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This is pretty good. I was mulling doing something this for the Alien universe. Colonial Marines, Corporate Mercenaries and all that. This will give me a good idea of how to begin.

Hemlock, I disagree. If the Shadow Demon is in melee and leaves the reach of a character with sentinel, even if it does so by sinking through the floor, it would provoke an opportunity attack. I don't see how sinking through the floor would not constitute leaving the character's reach. If that...

The Sentinel feat would come in handy against these Shadow Demons.

As a DM, feats like great weapon master make it fun to run a horde o' beasties attacking the group.

Watch the first few seasons of Game of Thrones. Cersei, certainly somewhere between Lawful and Neutral Evil but she loves her children, Tywin Lannister, perfect Lawful Evil who would do anything for his family. Ramsey Snow/Bolton, the poster boy for the worse sort of Chaotic Evil (but even he...

Thanks for the input, I was concerned I mucked it up. As for what was more fun? I'd say either possibility. It was an aerial battle, with characters on a flying carpet and griffons against a spell casting, flame breathing, teeth snapping dragon. The dragon was trying to chain lightning the...

In my campaign, a wizard who has a staff of the magi was targeted by a chain lightning spell, with the intent that the additional bolts would hit his nearby companions. The wizard opted to use his reaction to absorb the spell with his staff's spell absorption power. His position was that he's...

A little Power Word Play from my campaign last night which incorporates elements of the story "Shadow Eyed of Halagar" with my "Greyhawk: The Dark Ages" chronicle. In our previous session, the player characters terribly botched an assault on the Ancient Red Dragon Ancenagri, they using Word of...

I've done similar things in the past. I sometimes like the idea of the characters and stories in which a character begins with an "ancestral heirloom" or find a potent magic item that they use throughout the campaign arc. I never liked the idea of a magic weapon becoming obsolete because you...

I know very little about the Eberron setting but I've a few ideas how to handle this in general terms. First, employ the ole "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." The warlock/paladin's patron shares a common foe of the warlock/paladin, and the patron needs servants to deal with it. Maybe a lich...

I like saying "Strahd." It really rolls off the tongue. Straaaaahd. This pleases me. I'm less inclined to have Ravenloft an off plane vista, and instead, with a little tape, paint and nails, place it comfortably as a cursed land in Blackmoor on Oerth (World of Greyhawk). However, upon reading...

I lurked on the sidelines reading this thread rather surprised that it devolved into what it became. I couldn't keep silent about it. I was psyched that Flamestrike was using White Plume Mountain, I run my campaign in World of Greyhawk so I was hooked just by the setting. Clearly, he wasn't...

27. A Shrunken elven head that glows slightly in darkness.

Put the dwarf in the Iron Maiden!

Or the vampire spawn is chosen. It's a central theme or trope of the vampire. The vampire selecting those who wishes to turn.

What I really miss from psionics was the AD&D attack and defense abilities, and the cool chart were you cross referenced "Ego Whip" or "Psychic Crush" to the various defenses. Those psionic battles were a (psionic) blast.

Wonderful news!

I would go standard human with this. Perfect Bard, except that he keeps forgetting the lines to his songs. "I said the words!"

Strength 13 Dex 8 Con 13 Int 8 Wis 5 Cha 8. I'm going half-orc: Str 15, Dex 8, Con 14, Int 8 Wis 5, Cha 8 Yeah, and barbarian. Tolos Arrow-Eye. When Tolos came of age, he ventured with his people to raid a nearby village in the night. Unfortunately for Tolos, he took an arrow through the...

I think it's a mistake to conflate the type of setting of the characters in the novels, and the corresponding features of the characters in those settings, to the standard D&D setting. Elric of Melnibone was an aspect of the eternal champion and could summon the Lords of Chaos and even fought...