used a mindvoid rogue as the enemy captain of a ship for the first session in my campaign, and the players loved it (and couldn't figure out wth it was either, which was fun). Edit: That said, I agree...

Indeed. So the object would be to make friends that are the exception to the rule (cool), and force...er...ask them to play D&D with you.