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Agreed. If you don't have the stats for the creature, sorry, you can't summon it right now. Likewise if you don't have the stats for a shape you feel like wildshaping or polymorphing into. Work out the stats ahead of time, or don't bother.

Most of the time we stick with the Big Three, but when people want to bring in a particular thing from a splatbook for a particular character, I generally let them.

I briefly had a play-by-post game based on the old version, just so we could try it out. You can see if the link in my sig still works and read it for yourself, if you like. It seemed to work fairly well, actually, but the game fizzled, as PbP games usually do.

There's also a PDF at RPGnow titled "Everybody else." It has stat blocks for ordinary people of all professions. I got it and use it all the time.

I'm running Kingdoms of Kalamar, and the default D&D multiverse didn't fit. There is 1 primary world, the rough equivelent of the "Prime Material" plane. There is a "Realm of Dreams" which is the rough equivelent of the Astral plane. They call it the Realm of Dreams because your body stays...

A shame, indeed. I wonder if anybody has those archived? It'd be a nice addition to the Downloads section. [melodramatic self pity]I'll just have to go and make the dungeon myself, then.[/melodramatic self pity]

Yes, if you edit the dice tags they won't work. This is to prevent cheating. You get one roll and can't change the roll or the results. [dice]

I remember a page here on ENworld listing a ton of free adventures/modules. I bookmarked it, and the link was: http://www.enworld.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=12 Is this page still here, under a new URL maybe?

I like to use odd combos to make weak monsters more of a challange. Ten orcs don't seem like much of a threat to a 10th level party, but give them one caster with a wand of Silence and lots of tanglefoot bags and missile weapons.... suddenly it's much harder. Likewise the trolls with Protection...

Just to catch your DM off-guard, you could sell experience points. Find local magical item crafters and offer to let them use your character's XP to craft their next items. Should fetch a fair price!

All the real-world influence on the D&D planes of existence is why I made a new system specifically for the campaign world I'm using - one that fits the history and gods better than the "D&D Default." You can read about it here.

I agree with Someone. I'd provide opportunity for the PCs to increase in power along the way, but I wouldn't require it. During the battle with the pirates, let the dice fall where they may. Some of the most interesting plots in my campaign world occured when the PCs failed at a task...

Flavor-wise, I like the thought of a Ring of Gentle Repose.

Standard tactics for defeating an adventuring party: 1. Kill the cleric. Hopefully his holy symbol makes him easily identifiable. 2. Kill anybody who looks like a spellcaster. If killing them outright isn't an option, ready actions to shoot missiles at them if they start casting a spell...

I might give the rogue sole XP if the rest of the party sent him in to scout out a place all by himself, and he practically had a solo mini-adventure because of it.

Spellbooks have no special resistences or immunities. They're just books. Expensive books. I don't think they even radiate magic.

We meet every Sunday at 4:00pm. 6 of us are married couples with small children/babies, and 2 of us are not. Gaming is a slow, stuttering process because of the kids, but that's why we started our own gaming group specifically for family people - we all expect it. Usually we play until 8:00pm...

OK, this came up in my mind last night during the game, but I didn't bother my players with it and decided just to have the enemy do something else. I had an 8th level cleric vampire. In addition to the usual bag of tricks this guy would have, he was equipped with a Whip Feather Token. "A...

Last bit of metagaming in my game: "The DM wouldn't have NPCs mention the assassination attempt on the Prince if it wasn't going to tie in somehow with the story arc the PCs are following." Funny thing is it has nothing to do with the storyline the PCs are following. It's just background...

Yup, the animal is considered to be part of the Druid's bag of tricks. He's assumed to be using it to the best of its ability, just like a wizard is assumed to be casting spells.