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I love most of the Mini-HB. I am thinking about getting rid of the cleric as a core class and just using the Healer, as some of their spells are so neat. I also love the monsters, especially the Avatars! So neat, and I can't wait until the players are high enough level to face one in combat...

Will I go see it? Absolutely! How can you not go see a movie that is as potentially as bad as this? Go, laugh, throw popcorn on the screen. Talk through-out it. Make snide comments, like -If I were the DM this is what I would have done (explain in detail) -If I were the director this is what I...

18. A small city, on the edges of a good empire, is having increasing difficulty with low level undead. The graveyards have all been emptied. Paladins who return after investigation return are near insane with hysteria. Clerics cannot not turn these undead, and almost daily evil necromancers are...

Most of the cilivized population live in large cities anywhere from 200,000 to 10,000,000. Food production & water as a resource are two huge issues for 90% of the areas in my campaign world. They have ways to resolve them (using magic of course) but while they are not issues that adventurers...

Heeeey there, I use wandering monsters in my game, but while creatures are easy I need low to mid level npcs that are fully stated (or close to it) which I can copy and paste into my WM tables. But, I've pretty much scanned and copied everything from the storyhours on ENW. Are there any good or...

Patricia McKillip. She has put out more than a dozen stand-alone novels which are not apart of some ongoing campaign or epic story arc. Just simple stories of love, loss, sorrow, redemption and magic. There are many writers (Harlan Ellison, Philip K Dick, Charles de Lint, William Gibson, HPL...

Try Sean Reynold's website. He is building and posting an excel program for just this purpose. It's far from finished but it has a really good monster building program and some classes so far.

He played a serious character. Sure, when he first introduced the PC to the rest of the group they all fell down laughing, but after that, it was fine. After awhile, the word Porn itself doesn't sound so bad or that funny. The player knew that he wouldn't be playing with the group for too long...

I once had a paladin by the name of Porn Clitoris in my campaign; he rode a steed named of Climax!

There are also the appropriately named Shadow Beasts (Ghirrash, Khumat & Thaskor) from the Miniature Handbook.

Max HPs from levels 1 - 10, they roll for hp after that. I use the same rules for my monstersl. Undead and constructs get max hp at all racial levels. NPCs with classes get max hp for the first five levels, then I use average. Monsters usually get the average, i.e. the stated value in the MM book.

I would rule that it would make the water unholy. But your post reminds me a little about summoning elementals in ravenloft, wherein the elementals retain some of the evil of the land, so they turn to vile elementals. I guess, for clerics, it would be possible to summon "holy" elementals from...

I have gotten rid of the spell, and created a feat, create holy water, which is available for divine spellcasters. They create one sprinkle per level, but like all of my creation feats, it has no XP cost. In this case, there is also no material cost, they need a font and one hour of prayer. I...

First of all, I have a confession. I have a fetish for monsters; big ones, small ones, short ones, fat ones, mmmmm...monsters. They are a big part of why I love the game, as the right one can bring players into an alien / fantasy world. I mean really, an orc is an orc; but a kur'teth, well...

That is nasty, and, IMHO, wrong. A recurring villian is (or should be) a plot device not a random encounter. Otherwise, I completely agree with you. alsih2o, if they have any friends, they may want to be warned of the types of creatures out there. Rumours work wonders, as do seeing the effects...

I voted story-teller, but that's not why. I like getting together with people and creating an atmosphere...letting people play characters with alt-histories. Strategizing both game mechanics and combat situations. Sharing a laugh with people whom I have a similiar interest anything geek. It's...

Situational. In different campaigns it is completely variable. You may have a religion-heavy world whereby a character can have a jihad called, so thousands of believers help you in your cause. In some campaigns, your power level is dependent upon what you can actually carry; your magic...

Since he can argue he was angling to get in there for a backstab, a commom scenario in most of our combats, I doubt anyone would think he did anything wrong. Also, since the cleric may have seen the entire thing, I doubt he'll try to lie about it. He's just hoping nobody saw anything and won't...

He wasn't being a stupid thief; he was just more interested in the item than the combat, which is very typical for the character. The character wasn't trying to hide the fact that he was taking it, but he also didn't want to advertise the fact either. If they ask him about it, he'll probably...

ditto, for the most part. I tell my players there are always at least three ways to deal with any given problem. 1. Force (so yes, if you can get an army of nights or a horde of barbarians to work with you, force will always work.) 2. Money (throw enough money at any problem, and it'll go...