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This is why I love these boards. First off, I love these tactics. I hope the PC's can come up with something equally interesting. However, as the DM, here are my thoughts as to why your plan might not work perfectly. The wizards (called the Mchonga) have a network of spies amongst the...

Heh, the wizards actually killed all the gods in the last campaign. They essentially staged a very bloody coup to wrest control of the Seven Nations from the god-kings. This campaign takes place 700 years later. As for false alarms...Yeah, I thought a little about this. I think there...

I've been musing over my latest campaign setting recently, and been thinking about the effects of a highly organized magical dictatorship that rules over an entire continent. One of the ideas I came up with was a sort of "Emergency Response System" for the kingdom. The idea is to have a force...

We've seen lots of weird stuff in the side adventures I ran for my RttToEE campaign, and another short 2E game I ran: Doppleganger Illithid Celestial Shambling Mound (Holy Rosebush) High level wizard trapped in a flesh golem (too clumsy/painful to cast spells from) Granted, these were mostly in...

My DM is letting me have a swarm of wasps as a 1st level animal companion. Here are the stats we came up with. It's basically a swarm of spiders that can fly, and therefore some of their other abilities have been removed. They're pretty nice, but I'm not sure they're nicer than a wolf. The -...

I'm getting ready to play a 1st level druid, and I'd like to have a swarm of wasps as my animal companion. These stats are heavily based on the spider swarm. If you were a DM, would you allow this? What problems do you foresee (besides the fact that the swarm will only know 1 trick)? The...

24 after taking half damage thanks to Adapt Body, and having energy resistance 20. Speaking of which--anybody know which should be applied first in such circumstances? I was feeling mean, so I had the resistance kick in before the half damage. Total on the dice was 68, if I remember...

The PC in question only took 24 points of damage. He was fine, despite my gleeful rolling of 20d6. The player in question is one of my favorites. About every 4 or 5 sessions, he does something TOTALLY unexpected (like willingly diving into lava), and then proceeds to completely pull it off...

Or wait a few months and grab a PS3. It can do 1080p, if I remember correctly. Spider

I read an article a while ago that argued that D&D (or was it Buffy: The Vampire Slayer?) has a very conservative moral worldview. I can't find it now, but the basic premise was that the conservative moral worldview was one largely based around concepts of Good and Evil. Whereas the liberal...

In the final session of our campaign last night, one of the characters willingly teleported into an erupting volcano in an attempt to save the legendary Phoenix. This was the first time I've ever gotten to use the "Immersion in Lava" rules. It made me extremely happy. So, show of hands: Have...

Why? Because sometimes love just ain't enough. While faith plays many roles in life, it doesn't always produce the kind of concrete results you seem to be after. Perhaps you should give "the man upstairs" a little help by going out more. The past few relationships I've had began in...

Heh. Dark elves started out being so cool. But then R.A. Salvatore made them popular, and now they're totally lame. I'll be you a dollar someone comes out with a new take on the drow that completely refreshes their coolness. :) Ghosts have become much cooler now that they're a template...

On the question of : "What other ecological forces might shape cultures in a fantasy world?", a few biggies come to mind immediately: Dragons, Undead Scourges, Gods, Evil Wizards, Demons, and Magical Catastrophes. All of these can cause the kind of widespread damage as drought and famine...

Wow! This is a lot of great info. Thanks, all! I've got a lot to think about. For one, I want to keep the rules simple. I don't want to create any new rules for firearms. I also don't want to have to learn too much about the specific differences between different firearm technologies. But...

OK, I know this has been discussed before. I've found some great sources for how to introduce guns into D&D, but very little about how guns change a fantasy world. So I ask you, oh great ENWorlders: How did the introduction of gunpowder change real-world societies? What was so great about an...

Hmmm. I'll see your shapeshifting humanoid reptiles. And I'll raise you a time cube. Spider

I dunno, I think the skeletal horses would be much better than living ones: Horse skeletons are free, if you know where to look You don't have to train a skeleton You don't have to feed, water, shelter, provide medical care, etc for a skeleton A skeleton can work all day, every day, never...

IMC, if you can see or hear someone casting a spell, and you've ever encountered/heard of spellcasting, chances are real good you recognize what they're doing. No spellcraft check necessary to notice someone saying strange phrases and waving their hands in the air. So, if I can see and hear...

I've always interpreted "The subject can fly at a speed of 60 feet" to mean, "the subject is granted a Fly speed of 60." Any other interpretation I can fathom seems bizarre to me. Spider