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I never ran it, only looked through it, but my impression was it's impossible for a DM not to have multiple TPKs while running that module, short of pulling a lot of punches. (or just not playing the enemies to their full potential, an easy thing to do at high levels)

By that logic, how come animals - even the nocturnal or underground-dwelling ones - don't have darkvision? Why do all elementals have Darkvision? (what use is it to something that always makes its own light because it's on fire, or something that spends time "swimming" through stone?) Or good...

At its most basic, D&D is about a lot of going into dark holes in the ground and killing things. It usually helps, when you're trying to kill something, that it doesn't see you coming. Despite that (and the fact 2 out of the basic classes specialize in stealth, and many others are at least...

That's pretty close to what I prefer as well. As for monster vs. party saves - I think that, on average, the PCs should have better chances of saving than the opposition, hands down. Most of the enemies the party faces are disposable - they're there to provide fodder for one more or less...

While I like the roof idea, I just wanted to point out that Manticores are not, in fact, all that strong. (by D&D standards) They have a Str of 20, standard - you might very well have a PC in the party with a higher Str than that - so unless the roof is in really bad shape, it might be a stretch...

BTW, I didn't mean to insult you or to attack the way you prefer to play. (So, sorry, if it came off that way.) I just met too many people who use that kind of thing simply as an excuse not to pay attention...

Yeah, well... If by that you mean that everyone involved is perfectly happy to learn the barest minimum of rules and then make things up as they go along, then great - you almost certainly won't be able to get me to play in that kind of game, but people can do whatever makes them happy. Most of...

I don't know - short of truly exceptional stats and gear for the Sorcerer and the Half-Dragon, or the party getting ambushed or otherwise forced to fight at a huge disadvantage, this actually sounds like a somewhat tough but straightforward fight for six 5th level characters. The rogues are...

Yes, I do. Some of my experiences while playing 3.5 - of players wanting to bring whatever supplement they could get their hands on to the table, then being surprised / put out when I said no, remind me very much of some of my 2E experiences with people being incredibly surprised that the DM...

No, he didn't. He got hit with a spear by an orc chieftain (unusually large - almost as tall as a man - but no Troll) which - since his Mithril shirt held - smashed him against the wall, knocking him out but doing no lasting damage other than some nasty scrapes and bruises. The other members of...

Ahem. As I posted earlier: "They possessed from the first the art of disappearing swiftly and silently, when large folk whom they do not wish to meet come blundering by; and this art they developed until to Men it may seem magical. But Hobbits have never, in fact, studied magic of any kind, and...

Perhaps this will help with the overall discussion: "They are quick of hearing and sharp-eyed, and though they are inclined to be fat and do not hurry unnecessarily, they are nonetheless nimble and deft in their movements. They possessed from the first the art of disappearing swiftly and...

I don't know... It's not that much of a stretch to say that, once per day and once per day only, the natural forces of the universe align in such a way that it is possible to use magic to teleport from one place to another. It could make for an interesting campaign background. Althought to be...

They need to have good Fort saves - not necessarily a high Con or a bonus to Con. It's one of those things that D&D just doesn't handle well - as tough as Hobbits are for their size, Tolkien never tries to suggest that they'd stand a chance in a melee with the "big folk". They are the size of...

I'm assuming the idea is to make them a viable D&D race, not to try to really reflect how they appear in the books, right? (because then, we'd need to talk about something like -4 str, -4 con at the least) The current ability adjustments are fine - mostly, I'd tinker with their racial...

Hobbits like their six meals a day - when they can get them - but if the Hobbit and the LotR are anything to go by, they do just fine when forced to ration food - as well as, if not better, than full-sized humans, though of course not as well as the almost supernaturally tough Elves, Dwarves...

There's no reason presented in any of the books why someone couldn't just shoot him dead with a Barret .50 from a safe distance of a mile. In fact, that's one of the things I don't like about the books - we are told by Rowlings how the magic in her books is extremely dangerous, powerful, a...

I'm not sure how the LA would work out like for WoD vampires exactly, but it's a given that it's going to be much different from D&D. For one thing, they won't be getting any attribute bonuses by deafult. (assuming they're sticking relatively closely to the current WoD background) They also...

I know of one off-hand, Riddle of Steel. It's the sort of game where, if you want someone taken alive, you wrestle them down to the ground and punch them out / tie them up. Actually hitting people with weapons tends to (surprise, surprise) result in a great deal of trauma and bleeding. :) (Fun...

So what you're saying is that you actually can split your action into two or more, then abort one of them in order to Dodge, yes?